Category : Education

University of Alabama Creates Database Relating to History of Slavery on Campus

A group of researchers at the University of Alabama have established a new website compiling historical records of enslaved people who labored on the university’s campus before the start of the Civil War. The University of Alabama project is pa...

Manya Whitaker Will Be the New Leader of Colorado College

Manya Whitaker, executive vice president and chief of staff at Colorado College, has been selected to serve as the college’s interim president for the next two years. Dr. Whitaker’s selection follows the resignation of former president, L...

United Negro College Fund Outlines Best Practices for Teacher Education at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund has released a new report outlining best practices for educating future teachers attending historically Black colleges and universities. The report was created in partnership with Huston-Tillotson University in Texas, Al...

Jackie Alexander is the First Black Woman President of the College Media Association

Jackie Alexander, director of student media at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named president of the College Media Association. Her appointment makes her the association’s first president of color. Alexander has been a member...

Study Finds Young Black Women Are Six Times More Likely to Be Murdered Than White Women

A new study, led by Bernadine Waller, a researcher fellow at Columbia University, has found that on average, Black women under age 45 in the United States are six times more likely to be murdered than White women of the same age group. To investigate...

Two African American Women Appointed to Deanships

Aherial Polite has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Georgia. She previously served as chair of the chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology department at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina. &...