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Section: Institutions > HBCUs
HBCUs
Brown Grad Student Dies After Jumping Off Campus Building
A Brown University graduate student from South Korea has died after jumping from the 12th floor of a campus building.
April 1, 2015
HBCUs
Kean University Cancels Common as Commencement Speaker
New Jersey’s Kean University has cancelled hip-hop artist Common as commencement speaker after police voiced concerns over a song released 15 years ago about a woman convicted of killing a police officer who fled to Cuba.
April 1, 2015
African-American
Huston-Tillotson Names Pierce Burnette President
Huston-Tillotson University’s Board of Trustees has selected Colette Pierce Burnette as the successor to Larry L. Earvin as president of the private, historically Black institution in East Austin, Texas.
April 1, 2015
Sports
Bucknell University Expels 3 for Racist Radio Broadcast
Bucknell University says it has expelled three students over a school radio broadcast in which they made racist comments and used a slur.
March 31, 2015
Students
Congressman’s Son a Defendant in Clemson Fraternity-Death Lawsuits
The son of U.S. Rep. John Carney, D-Del., is one of five defendants in two lawsuits seeking at least $50 million stemming from the death of a Clemson University fraternity pledge.
March 31, 2015
Students
Unusual Amount of Cheating Suspected at Stanford University
An unusually high number of students at Stanford University are suspected of cheating during the most recent term, putting faculty members and administrators of the prestigious institution on alert.
March 29, 2015
African-American
California Community Colleges Team Up With HBCUs
The California Community College system and nine historically Black institutions have devised a transfer program linking the state’s 112 two-year colleges with the nation’s Black college community.
March 26, 2015
LGBTQ+
Ex-Bob Jones President Apologizes for 1980 Anti-Gay Remarks
The former president of Bob Jones University has apologized for saying in 1980 that homosexuals should be stoned, calling his comments at the White House reckless and inflammatory.
March 23, 2015
Students
Janet Napolitano Apologizes for Disparaging Student Protest
University of California President Janet Napolitano apologized Thursday for calling chants by students protesting tuition hikes “crap,” a remark picked up by an open microphone at a Board of Regents meeting.
March 19, 2015
Students
Penn State President Says Fraternity System May Need Review
Penn State’s president has told the university community an investigation into the Facebook posting of nude photographs by a now-suspended fraternity could lead to a re-evaluation of the overall fraternity system.
March 19, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Penn State Professor Arrested in Miami after Rant on Plane
A Penn State University associate sociology professor says she doesn’t know why her onboard speech about U.S.-Venezuela relations got her pulled off a flight in Miami.
March 18, 2015
Students
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March 18, 2015
Sports
Hampton, MEAC Can’t Lose in NCAA Tournament
Regardless of the outcome of their matchup against a Kentucky team that is chasing history, Hampton University and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference will be winners thanks to the NCAA Basketball Fund.
March 18, 2015
Leadership & Policy
JACOB EAPEN
Community College of Philadelphia has appointed JACOB EAPEN as vice president for business and finance. He was the former vice president for administration and chief business officer at Mercer County Community College. He holds a bachelor’s from Roosevelt University in Chicago, a master’s from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
March 18, 2015
Leadership & Policy
CASS CLIATT
Cass Cliatt was appointed vice president for communication at Brown University. She has been serving as vicepresident for communication at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She will begin her new job on April 1. Cliatt earned a bachelor’s from Princeton University and a master’s from Northwestern University.
March 18, 2015
HBCUs
Photos in Fatal House Fire Restored by University of Delaware Students
The parents of three boys killed with their grandmother in a house fire the morning after Christmas have received a gift of hundreds of family photos now restored after they were damaged in the southwest Ohio blaze.
March 16, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Southern University Resumes Search for Top Leadership Position
Southern University has revived its stalled search for a new leader.
March 15, 2015
African-American
HBCU Presidents Seek Next Chapters to Institutions’ Success Stories
Are HBCUs still a viable enterprise? Of course, and more than ever, HBCU presidents past and present said Thursday at a panel at Bowie State University.
March 12, 2015
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