Emory Professor Wins Three Book Awards
Lawrence P. Jackson is honored for his book The Indignant Generation.
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A Black Scholar Awarded the National Humanities Medal
Kwame Anthony Appiah was awarded the medal by President Obama at a White House ceremony.
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Two African American Women Receive Honorary Degrees from the University of Alicante in Spain
Professors Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford and Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin are among the first three recipients of honorary degrees in education from the University of Alicante.
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Three African American Men Honored With Prestigious Awards
Keith W. McIntosh of Pima County Community College, Cedric Gathings of Mississippi State, and Roland Smith of Rice University, are the honorees.
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Notable Appointments of African Americans in Higher Education
Here is news of appointments of seven African Americans to new posts.
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Two New Appointments at Kentucky State University
Teferi D. Tsegaye and Alan D. Benson assume new roles at the College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems.
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New Duties for Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Princeton University professor will chair the board of scholars at the nonprofit organization, Facing History and Ourselves.
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Daniel Aldridge Promoted to Full Professor at Davidson College
A former public defender, he returned to school to obtain a Ph.D. in history at Emory University.
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Marilyn Nelson to Receive the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America
She taught in the English department at the University of Connecticut from 1978 to 2002 and is the former poet laureate of Connecticut.
Two Howard University Students Awarded Luard Scholarships
They will spend their junior year abroad studying in the United Kingdom.
Honors for African Americans in Higher Education
Here are some notable awards and honors for African American scholars.
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Vanderbilt University Professor Wins Outstanding Book Award
H. Richard Milner IV is being honored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
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Six African Americans Named to New Posts
Margareth Larose-Pierre, January Gill O’Neil, Akua Matherson, Percy Caldwell, Odessa Hines, and D. Jason DeSousa are assuming new duties.
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Kansas State Scholar Named Chief of African Village
Myra Gordon is associate provost for diversity at Kansas State and now a chief of the Nigerian village of Alayi.
M. Roy Wilson Named to a Key Post at the National Institutes of Health
He has served in a number of leadership posts in higher education, most recently as chair of the board of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
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Brad Braxton Named to Endowed Chair at SMU
A former Rhodes Scholar, he has held teaching positions at Vanderbilt University and Wake Forest University.
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Honors for Four African American College Officials
Brandon Brown, Zina McGee, Roderick McDavis, and Rosie Phillips Bingham win prestigious awards.
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Sonia Sanchez Named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia
She is professor emerita of English at Temple University.
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Toi Derricotte Named to the Board of the Academy of American Poets
The University of Pittsburgh professor has published more than 1,000 poems.
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Fayetteville State University Administrator to Head HBCU Organization
Emily M. Dickens has been elected chair of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Community Development Action Coalition.
Two Black Scholars Named to Endowed Chairs
Fred Bonner at Rutgers and Joseph Ofori-Dankwa at Saginaw Valley State are appointed to named chairs.
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Shirley Ann Jackson to Be Honored by the AAAS
The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be given an award at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Prestigious Awards for Three Black Scholars
Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, Gloria Boutte, and Sulayman Nyang are honored by their universities.
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Jabbar Bennett Assumes Additional Duties at Brown University
He was named associate dean for diversity in the division of biology and medicine and director of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at the Warren Alpert Medical School.
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New University Positions for a Half Dozen African Americans
Here is news of six African Americans who are assuming new duties in higher education.
