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HBCUs
The Road to HBCU Self-Sustainability
Having been in the trenches of HBCUs for most of my life as a student, administrator and instructor, I know first-hand the difficulties our institutions face.  I believe, however, that HBCUs have the capacity to turn around their fortunes.
October 23, 2019
Students
Dr. James L. Moore III to Receive APLU Distinguished Service Award
Dr. James L. Moore III, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at The Ohio State University (OSU), was named the recipient of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ (APLU) 2019 Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence Distinguished Service Award. Moore also serves as the  EHE Distinguished Professor of Urban Education […]
October 23, 2019
News Roundup
Professor Shares Survey With Racist Slurs at Michigan State
Michigan State University Professor Saleem Alhabash released a survey with racist slurs, causing controversy last week, The Lansing State Journal reported. The survey was intended to assess how students react to racism online. The associate professor of public relations and social media asked students to rate statements taken from social media based on how offensive, […]
October 23, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Report: HBCU Enrollment Increase is a Result of Current Political Climate
New research found that an increase in applications and enrollment at one-third of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) over the past three years directly correlates to the current social and political climate created under President Donald J. Trump’s presidency.
October 22, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Diversifying the Academy the Right Way
NYU Steinhardt’s Faculty First-Look Program is a program that brings together graduate students from across the nation to learn from faculty, post-docs, and administrators at NYU about how to secure a tenure-track position and set yourself up for success once you begin your career as a professor. From the moment I received notification of acceptance, I felt welcomed and wanted.
October 22, 2019
News Roundup
Florida Tech to Build New Health Sciences Research Center
An $18 million Health Sciences Research Center will be built on Florida Institute of Technology’s (Florida Tech) campus in order to help fill the number of high demand jobs within the biomedical and premedical science fields. The facility will double the size of the undergraduate biomedical engineering program, increase the undergraduate premedical program, provide over […]
October 22, 2019
Students
Princeton Theological Seminary to Finance Reparations
After a historical audit analyzed the Princeton Theological Seminary’s role in American slavery back in 2016, the institution has agreed to pay reparations. This decision comes after student activists started a public petition that received over 650 signatures and urged the trustees to take action. Virginia Theological Seminary is the only other theological institution to […]
October 22, 2019
Students
TMCF Raised $5.8M for HBCU Student Scholarships and Programs
Over $5.8 million was raised at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) Anniversary Awards Gala over the weekend. Terrence Jenkins, an TMCF National Ambassador and actor, hosted the gala and launched the new fundraising initiative, the Forever Fund. Additionally, Ally Financial Inc. presented Dr. Harry L. Williams, TMCF president and CEO, with a $1.5 million […]
October 22, 2019
Latest News
Santos Named University of Illinois Information Sciences Dean
The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign welcomed Dr. Eunice Santos as its new dean this fall. An award-winning scholar, Santos’s honors include the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development award and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Computer Society Technical Achievement award.
October 22, 2019
Other News
PA’s Largest Community College Eliminates Campus Mental-Health Counseling for 17,000 Students
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s largest community college system has eliminated all on-campus mental-health counseling for its students, Spotlight PA has learned, a move that college health experts called short-sighted and risky at a time of growing need. The Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) told counselors across its five campuses to stop individual and group counseling as […]
October 21, 2019
Other News
Western Kentucky University Going Tobacco-Free Next Year
Western Kentucky University says it will begin the new year tobacco- and smoke-free. The school is banning tobacco and vaping products beginning Jan. 1 on all properties owned, operated, leased, occupied or controlled by Western. Public health Professor Cecilia Watkins said in a news release that the university works to provide a healthy environment for […]
October 21, 2019
Other News
WSU Sleep Medicine Expert Secures $3.5 Million NIH Grant to Study Improved Sleep Assistance Methods
Sleep-disordered breathing, or SDB, is a common disorder, afflicting at least 25 million adults in the United States. Similarly, more than one-third of adult Americans do not get sufficient sleep. Both conditions contribute to adverse health consequences, including daytime sleepiness and hypertension. Unfortunately, improving outcomes for patients with SDB remains an elusive goal despite the […]
October 21, 2019
News Roundup
Board of Trustees Appoints New Paine College President
Dr. Cheryl Evans Jones has been appointed president of Paine College. Jones previously served as provost and vice president of academic affairs of the historically Black Methodist liberal arts college in Augusta, Georgia. In July, she became the active president after Dr. Jerry L. Hardee retired. Jones is credited with helping the university’s accreditation initiatives. […]
October 21, 2019
Other News
Students Are Taking Stimulants to Help Them Study, But There’s No Evidence They Help
Along with a steeper financial burden and an increasingly competitive academic environment, this year’s incoming freshman university class will likely be confronted with the pressure to take a little pill that some popular culture references say will make you “awesome at everything.” Or they may eschew the temptation and rely on the standard practice of […]
October 21, 2019
Students
The Unintentional Foray into the Transformative Experience of Morgan State University
In October of 2018, my colleague, Dr. Janelle L. Williams and I were engaged in collecting data on Black students who were possibly influenced to apply and attend historically Black colleges and universities due to the current social and political climate triggered by the election of the 45th president of the United States.
October 21, 2019
Other News
University of Iowa Using $10 Million State Grant to Address Maternal Healthcare Crisis
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG)- Last month, UnityPoint Health – Marshalltown announced its obstetrics and women’s health clinic would be shutting its doors. It’s the latest in a change of closures. “We’ve had 34 hospitals since 2000 close their labor and delivery units,” said Stephen Hunter, University of Iowa Professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Vice-Chair […]
October 21, 2019
Other News
Lehigh University Physician Resigns After Health Center Investigation
Lehigh University said it has accepted the resignation of a former health center interim director, who was suspended amid sexual misconduct allegations after an investigation found a workplace inconsistent with university values and professional expectations. The announcement of Dr. Thomas Novak’s resignation was made in an email to students and staff Friday afternoon. It came […]
October 21, 2019
Native Americans
You Know Cesar Chavez—How About Larry Itliong?
I call Larry Itliong a classic H.O.,  as in “historical omission.”If you talk about the farm labor movement in California and don’t mention Itliong, you have a hole in your soul.
October 21, 2019
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