Eight African American College Students Selected as Rhodes Scholars
This year, eight African Americans were chosen as Rhodes Scholars. In both 2017 and 2020, there were 10 African American Rhodes Scholars, the most in any one year.
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Breaking News
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Marlon Hall Appointed to Lead Fresno City College in California
Before being named interim president at Fresno City College, Dr. Hall spent seven and a half years as superintendent/president at Lassen Community College, in Susanville, California. He retired from that post in December 2019.Jan 17, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Anthony Ponder Selected to Be the Next Provost at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
Dr. Ponder has been serving as dean of the Science, Mathematics & Engineering Division at the college. He first started working at the college in 1991 as an instructor in the mathematics department. He earned tenure in 1996 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2005.Jan 17, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Alena Allen Is the New Leader of the University of Arkansas School of Law
Alena Allen, associate dean for research and faculty development and professor of law, has been named interim dean of the law school. Before joining the Arkansas faculty in 2021, she taught for 10 years at at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.Jan 17, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Research & Studies
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The Persisting Racial Gap in Homeownership and Mortgage Approval Rates
A new report from Zillow, the online real estate broker, finds that Black applicants are denied a mortgage at a rate 84 percent higher than White applicants, an increase of 10 percentage points since 2019. Black homeownership is at 44 percent, far below the peak of 49.7 percent set in 2004.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Teacher Workforce Is Becoming More Diverse But Is Not Keeping Up With Student Diversity
At the high school level, 52 percent of the students were White but 78.2 percent of all teachers were White. Blacks were 14.3 percent of all high school students but Blacks were just 7.8 percent of all high school teachers.Jan 17, 2022 | 2 comments | View Post
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Study Finds Black Students Are Underrepresented in Dual Enrollment Programs
Dual enrollment is an opportunity that allows high school students to take college courses for credit and can reduce the time and money needed to obtain a degree. But a study by The Education Trust-West finds that Black students are unlikely to be taking advantage of such programs.Jan 17, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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HBCU News
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Morehouse College Launches the Black Men’s Research Institute
The institute, in partnership with Morehouse’s Africana studies and history department, will serve as a launchpad for the exploration of the first Black masculinities studies minor at a historically Black college or university, along with an online certificate program. The institute also plans to launch an annual symposium.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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North Carolina Central University Launches a New Health Communications Program
The new program will focus on four key areas: improving health literacy, identifying and testing innovative approaches to improve communication, supporting research on health communications, and creating opportunities for students to share their passion for health equity and to have an impact on their communities. -
Prairie View A&M University Partners With Shell for a Soil Research Project
The PVAMU-Shell Nature-Based Solutions Research Program is aimed at effective carbon dioxide utilization and carbon capture by employing innovative renewable energy and environmental sustainability methods.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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People
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Two Scholars on Reparations Share an American Book Festival Prize
William A. Darity Jr. of Duke Univerity and A. Kirsten Mullen have won the 2021 American Book Festival Best Book Award in the Social Change category for their book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Three African American Male Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities
Howard Rambsy II was named a Distinguished Research Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Alfred L. Parks was named a Regents Professor at Prairie View A&M University in Texas and Selwyn Vickers, dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham medical school, has been given the added duties of CEO of the UAB Health System.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Fayetteville State University Chancellor Honored for Supporting Military Veteran Students
Darrell T. Allison, chancellor of Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, was named the William Pearson Tolley Champion for Veterans in Higher education award winner by Student Veterans of America.Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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Six African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to University Administrative Positions (1.21.2022)
Taking on new administrative duties are Toya Corbett at the University of Virginia, Josiah J. Sampson, III at Jackson State University in Mississippi, Manica J. Finch at South Carolina State University, Pierre D. Joanis at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Akirah J. Bradley-Armstrong at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ava Willis-Barksdale at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
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In Memoriam: Gwendolyn Gordon, 1980-2021 (1.21.2022)
Dr. Gordon was an assistant professor in the department of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a secondary appointment in the School of Arts and Sciences’ department of anthropology. She held degrees from three different Ivy League universities.
Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars (1.20.2022)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view.
Jan 20, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (1.20.2022)
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Jan 20, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans (1.19.2022)
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
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California Higher Education Gets A Budget Increase in Exchange for Agreement on Equity Goals (1.18.2022)
The governor and the state’s systems of higher education have developed multi-year compacts and a roadmap that will provide sustained state investments in exchange for clear commitments from each segment to expand student access, equity, and affordability.
Jan 18, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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National Endowment for the Humanities Funds Research Projects at HBCUs (1.18.2022)
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $24.7 million in grants for 208 humanities projects across the country. Several of these grants were awarded to faculty at historically Black colleges and universities.
Jan 18, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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How School Choice Contributes to Persistent Racial Segregation (1.17.2022)
A new study by Chantal Hailey, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, finds that White, Asian and Latino parents in New York City all express strong racial/ethnic preferences in where to send their kids to high school.
Jan 17, 2022 | 2 comments | View Post
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Four African American Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions (1.14.2022)
Taking on new assignments are Royel M. Johnson in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, Teresa L. Smallwood at the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia, Charles DeSassure at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, and Airea D. Matthews of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Jan 14, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Gene Wade to Lead the Propel Center, a Hub for HBCU Innovation and Learning (1.14.2022)
Gene Wade most recently served as founder and CEO of Honors Pathway in Oakland, California, a social venture that enables low-income students to attend their first year of college at no cost while receiving over 500 hours of in-person coaching and mentoring.
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Three African Americans Who Are Taking on New University Administrative Duties (1.14.2022)
Erick Harper is the new director of athletics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Demetrius D. Smith will be associate vice president for student affairs at the University of Georgia and Joanne L. Smiklewill will manage the Professional Leadership Program for Women at Towson University in Maryland.
Jan 14, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Spelman College Announces a New Initiative to Prepare Students for the Workplace (1.14.2022)
The partnership with the nonprofit organization Braven will offer all Spelman sophomores a two-part career-accelerating experience. Students will take online courses on the Braven platform and then have access to mentorships in their chosen field.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw Receives the Top Honor From the Association of American Law Schools (1.14.2022)
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is the Promise Institute Professor of Human Rights at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. She was honored by the Association of American Law Schools for her work on critical race theory and intersectionality.”
Jan 14, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Three HBCU Medical Schools Participate in Effort to Boost Diversity in Artificial Intelligence Research (1.14.2022)
Historically Black Meharry Medical College, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Howard University have joined the Coordinating Center for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program.
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Four African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to University Diversity Positions (1.14.2022)
Taking on new roles as diversity officers are Cindy Crusto at the Yale School of Medicine, Melvin Beavers at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, Krishauna Hines-Gaither at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, and Sharon Perry-Fantini at Iowa State University.
Jan 14, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Penn State Dickinson Law School Is Establishing an Antiracist Development Institute (1.14.2022)
The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law School in Carlisle is creating an Antiracist Development Institute, a program offering organizations across the country systems design-based approaches to implementing antiracist practices, processes, and policies.
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (1.13.2022)
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Jan 13, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars (1.13.2022)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view.
Jan 13, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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New Cornell University Fellowship for Students From Francophone Africa (1.12.2022)
Awards are for one year of study in the Cornell Law School LLM program or the Global Development program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The fellow receives a $20,000 stipend and a college tuition waiver. David Arnaud Ngam à Kibeng from Cameroon is the inaugural fellow.
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans (1.12.2022)
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
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Yale University Acquires a Collection of Gordon Parks’ Photographs (1.11.2022)
Gordon Parks was a true renaissance man. In addition to a long career as a photographer, he was a composer, musician, author, and filmmaker.
Jan 11, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Racial Differences in the Age of Doctoral Degree Recipients in the United States (1.10.2022)
On average, Whites who earned doctorates in 2020 were 31.6 years old when they received their doctoral degrees. For African Americans, the average age was 36.6. On average, Whites took 8.8 years to earn their degree from the time they graduated from college, compared to 12.1 years for African Americans.
Jan 10, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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The New Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (1.10.2022)
Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University this month, Matthew Johnson-Roberson was an associate professor of engineering in the department of naval architecture and marine engineering and the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
Jan 10, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Black or African American? Labels Can Impact People’s Perceptions of Ideology (1.10.2022)
A new study led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of Southern California, and Columbia Business School shows that White Americans associate the label “Blacks” with being targets of racial bias more than the label “African Americans.”
Jan 10, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
