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A new study led by Naomi Harada Thyden, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, examined who among a group of young adults was most likely to have a sibling or parent die and how often students experiencing such deaths obtain a college edu...
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Taléa R. Drummer-Ferrell is the new dean of students at Kent State University in Ohio. She has been serving as interim dean since last October. Earlier, Dr. Drummer-Ferrell served as director of Kent State’s Student Multicultural Center. Dr. Drummer-...
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John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia and an icon of the civil rights movement, died on July 17. He was 80 years old and had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders. He chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinatin...
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Apple has announced it is expanding its partnership effort with historically Black colleges and universities adding 10 more regional coding centers that will serve as technology hubs for their campuses and broader communities. Launched last year, App...
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Kevin Haggard is a new assistant professor of social work in the College of Public Service at Tennessee State University. He was director of talent management for RePublic Charter Schools in Nashville. Dr. Haggard is a graduate of Tennessee State Uni...
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Fort Valley State University, the historically Black educational institution in Georgia, is offering two new online programs designed to help people advance their careers as a professional school counselor. The master’s degree program in school...
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Milton Morris, the director of Environmental Health Science at Benedict College in South Carolina since 1989, is the recipient of the 2020 Joe Beck Educational Contribution Award from the National Environmental Health Association. The award is given...
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Edward Waters College, a historically Black educational institution in Jacksonville, Florida, has announced its intention to transition to university status. According to the latest data supplied to the U.S. Department of Education, the college enrol...
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Priscilla Arungwa was appointed director of students at the Blanding campus of Utah State University. She most recently served as manager of academic and career advising at Lone Star College Cy-Fair in Texas. Earlier, she was a career services coordi...
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Recently a group of faculty from underrepresented groups held an online meeting with Christina Drale, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The faculty members aired a number of grievances including: The number of students from un...
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Delaware State University has announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase Wesley College and absorb the institution into the university. According to Delaware State, no historically Black college or university has ever before acquired a no...
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Arthur Sanderson Paul, professor emeritus in the department of computer science at Howard University in Washington, D.C., died late last month. He was 70 years old. After graduating from Presentation Brothers College in St. George’s, Grenada, Paul at...
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A new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, shows that educational gaps between Whites and Blacks emerge at a very early age. The study found that by the time they enter ki...
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Michael V. Drake has been named the 21st president of the University of California. He will be the first African American president in the 152-year history of the university system. The system includes 10 campuses, five medical centers, three nationa...
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A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia and Oklahoma State University finds inventors from underrepresented groups are less likely than White inventors to have their patent applications granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....
