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The Kern Community College District in California has appointed Steven Watkin as interim president for Bakersfield College. He will be the first African American to lead the college. Bakersfield College enrolls nearly 25,000 students, according to th...
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The U.S. Census Bureau has released data on voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. More than half of the nation’s citizen, voting-age population voted in 2022 — the second-highest turnout for a congressional election in two decades. The 52.2 pe...
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Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system office has announced that Dwayne Smith will assume the role of interim president of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He will take office on June 1. Southern Connecticut State Unive...
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Asegun Henry, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. The award is the NSF’s highest honor for early-car...
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The board of regents at Morgan State University in Baltimore voted unanimously to extend the contract of president David K. Wilson for seven years. Dr. Wilson will now lead the university through 2030. Dr. Wilson became president of Morgan State Univ...
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Bryana French has been appointed associate chair in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology of the College of Health at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She joined the university’s faculty in 2014. Her interests focus on multic...
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Historically Black North Carolina Central University in Durham has announced that it will offer a new digital filmmaking concentration in its department of mass communication. The first students are scheduled to enroll this coming fall. Mass communic...
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James Curbeam was appointed director of enterprise risk management at Morgan State University in Baltimore. This is a newly created position designed to strengthen the university’s management of risk across the full spectrum of university functions....
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Howard University released a comprehensive report detailing the significant progress the university has made on its Howard Forward strategic plan. Launched in 2019, the plan aims to transform the university through various initiatives that strengthen...
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A professor in the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences at Clemson University in South Carolina is making history as the first African American woman to be inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences (TALS). Corliss Outley, p...
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André L. Churchwell, a renowned cardiologist and health care leader, will step down as vice chancellor for outreach, inclusion, and belonging and chief diversity officer at Vanderbilt University effective June 30, 2023, and transition to a new role...
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Clemson University in South Carolina is launching the Call Me Doctor Esteemed Scholars Program for undergraduates who are from groups that are underrepresented in STEM and have an interest in conducting biomedically-related research and pursuing a Ph...
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Johns Hopkins University Libraries has acquired a new archive of materials relating to jazz vocalist Billy Holiday’s early life in Baltimore. This collection, amassed by a Billie Holiday biographer during the 1970s and stored during the last 30...
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Ben Vinson III will be the eighteenth president of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Vinson will take office on September 1. “Howard’s incredible legacy, its remarkable trajectory, combined with the fine talent of its faculty and staff, situa...
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A new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce in the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., examines the probable impact of the expected Supreme Court decision to prohibit the consideration of race in the...
