Category : Education

New Administrtive Duties in Higher Education for Seven African Americans

Johnny Smith is the new vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College in Lumberton, North Carolina. He was associate vice chancellor of external affairs at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Dr....

In Memoriam: Wesley G. Robinson-McNeese, 1948-2023

Wesley Robinson-McNeese, executive director of diversity initiatives for the Southern Illinois University System, died on September 18. He was 75 years old. A native of East St. Louis, Illinois, McNeese served as an Air Force Morse Intercept Operator...

Ball State University Combines Women’s, Gender, and African American Studies

The women and gender studies program and the African American studies program at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, have been combined to form the Department of Women’s, Gender and African American Studies. Sharon Jones, a professor of...

Vanderbilt’s New Center for Research on Inequality and Health

Vanderbilt University announced today the creation of the Center for Research on Inequality and Health, a trans-institutional collaboration of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Nursing. The center will convene leading Vanderbilt rese...

The Official Poverty Rate for African Americans Is the Lowest in History

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual report on poverty in the United States. Nearly 38 million Americans were poor, 11.5 percent of the total population. The good news is that the official poverty rate for Black individuals decreased b...

Berenecea Johnson Eanes Will Be the Next President of California State University, Los Angeles

Berenecea Johnson Eanes has been chosen to serve as president of California State University, Los Angeles. When she takes office in January, Dr. Eanes will be the ninth president of the university and the first woman to hold the post. “I am honored t...

Prior to the Pandemic, White Children Were Three Times as Likely to Be Homeschooled Than Black Children

A new report from the U.S. Department of Education offers data on homeschooling and at-home virtual education in the United States. The data is for 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when at-home virtual education increased dramatically...

Prior to the Pandemic, White Children Were Three Times as Likely to Be Homeschool Than Black Children

Two Black Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to University Provost Positions

Nosa O. Egiebor is the new provost and executive vice chancellor at Montana Technological University in Butte. The university enrolls just over 1,600 students. African Americans are just 1 percent of the undergraduate student body. “I am deligh...

Study Finds That Protesting NFL Players Who ‘Took a Knee’ at 2016 Games Were Penalized Financially

Colin Kaepernick A recent study by scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Connecticut, and Pennsylvania State University examined the career trajectories of the first 50 NFL athletes to kneel in protest during a pregame nat...

Winston Oluwole Soboyejo Named President of SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Winston Oluwole Soboyejo was appointed president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. When he takes office on October 2, Dr. Soboyejo will be the institution’s seventh president. Established in 1966, SUNY Polytechnic Institute curr...

Education Department Debuts the Equity in Education Dashboard

The National Center for Education Statistics recently debuted its Equity in Education Dashboard. Drawing from the framework in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Monitoring Educational Equity, the website is divided...

HBCUs Receive Major Funding From Blue Meridian Partners

The HBCU Transformation Project is a collaboration between the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), and Partnership for Education Advancement. Forty HBCUs are currently working with the project and additional campu...

Four African American Scholars Who Are Taking on New Duties

Channon Miller is a new assistant professor of American studies and history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She was an assistant professor of history at the University of San Deigo. Her research is grounded and inspired by the city of Ha...

U.S. News and World Report’s Latest Rankings of the Nation’s Top HBCUs

The magazine U.S. News and World Report recently issued its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to its rankings of the best national universities and liberal arts colleges, the magazine ranks region...