Category : Education

COVID-19 Will Force HBCUs to Revamp Their Business Models

Professors Al-Tony Gilmore and Walter C. Farrell Jr., both alumni of HBCUs, offer their views on how the global pandemic will impact the bottom lines of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities. In Black communities, there is...

South Carolina State University President Has His Contract Extended

The South Carolina State University Board of Trustees announced that it will extend the employment contract of the university’s 12th president, James E. Clark. The board voted to renew Clark’s contract through June 2022 with an option for renewal for...

In Memoriam: Ken Riley, 1947-2020

Ken Riley, who played for 15 years for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League and later served as director of athletics at Florida A&M University, died at his home in Bartow, Florida, on June 7. He was 72 years old. Ken Riley was...

University of Iowa to Launch the Midwest Institute of African American History and Culture

The University of Iowa has announced plans to create the Midwest Institute of African American History and Culture. The new center will be a space where collaborators, faculty members, and researchers from across the Midwest can gather to share ideas...

Urban Institute Report Finds Persisting Underrepresentation of Blacks at Selective Colleges

A new report from the Center on Education Data and Policy of the Urban Institute finds that while the U.S. population is becoming more educated, large gaps in postsecondary attainment based on race or ethnicity remain, particularly at more selective...

Robert E. Johnson to Take the Helm at Western New England University

The board of trustees of Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, has selected Robert E. Johnson at the educational institution’s sixth president. He will take office on August 15. “I look forward to engaging with the...

A Racial Gap in Promotion to Principal Positions in K-12 Education

Black assistant principals are systematically delayed and denied promotion to principal, compared to their White counterparts, despite having equivalent qualifications and more experience on average, according to a new study from the American Educati...

Michael Wesley Williams Named President of the Interdenominational Theological Center

Matthew Wesley Williams has been named the eleventh president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The institution enrolls just under 300 students, 98 percent of whom are Black. Williams has served as interim president s...

The Experiences of Women of Color at Law Schools in the United States

A new study from the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas at Austin and the NALP Foundation in Concord, Massachusetts, finds that omen of color are significantly underrepresented in legal organizations and law-related positions and leav...

A Quartet of African American Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Posts

Harris Smith was appointed dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, effective August 1, 2020. Smith has been serving as the chair for the department of theatre at the University of Utah, a position he’s held since July 2018....

A Major Gift Seeks to Aid the Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The median endowment of America’s HBCUs is only $15.7 million. And these institutions may have to increasingly use endowment funds as they seek to weather the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic. A major new gift will aid the effort. Patty Quillin, a phil...

Four Black Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Duties

Anderson Sunda-Meya, a Norwood Endowed Professor of Physics, at Xavier University in New Orleans, will take on a new role as associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. He joined the faculty at the university 13 years ago. Dr. Sunda-Meya will...

Kentucky’s Two HBCUs Team Up to Fight Racial Inequality

The leaders of Simmons College of Kentucky and Kentucky State University, the only two historically Black educational institutions in the commonwealth, have announced new initiatives for increased financial, political, and moral investment in Black-l...

Beryl McEwen Honored by the Association for Business Teaching and Research

Beryl McEwen, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, received the 2020 Leadership Award from the Association for Business Teaching and Research. Dr. McEwen...

New Legislation Seeks to Boost ROTC Opportunities for HBCU Students

A bipartisan group of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have introduced a new bill to provide new resources for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students at historically Black colleges and universities. As a whole,...