Category : Education

Fort Valley State University Establishes Partnership With an Electric Vehicle Manufacturer

Fort Valley State University, a historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has recently signed an agreement with Imola Automotive USA, Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer, to collaborate on workforce development opportunities for stude...

Monic Ductan Receives Inaugural Tennessee Book Award in Fiction

Monic Ductan, associate professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Tennessee Book Award in the fiction category for her first book, Daughters of Muscadine: Stories (University of Kentucky Press, 2...

Albany State University Establishes Graduate Pathway Program With Grand Valley State University

Albany State University, a historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has recently signed an agreement with Grand Valley State University in Michigan that will open the door for more students at the HBCU to pursue a graduate education. Up...

A Trio of African Americans Taking on New Administrative Responsibilities in Higher Education

De’Onqua Isaac has been named vice president for enrollment management at Morris College, a historically Black institution in Sumter, South Carolina. He has nearly a decade of admissions and enrollment experience with HBCUs, most recently servi...

Eleven Black Scholars Have Been Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who...

In Memoriam: Maxine Mimms, 1928-2024

Maxine Mimms, former professor at Evergreen State College, passed away on October 8. She was 96 years old. Dr. Mimms began her career as an elementary teacher at Seattle Public Schools. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she served as a teacher and an a...

Nonwhite Patients Are Significantly More Likely to Have Preventative Care Insurance Claims Denied

The Affordable Care Act eliminated out-of-pocket costs for recommended preventative care for most privately insured patients. However, a new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto has uncovered racial and economic disparities associate...

Leslie Rodriguez-McClellon Named Seventeenth President of Arkansas Baptist College

Leslie Rodriguez-McClellon has been named the seventeenth president of Arkansas Baptist College, a historically Black institution in Little Rock. According to the Department of Education’s most recent data, Arkansas Baptist College enrolls roug...

Black Men Remain Underrepresented in the Physician Assistant Profession

According to a new study from scholars at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Black men are significantly underrepresented in the physician assistant and associate (PA) profession compared to their share of the United S...

Huge Enrollment Decline at Historically Black Tennessee State University

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently released data on enrollments at state-operated colleges and universities. Systemwide, enrollments grew 2.2 percent from the fall of 2023. Undergraduate enrollment was up 2.3 percent and graduate enro...

Significant Racial Disparities Found in Chronic Absenteeism Rates for New York High School Students

Students who miss at least 10 percent of days in a school year are considered to be chronically absent by the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, but remains prevalent throughout the state of New York, ac...

Historically Black Central State University in Ohio Placed on Fiscal Watch Amidst Financial Challenges

On October 25, Central State University, a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, was placed on fiscal watch by the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE). The fiscal watch was declared by ODHE Chancellor Mike Duffey, who has the au...

Huston-Tilloston University to Establish Two Satellite Campus in California

Huston-Tilloston University, a historically Black educational institution in Austin, Texas, has announced plans to launch two new satellite campuses in California. Currently, Huston-Tilloston University has been approved to offer online courses for C...

Two Black Scholars Selected for Endowed Professorships at Ivy League Universities

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...

Sanofi Grants $18 Million to Three Historically Black Medical Schools to Increase Diversity in Clinical Studies

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...