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$1 Million Winner of Oregon’s COVID-19 Vaccination Lottery Is a College Student

Oregon State University student Chloe Zinda said she was in disbelief when she received a text message from the Oregon Health Authority — the first indication that she’d won the state’s $1 million jackpot for getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Zinda, who was at work as a swim instructor, said she showed the text to one of her co-workers […]

July 12, 2021

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South Carolina’s Voorhees College Appoints Dr. Ronnie Hopkins President

Voorhees College, a small, rural and historically Black institution in South Carolina, has appointed Dr. Ronnie Hopkins as its 10th president. Serving as interim president since January, Hopkins is a tenured English professor at Voorhees and was previously the college’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. Before arriving at Voorhees, he served as a […]

July 12, 2021

Third Louisiana Institution Offers Full Ride to Spelling Champion Zaila Avant-garde

Southern University has become the third Louisiana academic institution to offer a full-ride scholarship to Zaila Avant-garde, the 14-year-old Louisiana native who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, reports The Advocate. “We at SU celebrate you, Zaila!” wrote Ray L. Belton, Southern’s president-chancellor, on Twitter. “You a PHENOMENAL representation of our great state […]

July 12, 2021

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University of Delaware to Uncover Past Connections to Slavery and Racism

The University of Delaware, whose history dates back to 1743, will begin exploring its past connections to slavery and racism, reports WHYY. Since UD joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, a team of 21 students has been working to uncover past injustices tied to the school, such as when “Black students who wanted to come […]

July 12, 2021

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UVA Removes ‘Racist’ Conqueror of The Northwest Statue From Campus

The University of Virginia’s statue of Revolutionary War figure George Rogers Clark was removed from its campus, following the City of Charlottesville’s removal of two Confederate statues and one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea, reports the university’s student newspaper The Cavelier Daily. Erected in 1921, “the statue depicts Clark on horseback with a crew behind […]

July 12, 2021

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Howard University Will No Longer Have Faculty, Student, Alumni Trustees. Is That Normal?

Howard University is in the midst of “an emerging, heated, family squabble.” That’s according to former alumni trustee Rock Newman, who, in an open letter to Howard on Facebook, asked that the Board of Trustees reverse its unanimous decision made in mid-June to remove all affiliate trustee roles for faculty, students and alumni.

July 9, 2021

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Roueche Center Forum: Toward Gender Equality in Technology Careers

COVID-19 has demonstrated that technology is a bridge to sustaining a degree of normalcy in our lives. Institutions were able to switch almost overnight to online instruction and services only because of advances in technology, showing how critical having prepared professionals to address world problems is. According to the 2021 study “Women Chief Technology Officers in Community Colleges” by Monica D. Wiggins, the prevalence of technology today requires skilled technology workers — more than ever before — to secure, design, maintain and upgrade an ever-increasing number of advanced technological devices and programs.

July 9, 2021

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Army Investigates School of Advanced Military Studies

The U.S. Army has launched an investigation into the culture and climate at its School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), one of four advanced schools of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Army Times reported. The investigation, which was ordered by Army University provost Maj. Gen. Donn Hill in June, came after an […]

July 9, 2021

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Merle Smith, 1st Black graduate of Coast Guard Academy, Dies

Merle Smith Jr., the first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy, has died. He was 76. Smith died last month of complications from Parkinson’s disease and COVID-19, according to his wife, Lynda Smith. Smith commanded a cutter in Vietnam, taught law classes at the academy in New London and retired from active-duty […]

July 9, 2021

JESSE F. KANE

JESSE F. KANE has been appointed senior vice president for student success and enrollment management at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. He has been serving as vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. Kane holds a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in counseling psychology from Bowie State University. He’s currently completing a doctorate in higher education administration from Morgan State University.

July 9, 2021

ARIFA RAZA

ARIFA RAZA has been named assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University. Raza has most recently been on the staff at the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center. She holds a master’s degree in justice studies from Arizona State University; a Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, Riverside; and a juris doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was editor-in-chief of the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review.

July 9, 2021

Dr. Anthony B. Johnson Appointed Provost at Morris Brown College

Dr. Anthony B. Johnson has been appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Morris Brown College, a historically Black college in Atlanta that is looking to regain its accreditation. Johnson is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Institutes for Historically Underserved Students. He most recently served as the interim […]

July 9, 2021

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ESHEA L. POORE

MESHEA L. POORE has been named president of the Big 12 Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. Vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at West Virginia University, Poore holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Howard University and a juris doctorate from the Southern University Law Center.

July 9, 2021

DOZIE IBEH

DOZIE IBEH has been named associate vice president for capital projects at Princeton University. He was previously associate vice president for the Project Delivery Group at Temple University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He holds a master’s degree in construction management from Drexel University.

July 9, 2021

Mills College Alumni Sue School, Claims Blindsided by News of Closure or Merger

Mills College alumni are suing the school, alleging they were blindsided by the institution’s recent news to shutdown or merge with Northeastern University, SF Gate reported. The June 7 complaint claims Mills withheld information from alumni on the board of trustees, “thereby stifling [the] Plaintiffs’ ability to fulfill their fiduciary duties to Mills.” The alumni are […]

July 9, 2021

LEAH COX

LEAH COX has been appointed vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has most recently been serving as the inaugural vice president for inclusion and institutional equity at Towson University in Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s from what is now McDaniel College in Maryland, a master’s from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park.

July 9, 2021

YVONNE HERNANDEZ FRIEDMAN

YVONNE HERNANDEZ FRIEDMAN has been appointed assistant vice president for student engagement at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Previously associate director of residential success & community development at the University of California, San Diego, Hernandez Friedman holds a bachelor’s in political science and a master of education degree from Arizona State University. She also holds a doctorate in education from Claremont Graduate University.

July 9, 2021

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DAVID CHRISTOPHER HOWARD

DAVID CHRISTOPHER HOWARD has been appointed director of alumni and constituency relations at Jackson State University in Mississippi. He has been serving in the role on an interim basis since January and has been on Jackson State’s staff since 2005. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Jackson State.

July 9, 2021