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African-American

UNCF Partners With Strategic Education to Offer Remote Learning Training Sessions to HBCU and PBI Faculty

In collaboration with Strategic Education, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) plans to offer professional development opportunities for faculty members at predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU). Last year, under the partnership, 400 faculty members at 14 HBCUs engaged in training sessions to adjust to remote learning. Afterwards, participants’ confidence […]

April 28, 2021

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Dr. Antonio D. Tillis Appointed Next Chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden

Dr. Antonio D. Tillis will be the next chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. In the past, Tillis has served as interim president of the University of Houston–Downtown, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at University of Houston. He has also been the dean of the School of Languages, Culture, and World Affairs […]

April 27, 2021

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Stakeholders Seek Legal, Legislative Remedy to NCAA Athlete Name, Image, Likeness Issue

As it stands, student-athletes — “amateur athletes” — participating in NCAA-affiliated sports cannot earn money from their name, image and likeness (NIL). They risk losing eligibility if they attempt to monetize their brands. This issue, although longstanding, is again coming to a head as the NCAA is and will be facing more opposition to its rule in both the court of law and legislation.

April 27, 2021

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A Q&A with the NCAA’s Felicia Martin, VP of the Eligibility Center

Here is a Q&A with the NCAA’s Felicia Martin, VP of the Eligibility Center

April 27, 2021

Howard Architecture Professor Builds Representation of People, Ideas in the Field

It takes just one person to change the trajectory of someone’s life. For Bradford Grant, professor of architecture at Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture, that person was the first African American teacher he had as a middle schooler in the California Bay area.

April 27, 2021

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Leadership & Policy

Dr. Joseph Helble Named Lehigh University President

Dr. Joseph Helble has been named the next president of Lehigh University. He starts Aug. 16. Helble is currently the provost at Dartmouth College. He previously served as dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and a professor of engineering. Helble holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh and a doctorate in chemical […]

April 27, 2021

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Lehigh University Receives $2.5 Million to Create Social Justice Institute

Lehigh University has received $2.5 million to create an institute for social and racial justice, lehighvalleylive.com reported. The donation comes from Bethlehem native and philanthropist Charles Marcon, an executive with Allentown-based Duggan & Marcon. The “Marcon Institute” is to prepare and deploy undergrad students – Marcon Fellows – to work with community partners to enact […]

April 27, 2021

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University of Pennsylvania Apologizes for Keeping and Losing Track of Remains of Two Children

The University of Pennsylvania is apologizing for keeping and then losing track of the remains of two children – ages 12 and 14 – killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, KKTV reported. In a series of statements, UPenn apologized to the Africa family, the remaining members of a pro-revolutionary organization entangled in a […]

April 27, 2021

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Pennsylvania State Higher Ed System Releases Plan to Merge Six Schools into Two

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has released a plan to merge six of its 14 universities into two schools, with the goal of saving the system $18.4 million over five years, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. A Board of Governors vote on the plan is expected Wednesday. Bloomsburg, Mansfield, and Lock Haven universities would […]

April 27, 2021

African-American

Why College-Educated Black Women Are Threats in 2021

College-educated Black women are a threat ─ to the white American supremacy and higher education as we know it. Threats are meant to intimidate ─ to threaten is to give signs or warnings, to announce with intent or possibility, to cause to feel insecure or anxious. Threats hang and hover over, invoking fear with purpose. Threats are an indication of something impending. The threat of powerful, college-educated Black women in 2021 is looming. Warning signs ahead!

April 27, 2021

Shaking Up the Athletic Lottery

Sports has long been a fixture in American life generally and in communities of color more specifically. One could argue that there is seemingly more at stake on average for Black athletes because of the economic condition of Black communities in the United States. The cultural embeddedness of the athletic route and the sports dream in the lives of young Black men is something that is taken for granted in many cases. For the small few who make it to play in college or the pros, a glimmer of hope for the masses is given.

April 27, 2021

Widener University Adjusts Prison Education Program to Serve Students During COVID-19

Over the last year, COVID-19 has put many prison education programs on pause due to visitation limitations and lack of internet access. However, through a longstanding partnership between Widener University and Chester State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania (SCI-Chester)—an all-male correctional facility—remote learning was modified to meet the needs of students behind bars.

April 26, 2021

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A Commitment to Newsroom Diversity? MSNBC and ABC Appoint Black Women to Lead

The recent appointment of two Black women—Rashida Jones and Kimberly Godwin—to run major U.S. media companies, is a firm step in the right direction, according to media observers who have long been pushing for increased diversity in newsrooms across the nation.

April 26, 2021

Hampton University Mobile Health Unit Brings Vaccines to Communities

Hampton University requires all of its faculty and staff to be vaccinated by May 31. Employees won’t have to look far to meet that requirement, thanks to some innovative thinking from the school. Read More

April 26, 2021

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U of U Health Offers Reassurance About the Safety and Necessity of COVID-19 Vaccines

In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic gained ever greater traction in the United States and across the world, 24-year-old Natasha went home to see her parents in Colorado. The University of Utah employee had worked hard to stay up-to-date on scientific understanding of the virus. Her parents were both at high-risk of […]

April 26, 2021

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Augusta University Health System Loses $20M, Plans Cost Cuts

The Augusta University Health is looking to cut costs after running a $20 million deficit in the first nine months of its budget year. The deficit stems from increased costs, coming at least in part from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

April 26, 2021

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Maternal Mortality Rates Considered Crisis in US, Especially for Black Women

Maternal mortality rates are being considered a crisis in the United States. Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for urgent action as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die while giving birth. Lisa Saul, president of the Mother and Baby Clinical Service […]

April 26, 2021

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Future Nurses, Doctors Want Pandemic Lessons to Create Better Health Care

Sang Hee Baek started nursing school at the University of Toronto last fall as the second wave of the pandemic was putting health-care staff in parts of the country through an endurance test, making her wonder if she’d made the right career choice. Nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others working with COVID-19 patients were becoming […]

April 26, 2021

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