
The First Black Homecoming Queen at Ole Miss
Courtney Roxanne Pearson, a senior from Memphis, will be crowned on October 13 during halftime ceremonies at the football game between Auburn University and Ole Miss.
Courtney Roxanne Pearson, a senior from Memphis, will be crowned on October 13 during halftime ceremonies at the football game between Auburn University and Ole Miss.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission concluded that “race was a factor in the terms and conditions of employment and WSSU’s decision to terminate her employment.”
Over the past five years, the number of African American first-year students in the College of Engineering has increased from 16 to 64, a 300 percent rise.
President Larry Rivers has announced that the university needs to make $3.8 million in budget cuts to make up for a 400-student enrollment drop and a 5 percent cut in state appropriations.
The new foundation is headed by Matthew Jenkins, CEO of SDD Enterprises, who holds a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Tuskegee and is a former member of the board of trustees.
She is director of corporate and foundation relations at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
A new residence hall on campus will be named to honor Harold L. Martin Sr. who served from 2000 to 2006 and Alvin J. Schexnider who was chancellor from 1996 to 2000.
The new appointees are LaTanya Junior at Jackson State University, Cornelius Gilbert at Northern Illinois University, and LaVar Charleston at the University of Wisconsin.
The university states that the new facilities management program is the only one of its kind in the state of Florida and the only program at a historically Black college or university.
The Ocean of Soul marching band was suspended after allegations that one section of the band engaged in a a hazing incident.
The Council of Graduate Schools reports that in the 2010-11 academic year, there were 38,498 first-time and a total of 181,905 African American/Black students in U.S. graduate schools.
Hebert C. Buchanan Jr. has been serving as the chief operating officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
In 2012 the mean score for Whites on the reading and mathematics sections of the SAT was 1063, 207 points higher than the mean score for Blacks.
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 1962, Ed Reynolds from Ghana became the first Black student to enroll as a full-time student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He returned to the university this past weekend to relate his experiences to current students.
Next fall a posse of 10 students from urban schools in Chicago will enroll at Cornell. The university has agreed to support one posse of 10 students for the next five years.
The fourth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic will be held in Minneapolis on October 11-13.
Blacks make up about 12 percent of all undergraduate student enrollments in American higher education, but they are less than 5 percent of the students who participate in study abroad programs.
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.
A new sports broadcasting network that will allow alumni and other fans of the university’s sports teams to watch action on television and over the internet.
Students who complete an associate’s degree at Southern University Shreveport can transfer to the bachelor’s degree in business program at Grambling State University.
The academy is now aimed at middle-level employees of the university in an effort to prepare them for leadership roles but it may be expanded to include programs for the local community.
The archive includes more than 300 boxes of materials which include diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, drafts of speeches, photographs, and video recordings.
Dr. Rosser has served as the sixth president of the university and professor of healthcare management since 1979.
While Black males have made significant gains, a Schott Foundation study finds there is a persisting large racial gap in four-year high school graduation rates.
Ishan Williams, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, is conducting research on whether vascular problems among African Americans are leading to increased rates of cognitive impairment.
Sabrina Collins of the College of Wooster and her colleagues developed a Powerpoint presentation that uses hip-hop concepts to make chemistry more appealing to minority students.
Infants as young as three months begin to classify facial images by race and gender and show a preference for those that they see most often in their daily lives.
Souleymane Konate is teaching mathematics and computer sciences and Andre Isaacs is an assistant professor of chemistry.
He is Boyd Professor of Chemistry and vice chancellor of strategic initiatives at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
The education professor was also appointed to a five-year term as director of the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center at the university.
He has been selected to receive the 2012 President’s Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
The appointees are Raymond Wise at Indiana University, Omiunota Ukpokodu at the University of Missouri Kansas City, Joseph Mwantuali at Hamilton College, and Reginald Bess at Claflin University.
Taking on new duties are Kimberly Conway Dumpson, Teresa Hardee, Linda Greene, Josephine Davis, Adriel Hilton, Nevada Winrow, and Philip Sherrill.
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.