- 6 months ago
City Year, a member organization of AmeriCorps focused on developing diverse leaders through educational volunteer service, has partnered with historically Black Paul Quinn College in Dallas to make higher education more accessible for City Year Amer...
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Alexander Miller has been named vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He currently serves as vice president of student life at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He has ove...
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Paul F. Bitting, a professor at North Carolina State University for nearly three decades, passed away on March 8. He was 79 years old. In 1989, Dr. Bitting joined the faculty of the College of Education at North Carolina State University where he tau...
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Rutgers University Newark in New Jersey has named its Center for Politics and Race in America after the late Lieutenant Governor Sheila Y. Oliver, the first Black woman to hold a statewide office in New Jersey. Oliver was elected New Jersey’s L...
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Phylicia Rashad, dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at historically Black Howard University, has announced her retirement effective at the conclusion of this academic year. Rashad, a Howard University alumna, has an over four-decade...
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Mercer County Community College in New Jersey has partnered with the New Jersey Black Women’s Collective to launch the New Jersey Black Women’s Collective Leadership Institute. The program was created to support emerging Black women leade...
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The University of Maryland has released a report documenting the history of enslaved Black people who worked and or lived on land that is now part of the school’s campus. The report is the latest endeavor from “The 1856 Project,” a...
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Yale University has announced it will commit $10 million to expand its partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities. The announcement follows the university’s recent formal apology regarding its historical ties to slavery. The...
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Gallup and the Lumina Foundation have recently released data from their 2023 survey on the experiences with and attitudes towards higher education among adults in the United States. The study surveyed a mix of currently enrolled students, adults who...
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Nadine Barnett Cosby has been named dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Her appointment makes her the university’s first-ever Black dean. She will assume her new position on June 15. Currently, Dr. Barn...
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The National Urban League has published their “State of Black America” report for 2024. Six decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the report identifies sectors where inequality persists, areas of progress, and the actions President...
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James Griffin has been appointed president of medical staff at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 1958, Dr. Griffin was born at Parkland Memorial Hospital while the delivery ward was still segre...
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Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland, has established the new Center for Urban and Coastal Climate Science Research. The center is funded by the state of Maryland, which has allocated $3 million of annual fu...
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Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin has been named the Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts for the Pennsylvania State University College of Arts and Architecture. Her new role will fund her travel and research in Ghana for her projec...
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The Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity initiative of the National Science Foundation has awarded a $14 million grant to Spelman College in collaboration with Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and...
