Diverse StaffLeadership & PolicyMorehouse Appoints Harold Martin as Interim PresidentThe Morehouse College Board of Trustees has appointed alumnus Harold Martin Jr. as interim president. Martin takes on the day-to-day leadership of the college following the death of Interim President William J. Taggart earlier this month. “While these circumstances are certainly unprecedented, I am honored to step into the role of Interim President of Morehouse […]June 26, 2017StudentsCleveland State Names Bynum Director of Black StudiesNoted civil rights expert scholar Dr. Thomas Bynum has been named director of the Black Studies Program at Cleveland State University. “I am very pleased to join Cleveland State and look forward to working with its talented students, faculty and staff, as well as leaders throughout the community, to advance the tremendous efforts already being […]June 14, 2017StudentsUniversity of Michigan Wins Right to Ban Guns on CampusWhile the vast majority of the nation’s colleges and universities continue to prohibit the carrying of firearms on their campuses, the rift over policy as to whether guns belong at higher education institutions roils on.June 7, 2017WomenKrebs Named Executive Director of Modern Language AssociationPaula Krebs, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, has been named the new executive director of the Modern Language Association. Krebs, who starts on Aug. 1, was on the MLA Executive Council from January 2013 to January 2017. She was also a member of the association’s […]June 6, 2017African-AmericanTaylor Leaving Thurgood Marshall College FundJohnny C. Taylor, Jr., is stepping down after seven years as president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the venerable national representative of publicly-supported historically Black colleges and universities.June 4, 2017StudentsMichigan State Expected to Fund Upward BoundOfficials say that Michigan State University will fund its Upward Bound college prep program for Lansing high school students, ensuring that the program would not be shut down because of the university’s technical error in a grant application.April 20, 2017StudentsUniversity Presidents Seek Restored Funding in New MexicoA council of university presidents from New Mexico is lobbying to have about $745 million put back in the state’s public colleges and universities coffers.April 17, 2017StudentsClerical Oversight Shuts Down Michigan State Upward Bound ProgramA technical error will cost Michigan State University about $480,000 in federal funding but it will be underserved high school students from Lansing, Mich., who will be short-changed.April 13, 2017African-AmericanActivist, Journalist Roger Wilkins DiesCivil rights activist and noted journalist Roger Wilkins, who led the Community Relations Service in the Johnson administration in the 1960s, has died at age 85.March 27, 2017Leadership & PolicyFisk University Names Kevin Rome PresidentFisk University named Kevin Rome as its 16th president, filling the historically Black institution’s executive position on a non-interim basis for the first time since September 2015.March 23, 2017Previous PagePage 7 of 115Next Page
