Category : Education

Pew Research Center Provides Insight into Share of Black-Owned Businesses in the United States

The Pew Research Center has recently conducted research on the status of Black-owned businesses in the United States. Through analyzing results from the 2022 Annual Business Survey from the United States Census Bureau and the National Science Foundat...

Martin Lemelle Appointed the Eleventh President of Grambling State University

The University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to name Dr. Martin Lemelle as the next president of Grambling State University. “To this illustrious board, to our Gram Fam across the globe, to our students, current and futur...

Martin Lemellle Appointed the Eleventh President of Grambling State University

Study Finds Elementary School Teachers More Likely to Discipline Black Boys than White Peers

A new study, led by Calvin Zimmerman, the O’Shaughnessy Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has found that elementary school teachers, regardless of their own race, are more likely to engage in disciplin...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole Appointed President-In-Residence of the United Negro College Fund Capital Campaign

Johnnetta Betsch Cole, former president of two historically Black women’s colleges, has been appointed president-in-residence and co-chairperson of the United Negro College Fund’s capital campaign. In this role, Dr. Cole will aim to secur...

Remote Work Opportunities Lead to a More Diverse Applicant Pool

A new study from scholars at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business has found remote work job postings in the STEM fields attract more diverse applicant pools compared to on-site positions. To conduct their study, the research team...

Jamila Taylor Named President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has selected Jamila K. Taylor as its next president and chief executive officer. The institute is a nonprofit organization that engages in research and dissemination to shape public policy and improve t...

Three African Americans Appointed to New Academic Positions

Leon Prieto has been appointed assistant dean of strategic initiatives and community engagement for the College of Business at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He currently serves the university as a professor of management and director o...

Historic HBCU Landmark Revitalized Through National Park Service Grant

An African American landmark at historically Black Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina is undergoing a restoration project thanks to three grants from the National Park Service Historic Fund’s African American Civil Rights Grant p...

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Positions

Tania D. Mitchell has been named the inaugural associate provost for community engagement at the University of Maryland. Dr. Mitchell currently serves as the Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and chair of the depar...

North Carolina A&T University Establishes Research Partnership with Collins Aerospace

The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University has partnered with Collins Aerospace to provide collaborative aerospace technology research opportunIties between the two institutions. “There are direct relations to the research...

Andre Johnson Honored for Distinguished Service in Africana Communication

Andre E. Johnson, the Benjamin W. Rawlings Jr. professor of rhetoric and media studies in the department of communication and film at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, has received the 2023 Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in A...

Jackson State University Chosen to Participate in Battery Workforce Challenge Program

Jackson State University in Mississippi has been chosen to participate in the Battery Workforce Challenge Program, established in October 2023 by the United States Department of Energy in partnership with Stellantis, a global automotive manufacturer....

Black Film Project and Film Studies Fellowships Established at Harvard University

The department of art, film, and visual studies and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University have partnered to create a new initiative, the Black Film Project, to support narrative and documentary films cent...

Yale Library Acquires Digital Collection of Langston Hughes Papers

In December 2023, the Yale University Library added 5800 new images to their digital library collections. Included in this upload was a collection of digitized personal correspondence and papers from Langston Hughes, a Black writer and poet from the...