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ProPublica: How Hospitals Fail Black Mothers

NEW YORK — When Dacheca Fleurimond decided to give birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center earlier this year, her sister tried to talk her out of it. Her sister had recently delivered at a better-rated hospital in Brooklyn’s gentrified Park Slope neighborhood and urged Fleurimond, a 33-year-old home health aide, to do the same. Read […]

January 3, 2018

New Mayor Chosen to Lead Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The city of Charlottesville, still coping with the aftermath of white nationalist rallies last year, has a new mayor. Nikuyah Walker, an independent who was one of two new council members elected in November, was chosen by her fellow councilors at a meeting Tuesday night. News outlets report Walker will be the […]

January 3, 2018

Black Student Who Helped Desegregate University Dies at 80

RALEIGH, N.C. LeRoy Frasier, who along with his brother and another high school student was among the first African-American undergraduate students to successfully challenge racial segregation at North Carolina’s flagship public university, has died at the age of 80. Family members said Tuesday that Frasier, a long-time English teacher, suffered heart failure and died Dec. […]

January 3, 2018

SHONTAY DELALUE

SHONTAY DELALUE was named vice president for institutional equity and diversity at Brown University. Delalue holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maine. She earned a Ph.D. in education through a joint program of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College.

January 3, 2018

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SILVIO EDUARDO VAZQUEZ

SILVIO EDUARDO VAZQUEZ has been appointed chief enrollment management officer at Wheaton College. Vazquez is currently dean of admissions at Westmont College. He graduated from Gordon College with a bachelor’s degree in history and earned an MBA from Boston College. He is a native of Buenos Aires and a first-generation college graduate.

January 3, 2018

ZILLAH M. FLUKER

ZILLAH M. FLUKER has been appointed vice president of institutional advancement at Miles College. Most recently, she served as the vice president of institutional advancement at Alabama State University (ASU). Originally from Zimbabwe, Fluker holds a bachelor’s degree from ASU and a master’s degree and MBA from Purdue University. She is expected to complete her Ph.D. in educational leadership, policy and law from ASU in May 2018.

January 3, 2018

RHONDA SPELLS-FENTRY

RHONDA SPELLS-FENTRY has been named vice president for Enterprise Technology and chief information officer at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. Spells-Fentry earned a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Maryland University College, and an Ed.D. in community college leadership from Morgan State University.

January 3, 2018

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MELISSA GONZALEZ

MELISSA GONZALEZ has been appointed interim president of the Southeast College of Houston Community College in Texas. Gonzalez has been serving as vice chancellor and chief of staff to the chancellor of Houston Community College. She holds a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in international business and management from the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

January 3, 2018

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ALISON CURSEEN

ALISON CURSEEN will join the faculty at Boston College in the fall of 2018, holding a joint appointment in the department of English and the African and African American Diaspora Studies Program. Curseeen is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. She earned an MFA from American University and a Ph.D. from Duke University.

January 3, 2018

JASON RIVERA

JASON RIVERA has been named vice chancellor for student academic success at Rutgers University–Camden. Previously, Rivera served as dean of the sophomore class and director of the Intercultural Center, both at Swarthmore College. He earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his master’s degree at CUNY’s College of Staten Island and his bachelor’s degree at Manhattanville College.

January 3, 2018

RON CARTER

RON CARTER has been named the Felton J. Capel Professor of Performing and Fine Arts at Fayetteville State University, a historically Black university in North Carolina. He was director of jazz studies and director of the Jazz Ensemble at Northern Illinois University. Carter holds a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

January 3, 2018

KIM FINCH-KAREEM

KIM FINCH-KAREEM has been appointed chair of the Department of Social Sciences and director of Global Education at Florida Memorial University. She was previously a visiting associate professor at Florida A&M University. Finch-Kareem has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida State University in social work and a Ph.D. in educational leadership from Florida A&M University.

January 3, 2018

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Report Details Evidence of Sexual Harassment, Inappropriate Behavior at APSA Annual Meetings

A new study by the American Political Science Association found that a “sizable” minority of women have experienced harassment or other inappropriate behavior at the annual meeting of the APSA.

January 3, 2018

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A Cheerleader for Art Education

When Samuel — or Sammy — Hoi, president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), was awarded the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship with a cohort of poets, musicians and multimedia artists, he realized something about his work.

January 3, 2018

Celebrating the Life of Dr. Joseph L. White

As a high school student in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, it may have been hard for Dr. Joseph L. White to see that seeking to wear the white coat of a waiter would quickly fade as a goal. By the time Dr. White died late last year at age 84, he had achieved not only what it took to be a waiter, but much, much more. In fact, according to a brief biography, White spent his adulthood blazing trails and challenging modern thinkers.

January 2, 2018

Memory and Racism

In refusing to let America forget her asthmatic father’s death at the hands of a New York cop using an illegal chokehold, Erica Garner seized the narrative that writes history. Dead at 27 after a heart attack, her persistence and zeal apparently has taken its toll.

January 2, 2018

University Employee Accused of Defrauding Florida School

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A 27-year-old Florida Atlantic University employee is accused of pretending to be a student and receiving about $24,000 worth of fraudulent checks. The Palm Beach Post reports that Denise Elizabeth Keaton registered to take classes five times in June 2014 as Elizabeth Denise Keaton and paid with about $54,000 in fraudulent […]

January 2, 2018

Most Big Public Colleges Don’t Track Suicides, AP Finds

Most of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. Tabulating student suicides comes with its own set of challenges and problems. But without that data, prevention advocates say, schools have no way to measure their […]

January 2, 2018