Category : Education

Jeffrey Norfleet Is the New Leader of Shorter College in Arkansas

Jeffrey W. Norfleet II has been selected to serve as interim president of Shorter College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shorter College, a historically Black community college, enrolls over 300 students. Black students represent roughly three-quarters of...

Jeffery Norfleet Is the New Leader of Shorter College in Arkansas

Jeffery W. Norfleet II has been selected to serve as interim president of Shorter College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shorter College, a historically Black community college, enrolls over 300 students. Black students represent roughly three-quarters of...

Study Finds Increase in School Segregation Linked to Racial Health Disparities Among Black Americans

A new study led by scholars at Tufts University has uncovered a link between increases in school segregation and higher levels of racial health disparities for Black Americans compared to their White neighbors. While many previous studies have examin...

Maisha Handy Named the First Black President of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago

Maisha I. Handy has been named the twelfth president of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. She will assume her new role on September 3, making her the institution’s first African American and second woman president. McCormick Theologica...

Central State University to Merge Two Colleges to Optimize Resources and Efficiency

Central State University, a historically Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio, has announced the merger of its College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and College of Education. The consolidated College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences,...

Four Black Scholars Selected for Dean Positions

Chukwuka Onwumechili has been named interim dean of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He has previously served in several positions with the historically Black university including professor, chair of...

Voorhees University Launches Its First Doctor of Education Degree Program

Voorhees University, a historically Black institution in Denmark, South Carolina, has received official approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to launch its first doctor of education (Ed.D.) degree progr...

Fielding Graduate University Honors Ronald Mason for Lifetime Achievements in HBCU Leadership

Ronald Mason, Jr., former president of three historically Black universities, has received the Maria Fielder Medal for Social Transformation from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. The annual award honors an individual’s...

Tuskegee Partners with UTHealth Houston for Accelerated Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics

Tuskegee University, a historically Black institution in Alabama, has recently partnered with the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth Houston) to establish an accelerated pathway program for Tuskegee students to earn a mast...

Eight African Americans Selected for Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Jaynelle Hazard has been named director and chief curator of the Georgetown University Art Galleries. She previously served as executive director and chief curator of the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art in Reston, Virginia, and director of exhib...

The Eutychus Phenomenon

We all have our traditions and stories that are familiar. For me, it happens to be Christian texts and allegories, but the description of the Eutychus phenomenon (Acts, Chapter 20; 7-12) is not religious and for the purpose of this mental exercise, w...

Three African Americans Appointed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Roles in Higher Education

Tamara Clegg has been named director of the Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing at the University of Maryland. She is an associate professor in the College of Information and has been with the university since 2010. She also ser...

Study Finds Women of Color Author a Disproportionate Share of Banned Books in American Schools

Schools and Libraries in the United States experienced a significant spike in book bans during the 2021-2022 academic year. According to a new study from scholars at Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the Univer...

Christopher Davis Appointed President of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis

Following one year of service as interim president, Christopher Davis has been officially named the fourteenth president of LeMoyne-Owen College. His presidency began on July 8. LeMoyne-Owen College is a historically Black educational institution in...

Study Reveals Racial Disparities in Use of Social Security Disability Insurance

The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a new report tracking the demographic differences in the use of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) among American workers. Currently, the Social Security Administration (SSA) does not inc...