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Leadership & Policy
Morehouse Appoints Harold Martin as Interim President
The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has appointed alumnus Harold Martin Jr. as interim president. Martin takes on the day-to-day leadership of the college following the death of Interim President William J. Taggart earlier this month. “While these circumstances are certainly unprecedented, I am honored to step into the role of Interim President of Morehouse […]
Leadership & Policy
N.C. Central Names Akinleye Chancellor
University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings tapped Dr. Johnson Akinleye — who had been serving as interim chancellor of N.C. Central University — to lead the public historically Black institution located in Durham, N.C.
Leadership & Policy
Akinleye Named New Chancellor at N.C. Central University
DURHAM, N.C. — Johnson O. Akinleye has been elected the new chancellor at N.C. Central University, where he has served as interim chancellor since January. Akinleye was elected to the position during a special meeting of the UNC Board of Governors on Monday. He was named acting chancellor in August 2016 when then-chancellor Debra Saunders-White […]
Students
Report: Losses Mount at Bethune-Cookman University
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A historically Black university in Florida is dealing with mounting financial problems. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Sunday a review of tax documents showed annual losses at Bethune-Cookman University have climbed over a three-year period from $254,000 to $17.8 million. The paper said that tax returns show that salaries are increasing […]
Leadership & Policy
Ruth Simmons Named Prairie View Interim President
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Retired Brown University President Ruth Simmons, the first African-American woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution, has been named interim president of Prairie View A&M University. The 71-year-old Simmons, who also was president at Massachusetts’ Smith College, the nation’s largest women’s university, and served in executive positions at […]
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee University Off Accreditation Warning List
Tuskegee University—the private historically Black college in Alabama that was founded by Booker T. Washington—is no longer under an accreditation warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Leadership & Policy
Jerryl Briggs to Run Mississippi Valley State University for Now
JACKSON, Miss. — Chief Operating Officer Jerryl Briggs will become acting president of Mississippi Valley State University. The state College Board named him Thursday to take over on July 1 from William Bynum Jr., who will become president of Jackson State University. Board spokeswoman Caron Blanton says Briggs will be acting president until trustees begin […]
Students
Advocacy Group Challenges HBCUs to be LGBTQ Friendly
In an era where attitudes are shifting — albeit slowly — when it comes to securing rights for LGBTQ people, the National Black Justice Coalition is pushing HBCU leaders to step up by addressing the visages of homophobia still visible on their college campuses.
Students
In Maryland Desegregation Case, Black Colleges Seek Protected ‘Academic Niches’
Historically Black colleges in Maryland should have the right to offer unique, high-demand courses that cannot be duplicated at nearby traditionally White colleges, lawyers argued Thursday in the closing remarks of the remedy phase of a desegregation case.
African-American
Taylor Leaving Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., is stepping down after seven years as president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the venerable national representative of publicly-supported historically Black colleges and universities.
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee Turns Again to Morris as Interim President
The Tuskegee University Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Charlotte P. Morris to serve as the interim president of the institution beginning July.
Faculty & Staff
Remembering Samuel DuBois Cook
Higher education stalwart Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, a political scientist and human rights activist, died Monday in Atlanta at age 88.
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