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Vaughn A. Booker has been named the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. As a historian of religion, his research and tea...
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Sanofi, a global healthcare company, has awarded a combined $18 million grant to three historically Black medical schools to increase diversity in clinical trials. By gaining insight into how diseases affect populations of different backgrounds, the...
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Mississippi University for Women (MUW), in partnership with the University Press of Mississippi, has awarded the 2024 Eudora Welty Prize to Kemeshia Swanson in honor of her new book, Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded Upon...
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Alcorn State University, a historically Black university in Mississippi, has canceled its women’s soccer season, according to a recent report from HBCU Gameday. A letter signed by 15 current and former players called out inadequate athletic fa...
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Chandra Dorsey-Felton has been selected to serve as interim deputy athletic director for student success and compliance at Florida Memorial University. She brings over two decades of collegiate coaching and administrative experience to her new role....
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Peggy Davis, associate vice president for athletics at Virginia State University, passed away on October 16. She was 62 years old. In 1997, Davis began her career with Virginia State University as head coach of the women’s basketball team. Seve...
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NASCAR has expanded their Campus Lab Program to Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina. The partnership makes WSSU the first institution in North Carolina and the first public university in the country to j...
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A team of scholars led by Stanford University’s Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) have partnered with the County of Santa Clara, California to remove racist language in millions of property deeds. The state of California enact...
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The College of Health Sciences at Jackson State University, a historically Black institution in Mississippi, has recently launched a new initiative to provide students with experiential learning opportunities while addressing health disparities in Mi...
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Earlier this year, the United Negro College Fund reported on the positive impact HBCUs have on the United States economy, despite their limited resources and historic underfunding. A new report from the Wesley Peachtree Institute, a nonprofit researc...
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Lester Agyei McCorn has been named president-elect of Paine College, a historically Black undergraduate institution in Augusta, Georgia. He will assume his official presidency on January 1, 2025. According to the Department of Education’s most...
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Collectivism is the tendency in which an individual views themself as a member of a larger group, rather than an isolated independent being. According to a new study from scholars at George Washington University, experiencing collectivism through inv...
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Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. She will assume her presidency on January 6, 2025. For the past eight years, Dr. Holcomb-McCoy has served as...
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According to a new study led by Harvard University’s Kennedy School, Black women are disproportionately adversely affected when they work with predominately White co-workers. In a study of over 9,000 new hires in a professional services firm, t...
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Within the first two months of every fall semester since 2020, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center releases a report and online dashboard that outlines national and state-level data on annual enrollment changes across the three most re...
