Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

HBCUs: Page 267

HBCUs
Sallie Mae Appoints Director of HBCU Initiatives
Sallie Mae Appoints Director of HBCU InitiativesRESTON, Va.Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading provider of education funding, announced recently that Denise Chaisson has been appointed director for the company’s historically Black college and university (HBCU) initiatives. In this role, Chaisson will lead an effort to enhance Sallie Mae’s and its affiliate brands’ longstanding commitment to provide […]
foto2_009
Latinx
Surging in the Southeast
Surging in the Southeast North Carolina HBCUs expected to play significant role in facilitating college access for the increasing Latino population in the region By Ronald Roach Given the surging growth in the U.S. Latino population in recent years, nowhere have those increases been occurring faster than in the southeast. North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, […]
HBCUs
Xavier University First HBCU to Join Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program
Xavier University First HBCU to Join Peace Corps Fellows/USA ProgramNEW ORLEANSXavier has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Peace Corps marking the beginning of its partnership with the agency’s Fellows/USA program. As one of the Peace Corps’ domestic programs, Fellows/USA has established similar relationships with more than 30 universities nationwide. Xavier is the first […]
Leadership & Policy
An Insider Moves Front & Center
An Insider Moves Front & CenterBy Ronald RoachLezli Baskerville is no stranger to the ways of Washington. As the fifth president and the first woman to head the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), Baskerville brings more than two decades of Washington-based advocacy and legal experience to the task of representing the […]
HBCUs
Investing in HBCU Leadership
Investing in HBCU LeadershipSouthern Education Foundation creates three-year initiative to facilitate HBCU accreditationBy Crystal L. KeelsKnoxville College, Morris Brown College and Barber Scotia College. These institutions are just some of the recent victims of lost accreditation — and there are others. Many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have either teetered on the brink, suffered […]
HBCUs
TMSF President, Veteran Journalist Chronicle
TMSF President, Veteran Journalist Chronicle History of Black Colleges in New BookTrying to gain a better understanding of historically Black colleges and universities when he became president of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund in 1999, Dwayne Ashley couldn’t find anything that had been written about HBCUs that was comprehensive. “You’ve got all these scholarly books […]
Students
Power Play: HBCUs Seek Clout in Washington
Power Play: HBCUs Seek Clout in WashingtonBy Ronald RoachAs president of Langston, a historically Black land-grant state university in Oklahoma, Dr. Ernest Holloway says it’s gratifying that his school and the other historically Black schools covered by the Higher Education Act’s (HEA) entitlement grant programs have seen consistent increases in HEA program monies over the […]
Students
FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation
FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The American Bar Association has granted provisional accreditation to the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law. The College of Law will have an enrollment of 300 students this fall. The ABA’s announcement means that FAMU students will now be able to sit for Florida’s state […]
HBCUs
Fighting the Same Fight
Fighting the Same FightA  change in leadership often has a way of re-energizing the troops so to speak. Armed with new ideas and a fresh perspective, new leaders can get those around them to think “outside the box” — often for the first time in a long time.Our cover story for this edition looks at […]
Leadership & Policy
In Not So Good Company
In Not So Good CompanyAnother HBCU loses its accreditation, but with new leadership Barber-Scotia College is meeting its challenges head onBy Tracie PowellCONCORD, N.C.It’s not every day that a college president hand delivers a check to the city to clear up more than $75,000 in unpaid utility bills, but for Dr. Gloria Bromwell-Tinubu, the newly […]
Leadership & Policy
Calling All Leaders
Calling All LeadersWe are kicking off the academic year with an edition we think you’ll find particularly useful, especially those of you that are looking for ways to enter the administrative ranks of higher education.In “Cracking the Cement Wall to the College Presidency,” assistant editor Kendra Hamilton profiles the American Association of College and Universities’ […]
hung3
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum
HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum  WASHINGTONDespite being scaled down in comparison to previous workshops, the 21st Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop in Washington, D.C., impressed upon faculty members and other participants the need to integrate GIS in research and the curriculum. GIS is defined as “computer mapping […]
Previous Page
Page 267 of 306
Next Page
Find A JobPost A Job
Featured Jobs
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Premium Employers
The trusted source for all job seekers
We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions.
Read More
The trusted source for all job seekers