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Morehouse College Offers Online Program for Adult Learners to Complete Degrees

Morehouse College is launching an online bachelor’s degree completion program this summer for adult learners who already have some college experience, The Washington Post reported. Morehouse Online will start with three offerings, including business administration – that will offer degrees to men with credits from other schools and former Morehouse students who left before degree completion. Partnering […]

Morehouse College

Recruitment & Retention

University of Oregon Leads Retention Initiative for Faculty of Color

University of Oregon’s Center on Diversity and Community (CoDac) is leading a retention initiative for faculty of color, the Daily Emerald reported. The initiative will conduct exit interviews with faculty of color who have left in the past five years to learn how the institution might improve in terms of inclusion. The project is about […]

University of Oregon

Maine Community College System Creates Course to Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maine Community College System has broadened its job skill training program for Maine workers to also teach individuals how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, Portland Press Herald reported. The school system had started the program some years ago to give baseline training in various fields with less commitment than a full college-level course, with […]

Women Suffering from Period Poverty More Likely to Suffer from Depression, Research Shows

Women suffering from period poverty – lack of access to menstrual hygiene products – are more likely to suffer from depression, according to a new study from George Mason University’s College of Health and Human Services. More than 14% of college women experienced period poverty in the past year, with 10% experiencing period poverty every month. […]

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Leadership & Policy

Chestnut Hill College President Sister Carol Jean Vale to Retire in 2022

Chestnut Hill College President Dr. Carol Jean Vale – the longest serving college president in the Philadelphia region – will retire in June 2022, closing out 30 years in the role, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. She joined Chestnut Hill in 1988 as chair of the religious studies department. Sister Carol is from the Catholic school’s […]

Dr. Carol Jean Vale

ACLU Names First Black President

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has elected its first Black president in its 101-year history, reports The Associated Press.

African-American

Boston University Law Dean Given Antiracism Professorship

Boston University law school Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a critical race theory scholar, has been named the first Ryan Roth Gallo and Ernest J. Gallo Professor. Onwuachi-Willig is an expert in racial and gender inequality and anti-discrimination law. She founded the Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop for women of color law faculty in […]

Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Dr. Dedriell Taylor Appointed West Virginia Wesleyan College’s First Chief Diversity Officer

Dr. Dedriell Taylor has been appointed West Virginia Wesleyan College’s first chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, My Buckhannon reported. The Beckley, West Virginia native previously served as director of philanthropy for the West Virginia’s Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council and as adjunct professor of business at Bluefield College. She has also served as […]

Dr. Dedriell Taylor

Leadership & Policy

CUNY Appoints Two New Presidents at Lehman College and Guttman Community College

City University of New York has appointed Dr. Fernando Delgado as Lehman College president and Dr. Larry Johnson Jr. as Guttman Community College president, the New York Daily News reported. Delgado previously served as vice chancellor at University of Minnesota-Duluth. Delgado’s research focuses on Latinx identity. More than half of Lehman’s population is Hispanic. Johnson […]

Dr. Fernando Delgado

University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Dr. LaVar Charleston Joins Wisconsin Governor’s Equity Advisory Council

LaVar Charleston, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education’s associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion, has been named to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’s advisory council on equity and inclusion, according to UW-M officials.

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CVS Launches New Scholarship Program with UNCF

Through a partnership with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), the CVS Health Foundation has launched a $5 million scholarship program. The CVS Health Foundation Health Care Careers Scholarship aims to support Black and Latinx students planning to major in health care areas such as nursing, business management, finance, data analytics, pharmacy, biochemistry and biology, […]

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Personal Library of African American Literature Scholar Donated to Rutgers

The personal library of the late Cheryl Wall, a scholar known for championing African American literature and Black women writers, has been donated by her family to Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Paul Robeson Cultural Center, according to Rutgers’s officials.

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