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Mississippi State University Hires Dr. Dominique A. Quarles

Mississippi State University has named Dr. Dominique A. Quarles to serve as assistant vice president for access, diversity, and inclusion. Quarles will begin work this week to further MSU’s efforts in diversity and inclusion. He joins Ra’Sheda Forbes, MSU’s vice president for access, diversity, and inclusion. Together, they will work to further a culture of […]

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Achieving the Dream Adds Five Colleges to its 2021 Cohort Promoting Student Success and Equity

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has added five community colleges to its 2021 cohort. ATD president and CEO Dr. Karen A. Stout said that the colleges selected are willing to examine how they engage with students and “take a hard look at where [they] are falling short.” The five institutions will join with ATD for the […]

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UK Establishes Fellowship Program to Study Health Care Inequities

To study health care inequities experienced by Black Americans, Dr. Anita Fernander, former associate professor in the University of Kentucky (UK) Department of Behavioral Science, worked to establish a fellowship program. Now, two UK College of Medicine students were recently named inaugural participants of the Department of Behavioral Science White Coats for Black Lives Fellowship, […]

AAUP Condemns Political Attempts to Restrict Critical Race Theory

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) condemned “in the strongest possible terms” all political attempts to remove critical race theory (CRT) from classrooms in a statement Wednesday. Although CRT has been present in academic and legal systems since the 1980s, the past year has seen heated, politically-charged debate over whether to incorporate the discipline […]

Morgan State Offers Full-Time Status, Benefits and Higher Pay to Contractual Employees

In an effort to address employee inequity, Morgan State University will no longer hire contractual employees to meet its workforce needs, announced Dr. David K. Wilson, president of Morgan State. Instead, the historically Black university will offer benefits and full-time status to eligible existing contractual employees. What’s more, the university will also raise its hourly […]

Dr. Jane Fernandes Appointed President of Antioch College

Dr. Jane Fernandes was selected on Wednesday to lead Antioch College, becoming the first deaf president in the school’s history. Since 2014, she has served as president of Guilford College. Under her leadership, Guilford experienced a rise in enrollment rates and student diversity increased by 12% over a span of five years. Fernandes also focused […]

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Rev. Andrea Cornett-Scott Appointed Chief Diversity Officer at Mary Baldwin University

Rev. Andrea Cornett-Scott, who was recently named the chief diversity officer at Mary Baldwin University, plans to establish professional development and educational programs focused on anti-bias strategies and social justice to create a “community of awareness, belonging and respect,” the school reported. Since 1996, she has served in several positions at MBU including director of […]

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Meharry Medical College and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Partner to Address Racism in Sciences, Medicine

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Meharry Medical College, a historically Black medical school in Nashville, Tennessee, are working together to combat racism and bias in medicine and the basic sciences. This partnership could include a joint graduate or medical education program as well as opportunities for students to […]

Cheyney University to Eliminate Student Debt From 2020 and Spring 2021

Cheyney University plans to eliminate unpaid student bills from the last three semesters with funding from the federal stimulus package, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Using around $400,000, an average debt of over $2,200 will be forgiven for 180 students, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The historically Black college in Pennsylvania follows many other institutions over […]

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Two More Georgia HBCUs Clear Pandemic Related Student Debt

Morehouse College and Savannah State University have become the latest historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to clear student debt acquired since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. The funding comes directly from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, a federal government pledge of $35 billion to help financially struggling college students […]

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Liberty Lawsuit Against Jerry Falwell Jr. Survives First Round of Legal Challenges

Most of a lawsuit filed by Liberty University against its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., was upheld by a judge after Falwell’s attorneys argued for its dismissal in June, ABC News reports. Falwell left Liberty — the evangelical Virginia school that his late father founded — after being put on an indefinite leave of absence last year for posting […]

Dr. Jianping Wang Announces Plan to Leave Mercer County Community College

Mercer County Community College (MCCC) president Dr. Jianping Wang announced Friday that she would retire after her contract expires next summer. Wang, who is president of the New Jersey college, had previously expressed a desire to remain on through the schools’ reaccreditation process, which will be completed in spring 2023. Wang’s resignation letter mentioned her […]

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