Category: Professional Schools

Howard’s Online Executive MBA Program Is Up and Running

Howard’s Online Executive MBA Program Is Up and Running

The program is designed for students to complete course work in about 18 months while continuing to work full-time.

Feb 02, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
The New Dean of the Florida A&M University and Florida State University College of Engineering

The New Dean of the Florida A&M University and Florida State University College of Engineering

Yaw D. Yeboah is currently a professor of engineering at Penn State. From 1975 to 1979, he earned four degrees in four years at MIT.

Feb 02, 2012 | 1 comment View Post
John Feikens, Damon J. Keith, and Ralph Freeman at the Judge Keith's 1967 swearing in ceremony

African American Legal History Archive at Wayne State University Receives Papers of Federal Judge

John Feikens was co-chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and served on the federal bench for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Jan 28, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
A Unique Opportunity for HBCU Business Students

A Unique Opportunity for HBCU Business Students

HBCU students will spend two weeks in two consecutive summers at a business school in California.

Jan 27, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
Shenandoah University Selects a New Dean of Its Business School

Shenandoah University Selects a New Dean of Its Business School

Miles K. Davis is an associate professor of management at the university and the founding director of the business school’s Institute for Entrepreneurship.

Jan 19, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
Two Black Women Are Among the Five Finalists for Dean of the Law School at the University of Missouri

Two Black Women Are Among the Five Finalists for Dean of the Law School at the University of Missouri

Marcella David and Beverly Moran will visit the Columbia, Missouri, campus next month for interviews and public forums.

Jan 19, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
A Check-Up of Black Progress in U.S. Medical Schools

A Check-Up of Black Progress in U.S. Medical Schools

Applications and first-year enrollments of blacks are both up from a year ago.

Nov 10, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
The Racial Gap in Dental School Faculty Is Hard to Swallow

The Racial Gap in Dental School Faculty Is Hard to Swallow

In the entire country in 2007-08 academic year, there were only 42 tenured African-American faculty members in U.S. dental schools.

Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
African Development Bank Program Aims to Increase the Number of Rwandan Women in the Sciences

African Development Bank Program Aims to Increase the Number of Rwandan Women in the Sciences

Girls make up nearly half of the total enrollments at the high school level. But only 14 percent of the students in higher education in Rwanda are women.

Sep 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Duke University School of Nursing Looks to Increase Diversity

Duke University School of Nursing Looks to Increase Diversity

This summer 10 undergraduate students participated in a six-week program at Duke University designed to increase the number of minorities in nursing.

Aug 25, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Historically Black Dillard University and Texas Chiropractic College Form an Educational Alliance

Historically Black Dillard University and Texas Chiropractic College Form an Educational Alliance

Under the agreement, students will study for three years at Dillard University. Those that have performed up to academic standards will then transfer to Texas Chiropractic College for three additional years of study.

Aug 22, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
Meharry Professor to Lead the National Medical Association

Meharry Professor to Lead the National Medical Association

Rahn Kennedy Bailey was named president-elect of the National Medical Association, an organization representing 30,000 African-American physicians nationwide.

Aug 12, 2011 | 0 comments View Post