Category : Education

How Investors Have Thwarted Black Home Ownership and Widened the Racial Wealth Gap

Investors have been buying houses at a steady rate since the last recession, but how much does it affect availability in the housing market? New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows investors are most likely to push out Black, midd...

Glenda Glover Will Step Down as President of Tennessee State University in 2024

Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover announced that she will retire following the 2023-2024 academic year. She became president in January 2013. “It was a decision that did not come too easily,” President Glover said, “...

How Artificial Intelligence Can Identify Biases in the Jury Selection Process

A new study by scholars at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, finds that prosecutors ask prospective jurors different questions depending on their race, gender, or ethnicity. The researchers used natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyz...

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...

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...

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...

Maryland Puts Towson University Ph.D. Program Opposed by Morgan State University on Hold

In June, the Maryland Higher Education Commission by a vote of 4 to 3 approved the establishment of a business analytics doctoral program at Towson University. The new program was opposed by officials at historically Black Morgan State University in...

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...

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...

Rhodes College Scholar Honored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Shana Stoddard, associate professor of chemistry at Rhodes College in Memphis, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The Ruth Kirschstein Di...

Grambling State University to Host Sports Administration Graduate Students From Ghana

Historically Black Grambling State University in Louisiana has signed an agreement with the government of Ghana which will students from Ghana to Louisiana for graduate study. The initial cohort of students from Ghana will come to study in Grambling...

Six African Americans Who Are Assuming New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Patrice Moorer has been appointed assistant vice president of academic affairs at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Dr. Moorer joined the staff at the university in 2013 as the director for student retention initiatives and was previously...

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...

Grinnell College in Iowa Launches the Department of African Diaspora Studies

In 1971, the members of Concerned Black Students at Grinnell College in Iowa presented President Glenn Leggett with a list of 10 demands to improve life on campus for Black students and faculty. Among these demands was the creation of a Black studies...

No Progress in Black Students Admitted to the University of California System

The University of California recently released data on in-state students admitted to the Class of 2027 at its nine undergraduate campuses. The Class of 2027 was admitted prior to the Supreme Court’s recent decision banning race-sensitive admiss...