Category : Education

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Three African American Women Who Have Been Appointed Provosts

Shantay R. Grays was named provost and executive vice president at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Grays joins Howard Community College after serving the Houston Community College District since 1998. She held several positions at...

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Number of African American Suicides on the Rise

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that after declining in 2019 and 2020, suicide deaths increased approximately 5 percent in the United States in 2021 and the number of suicides in the United States increased by 2.6 pe...

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Two Black Scholars Who Have Been Named to Dean Positions

Brett C. Woods was appointed vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Salem College, an educational institution for women in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He previously served as an associate professor of biology and interim de...

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A Quartet of Black Scholars in New Faculty Positions

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property law scholar, has been named the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at the university. Her most recent book i...

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Building a Next Generation Platform for Online Education at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is partnering with the Axim Collaborative to develop HBCU Virtual, or HBCUv, a new platform to expand digital learning and equitable access to education for historically Black colleges and universities. Axim Colla...

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University of Pennsylvania — Assistant Professor in Epigenetics

Assistant Professor in Epigenetics University of Pennsylvania: Perelman School of Medicine: Perelman School of Medicine – Biochemistry and Biophysics Location: Philadelphia, PAOpen Date:Aug 22, 2023Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Ti...