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The Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University in Washington D.C. has established a new multi-campus course about news reporting that will be available for students at nine historically Black colleges and universities. The course, Inv...
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Maria Pitre-Martin, executive director of the SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received the Friday Medal from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. The medal, presented...
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South Carolina State University, a historically Black institution, and the University of Gambia in Africa have recently established a partnership agreement to engage in various agricultural initiatives and exchange programs. The new collaborative par...
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Jerome Coley has been promoted to sports information director at Coahoma Community College in Mississippi. Currently, he serves as the college’s coordinator of tutorial services and intramural sports. Earlier in his career, he taught physical e...
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Shirley Clarke Franklin, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, has recently donated a collection of her materials to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center Consortium, a collaboration between four historically Black institutions...
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Monica Vance, director of student disability services at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, passed away on July 25. She was 49 years old. Vance began her career as a teacher in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her first role in higher education administ...
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According to a new study from Opportunity Insights, Black millennials born into low-income families have seen better financial outcomes in early adulthood than Black Gen Xers. On the other hand, White millennials from low-income families have encount...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has announced it will provide a total of $600 million to the endowments of the country’s historically Black medical schools. The announcement is part of the orga...
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A new study led by Rutgers University has found a potential reason for the increasing rates of suicide among Black Americans: high rates of policing among the Black LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer) community. The study surveyed 5,000 particip...
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Solomon Ofori-Acquah has been appointed to lead the Georgia Solve Sickle Cell Initiative, a collaborative research project started by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) in partnership with Emory University, historically Black Morehouse School of Med...
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According to a recent study led by scholars at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, racial disparities in dementia among Black Latin Americans are linked to modifiable social factors, rather than genetic ancestry. Latin America has a very di...
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Joyce Buckner-Brown has been promoted from interim provost to provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alcorn State University. Dr. Buckner-Brown brings over two decades of experience in higher education and public health to her new role. P...
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Earlier this year, Florida A&M University administrators were hoodwinked by a fraudulent $237 million donation. After the donation was labeled fraudulent, President Larry Robinson stepped down from his role, and Tim Beard was named as his interim...
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Marcus Ward has been promoted to senior vice president of institutional advancement. He currently serves as vice president of institutional advancement and director of the Alcorn State University Foundation, Inc. Over the past 15 years, his leadershi...
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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has recently signed a new consortium agreement with six historically Black colleges and universities to launch HBCUv, a digital learning community engagement platform for HBCU students, faculty, and staff. The ini...
