Jamal WatsonFaculty & StaffMonteiro Receives Support in Employment Fight at Temple UniversityA popular faculty member at Temple University is receiving widespread support among other academics across the country after his annual teaching contract was not renewed.February 16, 2014HomeEducation Reform Atop Agenda for Morehouse SummitThe White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans is teaming up this week with the Morehouse Research Institute to sponsor the Black Male Summit.February 11, 2014African-AmericanPresident Hall Aims to Raise University of Virgin Islands’ ProfileDr. David Hall’s leadership at the University of the Virgin Islands, the only university outside of the U.S. to be designated an HBCU, has focused on quality and alumni giving.February 3, 2014HealthUCI Chancellor Michael Drake Named Ohio State PresidentDr. Michael V. Drake will become the first African-American to lead Ohio State University.January 30, 2014StudentsSome Schools Working Through MLK HolidayWhile most public colleges and universities will be closed today to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a number will be open for business.January 19, 2014Faculty & StaffVernon Jordan Tapped to Lead Howard Presidential SearchVernon E. Jordan Jr. has been selected to chair the search committee to select Howard University’s 17th president.January 13, 2014Faculty & StaffBaraka’s Controversial LegacyBlack academicians, activists and artists remember the life of Amiri Baraka, one of the nation’s most prominent Black writers, who died at the age of 79.January 9, 2014InternationalChristie Hails N.J. Version of Dream Act as EqualizerIn a move lauded by some and denounced by others, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie publicly signed legislation that now allows the children of immigrants who came to this country illegally to pay in-state tuition at the state’s colleges and universities.January 7, 2014Faculty & StaffScholars Gather in Bid to Preserve History’s RoleHundreds of historians made their way to the nation’s capital for the American Historical Association’s 128th annual meeting.January 5, 2014African-AmericanFinancial Crisis Knocks Arkansas Baptist College to its KneesA group of faculty and staff are calling for the immediate ouster of the school’s president, Dr. Fitz Hill, and the chief financial officer, Billy Owens, after being forced to go for more than a month without receiving paychecks.January 1, 2014Previous PagePage 6 of 17Next Page
