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Second Chance Pell Students Earn College Degree

From the medium-security prison where he’s been incarcerated since 2009, Robert M. Williams has continued to nurture a boyhood dream of designing and selling the sartorial finery he’d admired in glossy magazines and on the bodies of folks with a certain income.

Report: Minorities Underrepresented in Earning Engineering Degrees

According to a report from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), African-American and Hispanic students earning engineering degrees remain underrepresented despite an increase seen in recent years and demand for workers in the industry.

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Report: Women and Minorities Continue to be Underrepresented in Computer Science

Though the field of computer science has seen strides in the increased number of people earning degrees and in job openings across the country in recent years, the field is still lacking diverse representation of women and minorities.

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Spelman Receives $30M, Largest Gift from Living Donors

Long-time Spelman College trustee Ronda Stryker and spouse William Johnston donated $30 million to the historically Black college (HBCU), making the gift the largest in Spelman’s 137-year history from living donors.

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Leadership & Policy

Herman J. Felton Jr. Earns Ph.D. from Jackson State University

Dr. Herman James Felton Jr., who grew up in poverty and with dyslexia, beat all odds and earned a Ph.D. from Jackson State University and has become one of the youngest presidents of a historically Black college and university (HBCU). His story from poverty to college president was chronicled in the Clarion Ledger. Felton was the […]

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Remembering President George H. W. Bush

It was a privilege and honor for me to have a friendly and professional relationship with President George H.W. Bush. I found him to be an extraordinary man of love, values, principles, standards, honesty, compassion, loyalty, camaraderie and character.

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CGS Meeting Hears Sobering Report on Black Student Access

Institutional racism, White supremacy and anti-Black attitudes fuel underrepresentation of Black students on college and university campuses across the United States, with access a battle constantly being waged in legal courts and the court of public opinion, according to an academic who addressed the 58th annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools this week.

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Marybeth Gasman to Join Rutgers Faculty

Dr. Marybeth Gasman, who has established herself as one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of historically Black colleges in particular and minority-serving institutions in general, is leaving the University and Pennsylvania to join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in the Fall.

MBDA Awards Almost $2M to Four HBCUs

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has awarded almost $2 million to four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in an effort to increase their ability to qualify for and received federal research and development funding; create partnerships with technology resources; increase STEM entrepreneurship and compete for federal contracts. The institutions […]

Winston-Salem Pushes for Access to Healthcare

Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) has achieved many accomplishments within its School of Health Sciences in preparing Black students to be successful in health-related fields. One in particular is that the historically Black college and university (HBCU) is the only one in the country that has a year-round mobile health unit.

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Bowie State Launches Scholarship in Honor of Slain Student

Bowie State University officials have created a new scholarship in honor of slain student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, in an effort to increase enrollment in Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs at Maryland historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Collins was fatally stabbed on the University of Maryland, College Park campus in May 2017 just […]

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HBCU Advocates Prepare for Oral Arguments in Maryland Inequality Case

The Fourth District Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments next month in a 12-year-old education inequality lawsuit between the state of Maryland and a coalition from the state’s four public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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