Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! Weāve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! Weāve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
African-American
Faculty & Staff
Health
Institutions
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
Is the Black Man the Bogeyman in the Ivory Tower?
Even after establishing credibility and capability, some Black males in higher education are still likely to face being shelved into stereotypical categories. This creates an uncomfortable equation wherein capable talent must prove to their environments that they are not the bogeyman.
July 30, 2018
African-American
Paul Quinn College Announces First Site for Urban Work College Network
Paul Quinn Collegeās vision to eradicate poverty through access to quality education and jobs, secure housing and reduced student loan burden, is moving forward with the expansion of its Urban Work College Model to Plano, Texas.
July 26, 2018
African-American
āAim Higher Actā House Bill Draws Praise from Higher Ed Groups
TheĀ Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have announced support of the Aim Higher Act legislation introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrat-crafted bill, a version of the Higher Education Act that is due for reauthorization, has some significant differences from the PROSPER [ā¦]
July 25, 2018
African-American
UNCF Expands Scholars Program
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) announced Wednesday that it will expand its UNCF/Koch Scholars Program, which aims to provide more educational opportunities for African-American students in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and economics. The program prepares students for the workforce by offering them scholarships, mentorship and academic support. Participants focus on how their entrepreneurial [ā¦]
July 25, 2018
African-American
Best Practices and Solutions are Shared at UNCF Convening
FORT LAUDERDALEāIf you ask Spelman College student Genesis Thigpen about some of the pressing challenges that face historically Black colleges and universities, retention is at the top of her list.
July 24, 2018
African-American
House Bill Provides $8M for HBCU Historic Preservation Fund
Advocates for historically Black colleges and universities are praising the passage of a U.S. House of Representatives āminibusā appropriations bill that will increase funding for the HBCU Historic Preservation Fund if approved by the Senate for fiscal year 2019. Earlier this year, the H.R. 6147 bill originally set aside $5 million for the fund for [ā¦]
July 20, 2018
African-American
UNCF to Showcase āPurposeful Disruptionsā at HBCUs
For the third year in a row, the United Negro College Fund will hold their Career Pathways Initiative Annual Convening & Data Institute, bringing together data industry experts and faculty, staff and executive leadership from more than 40 historically Black institutions this month in Fort Lauderdale.
July 13, 2018
African-American
Setting the Agenda for Tennesseeās HBCUs
Brittany L. Mosby is in the role of her dreams as the nationās first director of HBCU Success for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. In marrying her passion for historically Black colleges and universities, higher education, diversity and inclusion and state-level policy research, Mosby is setting a strategic agenda to move the stateās seven HBCUs forward.
July 11, 2018
African-American
New Dean Makes Her Mark at Webster University
Dr. Simone Cummings, who was recently named the new dean of the Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University, became intrigued with business at a young age, as she watched her father go to work as a marketing executive for Anheuser Busch.
July 10, 2018
Students
Sisters, Other-Mothers and Aunties: The Importance of Informal Mentors for Black Women Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions
Mentoring is paramount to the success of Black women pursuing graduate degrees. Unfortunately, mentors at predominantly White institutions who provide formal mentoring for Black women graduate students are few and far between.
July 10, 2018
African-American
Burnim Comes Out of Retirement to Lead UMES on Interim Basis
Higher education officials in Maryland have called seasoned college administrator Dr. Mickey Burnim out of retirement to serve as interim president of the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore (UMES) starting next week as a replacement for retired president Dr. Juliette Bell.
June 25, 2018
Students
A Seat at the Table for KIPP Alumni
WASHINGTON ā The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) centered students who are alumni of the charter school network at the forefront of a conversation this week about what it takes to get to and through college during a panel on Capitol Hill.
June 25, 2018
African-American
A Scholar Without Borders
As chair of the African American studies department and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Dr. E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar without borders. His research crosses academic disciplines and creative art forms in multiple ways, to the extent that he describes himself only half-jokingly as āan academic trickster.ā
June 12, 2018
African-American
Campus Child Care Critical in Raising Single Mothersā Graduation Rates
Access to campus child care is a key factor in determining if single mothers in college will graduate within six years, according to the latest in a series of reports released Wednesday by the Institute for Womenās Policy Research.
June 6, 2018
Students
Writing Groups as Counterspaces for Black Women Graduate Students at PWIs
It is no secret that Black women graduate students are severely underrepresented at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). As a result, counterspaces that serve Black women specifically are needed now more than ever.
June 2, 2018
African-American
Why Are Only the White Marches the Right Marches?
High school activism is now commonplace in America. Students are no longer the leaders of tomorrow: they are the leaders of today. In response, colleges and universities have voiced their support of these students exercising their free-speech rights. However, institutions give validation to which topics are okay to march for ā and which are not.
May 20, 2018
African-American
New Book Explores Unsung Black Women Freedom Fighters
The title of Dr. Keisha Blainās critically acclaimed new book about Black nationalist women may portend her own future as a scholar and historian. āSet the World on Fireā and her other projects reveal a woman ablaze with momentum.
May 15, 2018
African-American
Academics Remember Renowned Literary Scholar Marcellus Blount
Former students and professional colleagues are mourning the death of Dr. Marcellus Blount, a well-known scholar of African-American literary and cultural studies who taught at Columbia University since 1985.
May 7, 2018
Previous Page
Next Page
