Category : Education

Xavier University Students Win Department of Homeland Security’s Invent2Prevent Competition

Four Xavier University of Louisiana students have taken the first-place prize during the collegiate finals of the Department of Homeland Security Invent2Prevent Competition. The Invent2Prevent program encourages student teams at the high school or co...

Six Black Scholars Who Are Taking on New Duties in Higher Education

Imani Perry was named the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies...

Voorhees University Gains Approval to Offer a New MBA Program

Historically Black Voorhees University in Denmark, South Carolina, has received approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to offer a new master’s degree program in business administration. The MBA...

Rita Dove to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From the National Book Foundation

Rita Dove, the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, has been selected to receive the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the nonprofit organization that prese...

Spelman College Establishes a Student Exchange Program With the Berklee College of Music

Historically Black Spelman College in Atlanta has established a student exchange program with the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The mission of the Berklee-Spelman exchange program is to promote educational opportunities in music and liberal art...

Three African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Posts in Higher Education

Stephanie Akunvabey has been named associate vice president for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Pace University in New York. Most recently, she served in a similar role at Roger Williams University campuses in Bristol and Provi...

In Memoriam: BeEtta L. Stoney, 1959-2023

BeEtta Stoney, a longtime educator and administrator at Kansas State University, died on September 5 in Manhattan, Kansas. She was 64 years old. Stoney earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education-special education/health education as well...

Managing Cultural Audacity in the HBCU Environment

by S. Keith Hargrove The fall semester is typically one of the busiest times for any academic institution. On many campuses across the nation, literally thousands of students are arriving to begin or continue their academic study in pursuit of a coll...

Highland Community College Agrees to Reform Allegedly Biased Disciplinary Procedures

In 2022, three former coaches at Highland Community College (HCC) in Kansas filed a lawsuit against the college claiming that high-ranking administrators at the college pressured them to recruit fewer Black athletes. The lawsuit alleged Highland admi...

Berkeley Professor to Design Emory University’s Memorial to the Enslaved

Walter Hood In 2021, Emory University announced plans to develop memorials on its Atlanta and Oxford campuses to honor the enslaved individuals who are part of Emory’s history. The university has selected the Hood Design Studio of Oakland, California...

Study Finds Persisting Occupational Segregation Among Similarly Educated Blacks and Whites

A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that over the past 20 years, the number of Black workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher has grown by nearly 5 million. The percentage of Black workers with a bachelor’s...

Former Professor and University Administrator to Lead the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

DeAngela Burns-Wallace is the new CEO and president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. With more than $2.5 billion in assets, the Kauffman Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Ewing Marion Kauffman was the...

Report Finds That Large Numbers of Black Students Are Not Comfortable on Ohio Campuses

A new study by the Ohio Black Student Association finds that large numbers of Black students at colleges and universities in the state reported negative experiences relating to their race. The project surveyed students at nine public four-year univer...

Phyllis Curtis-Tweed Appointed Provost at Queensborough Community College in New York

Phyllis Curtis-Tweed was appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York. The college enrolls nearly 10,000 students. Dr. Curtis-Tweed had been serving as vice president for academic an...

Yale Study Finds Huge Racial Disparity in Death Rates Due to Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter

Health benefits that have resulted from reductions in fine particulate air pollution aren’t distributed equally among populations in the U.S., a new Yale-led study finds. Racial and ethnic minorities — and Black people in particular — still experienc...