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In the 1970s, Saint Louis University began offering its first African-American studies classes. As the African-American studies program solidified, the university created a certificate and a contract major, where students put together classes that wo...
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The University of South Florida has announced a new online portal that includes hundreds of artifacts that highlight the injustices that affected Black communities and businesses. Some of the items in the archive – which is entitled the African...
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Willie Fleming, chief diversity officer at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, will retire on June 1. He joined the university in 2016 and has led the Office of Diversity and Inclusion since 2018. Previously, he was a professor of...
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The Southern Regional Education Board has released new data that shows that the level of Black, Hispanic, and other underrepresented college faculty members is not keeping pace with the changing student demographics in many states. The data shows tha...
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Erika Cameron was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Palo Alto University in California. She will take office on June 30, 2021. Palo Alto University is a private, non-profit university located in the heart of Northern Califo...
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A new study led by Joy Misra, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shows that faculty workloads are not distributed equally by race and gender. But the study found that there specific strategies that can be used to sol...
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Howard University in Washington, D.C. has announced that it will disband its department of classics. The department has been part of the university since its founding in 1867. It is the only department of classics at a historically Black college or u...
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Dice is the leading database for technology professionals, managing over 9 million profiles in the United States. The platform helps technology professionals manage their careers and employers connect with highly skilled tech talent. The company rece...
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Ed Grier, a veteran global operations executive and business-school leader, has been selected as the next dean of Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in California. Grier will join the business school this summer. Grier has been servi...
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Dionne Danns, professor in the School of Education, adjunct professor in African American and African Diaspora studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, and former associate vice provost for institutional diversity at Indiana University in Bloomin...
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Clark Atlanta University has announced the launch of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at the university. The institute aims to serve as an incubator for recruiting and developing the future presidents of the more than 100 historically Black co...
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Timothy L. Millner was appointed executive director of physical facilities management at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Millner joins Howard University after serving as director of capital planning and construction for the University of the Di...
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On April 20, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University was crowned champion of the 2021 Honda Campus All Star Challenge. The four-person team from North Carolina A&T State University defeated a team from Florida A&M Universit...
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Steven D. Townsend, an assistant professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has been selected to receive the 2021 David Y. Gin Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes “outstanding con...
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Coppin State University, the historically Black educational institution in Baltimore, will launch a new bachelor in nursing to doctor of nursing practice degree program starting this fall. The BSN to DNP program, in the College of Health Professions’...
