Four Black Women Among This Year’s 32 Rhodes Scholars From the U.S.
This year, four African Americans – all women – were chosen as Rhodes Scholars. Last year, there were three African Americans among the 32 scholars chosen from the U.S.
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Breaking News
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Roland Mitchell Named Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Education at LSU
Dr. Mitchell is the E.B “Ted” Robert Endowed Professor and has been serving as interim dean. Professor Mitchell joined the faculty at the university in 2005 and was named a full professor in 2018.Dec 02, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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University of North Carolina Gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
The statue of a Confederate soldier, that had stood at the gates of the university for more than a century, was torn down by protestors in August 2018. Now the university is donating the statue and $2.5 million to care and preserve the monument to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.Dec 02, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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The New Provost at Holy Names University in Oakland, California
Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy has been serving as chair of the department of English at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She earned a master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. at Duke University in Durham North Carolina.
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Research & Studies
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Organization Rates Major Medical Schools on Efforts to Promote Racial Equality
The organization White Coasts for Black Lives is a medical student-run organization formed to dismantle racism in medicine. It recently released a report on the efforts of 17 major medical schools to address racial inequality in academic medicine.Dec 02, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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George Washington University Study Finds a Major Racial Gap in Financial Literacy
The results of the survey found that African-American adults answered 38 percent of the questions correctly, compared to 55 percent of White adults. Only 28 percent of African American adults answered over one-half of the questions correctly. For White adults, the figure was 62 percent.Dec 02, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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Sub-Saharan African Nations Sending the Most Scholars to Teach at U.S. Colleges and Universities
In the 2015-16 academic year, there were 2,057 scholars from sub-Saharan African nations teaching at U.S. colleges and universities. This is up 3.4 percent from the 2014-15 academic year. But the long-term trend is down.Dec 02, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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HBCU News
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Presidential Candidate Cory Booker’s Plan to Support the Nation’s HBCUs
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is far down in the polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, but Senator Booker has proposed a new plan that provides a bigger boost to the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities than his opponents in the race. In a new proposal, Senator Booker pledges $100 billion in support to […]Dec 06, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Partners With a Cancer Research Firm
Historically Black Cheyney University has entered into a partnership with Navrogen Inc. Under the agreement, the research unit of the biopharmaceutical firm will relocate its operations to Cheyney's Science Center. The company is involved in cancer research.Dec 06, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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Congress Finally Comes to the Rescue of HBCUs
The Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act provides $255 million annually for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.Dec 06, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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People
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Pamela Bracey Is Named Collegiate Teacher of the Year in Business Education
Pamela Bracey, an associate professor in the department of instructional systems and workforce development in the College of Education at Mississippi State University, was named Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the National Business Education Association.Dec 06, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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Three African American Men Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Alan D. Robertson was named chief financial officer at Florida A&M University. Julian Coaxum will be the next chief of police at Davidson College in North Carolina and Raymond Clarke has been named vice president for enrollment management at Savannah State University in Georgia.Dec 06, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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A Trio of African American Faculty Members Who Have Been Assigned New Duties
Leon Prieto of Clayton State University in Georgia was named an associate research fellow at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. Adrienne Morgan was appointed as an associate vice president of equity and inclusion at the University of Rochester and Professor Calvin R. Walker was named executive vice chancellor at Southern University in Louisiana.Nov 29, 2019 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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John Ambrose Appointed Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Michigan State (12.06.2019)
John Ambrose joined the staff at Michigan State in 2008 as senior associate director for inclusion, strategic planning, and student success. Earlier, he served in leadership roles at the national and state levels of the Michigan Association for College Admissions Counseling.
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In Memoriam: Shirley Walker Dixon, 1946-2019 (12.06.2019)
Dr. Dixon was a pioneer in many ways at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pennsylvania. In 1990, she was the first African American to be appointed to the university’s board of trustees. In 2018, she was the first person to be awarded a doctorate at the university and also became the first person to earn bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at Cabrini.
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers (12.05.2019)
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 (12.05.2019)
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 Memphis Creates Two Funds to Honor Frances and Benjamin Hooks (12.04.2019)
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis has created two endowed funds which will enable the Institute to further the work of social change championed by Benjamin L. Hooks and his wife Frances Dancy Hooks, two stalwarts of the civil rights struggle.
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans (12.04.2019)
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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White Student Gives Racist Rant on “Open Mic” Night at Bryant University in Rhode Island (12.03.2019)
In a stand-up comedy act, the student stated: “It’s amazing. White people, we can’t really tell Black people what to do anymore. We used to be able to do that. But we can’t anymore.”
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New Scholarships at the University of Pennsylvania Seek to Boost Diversity in City Planning (12.03.2019)
The department of city and regional planning in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has established the Moelis Scholars program that is open to African American and Latinx students who are thinking about pursuing careers in housing and community and economic development.
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Penn State’s Program to Increase Black Doctoral Students in STEM Meets With Success (12.03.2019)
About half of all Millennium Scholars at Penn State have gone on to be accepted in doctoral degree programs in STEM fields. The first two are expected to receive their Ph.D.s this coming spring.
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Good News! Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Will Retain its Accreditation (11.29.2019)
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education announced that historically Black Cheyney University of Pennsylvania will retain its status as an accredited educational institution. The commission is requiring the university to file further reports concerning the reduction of debt and the sustainability of its finances.
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Texas A&M University’s Roderic Pettigrew Honored by the National Academy of Engineering (11.29.2019)
Professor Pettigrew’s award was given “for leadership at the National Institutes of Health, and for academic and industrial convergence research and education, resulting in innovations that have improved global health care.”
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Fayetteville State University Partners With Edgecombe Community College (11.29.2019)
Graduates of Edgecombe Community College who have obtained an associate’s degree will be able to complete an online bachelor’s degree at Fayetteville State University at a total cost of no more than $10,000 in out-of-pocket expenses.
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Bernie Sanders Unveils New Plan to Strengthen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (11.29.2019)
The presidential candidate’s plan would allow any student to be eligible to receive a tuition-free education from any HBCU, including private institutions, regardless of income.
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New Administrative Posts in Higher Education for Three African Americans (11.29.2019)
Karen Davis is the a new assistant dean for inclusive excellence at Syracuse University in New York. Kory Trott will serve as the director of the research integrity office at Virginia Tech and Paul Monteiro is the new assistant vice president of external affairs at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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In Memoriam: Mary T. Christian, 1924-2019 (11.29.2019)
Dr. Christian served as chair of the department of elementary education and was dean of the School of Education at Hampton University in Virginia. She also was elected to nine consecutive terms as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Michael Drake to Step Down as President of Ohio State University in 2020 (11.26.2019)
Michael V. Drake, who has served as president of Ohio State University since June 2014, has announced that he will retire from that position next year. Dr. Drake is the fifteenth president of Ohio State and the first African American to serve in the post.
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The University of Minnesota’s Historical Ties to Slavery (11.26.2019)
In 1856, the university was struggling financially and received a loan of nearly $15,000 from William Aiken Jr., who at one time owned more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. This money helped build one of the first campus buildings, Old Main.
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In Memoriam: W. George Allen, 1936-2019 (11.26.2019)
In 1960, Allen enrolled at the University of Florida College of Law. Upon graduating in December 1962, Allen became the first African American to earn a degree from any former all-white institution in Florida.
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Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans (11.26.2019)
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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How One Act of Discrimination Can Impact the Lives of College Students (11.25.2019)
On average, students who encountered unfair treatment were more physically active, interacted with their phones more and spent less time in bed on the day of the event. In many cases, the behavior changes lasted into the second day after the discrimination had taken place.
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Adrien L. Bennings Will Be the Sixth President of Kellogg Community College in Michigan (11.25.2019)
Dr. Bennings has been serving as vice president for finance and administration at Clovis Community College in Clovis, New Mexico. From 2015 to 2018, she served as the director of the Small Business Development Center at Texas Tech University.
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Black Male Lawyers Face Higher Rates of Discipline by the California State Bar Than Their Peers (11.25.2019)
The study, conducted by George Farkas, Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine, found that Black male lawyers received more complaints from clients, were put on probation at higher rates and were disbarred at higher rates than their peers.
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Harvard University Launches a New Intitiative to Examine its Historical Ties to Slavery (11.25.2019)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and a professor of history, will chair the new initiative which will be called Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery.
