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HBCUs
Morehouse College to Admit Transgender Men in 2020
Morehouse College—the nation’s only historically Black all-men’s school in the nation—will begin admitting transgender students who identify as men in Fall 2020.
April 14, 2019
HBCUs
Michigan Grad School Initiative Promotes Relationships with MSIs
Eight new grants will help faculty and academic departments across the University of Michigan enhance relationships with partner colleges and universities through the school’s fledgling Minority Serving Institutions Office.
April 9, 2019
HBCUs
Fundraise or Die Trying: Bennett, Cheyney and the Future of HBCUs
In 2019, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are learning the hard way that fundraising over $8.2 million dollars in less than 60 days may not be enough to keep hope alive. The $8.2 million dollar figure refers to the amount raised by North Carolina’s Bennett College between December 2018 and February 2019 as a part of the #StandwithBennett campaign that garnered national attention after celebrities publicly endorsed the college’s effort to retain its accreditation. Yet, despite all of Bennett’s efforts, the college’s accreditation was pulled.
April 8, 2019
HBCUs
Prof. Abdullah on the College Scandal, Black Studies After 50, HBCUs
“Black Studies is probably the most enduring victory of the Black Power Movement,” says Dr. Melina Abdullah. “It’s part of an institution that never wanted it. And so it means that the struggle is constant, because the institution is always trying to shut us down and kick us out. But it also is kind of a way of taking resources back. An education system that was intended for, you know the sons and daughter of the wealthy—that scandal that’s plagued the country.”
April 7, 2019
African-American
ORAU, TMCF Partner to Further STEM Research Opportunities at HBCUs
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has recently partnered with Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) to further student and faculty opportunities in STEM research at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This partnership, which officially began with the signing of a memorandum of understand on March 29, will strive to provide resources to those schools to […]
April 6, 2019
HBCUs
Alumni, Several Lawmakers Decry Proposed Georgia HBCU Bill
After backlash to proposed Georgia Senate Bill 273 that would consolidate the state’s three public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) into the Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical University System, lawmakers swiftly withdrew and introduced in its place a second bill, SB278, allowing the institutions to keep their names under the system.
April 6, 2019
African-American
Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education
Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.
April 4, 2019
Latinx
Experts: Collaboration Needed to Diversify Tech Workforce
America’s tech industry needs greater diversity, equity and inclusion, and achieving those goals depends in large part on the ability of educational institutions, governments, and philanthropies to work collaboratively and consistently.
April 2, 2019
HBCUs
Small, Private HBCUs Find Lifeline with TRACS Amid Accreditation Struggles
As schools struggle in various ways with how to stay viable in an increasingly complicated and competitive higher education landscape, small and private historically Black colleges faced with loss of accreditation have found a lifeline with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS).
March 27, 2019
HBCUs
Early Presidential Departure Makes Room for New Interim President at Saint Augustine’s University
Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) alumnus Dr. Gaddis Faulcon is now interim president of the Raleigh-based university following the Board of Trustees’ request for former president Dr. Everett Ward to step down last week, four months ahead of his planned retirement.
March 20, 2019
Students
Education Leaders Laud Some White House HEA Principles
Education leaders reacted positively to some of the principles outlined by the White House as Congress works toward reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, but questioned the possible direction of other aspects based on details yet to emerge.
March 19, 2019
African-American
New Book Challenges Bad Stats
If you’re in the habit of spewing negative statistics about the education of Black students in the United States, expect to draw the ire of Dr. Ivory A. Toldson.
March 15, 2019
HBCUs
Legislative Black Caucus Voice Opposition of Proposal That Would Change SC HBCU Into A Trade School
Several members of the South Carolina’s Legislative Black Caucus have recently met with administrators of Denmark Technical College at the Statehouse to protest a proposal that would turn the 71-year-old historically Black college into a trade school. “This is not the time to close down Denmark Tech,” said Rep. Joe Jefferson, D-Pineville, whose wife is […]
March 12, 2019
African-American
HBCU Leaders, Industry Partners Meet on Capitol Hill for HBCU STEAM Day of Action
Collective advocacy for greater resources and support for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their students was the goal of this year’s HBCU STEAM Day of Action on Capitol Hill, a day hosted by the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus that brought together members of Congress, industry leaders and the presidents and administrators of the nation’s HBCUs.
March 7, 2019
Students
UNCF Issues First Ever State of HBCUs Address, Launches HBCU Congressional Honor Roll
Institutional leaders, elected officials, advocates and other supporters of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were in attendance Tuesday for the United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF) inaugural State of the HBCU Address, which put forth a comprehensive legislative agenda for Congressional members to further support HBCUs and their capacity to be engines of socioeconomic mobility for the students they serve.
March 5, 2019
Students
Experts Say Reauthorized HEA Must Promote Equity
Institutional accountability and effective federal-state partnerships are keys to improving higher education access and equity, particularly when it comes to students experiencing chronic disparities in terms of race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, experts said at a recent event hosted by the Center for American Progress.
March 1, 2019
HBCUs
Fisk, Cravath Partner to Launch New Undergraduate Scholars Program
Students at Fisk University will soon benefit from the launch of the Cravath Scholars program, an experiential learning opportunity that strengthens the historically Black university’s (HBCU) ties to the premier law firm as it celebrates its 200th anniversary, according to leaders.
February 28, 2019
African-American
One Size Does Not Fit All: Bennett’s Accreditation Problem
One size does not fit all, and the Bennett College story proves it. A recent study found that Bennett ranked 30th out of 578 private colleges in the likelihood that an attending student would move up two or more income quintiles. This social mobility feat is possible because Bennett admits and enrolls more poor students than many other SACSCOC institutions. Thus, the college’s financial stability should not be measured with the same yardstick as institutions with more affluent students and alumni. Bennett’s story demonstrates the time is ripe to examine the accrediting processes of our nation’s colleges and universities. We need commissions whose governing boards reflect the institutions governed.
February 28, 2019
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