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Jobs Elusive for Puerto Ricans Flocking to Central Florida

MIAMI — Mayra Rios didn’t want to leave her native Puerto Rico, but the constant bullying that her autistic son faced at school and the lack of services available to him were the last blows. “Over there, it’s almost impossible to live,” she said in Spanish at her modest two-bedroom Orlando apartment. “There’s a blow […]

Leadership & Policy

Clemson Trustees Call Tillman ‘Repugnant,’ Fail to Remove Name

COLUMBIA, S.C. ― Clemson University trustees passed a resolution Friday calling the racist views of one of its founders, Benjamin Tillman, “repugnant to our values and our fundamental purpose,” but did not call for removing the name of the late governor and U.S. senator from a key campus building. Instead, the trustees unanimously agreed to […]

Faculty & Staff

ANDREA LEWIS MILLER

ANDREA LEWIS MILLER has been appointed president of Lemoyne-Owen College in Tennessee, effective September 1. She was chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. Miller earned a bachelor’s from Lemoyne-Owen, and a master’s and a doctorate from Atlanta University.

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Faculty & Staff

NAACP Growing Youth Numbers

Despite criticism that the NAACP has not done enough to bring more youth into the organization, the NAACP has seen its youth numbers increase in the wake of the recent deaths of unarmed Black men.

Faculty & Staff

UNC Law Professor Open New Anti-poverty Research Project

In the wake of the controversial closure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s anti-poverty center, the law school professor who had led the center has launched a research fund outside the domain of university leaders.

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University of California’s Fall 2015 Freshman Numbers Sound an Alarm

Has an exodus of Blacks from the state impacted higher education?

African-American

Same-Sex Fight Not Over

Obama’s polarizing Friday shows the fight for same-sex equality still isn’t over.

Faculty & Staff

MICHAEL KIM

MICHAEL KIM has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, effective July 31. He is acting associate vice president (external) and dean of the School of Music at Brandon University. Kim earned a bachelor’s from the University of Calgary, and a master’s and a doctorate from The Juilliard School.

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HBCUs, HSIs Equipped to Aid Incarcerated Youth

A 2013 study by RAND concluded that prisoners were 43 percent less likely to be imprisoned after release because of educational programs.

Faculty & Staff

Tuskegee University Secures $500K Grant

Tuskegee University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bolster its Bachelor of Arts degree program.

African-American

Dylann Roof is a Racist and Terrorist. Period.

The sad and sobering truth is that this is hardly the first time that a Black church has been the target of homegrown terrorism by White supremacists.

Faculty & Staff

EVELYN MARIA THOMPSON

EVELYN MARIA THOMPSON has been appointed president of Coppin State University, effective July 1. She is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Thompson earned a bachelor’s from Tennessee State University, a master’s from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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