- 7 months ago
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has analyzed the overrepresentation and underrepresentation of Black, White, and Hispanic men and women in different low-wage and high-wage occupations within United States public workforce sy...
- 7 months ago
Tia Minnis has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at historically Black Virginia State University. She has served as interim provost for the past year. Dr. Minnis joined the administration at Virginia State University in 2...
- 7 months ago
A new study published in the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes journal has found racial disparities in employees’ perceptions of their employer’s “allyship” behavior; when a leader engages in same-race allys...
- 7 months ago
Laurence Alexander has been named chancellor of the University of Michigan at Flint. He will assume his new position on July 1. The Flint campus of the University of Michigan enrolls about 4,600 undergraduate and 1,400 graduate students. Black studen...
- 7 months ago
The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) has recently released a new report that outlines the current state of African American representation and pay equity among faculty across the United States. The report...
- 7 months ago
Christon Arthur has been named the sixth president of La Sierra University in Riverside, California. Upon assuming his new role on July 1, he will become the university’s first Black president. La Sierra University enrolls nearly 1,300 undergra...
- 7 months ago
Historically Black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina has recently signed a guaranteed transfer agreement with Wake Technical Community College. The agreement is the latest addition to the historically Black university’s Bronco Ben...
- 7 months ago
James Haywood Rolling Jr. has been selected to serve as interim chair of the African American studies department at Syracuse University in New York. He currently serves as program coordinator and professor of arts education, with an additional facult...
- 7 months ago
Howard University has received a record-breaking number of more than 36,000 applicants for its incoming class of 2028. This year’s record breaking number of applications is roughly 4,000 more than the last year’s applicant pool. The unive...
- 7 months ago
Laquala Dixon, dean of students at historically Black Jackson State University in Mississippi, has received the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Black Diaspora Knowledge Community (BDKC) Sankofa Award from the National Association o...
- 7 months ago
Alabama A&M University has recently launched a new, fully-online Ph.D. program in social work. The new doctoral degree in social work is the first exclusively online program of its kind at a historically Black college or university. In order to e...
- 7 months ago
Damara Hightower Mitchell has been appointed chief executive officer of the Center of Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation at historically Black Voorhees University in South Carolina. With over three decades of education, public service...
- 7 months ago
Kenneth Campbell, assistant professor at North Carolina Central University, passed away on April 19. He was 35 years old. Campbell began teaching at historically Black North Carolina Central University in 2023 as an assistant professor in the departm...
- 7 months ago
Christopher Fairfield Edley Jr., a prominent figure in law, educational policy, public service, and civil rights, passed away on May 10. He was 71 years old. Professor Edley’s career in higher education spanned over three decades. He served as...
- 7 months ago
Christopher Fairfield Edley Jr., a prominent figure in law, educational policy, public service, and civil rights, passed away on May 10. He was 71 years old. Professor Edley’s career in higher education spanned over three decades. He served as...
