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Education Department Streamlines Borrower Defense

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will offer full student loan debt relief to students defrauded by unscrupulous colleges under the borrower defense to repayment law. In doing so, the department is rejecting the current partial relief model, announced in December 2019, which assessed how much relief would go to borrowers […]

March 18, 2021

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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Cherish Taylor

For Cherish Taylor, having the opportunity to spend her 11th and 12th grade summers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology exploring engineering and science opened new horizons and provided a foundation for her future research.

March 18, 2021

Oregon State University President F. King Alexander Put on Probation Amid Report Citing Title IX Mishandling

The Oregon State University Board of Trustees has put President Dr. F. King Alexander on probation through June 1, 2021, and will conduct an evaluation designed “to help inform his success,” according to a statement from board chair Rani Borkar. This follows a report – known as the Husch Blackwell report – that Louisiana State […]

March 18, 2021

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Earlham College Opens Courses to Alumni and Public

Earlham College is offering nine of its online courses to alumni and the general public this summer as part of its new Online@Earlham initiative. Current students, Earlham alumni and the general public can now register through May 12 or until classes fill up. Registrants must hold a high school diploma, must meet Earlham’s admissions requirements and […]

March 18, 2021

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Mills College to Close as College, Become Institute for Women’s Leadership

Mills College will become an institute for women’s leadership, closing as a college, SF Gate reported. This comes after the college faced financial issues for years, enrollment declines and the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our goal is to deliver an exceptional academic and co-curricular experience to our students for at least the next two academic years, with […]

March 18, 2021

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Milton H. Jones Jr. Elected First African American Chair of UNCF Board of Directors

Business and civic leader Milton H. Jones Jr. has been elected chair of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Board of Directors, making him the first African American to serve in the role, The Hill reported. Jones was previously vice chairman of the board and chairman of the finance committee for UNCF, an advocacy organization […]

March 18, 2021

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MSNBC President and Hampton University Alumna Rashida Jones to be 150th Commencement Speaker

MSNBC President and Hampton University alumna Rashida Jones will be the school’s 150th commencement speaker, WAVY reported. The commencement – held virtually – will be at 10 a.m. on May 19, 2021. Jones graduated from the historically Black college and university (HBCU) with a degree in Mass Media Arts in 2002 and was inducted into […]

March 18, 2021

Two New Presidents Named for Minnesota Colleges

Dr. Edward Inch has been named president of Minnesota State University, Mankato and Dr. Deidra Peaslee has been named president of St. Paul College, Yahoo News reported. Since 2016, Inch has been provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University, East Bay. He starts July 1. Since July 2019, Peaslee has been […]

March 18, 2021

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SAMUEL HAYES III

SAMUEL HAYES III has been appointed chief facilities officer at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Hayes has served in the position on an interim basis since July 2020. Hayes holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Old Dominion University and a master’s degree in public administration and public policy from Virginia Tech.

March 18, 2021

KHIM KELLY

KHIM KELLY has been appointed the KPMG Professor of Accounting in the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting in the College of Business of the University of Central Florida. A faculty member at the school since 2016, Kelly previously taught at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

March 18, 2021

RAVI BELLAMKONDA

RAVI BELLAMKONDA has been appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University. Most recently dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, Bellamkonda was previously a faculty member at Emory. An acclaimed biomedical scientist, he holds a Ph.D. in medical science from Brown University.

March 18, 2021

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Best Practices in Minority Faculty Recruitment and Retention

Recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty has been a long-standing challenge for many higher education institutions. How do we assess hiring policies and practices? How important is implicit bias training? What can we do to prevent toxic work environments? With COVID-19 making the climate much more difficult to navigate, we are now faced with an […]

March 18, 2021

UNCF Convenes Mayors to Discuss Economic, COVID-19, and Racial Justice Issues

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing focus on racial justice, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the NFL Foundation’s Inspire Change Initiative hosted a mayors panel on social justice and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

March 17, 2021

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Dr. Cynthia T. Anthony Will Be Lawson State Community College’s First Female President

Dr. Cynthia T. Anthony is as much a veteran in the Alabama Community College System as anyone could be, having spent more than 30 years in various roles. And now, she’s gone from interim president to president of Lawson State Community College, the school where she first started her career.

March 17, 2021

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Bethune-Cookman University President Resigns to Become President of Bentley University

Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite will become the ninth president of Bentley University, a private Massachusetts college known for its business program. Chrite was most recently president of Bethune-Cookman University, a predominantly Black college in Florida before he resigned Tuesday morning, Spectrum News 13 reported. According to Bethune-Cookman, Chrite announced his resignation to his cabinet and […]

March 17, 2021

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Columbia University to Offer Six Additional Graduation Ceremonies for Different Races, Ethnicities and Others

Columbia University will offer six additional graduation ceremonies based on race, ethnicity and other self-identifying factors of undergrad students, USA Today reported. The new options are Native, Asian, Latino and Black, Lavender (for LGBTQ+ students) and first-generation and low-income. These events – open to all students – are in addition to the university-wide commencement ceremony. […]

March 17, 2021

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Mass Vaccine Center to Open at Virginia State University’s Ettrick Campus

A new mass vaccine center opened at Virginia State University on Wednesday, NBC 12 reported. The center will be available for residents in Chesterfield, Colonial Heights and the Crater Health District, which serves areas such as Petersburg, Hopewell and Emporia. The center will only be available for people pre-registered for the COVID-19 vaccine and with […]

March 17, 2021

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Philander Smith College Receives $25,000 Gift to Honor Civil Rights Lawyer Scipio A. Jones

Philander Smith College, a historically Black college in Arkansas, has received a $25,000 gift from Rush and Linda Harding to honor civil rights lawyer Scipio A. Jones who attended the school in 1883. Later this year, a commissioned portrait of Jones will be put on display in the downtown Little Rock post office, the Scipio […]

March 17, 2021

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