Monthly Archives: November, 2011

Harvard Examines Its Ties to Slavery

The Slavery and Research Project has published a 34-page booklet.

The New Dean of the Hampton University Journalism School

Brett Pulley has worked for many major media companies and is a graduate of Hampton University.

Honors for Four Black Educators

Tricia Bent-Goodley, Unoma Azuah, Amos Sawyer, and Bernadette Gray-Little received honors for their work.

Southern Illinois University Honors Its First Black Male Student

A paid internship at the Illinois General Assembly has been established in honor of Alexander Lane.

Graduate School of the University of Washington Seeking to Boost Minority Enrollments

Less than 10 percent of the graduate students are minorities while minorities make up 24 percent of the state's population.

Vanderbilt University Program to Help Young Black Men Is Expanding to Pennsylvania

Vanderbilt faculty members Donna Ford and Gilman Whiting will assist in the program's implementation.

Paul Baker Is the New Dean of Academic Affairs at Voorhees College

He was dean of social sciences at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Three Appointments to Administrative Positions

Halima Leak, Donna Elam, and Richard Briggance will be assuming new duties.

Two African Africans Named to New Faculty Posts

Jemima Pierre and Curtis Everett Powell are named to new faculty positions.

Notable Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants won by historically black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

Stanford Struggles to Increase the Number of African American Graduate Students

The percentage of Blacks in the Class of 2015 at Stanford is triple the percentage of African Americans in the university's graduate schools.

Temple University’s New Website Documents the Civil Rights Struggle in Philadelphia

The website devotes much of its attention to the desegregation of Girard College in Philadelphia and the Columbia Avenue riots of 1964.

At West Virginia University, Black Enrollments Exceed Parity With the Black Percentage of the State’s Population

Black enrollments are up 7.7 percent this year compared to an overall increase of just over one percent.

Nation’s Oldest Black Fraternity Honors Its “Mother”

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity placed a new headstone of the grave of the woman who nurtured the organization's seven founders.

Study Finds That Income Trumps Race in Explaining Academic Achievement Gap

According to the Stanford University research, 50 years ago, just the opposite was true.

In Memoriam: Royzell L. Dillard

He served on the faculty at Hampton University for 25 years.

A Surge in Black Applicants in New Non-Binding Early Action Admissions Programs

Both the University of Virginia and Harvard University report large increases in black early applicants from four years ago.

African American Student at Wake Forest University Wins a Rhodes Scholarship

Brandon Turner is the 12th student at Wake Forest in the past 25 years to win a Rhodes Scholarship.

Civil Rights Suit Filed Against the University of New Mexico

The complaint was filed by local clergy and the Albuquerque chapter of the NAACP.

FAMU Suspends Band After the Death of a Drum Major

Law enforcement officials state that hazing may have been involved.
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