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Tennessee State University Alumnus Receives NASA Award

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― A Tennessee State University alumnus and NASA engineer is being recognized for outstanding contribution to the agency. Ron Cobbs is a 1989 graduate of TSU and avionics chief engineer to the International Space Station operations. He recently received the NASA Johnson Space Center Director’s Commendation Award. The award recognizes the center’s civil […]

Jackson State’s 2-Year Executive Ph.D. Program Marks 10 Years of Success

The 167 graduates of the Executive Ph.D. program in urban higher education were honored this month at the 10th anniversary celebration of the program.

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Giving Black Boys a Framework for Success

I am waking up and going to bed asking the same question: What is going on, America?

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Howard University: Hospital Deal All About Maintaining the Mission

The presidents of Howard University and Paladin Healthcare Capital emphasized the importance of Howard University Hospital’s historic mission to serve the underserved in a conference call with Diverse on Monday.

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Experts Divided Over Impact of Absent Father-themed College Admission Essays

When high school students from low-income households craft their college admission essays, chances are good that many of them will focus on or at least mention the absence of their fathers.

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Faculty & Staff

Drug Evidence Against Professor Ruled Inadmissible

A Missouri appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that evidence of a marijuana-growing operation found in a university professor’s home can’t be used against him because of an invalid search warrant.

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Effigies of Blacks Found Hanging by Nooses at UC Berkeley

Three cardboard cutouts of Black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

Is Higher Ed Culture Discouraging to Student-Athlete Activism?

The Georgetown University men’s basketball team Wednesday became the first collegiate team to protest against the recent failures to indict officers in Ferguson, Mo., and the New York City deaths of two Black men at the hands of police officers.

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Spelman College Suspends The Cosby Chair for the Humanities Indefinitely

Spelman College has decided to suspend a prestigious professorship funded in part by Bill and Camille Cosby.

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Bob Jones University Releases Report on Handling Sex Abuse Complaints

An independent report on how Bob Jones University has dealt with sexual abuse over several decades concluded that university employees weren’t properly trained to handle such cases and victims seem to have been blamed.

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FDA Gives Approval for Marijuana Oil Study

The Food and Drug Administration has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham permission to study the use of a marijuana derivative to treat seizures.

Leadership & Policy

Black Lives and the Struggle for Humanity

The protests in Ferguson and throughout the nation have aroused the long complacent spirit that has been an integral part of American history.

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