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Section: Demographics > African-American
Faculty & Staff
Virginia Commonwealth University Group Seeks to Increase Number of Black Faculty
RICHMOND, Va. — A group at Virginia Commonwealth University is working to reverse a decline in Black faculty members. Black Education Association president and psychology teacher Faye Z. Belgrave tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the percentage of Black faculty is lower today than it was a decade ago. A report presented to the Board of […]
December 28, 2014
Students
HBCU Stakeholders List Financing Programs, Affordability as Top Issues
The 2014 State of HBCUs Report reflects concern about the health of the institutions in the wake of shrinking enrollment and a fairly steady decline in federal funding.
December 28, 2014
African-American
Tennessee State University Alumnus Receives NASA Award
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― A Tennessee State University alumnus and NASA engineer is being recognized for outstanding contribution to the agency. Ron Cobbs is a 1989 graduate of TSU and avionics chief engineer to the International Space Station operations. He recently received the NASA Johnson Space Center Director’s Commendation Award. The award recognizes the center’s civil […]
December 25, 2014
Students
Jackson State’s 2-Year Executive Ph.D. Program Marks 10 Years of Success
The 167 graduates of the Executive Ph.D. program in urban higher education were honored this month at the 10th anniversary celebration of the program.
December 25, 2014
Sports
Giving Black Boys a Framework for Success
I am waking up and going to bed asking the same question: What is going on, America?
December 23, 2014
African-American
Howard University: Hospital Deal All About Maintaining the Mission
The presidents of Howard University and Paladin Healthcare Capital emphasized the importance of Howard University Hospital’s historic mission to serve the underserved in a conference call with Diverse on Monday.
December 22, 2014
African-American
Experts Divided Over Impact of Absent Father-themed College Admission Essays
When high school students from low-income households craft their college admission essays, chances are good that many of them will focus on or at least mention the absence of their fathers.
December 21, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Drug Evidence Against Professor Ruled Inadmissible
A Missouri appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that evidence of a marijuana-growing operation found in a university professor’s home can’t be used against him because of an invalid search warrant.
December 16, 2014
African-American
Effigies of Blacks Found Hanging by Nooses at UC Berkeley
Three cardboard cutouts of Black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
December 14, 2014
Sports
Is Higher Ed Culture Discouraging to Student-Athlete Activism?
The Georgetown University men’s basketball team Wednesday became the first collegiate team to protest against the recent failures to indict officers in Ferguson, Mo., and the New York City deaths of two Black men at the hands of police officers.
December 14, 2014
African-American
Spelman College Suspends The Cosby Chair for the Humanities Indefinitely
Spelman College has decided to suspend a prestigious professorship funded in part by Bill and Camille Cosby.
December 14, 2014
African-American
Bob Jones University Releases Report on Handling Sex Abuse Complaints
An independent report on how Bob Jones University has dealt with sexual abuse over several decades concluded that university employees weren’t properly trained to handle such cases and victims seem to have been blamed.
December 11, 2014
African-American
FDA Gives Approval for Marijuana Oil Study
The Food and Drug Administration has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham permission to study the use of a marijuana derivative to treat seizures.
December 10, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Black Lives and the Struggle for Humanity
The protests in Ferguson and throughout the nation have aroused the long complacent spirit that has been an integral part of American history.
December 10, 2014
African-American
Protesters Ask Federal Courts to Curb Police
Police violated the constitutional rights of protesters upset by the death in Ferguson, Missouri, of an unarmed Black man, lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday in urging she step in and curb the police.
December 10, 2014
African-American
University of Colorado Humanities Classes Dwindle
Enrollment in arts and humanities classes at the University of Colorado is dwindling, mirroring a national trend that professors are trying to grasp.
December 9, 2014
Students
An Open Letter of Love to Black Students
Black professors know there is always more that people don’t see or hear or want to know, but we see you. We hear you.
December 8, 2014
African-American
North Carolina Central University Making History of its Own
In the 75 years since the history department came into existence at NCCU, the faculty have graduated more than 80 alumni who have gone on to earn Ph.D.s in history at other universities and have carved out careers as engaged researchers, university professors and museum curators.
December 8, 2014
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