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Michael Ward recently retired from the Goldfarb School of Nursing on the campus of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, which is affiliated with Washington University. He spent 23 years at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Barnes-Jewish Hosp...
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Robert Charles Smith, a long-time member of the political science department at San Francisco State University, died on April 13. He was 76 years old. A native of Benton, Louisiana, Dr. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Cali...
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...
- 6 days ago
Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African A...
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The department of African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has decided to change its name. It will now be known as the department of Black studies. In changing its name, the department is seeking to better reflect th...
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The United States Department of Defense has announced the awarding of grants totaling $61.7 million to 82 university researchers at 50 different educational institutions including 12 HBCUs. Individual awards of up to $800,000 will support research pr...
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Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California, has announced that she will step down from her post on June 30. She was the first African American and the first person of color to serve as president of Whittier College. An alumni group call...
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A new study led by Sterling Bone, a professor of marketing at Utah State University, finds that members of underrepresented ethnic and racial groups tend to rate poor customer service less negatively than White people. Researchers recruited nine...
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George Timmons has been selected to serve as the next president of Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. He will take office in late June. Holyoke Community College enrolls just over 3,700 students according to the most recent statistics availa...
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A new report from HCM Strategists – made possible with funding support from Lumina Foundation- finds that over the last 20 years, the nation has lost 300,000 Black learners from the community college system, with participation rates among Black...
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Barbara Krauthamer has been appointed the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta. She will take the helm of Emory University’s largest school on July 1. Currently, Dr. Krauthamer is dean of the College of Humanit...
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A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data on the employment of recent high school and college graduates. More than 62 percent of 2022 high school graduates were enrolled in college in October 2022. For African American 2022 high...
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The board of regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical Colleges has appointed Ruth Ray Jackson as interim president of Langston University. She will take office on July 6. “I appreciate the confidence of the Oklahoma A&M Board of Reg...
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Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator will become the new dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in California. He will begin his new job on August 15. Dr. Orobater is currently president of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagasc...
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Carl Phillips, a professor of English and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Professor Phillips was honored for his poetry collection Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar,...
