How Black Colleges Must Prepare Now for the Coming Enrollment Bust
Professor Terrell L. Strayhorn looks at how the projected significant drop in college enrollments will impact the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.
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Breaking News
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Maryland Legislature Looks to End the 14-Year Litigation Filed by the State’s HBCUs
The bill provides $577 million over 10 years to the four universities. The provisions of the legislation will be enacted on December 1, if the lawsuit is not settled by that time. -
Lance Collins Will Be the Inaugural Director of Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus
Since 2010, Dr. Collins has served as the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He was a key member of the leadership team that successfully bid to partner with New York City to build Cornell Tech, which opened its Roosevelt Island campus in 2017.Mar 23, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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April White Pugh Appointed Provost at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina
Dr. Pugh has been serving as interim provost since June 2019 and previously served Southern Wesleyan as vice provost for academic affairs and associate vice president for academic excellence. Earlier, Dr. Pugh served as assistant dean for academic affairs at Bainbridge State College in Donalsonville, Georgia.Mar 23, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Research & Studies
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Active Learning Improves Academic Performance of Black Students in Undergraduate STEM Courses
The study found that the achievement gap between overrepresented and underrepresented students - in courses where active learning techniques were used - narrowed on exam scores by 33 percent and course passing rates by 45 percent.Mar 23, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Cornell University Study Finds Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceptions of Environmental Issues
The survey found that there were, in fact, demographic differences in how people viewed environmental issues, with racial and ethnic minorities and lower-income people more likely to consider human factors such as racism and poverty as environmental issues.Mar 23, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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University Study Finds Racial Bias in Selection of Patients for Cancer Clinical Trials
Examples of the stereotypes discovered in the interviews of medical school researchers included perceptions that African Americans were less knowledgeable about cancer research studies, less likely to participate out of altruism or simply less likely to complete all facets of the research study.Mar 23, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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HBCU News
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HBCUs Not Forgotten in the Giant Corona Virus Stimulus Package
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provides emergency Title III and Title V aid to HBCUs, predominantly Black institutions and other minority-serving institutions. The act also authorizes the Department of Education to loosen the restrictions on currently appropriated Title III funds.Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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North Carolina A&T State University to Offer a New Master’s Degree in Health Psychology
The degree is a two-year program designed to provide the foundational knowledge and skills for students to work in the health psychology field. The first students are expected to enroll in the program during the Fall 2021 semester.Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Prairie View A&M University Alumnae Develop My HBCU Box
Subscribers to the service receive a package each quarter that contains merchandise valued at $100 or more. The items in the box pertain to HBCU culture and to the subscriber's particular HBCU.
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People
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William Kisaalita Named a University Professor at the University of Georgia
William Kisaalita, the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has been named a University Professor at the University of Georgia. He has served as chair of biological engineering and as associate director of the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities.Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Ann Brothers Smith Honored by the American Association of University Administrators
Dr. Smith, a retired public school administrator, has served as a member of the West Virginia State University Board of Governors since 2011, serving as chair, vice chair, and chair of several board committees. She is the former associate superintendent for school leadership for the Detroit public school system.Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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A Pair of African American Women Appointed to Administrative Posts at HBCUs
Valora Richardson was named director of Hampton University Online and Sonya Audria Miller was appointed counsel at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens.Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Joseph Echols Lowery, 1921-2020 (3.28.2020)
Joseph Lowery, often referred to as the “Dean of the Civil Rights Moevment,” held a doctorate from the Chicago Ecumenical Institute. In 2002, the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice & Human Rights was founded at Clark Atlanta University.
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Hampton University Museum Hires a New Curator of Collections (3.27.2020)
Turner, a native of Newport News, Va., comes to Hampton University after recently working at the Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Mar 27, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Yale University Commits to Expand the Study of African Linguistics (3.25.2020)
During a recent trip to Africa, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale University President Peter Salovey announced that Yale will co-sponsor two upcoming meetings of the African Linguistics School, which is devoted to collaborative training and research on generative linguistics in Africa.
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans (3.25.2020)
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.
Mar 25, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Higher Education of the Surgeon General of the United States (3.24.2020)
Each day when President Trump meets with reporters to give a daily briefing on the government’s efforts to combat the COVID-19 virus, standing by his side is Jerome Adams, an African American man who serves as Surgeon General of the United States.
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Harvard University Offers Online Course on the Selma Voting Rights March (3.24.2020)
Selma Online is an interactive program that is designed for middle or high school students. The platform uses scenes from Ava DuVernay’s 2014 film Selma as a storyboard to bring the voting rights movement to life
Mar 24, 2020 | 2 comments | View Post
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (3.24.2020)
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Mar 24, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars (3.24.2020)
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.
Mar 24, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Did North Carolina A&T State University Police Use Excessive Force Against Black Student? (3.22.2020)
Verdant Julius, the sophomore class president at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, was arrested by campus police while attempting to enter his residence hall to clear out his belongings as the university transitioned to all online instruction.
Mar 22, 2020 | 2 comments | View Post
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Fatimah Jackson to Receive the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award (3.20.2020)
Fatimah Jackson is a professor of biology and the director of the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She is the first woman of African descent to receive this prestigious award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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Howard University School of Business Enhances its MBA Degree Offerings (3.20.2020)
The Howard University School of Business in Washington, D.C., has announced a partnership with Noodle Partners, the nation’s fastest-growing online program manager, to launch an online MBA degree program and invest in the growth of its online Executive MBA program.
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Three Black Women Named Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards (3.20.2020)
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. Three of the six winning authors this year are Black women. Each has some ties to higher education.
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The Heman Sweatt Leadership Institute Is Established at Wiley College (3.20.2020)
In establishing the Sweatt Institute, Herman J. Felton, president of Wiley College, established four pillars as the foundation of the effort; servant leadership, expressing empathy, accountability, and repetition.
Mar 20, 2020 | 2 comments | View Post
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Michelle Samuel-Foo Elected President of the Southeastern Entomological Society of America (3.20.2020)
Dr. Samuel-Foo joined the faculty at Alabama State University in 2018. Earlier, she taught for 10 years at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. There, she conducted research on specialty crop pest management.
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New Children’s Book Extols the Virtues of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (3.20.2020)
Yvette Manns, who grew up in Jamaica, New York, is a graduate of historically Black Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, where she majored in early childhood education. She is the author of the new children’s book HBCU Proud.
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The Next Director of Athletics at Morehouse College in Atlanta (3.20.2020)
Curtis Campbell has served as an athletics director at four colleges and universities: Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois; Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Tuskegee University in Alabama; and most recently at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. He will begin his new duties at Morehouse College on July 1.
Mar 20, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (3.19.2020)
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars (3.19.2020)
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.
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University of Notre Dame Debuts Online Archive of Students’ Stories Relating to Race (3.18.2020)
The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has launched a new initiative to collect stories relating to race and encourage constructive dialogue at the university.
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Berkeley Scholar Aims to Increase Retention Rates of Black Male Public School Teachers (3.18.2020)
Travis J. Bristol, an assistant professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a series of “affinity groups” for male teachers of color in public schools to address issues they share, including the lack of resources, typical feelings of isolation, and the physical and psychological effects of being men of color at these schools.
Mar 18, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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In Memoriam: John F. Merchant, 1933-2020 (3.18.2020)
John Merchant, an attorney who taught at both Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University, both in Connecticut, was the first Black graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Exhibit Documents History of Racial Discrimination and Violence in the Railroad Industry (3.17.2020)
The exhibit, “The Other Side of The Tracks: Discrimination and Social Mobility in the Railroad Industry,” will be on display at the Catherwood Library of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, through August 31.
Mar 17, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
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Scholar Donates 100 Pieces of African American Art to the Yale University Art Gallery (3.17.2020)
Robert Steele spent 40 years on the faculty of the psychology department at the University of Maryland, College Park. He then served nearly a decade as the director of the university’s David C. Driskell Center, which supports the study of African-American art.
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The Racial Gap in Four-Year High School Graduation Rates (3.16.2020)
In all 50 states, the graduation rate for White students was higher than the rate for Black students. In Wisconsin, the Black student high school graduation rate was 24.1 percentage points lower than the White rate. The states with the smallest racial gaps in graduation rates between Blacks and Whites included Alabama, Hawaii, West Virginia, and Rhode Island.
Mar 16, 2020 | 0 comments | View Post
