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Youngstown State University Faculty Strike Over Contract Dispute

Faculty members at Youngstown State University have gone on  strike to potentially reach a new three-year contract with the school reported cleveland.com The three-year deal did not offer any pay increases in the first year. However, there were increases of 1% in the second year and 2% in the third year, according to university officials. […]

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University of Missouri-Columbia Students Reported Cheating Online

More than 150 University of Missouri-Columbia students have been caught using group chats to cheat on exams since the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to retreat to remote learning, reported The Associated Press. According to university spokeswoman Liz McCune, the school identified three cheating incidents that each involved more than 50 students — which occurred once […]

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University of Delaware Employees Taking a 5% Pay Cut

Non-union employees at the University of Delaware will have to take a 5% pay cut for the remainder of the fiscal year, due to the school’s projected $250 million financial deficit brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, reported The Delaware News Journal. To compensate for the financial deficit projection, the pay cut will come in […]

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University of North Carolina Ashville Placed on Lockdown After Threats

The University of North Carolina Asheville was placed on lockdown Friday, after direct threats were made to several university offices, according to Asheville Citizen Times. On Friday, several offices at the university received a direct from an unidentified individual demanding to paint over an on-campus Black Lives Matter mural, according to university officials. State and […]

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Houston Rapper Travis Scott Offers to Pay Tuition for 5 HBCU Students

Houston Rapper Travis Scott offered to pay the tuition of five students that currently attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), reported Click2Houston.com. Scott said he plans to cover tuition for the students’ first semesters. His announcement on Twitter said, “Why not?” The tweet went viral on social media. He also revealed that his mother […]

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Mellody Hobson to Establish New Residence College at Alma Mater, Princeton University

Mellody Hobson and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation have made the lead gift to establish a new residential college at Princeton University in 2023, according to officials at Princeton University. The Hobson College will be the first residential college at Princeton named for a Black woman and will be constructed on the site of First College, […]

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55 Higher Education Organizations Condemn Trump’s Executive Order on Diversity Training

On Thursday, the American Council on Education and 54 other higher education associations signed a letter condemning President Donald J. Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order prohibiting diversity training for all federal contractors and grant recipients, including colleges and universities. Signatories of the letter include the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Common App, the […]

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SUNY Binghamton Temporarily Switches to Remote Learning Due to Spike in COVID-19 Cases

Due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, in-person classes at Binghamton University will be suspended and the virtual schedule will begin for a minimum of 2 weeks. “Although we are currently under the New York State Department of Health threshold, the University will move to a remote learning model that will help contain the virus and bring […]

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Florida State President and Wife Test Positive for COVID-19

Florida State University President Dr. John Thrasher and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, the university announced Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Thrasher, 76, tested positive at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, and his wife, Jean Thrasher, tested positive Monday night, according to FSU. They are isolating at home, with a FSU statement saying that […]

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8 HBCUs Receive Millions to Expand COVID-19 Testing Facilities on Campus

Eight historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have received $15 million in funding by the Thermo Fisher Scientific to expand and establish on-campus COVID-19 testing facilities, as reported by The Tennessean. This funding and expansion are part of The Just Project, which seeks to address the COVID-19 pandemic in communities of color — especially since […]

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Duquesne University Fires Professor For Repeated Use of Racial Slur During Virtual Class

Duquesne University has fired an education professor for “serious misconduct,” having suspended him less than a month ago for using a racial slur in a virtual lecture related to race, the Tribune-Review reported. “We have 30 days to grieve the termination and certainly will do so,”  Warner Mariani, the attorney for Dr. Gary Shank told […]

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Harvard Medical School Renames Academic Society After First Black Tenured Professor

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley has approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard, The Harvard Crimson reported. Two medical students had started a petition to rename the Holmes Society earlier in 2020, accruing more than 1,000 signatures. A task force […]

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