Category : Education

New Study Finds Huge Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Rates

A new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University finds significant differences in COVID-19 mortality rates by gender and racial/ethnic group. Several studies have found that men are more likely to be...

Lisa Anderson-Levy Appointed Provost at Highly Rated Macalester College in Minnesota

Lisa Anderson-Levy will become the executive vice president and provost at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She will begin her new job on July 6. Dr. Anderson-Levy joins Macalester from Beloit College in Wisconsin, where she spent the past...

A Quartet of Black Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles

Antron Mahoney was appointed assistant professor in the department of Africana, gender, and identity studies at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has been serving as a visiting assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at Davidson College in No...

Tennessee State University May Be the First HBCU to Have an Ice Hockey Team

Tennessee State Univerity, the historically Black educational institution in Nashville, has launched a feasibility study to determine if the university should be the first historically Black institution to have varsity men’s and women’s ice hockey te...

Six African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Reggie Hill was named associate vice chancellor for strategic enrollment at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, effective July 1. Hill has served as the vice president of marketing and enrollment at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arka...

HBCUs Receive a Major Commitment From Networking Giant Cisco

Cisco Sysystems Inc, the networking systems giant based in San Jose, California, has announced $150 million in support of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities and the students who attend these institutions. In partnership w...

Kaja Dunn Honored for Her Work Addressing Issues of Race in Theatre Education

Kaja Dunn, an assistant professor of theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received the Kennedy Center Medallion from the National Committee of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. A project of the Education Divisi...

Edward Waters College to Launch a New Institute on Law, Race, Social Justice and Economic Policy

Edward Waters College, the historically Black educational institution in Jacksonville, Florida, has announced that it will establish the A. Philip Randolph Institute for Law, Race, Social Justice and Economic Policy. The college plans to hire an exec...

Three Black Professors Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville

Vanderbilt University has appointed 11 faculty members to endowed chairs. Three of the appointments went to Black men. C. André Christie-Mizell was appointed to the Centennial Chair in Sociology. He also serves as vice provost for graduate education...

In Memoriam: John Benjamin Dubriel , 1938-2021

John B. Dubriel, a long-time faculty member at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, died on May 12. He was 82 years old. Dr. Dubriel was a native of Melrose, Louisiana, the youngest of 11 children. He held a bachelor’s degree and a master&#...

University of Illinois Chicago Strips the Name of John Marshall From Its Law School

The University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School will change its name to the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. The John Marshall Law School, formerly an independent law school that was established in 1899, merged with the Unive...

Oregon State University — Head Academic Advisor, College of Engineering

The College of Engineering at Oregon State University invites you to apply to our full-time (1.0FTE), 12 months, fixed-term Head Academic Advisor position in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering. The Head Advisor will p...

Florida State University Scholar Creates Documentary Film on Florida’s Plantations

Valerie Scoon, filmmaker in residence at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, is the director of a new documentary film on the history of plantations and the enslaved in northern and middle Florida. The film, – Invis...

Grossmont College in California Names Denise Whisenhunt as Its Next President

The Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District in California has chosen Denise Whisenhunt as the next president of Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. She will take office on July 1. Grossmont College enrolls nearly 17,000 students, accordi...

Study Finds Blacks in Medical Schools Face an Onslaught of Microaggressions

A new study led by researchers at Yale Medical School found that microaggressions are a common experience for medical students and are associated with a positive screening for depression, lower medical school satisfaction, and a higher risk of contem...