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The United States Air Force has announced that it will establish a university-affiliated research center on the campus of a historically Black university. The Department of Defense currently maintains 14 university-affiliated research centers affilia...
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Marlese Durr, professor of sociology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, was honored with the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association. The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has signifi...
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Dillard University, the historically Black educational institution in New Orleans, has received approval from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to offer a master’s degree in nursing with the first students expected to begin classes in the fa...
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Chyke A. Doubeni is the new chief health equity officer and leader of the Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He will hold a faculty appointment in the department of family and communit...
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James E. Newton, an award-winning artist, a leader in Black American studies, and a teacher and mentor at the University of Delaware for more than three decades, died on May 24, 2022, just days before he was to be awarded an honorary degree from the...
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...
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Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African A...
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Carcia Carson recently became the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. “I am honored to become the first to accomplish this feat. I look forward to diversifying my industry...
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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. The Atlanta University Center Consortium received a $500,000 grant from Genet...
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Browne C. Lewis, dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law, died on June 2 while attending a conference in Colorado. She was 60 years old. Professor Lewis became dean of the NCCU law school on July 1, 2020. Earlier, she was the Leon...
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Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of the hit sitcoms “Friends” and “Grace and Frankie” has pledged $4 million to establish the first endowed chair in the 50-year history of the department of African and African American studies at Brandeis University in...
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Are school choice programs contributing to segregation in American schools? The answer is undoubtedly yes, according to a recent research brief published by the National Coalition on School Diversity and written by Casey Cobb, the Raymond Neag Endowe...
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Are school choice programs contributing to segregation in American schools? The answer is undoubtedly yes, according to a recent research brief published by the National Coalition on School Diversity and written by Casey Cobb, the Raymond Neag Endowe...
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The board of trustees of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, has named Lawrence M. Drake II as interim president. He replaces Hiram C. Powell, who announced earlier this month that he was stepping down. “I am deeply grateful to the...
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A new study led by researchers at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, finds that predominately White institutions can utilize practices that make HBCUs succ...
