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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Gates is the 2025 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award.

March 27, 2025

Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson receives Dr. John Hope Franklin Award at 2023 American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting.

April 15, 2023

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Lauded at Dr. John Hope Franklin Reception

WASHINGTON — Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, noted physicist who recently retired as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), was honored with a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award last Friday night by Diverse.

April 14, 2023

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski presents Dr. John Hope Franklin Award to Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III Awarded Dr. John Hope Franklin Award

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III was awarded the Dr. John Hope Franklin award on Tuesday by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

November 16, 2021

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III with his Dr. John Hope Franklin medallion at Tuesday's virtual ceremony.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw Receives Lifetime Service Award

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) honored Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, professor of law, with the 2021 AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession.

September 27, 2021

Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at Columbia University and University of California, Los Angeles, receives lifetime service award

Higher Education Pioneer Dr. Samuel L. Myers Dead at 101

Dr. Samuel L. Myers Sr., a trained economist who served as president of Bowie State University before being named president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), died on Jan 8, at the age of 101.

January 11, 2021

In Memoriam: Remembering Those We Lost in 2020

In this memoriam, Diverse pays tribute to a few of the trendsetters and trailblazers, innovators and educators, scholars and thought leaders, champions and caretakers whom we lost in 2020. What links them is the indelible mark they left on the lives of countless students, higher education, society and the world.

December 22, 2020

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Tests Should Elevate Communities. Not Lower Expectations

Yes, average test scores vary by geography, income and race. Yes, economically disadvantaged communities and some race/ethnicity minority groups consistently achieve lower scores on average than wealthy communities and majority groups. A vital question for education systems, individual experts in education, and national, state and local communities is how do we use the data and information to affect change?

November 29, 2020

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2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Awardees Recognized by Diverse

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education held its annual Dr. John Hope Franklin award ceremony virtually, honoring three educators whose scholarship and work represents the tradition of the late pioneering historian.

November 16, 2020

African-American

John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 80

John Robert Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime Congressman, died on Friday after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80. Lewis was revered for his historic participation in civil rights marches and for his leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was beaten and jailed for his activism in the 1960s but remained […]

July 19, 2020

Meet Frank Wu, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

During his childhood, Frank Wu planned on being an architect. His parents even bought him a drafting table at a garage sale. But as a teenager, a local hate crime and homicide in Detroit changed his mind. With Detroit being known as the “motor city,” residents depended on the larger automobile companies for employment. After […]

April 8, 2020

Meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

Dr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.

April 7, 2020

Kimberle Crenshaw

Meet Dr. Walter R. Allen, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

When Dr. Walter R. Allen takes on a research project, there must always be a larger purpose — something he discusses with graduate students and young academics. According to Allen, African American scholars cannot live in an ivory tower. All research — including his more than 150 publications — must, in some way, illuminate the challenges that communities of color face.

April 6, 2020

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CUNY Names Frank H. Wu President of Queens College

The City University of New York (CUNY) on Monday named Frank H. Wu the president of its Queens College. Wu, who will assume office on July 1, will be the second Asian American leader of a CUNY college. Wu, a legal scholar, is one of Diverse’s 2020 John Hope Franklin award winners. He will be the […]

March 30, 2020

Top 35 Women in Higher Education

Profiles of 2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Winners

March 16, 2020

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2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Winners Announced

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maya Matthews Minter Email: Maya@DiverseEducation.com Phone: 703.385.2411 FAIRFAX, Va. — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Walter Allen, one of the nation’s most distinguished professors of education, sociology and African American studies, is the Allan […]

February 7, 2020

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Retiring Harvard Sociologist Honored at Symposium

A three-day symposium honored the career of renowned Harvard University sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson. Wilson,has researched and written about race and class in America for half a century. At the symposium, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser university professor emeritus witnessed as his colleagues discussed his books and legacy at length. The event […]

September 16, 2019

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A View from the Founders: Diverse at 35

During the initial preparation for the inaugural edition of Black Issues In Higher Education, co-founders Dr. Bill Cox and Frank L. Matthews spoke with a large number of professionals throughout the country. They also spent many days, weeks and months surveying the higher education community to determine the need for a professional publication of this nature.

July 29, 2019