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Johnson C. Smith Receives $325K to Address Food Insecurities

Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) received $325,000 from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) on Wednesday to expand the university’s Sustainability Village, a food access initiative launched in 2013.

Overcoming Challenges, Scholar is Making a Difference

Being a young scholar in higher education has come with its own set of challenges for Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep, an associate professor of urban education and the chair of the early childhood and elementary education department at Metropolitan State University.

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Brighid Dwyer: Advancing Diversity and Building Bridges Through Intergroup Dialogue

Dr. Brighid Dwyer specializes in helping people talk to each other. Not at each other or past each other, but across lines of division ranging from age, race and gender to religion, sexual orientation and political views.

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Four Bethune-Cookman University Trustees Resign Amid Financial, Academic Crisis

Four members of Bethune-Cookman University’s (B-CU) Board of Trustees resigned after a letter from the president of the university’s alumni association circulated calling for the ouster of several board members due to the university’s “current financial and academic crisis.”

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Consortium Creates a Community for Minorities, Women in Cybersecurity

Recognizing the need to increase and retain the number of people of color and women in cybersecurity professions, the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) has created a community to support such individuals entering the field.

Clark Atlanta ‘Housing Crisis’ Hints at Institutions Relying on Tuition Revenue

While Wednesday marked the first day of classes at Clark Atlanta University, nearly 150 students were still waiting Tuesday for answers about their housing accommodations on campus.

For Many, HBCU Mergers and Closures Are Not an Option

As colleges and universities celebrate the beginning of another school year filled with promise and anticipation for many administrators, teachers, behind-the-scenes staffers and students, the excitement masks a growing sense of anxiety – especially among historically Black colleges and universities.

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Guide Serves as Resource for Prospective Minority Ph.D. Students

A new guide out this week from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) at the University of Pennsylvania is giving students a free, easy-to-use framework to begin their journey to a Ph.D.

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Increasing Diversity on HBCU Campuses Often Leaves Blacks in Minority

In many cases, African-American students have ceased being a majority at HBCUs. At some, they are a small minority among a White majority. Meanwhile, graduate, professional and online programs at HBCUs tend to draw non-Black students at higher rates.

Spelman Expands its Admissions Policy to Include Trans Students

All eyes will be on Spelman College as it joins the ranks of all-women’s colleges that officially have an admissions policy for transgender students this 2018-2019 academic year.

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Penn Program Preps Future MSI Presidents

Currently, 60 percent of university presidents are over the age of 60, and people of color and women are underrepresented among their ranks, according to the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) which developed the Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Aspiring Leaders program after receiving a $745,000 grant from the ECMC Foundation and the Kresge Foundation. […]

Dr. Marybeth Gasman is director of the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania.

Leadership & Policy

Building Student Satisfaction, Presidents Move in, Dine in and Workout

College presidents around the country are gearing up to welcome their students to campus in innovative ways this fall. For many institutional leaders, opportunities to engage with students have increasingly become a priority to improve customer service for students and their families.

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