Carolyn Denard was named dean at Connecticut College and Ray J. Davis was appointed dean of the School of Arts and Professions at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Research has found that African American youths who live in public housing projects are 2.3 times more likely to take up smoking than other African American adolescents.
It has been widely believed that multiracial adolescents have more behavioral problems than African Americans and Whites because they are not accepted as peers by either ethnic group.
Tonea Stewart of Alabama State University and Babatunde Ogunnaike of the University of Delaware receive prestigious honors.
The data showed that Blacks earned 286,597 degrees at four-year institutions during the 2010-2011 academic year. This was slightly less than 10 percent of all degrees awarded.
Harriet Davis, Pamela White, Shawn McShay, Kawachi Clemons, Will Sutton, James Spencer, and Emily London-Jones will be taking on new duties.
From time to time, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Since March, Dr. Robinson has been provost and vice president for academic affairs. He is the former assistant secretary for conservation and management at the U.S. Commerce Department.
The Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri at Kansas City will offer the first degree program in jazz in the state university system.
Co-editor Maurice Wallace of Duke states that “early photography helped the U.S. visualize the possibility of African-Americans as proper and fully engaged citizens in our democracy.”
The Council of Independent Colleges, representing 640 educational institutions, found that the percentage of minority presidents at member institutions dropped from 8 percent in 2006 to 6 percent in 2011.
The new center will be under the direction of Alfonzo Thurmond, a professor of administrative leadership and former dean of the School of Education.
In 1980, less than one third of all Blacks, ages 25 to 29, had some college experience. Today, nearly 55 percent of African Americans in that age group have attended college.
She was dean of the School of Humanities and Fine Arts and professor of media studies at Gainesville State College in Georgia.
Unlike a typical endowed professorship which pays for a faculty member’s salary, the division chair will fund research projects at the discretion of Professor Mayo and his successors in the chair.
Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, an ophthalmologist and surgeon, was honored by the American Association of Physician Specialists.
Karen A. Clinton Jones was the executive director for equity and access at Virginia Tech.
A U.S. government video from the 1940s describes how several historically Black colleges and universities were contributing to the war effort.
Maurice Edington was named interim dean of the College of Science and Technology and Valencia Matthews was appointed interim dean of College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
A member of the faculty at Virginia Tech since 1992, he has been serving as an associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts.
Students at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Wallace State Community College in Selma, and Jefferson Davis State Community College in Brewton will be eligible to enroll.
Gilbert Rochon, chair of the Council of 1890 Universities, has signed an agreement with the USDA and the EPA to strengthen member universities over the next five years.
The technology could also be used on other devices such as laptop and tablet computers and music players. The coating could also be applied to automobiles to boost fuel efficiency.
The racial gap is especially pronounced at the full professor level where only 3.4 percent of all posts are held by Blacks.
One third of all people awaiting kidney transplants in the U.S. are African Americans. But in 2011, only 14 percent of patients receiving new kidneys from living donors were African Americans.
During the 2010-11 academic year, there were 29.5 million students enrolled at Title IV institutions. Of these, 4,217,140, or 14.3 percent, were Black.
Michael Leo Owens, Karissa A. Moore, Terrance J. Tumey, Maurice Cox, and Kennard Brown are taking on new duties.
Valorie McAlpin of the University of North Carolina Charlotte and Margaret Young of Elizabeth City State University are the honorees.
The letter of resignation came the same day that a lawsuit was filed against the university by the parents of drum major Robert Champion who authorities say died as a result of a hazing incident last November.
An educator and social activist, she was the first Black woman bishop in a mainstream Christian denomination.
From time to time, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
In 1979 he was selected as the 17th president of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and served in that post for a decade.
The Apple devices will be integrated into the first-year curriculum and will save students money by allowing them to purchase electronic textbooks.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
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