Category : Education

Study Finds Preterm Births Among Low-Income Black Women Are on the Rise

According to a new study led by the University of California, San Francisco, preterm births in the United States are on the rise, particularly among low-income Black mothers. In an examination of more than five million births in the United States bet...

Many HBCUs See a Surge In Enrollments

Many of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities had a record number of applicants this past admissions cycle. And many HBCUs have reported a significant increase in enrollments this fall. Undoubtedly, the Supreme Court’s...

Federal Report Examines Racial Differences in Parent Involvement in K-12 School Activities

The United States Department of Education has released the most recent edition of their Parent and Family Involvement in Education report. The study outlines racial differences in parents’ involvement in children’s activities and school m...

Leapetswe Malete Named President-Elect of the National Sport and Physical Activity Organization

Leapetswe “Leps” Malete, associate professor of kinesiology at Michigan State University, has been named president-elect of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. He will serve as president-elect for...

Encountering Online Microaggressions is Associated With Poor Sleep Quality for Black Women

According to a new study led by North Carolina State University, witnessing online microaggressions is associated with poor sleep quality among young Black women – even when the microaggressions are not personally directed at them. The study au...

Joe Russell Appointed Dean of Students at Middlebury College in Vermont

Joe Russell has been named dean of students at Middlebury College in Vermont. Russell joins the Middlebury College community after nearly two decades of service at the University of Vermont. He began his tenure at UVM in 2005 as director of residenti...

Miles College Signs Agreement to Purchase Birmingham-Southern College Campus

At the conclusion of the 2023-2024 academic year, Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama ceased its operations 168 years after its founding. Recently, representatives from Miles College, an Alabama-based HBCU, have signed a purchase agreement to acqu...

Albany State University Partners With Department of Labor to Provide Employment Support to Veterans and Military Families

Albany State University, a historically Black institution in Georgia, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Department of Labor that will provide new career development and employment opportunities to veterans and m...

Edmund W. Gordon Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Pre-K-12 Education

Edmund W. Gordon, professor emeritus at both Columbia University and Yale University, has been named one of three recipients of the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. Presented by the McGraw Family Foundation and the University of Pennsyl...

Alabama State University and Faulker University Establish Accelerated Law Degree Program

Alabama State University, a historically Black institution, has recently partnered with Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, to provide a new opportunity for undergraduate students to pursue a law degree. The recent agreement between the two u...

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities

Jennifer Wiggins has been named the inaugural director of the Office of Sexual Violence and Prevention and Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Previously, she served as associate dean of students and the inaugural direct...

Leadership Support for the Mental Health of Black Male Student Athletes

by Henry A. Stanford As a society, we celebrate the success of the most popular Black male student-athletes (BMSA). Their success deserves our attention. Similarly, the Black male student-athletes who are not successful need our full attention as wel...

JacQuene Rainey Appointed President of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson

JacQuene Rainey has been named president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson. Her presidency officially began on October 1. Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) is a community college system with several campuses across t...

Eight HBCUs Receive Federal Grants to Advance Diversity in Education and STEM Workforce

Two programs from the United States Department of Education have awarded over $2.7 million in funding to eight historically Black college and universities to increase diversity among America’s education and STEM workforce. The Augustus F. Hawki...

The Poverty Rate Among Black Americans Increased in 2023

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual report on poverty in the United States. Nearly 37 million Americans were poor in 2023, 11.1 percent of the total population. In 2022 poverty rate rate was the lowest on record for Black Americans at...