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MILTON OVERTON

MILTON OVERTON has been appointed director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He was senior associate athletics director at the University of Alabama. Overton earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma.

July 28, 2015

Injured Football Player to Return to Towson University

Towson University must allow a football player to return to the team after a successful liver transplant and an “amazing recovery,” a federal judge in Maryland has ruled.

July 26, 2015

Educators Competing With Athletics for Low-income Students’ Focus

Workshop panelist Nathan Weigl, a doctoral student at Appalachian State University, suggested that recruiting tactics of college coaches can be borrowed and adapted by GEAR UP practitioners and community partners.

July 23, 2015

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Leadership & Policy

Major Cyber-attack Targets UCLA Hospital System

LOS ANGELES ― A months-long cyberattack on the University of California, Los Angeles hospital system put at risk the personal information for up to 4.5 million people, officials said Friday. UCLA Health said in a statement that, while there’s no evidence hackers acquired personal or medical data, it can’t be ruled out yet. Officials said […]

July 19, 2015

Purdue University Eliminates Chief Diversity Officer Role

A provost at Purdue University will take over the school’s diversity efforts after the school eliminated its chief diversity officer position.

July 14, 2015

The U.S. Women’s National Team’s Ticker-tape Parade Was Not for its Diversity

Sydney Leroux, Christen Press, Amy Rodriguez, all of diverse ethnic heritage, are members of the U.S. Women’s National team.

July 13, 2015

Faculty & Staff

False Hope a Problem in Adult Math Education

In order to achieve better math outcomes in adult education, the field must abandon a series of “false hopes” that essentially have set the system up for failure.

July 13, 2015

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The University of Texas Austin Battles a Tumultuous Legacy

The University of Texas at Austin bears a complicated history toward race.

July 13, 2015

South Carolina’s Action on Flag Leads NCAA to Lift Ban

As a result of the South Carolina’s decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from its capitol grounds, the NCAA is ending a nearly 15-year ban on the state playing host to sanctioned championship events.

July 9, 2015

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BCCC in Good Standing; Sojourner-Douglass Loses Accreditation

Two Baltimore schools recently received good and bad news respectively with regard to their accreditation status.

July 5, 2015

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Diverse on the Go

Senior Writer Jamal Watson is attending the 2015 HBCU Student Success Summit in Atlanta at the Omni Atlanta Hotel today through Saturday.

June 24, 2015

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Smith-Jones Named Athletic Director at UC Riverside

Tamica Smith-Jones has been named director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of California, Riverside.

June 24, 2015

Confronting Assault Issues on Campus: Our Reality, Our Challenge

Late last year my personal life collided with my work life in regards to the issues of assault on college campuses.

June 23, 2015

Vermont State College Seeks to Increase Completion Rate

WATERBURY, Vt. ― Fewer than half of Vermont’s high school graduates go on to get college degrees, and the Vermont State College system is trying to find ways to change that and make sure those who do go on to college complete it.

June 22, 2015

When Asian Americans Hear Hate Crime, We Think of Vincent Chin

The anniversary of his beating death in 1982 coincides with the mourning in Charleston.

June 21, 2015

HBCUs to Seek Delay on NCAA Requirement

Fourteen of 21 Division I athletic teams facing postseason competition bans this coming school year are based at historically Black colleges and universities.

June 18, 2015

Leadership & Policy

College of Charleston Approves Tuition Increase

The College of Charleston Board of Trustees has voted to approve a tuition increase of 3.25 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year.

June 16, 2015

Catholic College in Massachusetts Closing

A small Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts has announced that it is closing at the end of the academic year due to “insurmountable financial challenges.”

June 16, 2015