Category : Education

Dexter Wakefield to Lead College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences at Alcorn State University

Dexter B. Wakefield has been appointed director of land grant programs and dean of the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences at Alcorn State University, a historically Black institution in Mississippi. He has served in the role on an interim ba...

The Number of African American Doctorates Reaches an All-Time High

The National Science Foundation recently released its annual data on doctoral degree recipients in the United States. Data for the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates shows that universities in the United States conferred 57,862, doctorates in 2023, u...

Judge Rules That the U.S. Naval Academy Can Still Consider Race in Admissions Decisions

Federal District Court Judge Richard Bennett has ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, can continue to use race as a consideration during its admissions processes. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that public and private...

Howard University to Develop National Research Center for Health Disparities

Howard University, a historically Black educational institution in Washington D.C., has announced plans to launch the National Research Center for Health Disparities. The HBCU has acquired a multi-floor lease to house lab and office space for the new...

Four Black Faculty Members Appointed to New Positions

Corey O. Montgomery has been appointed as the Richard W. Nicholas, M.D. & Corey O. Montgomery, M.D. Chair in Orthopaedic Oncology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. A faculty member since 2010, he curre...

North Carolina HBCU to Launch New Bachelor’s Degree Program in Artificial Intelligence

North Carolina A&T State University, a historically Black institution in Greensboro, has announced plans to launch a new bachelor’s degree program in artificial intelligence. The interdisciplinary program will be the first of its kind in th...

North Carolina Supreme Court Unveils Portrait of NCCU Law Dean Patricia Timmons-Goodson

The Supreme Court of North Carolina has recently unveiled a new portrait of Patricia Timmons-Goodson, the first African American woman to serve on the state’s highest court and the current dean of the North Carolina Central University School of...

Voorhees University Establishes Graduate Pathway Partnership With Des Moines University

Voorhees University, a historically Black institution in Denmark, South Carolina, has formed a new partnership with Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences in Iowa that will open the door for Voorhees students to earn graduate degrees in s...

A Strategy for Integrating Artificial Intelligence at Historically Black Colleges & Universities

by S. Keith Hargrove Disruption in higher education is now more commonplace, as we reflect on the pandemic and governmental policies and oversight. Disruption normally recognized in industry, the pace of technology discovered through research or adop...

University at Buffalo Acquires Archival Collection From Historic Black Church

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York, was founded in 1861 and originally led by a White clergyman. Four years later, Rev. Samuel L. Berry became the church’s first Black full-time rector. He established St. Philip’s as...

In Memoriam: Clifton Wharton, Jr., 1926-2024

Clifton Wharton, Jr., the first Black president of Michigan State University and the first Black chancellor of the State University of New York system, passed away on November 16. He was 98 years old. Dr. Wharton’s career spanned higher educati...

Huge Surge in American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa

We reported last week on a significant increase in the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa who were studying in the United States during the 2023-24 academic year. What about U.S. students studying abroad in sub-Saharan African nations? Accord...

Kimo Ah Yun Named First Black President of Marquette University

After five months of service as acting president, Kimo Ah Yun has been named the twenty-fifth president of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the first person of color to lead the university in its 143-year history. According to the...

Young Black Women Are Significantly Outpacing Black Men in Educational Attainment

Three decades ago, women and men between 24 and 35 years old were just as likely to have completed an undergraduate education, with about a quarter of each group holding bachelor’s degrees in 1995. Today, the share of young women in the United...

Darrin Martin Appointed President of Bluefield State University in West Virginia

Darrin Martin has been appointed as the seventeenth president of historically Black Bluefield State University in West Virginia. He has served as the university’s interim president for the past year. According to the Department of EducationR...