Category : Education

Four African Americans Who Have Been Appointed Diversity Officers

Damita Davis will be the new chief diversity officer at the College of Brockport of the State University of New York System, effective July 1. She was the associate director of programming and educational initiatives in the Office for Institutional D...

In Memoriam: Nathaniel B. White Jr., 1945-2021

Nathaniel White, one of the first five undergraduate students at Duke University and a former administrator at Morehouse College in Atlanta, died on March 19. He was 75 years old. Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, in 1963, White – alon...

Baylor University Issues a Report on Its Founders’ Ties to Slavery and the Confederacy

Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has released the report of the 26-member Commission on Historic Campus Representations, which was charged by the Baylor board of regents with reviewing and evaluating the historical record and context of the universi...

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. Venus Standard, an assistant clinical professor in the School of Medicine rec...

In Memoriam: Robert Daniel Flanigan Jr ., 1949-2021

Danny Flanigan, a longtime administrator at Spelman College in Atlanta, died on March 17. He was 71 years old. A native of Lithonia, Georgia, Flanigan graduated from what is now Clark Atlanta University and earned an MBA at Emory University. He start...

The First Black Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review at Georgia State University

In recent weeks, JBHE has reported on milestone appointments of Black students as editors of prestigious law reviews at the University of Minnesota and Syracuse University. Now we can add a third milestone appointment to the list. Jeannine Holmes has...

UCLA Analysis Finds Another Racial Health Disparity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

During the first six months of the pandemic, as people attempted to stay away from hospitals caring for those sick with COVID-19, potentially avoidable hospitalizations for non-COVID-19–related conditions fell far more among White patients than Black...

David C. Wilson Named Leader of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley

David C. Wilson has been appointed dean of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He will take office on July 1. Dr. Wilson currently serves as senior associate dean in the College of Arts and...

Black Women Who “Hunker Down” in High Violence Areas Have Altered Genes in Immune Cells

The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black mothers on the South Side of Chicago conducted by researchers at the Unive...

Patricia Ramsey Appointed President of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York

The board of trustees of the City University of New York appointed Patricia Ramsey as the sixth president of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The CUNY senior college, a predominantly Black institution that was established in response to community ad...

Scholars Assemble a Massive New Database on Enslaved People

Scholars affiliated with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, the MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michig...

The First African American Dean of the Business School at the University of Portland in Oregon

Michael DeVaughn has been appointed as the new dean of the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon. When he takes office on July 1, Dr. DeVaughn will be the first African-American dean of the business school. Dr. DeVaughn j...

In Memoriam: Lee Vernon Stiff, 1949-2021

Lee Vernon Stiff, professor emeritus of mathematics education at North Carolina State University, died on March 19. He was 72 years old. Dr. Stiff was a native of Murfreesboro, North Carolina. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at...

Five Black Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Lauren Haynes was named the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Haynes has been serving as curator of contemporary art at the Crysta...

Prairie View A&M University in Texas Creates the Toni Morrison Writing Program

Historically Black Prairie View A&M Univerity in Texas announced that a Toni Morrison Writing Program would be established at the university in honor of the writer and her former student, MacKenzie Scott, who donated $50 million to the University...