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Tougaloo College Receives $10 Million Gift from Netflix's Reed Hastings and Wife Patty Quillin

Co-CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, and his wife, Patty Quillin, an independent film producer, are donating $10 million to Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Mississippi, and to the college's partnership with Brown University.

Netflix's co-CEO Reed Hastings and wife Patty Quillin

The Williamsburg Bray School to Receive $5 Million

The funding supports The College of William & Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as they research, preserve, and restore the Bray building while relocating it to Colonial Williamsburg.

Cliff Fleet, president and CEO of Colonial Williamsburg.

Wiley College Receives Propel Grant for Short Film

Wiley College, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Texas, has received a $300,000 Impact Grant from the Propel Center, part of Apple’s Nationwide Investment in Racial Equity and Justice.

Wiley College President Dr. Herman J. Felton, Jr.

Faculty & Staff

Southern University Names New Leader

University of Wisconsin-Platteville President Dennis Shields has been tapped to serve as the new president of the Southern University System and its president-chancellor.

Community Colleges

Community Colleges and HBCUs Forge Partnerships to Uplift Students

Community colleges and HBCUs face the challenge of historic underfunding while still punching above their weight.

Dr. Janet Spriggs, president of Forsyth Technical Community College.

White Violence and Black Success: Why HBCUs Receive Bomb Threats

Throughout the long arm of history, the ebb and flow of white violence against HBCUs has always stemmed from instances of Black progress.

Howard University received three bomb threats in just under two months.

Community Colleges

Achieving the Dream Puts a Focus on Inequities

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has updated their mission statement to focus on achieving equity through addressing oppression.

Heather McGhee, trustee emeritus at Demos and author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We can Prosper Together

University of Maryland, Baltimore County is Officially a Research 1 Institution

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is officially a Research 1, or R1, university. It joins a list of 146 institutions classified as such in the nation.

Yonathan Zohar, left, and Jorge Gomezjurado at IMET aquaculture research facility in 2016.

LSU Receives $245 Million for Healthcare

Louisiana State University (LSU) has received a landmark $245 million from LCMC Health and Our Lady of the Lake, nonprofit health systems in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, to transform healthcare in Louisiana over the next decade.

LSU officials and representatives from Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health sign the $245 million agreement.

University of Alabama Gets Rid of Klan Leader's Name From Building

The University of Alabama's trustees unanimously voted on Friday to rename a building on campus that had honored a Ku Klux Klan leader. The building will now be called Autherine Lucy Hall in honor of the first Black person to attend the school.

A University of Alabama building previously named after David Bibb Graves, a former governor of Alabama and Ku Klux Klan leader, will be renamed after Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the school.

Lumina Foundation Creates Grant Competition for Community College Marketing

The Lumina Foundation is launching The Million Dollar Community College Challenge, a grant competition to support the brand creation and marketing for community colleges.

Iowa's Coe College Sets the Mark for Organizational Impact and Transformation in Diversity

Dr. Paula O’Loughlin, provost of Coe College, discusses factors leading to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based institution receiving the highest overall score in the preliminary rounds of Diverse Organizational Impact and Transformation (DOIT) certification.

Coe College Students

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