Category : Education

Three Black Scholars Taking on New Faculty Assignments

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...

New HBCU Executive Leadership Institute Founded at Clark Atlanta University

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...

Colleges and Universities Announced the Appointments of Four Black Administrators

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...

North Carolina A&T State University Wins the Honda Campus All Star Challenage

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...

Vanderbilt University’s Steven Townsend Honored by the American Chemical Society

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...

Coppin State University to Launch an Accelerated Path to a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree

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’...

Five African Americans Who Have Been Hired to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Anita Fernander will be the inaugural chief officer for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Schmidt College of Medicine of Florida Atlantic University, effective June 7, 2021. Dr. Fernander currently serves as the health equity thread le...

Purdue University Looks to Boost its Commitment to African American Students

The Equity Task Force at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has defined concrete goals and plans to invest more than $75 million into the support of Black students and programs over the course of the next five years. The goals of the task...

In Memoriam: Karl Von Binns Sr., 1951-2021

Karl Von Binns Sr., a faculty member in the department of hospitality and tourism management at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, passed away on April 2 at the TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland. He was 69 years ol...

University of Pennsylvania Has Announced Plans for Its 1,300 Piece Morton Collection of Crania

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has announced its action plan regarding the repatriation or reburial of ancestors, including the remains of enslaved individuals and Black Philadelphians within the Samuel G. Morto...

Diversity Efforts More Likely to Be Supported When They Are Seen to Benefit White Students

Diversity has become a paramount issue on the campuses of many colleges and universities. The explosion of appointments of diversity officials at colleges and universities in recent months is documented each week on JBHE and other websites. A new stu...

The Next Chancellor of the Indianapolis Campus of Ivy Tech Community College

Lorenzo Esters was appointed chancellor of the Indianapolis campus of Ivy Tech Community College. He will take office on July 1. The Ivy Tech Community College System operates more than 40 locations and teaches classes in more than 75 communities. It...

Pew Research Center Report Documents Racial Gap in STEM Degree Attainment and Employment

A new report from the Pew Research Center finds that Black workers remain underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce compared with their share of all workers, including in computing jobs, which have seen consi...

Morris Brown College in Atlanta Granted Accreditation Candidacy

Historically Black Morris Brown College in Atlanta was founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2002, the college lost its accreditation due to an unstable financial position. The college filed for and later re-emerged from bankr...

Report Finds De Facto Racial Segregation in Virginia’s Public Universities

A new report by Educational Reform Now, finds that de facto racial segregation continues at state-operated colleges and universities in Virginia. The report beings by saying that “Virginia’s higher education system is one the oldest and most re...