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  • Ten African Americans Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Ten African Americans Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Through an analysis of the list of new fellows conducted by JBHE, it appears that 10 of the 220 new members are Black. Thus, African Americans make up 4.5 percent of the new members.

  • A New Class of African American Truman Scholars

    A New Class of African American Truman Scholars

    The Truman Foundation does not release data on the race or ethnicity of scholarship winners. But it appears that there are at least eight African Americans among the 54 new scholars this year.

  • Five Black Authors Among the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards

    Five Black Authors Among the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards

    But none of the five Black writers were selected as winners at the March 8 ceremony in New York City.

  • Tracking Graduation Rates at HBCUs

    Tracking Graduation Rates at HBCUs

    The student graduation rate at almost all historically Black colleges and universities is below 50 percent. And the trend is not encouraging.

  • Against All Odds: A Story of Tenacity, Hard Work, and Higher Education

    Against All Odds: A Story of Tenacity, Hard Work, and Higher Education

    Four teenage friends all became pregnant in high school. But they vowed that by supporting each other and through dedication to hard work and education, they would succeed. Soon they will all hold MBA degrees.

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  • The Next President of Alabama State University

    The Next President of Alabama State University

    Joseph H. Silver Sr. has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark Atlanta University. [...]

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  • Allegations of Academic Fraud Leveled at the Black Studies Program at Chapel Hill

    Allegations of Academic Fraud Leveled at the Black Studies Program at Chapel Hill

    Many of the allegations involve former department chairman Julius Nyang’oro, who is retiring from the university as of July 1. [...]

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  • Livingston Alexander Given Authority Over a Second Campus of the University of Pittsburgh

    Livingston Alexander Given Authority Over a Second Campus of the University of Pittsburgh

    President of the Bradford campus since 2003, he will now do double duty as president of the Titusville campus. [...]

    May 11, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Penn Study Finds Racial Disparities in Assistance for Heart Attack Victims

    Penn Study Finds Racial Disparities in Assistance for Heart Attack Victims

    African Americans who have heart attacks are less likely to receive CPR from bystanders than Whites who have heart attacks. [...]

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  • UMass Study Examines How Infants Perceive People Who Look Different

    UMass Study Examines How Infants Perceive People Who Look Different

    The study showed that infants are better at recognizing facial and emotional expressions of people within groups they interact with the most. [...]

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  • University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Adherence to HIV Drug Therapy

    University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Adherence to HIV Drug Therapy

    The study of patients receiving antiretroviral drug therapy found that only 30 percent of African American patients maintained the optimal adherence to their prescribed schedule. [...]

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  • Remembering the Tragic Shooting at Jackson State

    Remembering the Tragic Shooting at Jackson State

    The tragedy at Kent State is embedded in America's collective memory but another shooting incident 11 days later at historically Black Jackson State University in Mississippi has not received the same level of attention from historians. A new documentary video [...]

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  • Fort Valley State University to Open a New Women’s Center

    Fort Valley State University to Open a New Women’s Center

    The center will offer workshops on domestic violence, women's health and wellness, entrepreneurship, and professional development. [...]

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  • Howard University to Offer Two New Degree Programs in Education

    Howard University to Offer Two New Degree Programs in Education

    There will be a new bachelor's degree program in elementary education and a dual master's degree program in school psychology and counseling services. [...]

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  • Pamela Anthony Named Dean of Students at Iowa State University

    Pamela Anthony Named Dean of Students at Iowa State University

    Since 2003, she has been assistant dean of students at Georgia State University. [...]

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  • Jose Cossa Receives the 2012 Joyce Cain Award

    Jose Cossa Receives the 2012 Joyce Cain Award

    The Comparative and International Education Society was honored for his research on education in southern Africa. [...]

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  • Some Notable Appointments of African Americans to Higher Education Posts

    Some Notable Appointments of African Americans to Higher Education Posts

    Joyce Jenkins, Sharon Butler, Tryan McMickens, Bill Hawkins, and Getchel Caldwell II are assuming new roles in higher education. [...]

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  • Historically Black Bethune-Cookman University Wins Golf Tournament With Team of White Women

    Historically Black Bethune-Cookman University Wins Golf Tournament With Team of White Women (5.20.2012)

    Bethune-Cookman has and enrollment that is 94.3 percent Black. But not one member of the university’s women’s golf team is an African American.

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  • UCLA Surgery Professor Files a Race Discrimination Lawsuit

    UCLA Surgery Professor Files a Race Discrimination Lawsuit (5.19.2012)

    According to his lawsuit, Dr. Christian Head was depicted as a gorilla being sodomized by his White superior in a slide shown at a presentation to the medical center staff.

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  • Only 40 Percent of Black University Graduates in Britain Find Work Within Six Months

    Only 40 Percent of Black University Graduates in Britain Find Work Within Six Months (5.18.2012)

    Black graduates are 30 percent less likely to find full-time employment as White university graduates.

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  • Voorhees College Honors Its Founder

    Voorhees College Honors Its Founder (5.18.2012)

    Elizabeth Evelyn Wright Menafee was a graduate of Tuskegee University and after moving to South Carolina wanted to start a school modeled after her alma mater.

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  • Johns Hopkins Exhibit Examines the University’s Black History

    Johns Hopkins Exhibit Examines the University’s Black History (5.18.2012)

    The exhibit, entitled “The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins,” pays tribute to 50 individuals “whose professional and personal achievements have brought honor to the institution.”

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  • University of Illinois at Chicago Funds 17 Research Projects on Racial Inequality

    University of Illinois at Chicago Funds 17 Research Projects on Racial Inequality (5.18.2012)

    The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy is funding 17, year-long research projects that will study racial and ethnic inequalities in health, justice, economics, and education.

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  • Two Africans at Cornell University Develop Garments to Fight Malaria

    Two Africans at Cornell University Develop Garments to Fight Malaria (5.17.2012)

    The garments use fabric that is embedded at the molecular level with insecticides to ward off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease that kills some 655,000 people annually in Africa.

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  • University of Iowa Is a Powerhouse In Producing Minority Ph.D.s in Mathematics

    University of Iowa Is a Powerhouse In Producing Minority Ph.D.s in Mathematics (5.17.2012)

    Over the past decade, the mathematics department at the university of Iowa has awarded doctorates to 25 minority students. This is about 8 percent of all doctorates in mathematics awarded to minorities nationwide during the period.

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  • George Hill Named Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University

    George Hill Named Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University (5.17.2012)

    Professor Hill joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2002. He previously taught at Meharry Medical College in Nashville for 19 years.

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  • University Historians Assembling Archive of Runaway Slave Advertisements

    University Historians Assembling Archive of Runaway Slave Advertisements (5.17.2012)

    Two scholars at the University of Southern Mississippi are starting with ads from Mississippi newspapers but hope to expand the archive to other states, the Caribbean, and Brazil.

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  • Honors for Three African American Scholars

    Honors for Three African American Scholars (5.17.2012)

    Mina Jones Jefferson, William H. Harris, and Sandra C. Brown are the honorees.

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  • Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

    Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (5.16.2012)

    From time to time, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.

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  • Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans

    Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans (5.16.2012)

    Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

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  • Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

    Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars (5.16.2012)

    The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

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  • Bishop Urges Episcopalians to Support Saint Paul’s College in Time of Need

    Bishop Urges Episcopalians to Support Saint Paul’s College in Time of Need (5.11.2012)

    The historically Black college has been on accreditation probation for two years and needs to shore up its financial situation.

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  • Vanderbilt Debuts Digital Archive of 1964 Taped Interviews of Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

    Vanderbilt Debuts Digital Archive of 1964 Taped Interviews of Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (5.11.2012)

    The interviews were conducted by Robert Penn Warren for his book Who Speaks for the Negro?

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  • Racial Incident at Cornell University

    Racial Incident at Cornell University (5.11.2012)

    According to police reports, Black students were taunted and were the targets of bottles thrown from the roof of a fraternity house.

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  • Tuskegee University Enters Partnership With the Environmental Protection Agency

    Tuskegee University Enters Partnership With the Environmental Protection Agency (5.11.2012)

    Students and faculty will have the opportunity to work with the agency on projects that deal with climate change, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, urban sprawl, and water reclamation.

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  • Alcorn State University to Offer a Summer Enrichment Program for K-12 Students

    Alcorn State University to Offer a Summer Enrichment Program for K-12 Students (5.11.2012)

    The university is partnering with the Children’s Defense Fund to operate a six-week Freedom School for K-12 students who live near the university’s campus.

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  • The New Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University

    The New Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University (5.11.2012)

    Gerald Aching has been a professor of Romance studies at Cornell since 2009. Previously, he taught at New York University.

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