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MSNBC President and Hampton University Alumna Rashida Jones to be 150th Commencement Speaker

MSNBC President and Hampton University alumna Rashida Jones will be the school’s 150th commencement speaker, WAVY reported. The commencement – held virtually – will be at 10 a.m. on May 19, 2021. Jones graduated from the historically Black college and university (HBCU) with a degree in Mass Media Arts in 2002 and was inducted into […]

Two New Presidents Named for Minnesota Colleges

Dr. Edward Inch has been named president of Minnesota State University, Mankato and Dr. Deidra Peaslee has been named president of St. Paul College, Yahoo News reported. Since 2016, Inch has been provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University, East Bay. He starts July 1. Since July 2019, Peaslee has been […]

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Bethune-Cookman University President Resigns to Become President of Bentley University

Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite will become the ninth president of Bentley University, a private Massachusetts college known for its business program. Chrite was most recently president of Bethune-Cookman University, a predominantly Black college in Florida before he resigned Tuesday morning, Spectrum News 13 reported. According to Bethune-Cookman, Chrite announced his resignation to his cabinet and […]

E. LaBrent Chrite

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Columbia University to Offer Six Additional Graduation Ceremonies for Different Races, Ethnicities and Others

Columbia University will offer six additional graduation ceremonies based on race, ethnicity and other self-identifying factors of undergrad students, USA Today reported. The new options are Native, Asian, Latino and Black, Lavender (for LGBTQ+ students) and first-generation and low-income. These events – open to all students – are in addition to the university-wide commencement ceremony. […]

Columbia University

Mass Vaccine Center to Open at Virginia State University’s Ettrick Campus

A new mass vaccine center opened at Virginia State University on Wednesday, NBC 12 reported. The center will be available for residents in Chesterfield, Colonial Heights and the Crater Health District, which serves areas such as Petersburg, Hopewell and Emporia. The center will only be available for people pre-registered for the COVID-19 vaccine and with […]

Virginia State University

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Philander Smith College Receives $25,000 Gift to Honor Civil Rights Lawyer Scipio A. Jones

Philander Smith College, a historically Black college in Arkansas, has received a $25,000 gift from Rush and Linda Harding to honor civil rights lawyer Scipio A. Jones who attended the school in 1883. Later this year, a commissioned portrait of Jones will be put on display in the downtown Little Rock post office, the Scipio […]

Philander Smith College

Dr. Carlos O. Cortez Named Chancellor of San Diego Community College District

Dr. Carlos O. Cortez, president of the San Diego College of Continuing Education (SDCCE) since 2015, will be chancellor of the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), effective July 1. As SDCCD chancellor, Cortez will oversee San Diego City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges and the San Diego College of Continuing Education. Cortez has been an […]

Dr. Carlos O. Cortez

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Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and Boston Globe’s Opinion Team to Bring Back Antislavery Newspaper, The Emancipator

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe‘s opinion team are resurrecting the U.S.’s first antislavery newspaper, The Emancipator, founded more than 200 years ago. “Just as 19th-century abolitionist newspapers hastened abolition, this project will amplify critical voices, ideas, and evidence-based opinion in an effort to reframe the national conversation and hasten racial […]

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Norwich Residents Look to Buy Mainstay Dairy Farm from Vermont Technical College

Approximately 100 people are pledging money to buy a dairy farm before Vermont Technical College sells it to the highest bidder, VT Digger reported. The Norwich Farm Creamery – a 200-year-old farm – is now being divided and sold, with part of the property put on the market for $1.7 million last June and another […]

Vermont Technical College

Weill Cornell Medicine to Launch Programs for Faculty Diversity Through $5 Million Mastercard Impact Fund Grant

Weill Cornell Medicine will launch several programs to create a more diverse faculty through a $5 million grant from the Mastercard Impact Fund. Programs will include a mentoring curriculum, a faculty diversity incentive program and competitive career development awards for junior faculty from underrepresented in medicine (URM) populations and those with childcare commitments, often female faculty. The […]

Weill Cornell Medicine

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Tufts University Takes Steps, Pledges $25 Million, to Become Anti-racist

Tufts University is pledging $25 million over five years to become an anti-racist institution, Boston.com reported. Over seven months, Tufts reviewed five areas – campus safety and policing, public art, an institutional audit and targeted action, compositional diversity and equity and inclusion – resulting in more than 180 recommendations. Tufts President Dr. Tony Monaco said […]

Tufts University

Columbia University Grad Students and Student Workers Go on Strike

Thousands of Columbia University graduate students and student workers went on strike Monday – and are continuing to strike – after negotiations with the school proved unsuccessful again, the New York Post reported. Students’ demands include higher wages, improved benefits and a system to better investigate sexual harassment and discrimination allegations. According to the Graduate […]

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