Category : Education

Five African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions

Kerry L. Haynie was named dean of social sciences for the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is a professor of political science and African American studies. Dr. Haynie is the co-author of Race, G...

Three Black Faculty Members Taking on New Assignments

Chandice Haste-Jackson, an associate teaching professor in the department of human development and family science in the Falk College at Syracuse University in New York, has been given the added duties of associate dean in the Office of Student Servi...

Pharmaceutical Giant Offers 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships to Howard University Students

Sanofi, the Paris-based multinational pharmaceutical and healthcare company headquartered in Paris but with extensive operations in the United States, is partnering with the Howard University College of Pharmacy in a fellowship program. The company w...

New Administratve Duties in Higher Education for 10 Black Americans

Darryl E. Owens has been promoted to associate vice president of communications and engagement at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. He formerly served as director of communications at the college. He is the creator, executive producer, and host of...

Texas Southern University Creates the College of Transdisciplinary Studies

According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, 39 million Americans have acquired some postsecondary education and training but did not earn a degree or credential. Of those, approximately 3.5 million are considered “potential completers,...

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Wins the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the Lawton and Nancy Smith Fichter Professor in the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University, has been awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize — one of the most prestigious awards in the American arts. Established i...

Bowie State University Substantially Boosts Its Online Degree Offerings

Bowie State University, the historically Black educational institution in Maryland, has announced that a large number of undergraduate and graduate degree programs will now be offered fully online. Bowie State students can pursue undergraduate degree...

Three African Americans Taking on Diversity Roles at State Universites

Malcolm Holmes will join Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to serve as its executive director of strategic initiatives and diversity. Holmes was most recently the director of university marketing a...

In Memoriam: Barbara Brown Simmons, 1947-2022

Barbara Brown Simmons, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law, died on July 14. She was 74 years old. A native of Littlefield, Texas, Simmons moved to Hereford in 1954 and attended a segregated classroom in...

How an HBCU Hosted the Inaugural International Moon Day Celebration

Elijah Baker, a public relations coordinator at historically Black Drake State Community and Technical College in Huntsville, Alabama, shows how HBCUs have played a role and will continue to play a role in the U.S. Space Program. On July 20, 1969, A...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

Oxford University Press has announced that it is embarking on a project to create the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Funded in part by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations, Oxford University Press is teaming up with the Hutch...

Northwestern Faculty Seek to Change the Name of African American Studies Department

The department of African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has voted unanimously to rename the department to Black studies. The department announced the decision at a recent event celebrating the 50th anniversary of...

University of Nebraska Renames a Building to Honor a Trailblazing Black Scholar

The College of Education and Human Sciences at the Univerity of Nebraska-Lincoln is renaming the Human Sciences Building on East Campus after longtime faculty member and administrator Gwendolyn Newkirk. Dr. Newkirk came to Nebraska in 1971 as chair o...

President of York College in Pennsylvania Will Retire at the End of the 2022-23 Academic Year

Pamela Gunter-Smith, the president of York College of Pennsylvania for the past nine years, has announced her plan to retire in June 2023. During her tenure as president, Dr. Gunter-Smith established the Center for Community Engagement and Marketview...

McKinsey & Company Study Finds Snail-Like Progress in Higher Education Diversity

A new report from the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company finds that historically marginalized racial and ethnic populations — Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American and Pacific Islander — are still underrepresented in higher educa...