News Roundup: Page 44

Seattle Pacific University President Daniel J. Martin Resigns

Seattle Pacific University President Daniel J. Martin is resigning for a job at a health care foundation, effective April 5, Seattle Times reported. Martin has been president of the university for nine years, during which he’s helped the school triple its endowment. In an email statement to the university community, Martin said he has accepted […]

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Survey: Harvard Faculty Lacks BIPOC Representation

Nearly 80% of surveyed Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) members said FAS does not have a healthy level of BIPOC representation. And 50% of respondents strongly disagreed that the faculty is sufficiently diverse, The Harvard Crimson reported. Only 7% of respondents agreed the FAS had healthy BIPOC representation. Other results include 65% of […]

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Education Department Expands Student Loan Pause to Federal Family Education Loan Program

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will expand its pause on federal student loans to defaulted loans in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program. This relief will be retroactively applied from March 13, 2020, the start of the pandemic. The FFEL program allows private lenders, insured by guaranty agencies, to […]

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Savannah State University to Provide Every HBCU Free Hand Sanitizer

Savannah State University (SSU) will give free hand sanitizer to every historically Black college and university (HBCU) nationwide, enough for their entire student populations, WSAV reported. The gift was made possible from a donation to the school made by alum Cyrus Jackson, who owns 1 Indigo Child, LLC, which produces Dr. Hobbs Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer […]

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Becker College Will Close After This School Year, Financial Challenges Worsened by Pandemic

Becker College will permanently close at the end of this academic year, with the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the school’s finances cited as a cause, Boston.com reported. The Becker Board of Trustees voted Sunday to close the school. The school already faced challenges related to finances. Becker – a small, 1,500-student private college – will […]

Brown University Students Vote in Favor of Reparations

Brown University students have voted by a vast margin that the Ivy League school should offer reparations to descendants of enslaved people who were affiliated with the school and its founders, NBC News reported. The voting – on two referendum questions – took place last week during an annual election. One question was whether Brown […]

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Dr. H. Richard Milner IV Voted President-Elect of AERA

Dr. H. Richard Milner IV has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), effective at the end of the 2022 annual meeting. Milner is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the department of teaching and learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Milner’s work focuses on […]

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Morehouse College Receives $2 Million from The Ray Charles Foundation for Business Major Scholarships

Morehouse College received a $2 million gift from The Ray Charles Foundation. The funds will be used to provide scholarships to outstanding business majors. The Ray Charles Foundation scholarship will honor foundation president Valerie Ervin, Morehouse Board of Trustees member and foundation chairman Robert C. Davidson Jr., board chairman emeritus. The gift will fund the […]

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Professor and Teacher Recognized for Antiracist Work

Dr. April Baker-Bell, an associate professor of English and African American and African studies, and Mimi Henderson-Hudson, language arts teacher at Detroit Denby High School, have been recognized by Michigan State University for their community-university partnership between MSU’s College of Arts & Letters English Education program and Detroit high school English teachers and students, according […]

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Mississippi State Budget Proposal Entails Possible Slight Raises for State and Higher Ed Employees

Mississippi legislator’s latest budget proposal could entail potential raises for state and higher ed employees, The Herald-Sun reported. State employees would receive a 3% raise and most public university and community college staff would receive at least a 1% raise. The budget proposals for a state government budget that begins July 1 still need a […]

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Tuskegee University President Dr. Lily McNair Will Not Return After Medical Leave

Tuskegee University President Dr. Lily McNair – on medical leave – will not return to the school, Alabama Political Reporter reported. She is the university’s first woman president. The board of trustees did not give a reason for McNair’s departure. McNair has been on medical leave since Oct. 30, 2020. She also took temporary medical […]

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Dr. Sydney Freeman, Jr. Becomes Historic First at University of Idaho

Dr. Sydney Freeman, Jr. has been promoted to full professor at University of Idaho, making him the first African American man, descended from slaves, in the rank at the school, The Idaho News reported. Freeman, 36, earned the rank in five years and seven months on tenure track, he said. For most faculty, it […]

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