Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
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.
Archive for July, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 | 0 comments
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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars
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.
Jul 31, 2014 | 0 comments
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Blacks and Other Minorities Are Accepted Less Often at British Universities
Ethnic minorities are less likely to receive offers of admission from British universities than White applicants. The shortfall in offers of admission exists even for applicants with similar academic records, socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, and type of secondary school.
Jul 30, 2014 | 0 comments
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Higher Education Grants of Interest to African Americans
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.
Jul 30, 2014 | 0 comments
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The First Graduates of Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda
On July 24, 22 students at the Rwanda campus received master’s degrees in information technology. Four of the students in the class got to complete their degree programs at the Carnegie Mellon main campus in Pittsburgh.
Jul 29, 2014 | 0 comments
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Alabama State University to Build National Park Service Center on Campus
Alabama State University in Montgomery has signed an agreement with the National Park Service to develop a new $5 million interpretive center on campus that will be part of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.
Hampton University Professor Wins National Award for the Teaching of Science
Edison R. Fowlks, a professor of biology and director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at Hampton University in Virginia, will be honored this December by the American Society of Cell Biology.
Jul 29, 2014 | 0 comments
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Clemson Students Fixing Medical Equipment in Tanzania
A group of students from Clemson University is spending two weeks this summer in Tanzania. They are repairing broken medical equipment and surveying the needs of local medical clinics.
Jul 29, 2014 | 0 comments
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Blacks Making No Progress in Physics Faculty
In 2012, Blacks were 2.1 percent of all physics faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities, down from 2.2 percent in 2008. Half of all Black physics faculty are at historically Black colleges and universities.
Jul 28, 2014 | 3 comments
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Darlene Clark Hine Awarded the National Humanities Medal
The citation accompanying the award states that, “through prolific scholarship and leadership, Dr. Hine has examined race, class, and gender and shown how the struggles and successes of African American women shaped the Nation we share today.”
Jul 28, 2014 | 0 comments
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Sub-Saharan African Students at High Schools in the United States
According to the report, in 2013 there were 73,019 students from foreign nations at U.S. high schools. They made up 0.5 percent of all U.S. high schools students. Only 1.7 percent of high school students from foreign lands are from sub-Saharan Africa.
Jul 28, 2014 | 0 comments
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Johnny Jones Is the New President of Little Priest Tribal College in Nebraska
Johnny D. Jones was vice president for student affairs and diversity at Mississippi Valley State University and earlier was executive vice president and chief academic officer at Arkansas Baptist College.
Jul 28, 2014 | 0 comments
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Duke Study Finds a Weight Management Program Can Reduce Depression Among Black Women
A new study by researchers at Duke University finds that an intervention program aimed at helping African American women maintain their weight also significantly reduced depression among participants.
Jul 28, 2014 | 0 comments
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In Memoriam: Evelyn Thornton, 1933-2014
Dr. Thornton taught at Prairie View A&M University in Texas for more than 40 years. She was still an active member of the faculty at the time of her death at the age of 81.
Jul 28, 2014 | 0 comments
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University of Delaware Scholar Honored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Babatunda A. Ogunnaike, dean of engineering at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2014 Eminent Chemical Engineer Award from the Minority Affairs Council of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments
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HBCU Tackles the High Cost of College Textbooks
The new program at Tennessee State will allow first- and second-year students to buy electronic books for general education classes instead of traditional paper textbooks. Students could save as much as $735 per semester.
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments
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Two Black Scholars Named to Posts as Deans
Edem G. Tetteh was appointed interim dean of academic affairs at Potomac State College of West Virginia University and Alex Sekwat was named interim dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Tennessee State University.
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments
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Delaware State University Signs Agreements With Five Universities in China and Ghana
The Chinese universities will send undergraduate and graduate students to Delaware State and the universities in Ghana will participate in faculty and student exchanges, research collaborations, and other ventures with Delaware State.
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments
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Four African Americans Appointed to Administrative Positions in Higher Education
The appointees are Andrea Jenkins at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, Anthony Williams at Southern Arkansas University, C. Andrew McGadney at Colby College in Maine, and F. Carl Walton at Savannah State University in Georgia.
Jul 25, 2014 | 2 comments
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University of the District of Columbia Offering Free Soil Testing for Residents With Urban Gardens
Urban vegetable gardens can produce healthy and inexpensive food to help meet the dietary needs of city residents. But food from these gardens is only as good as the soil in which it is grown.
Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
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.
Jul 24, 2014 | 0 comments
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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars
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.
Jul 24, 2014 | 0 comments
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Oral History Project on the Civil Rights Movement Housed at George Mason University
The Northern Virginia Civil Rights Archive: Personal Histories of Struggle and Achievement in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes more than 50 hours of videotape interviews.
Jul 23, 2014 | 0 comments
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University of Utah Project to Provide Prenatal Care to African Refugees
Aster Tecle, an assistant professor of social work, will co-lead The Perinatal Community Health Workers to Support African Refugee Women and Families that will train other African women to provide appropriate information, assistance, and prenatal care.
Jul 23, 2014 | 0 comments
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Higher Education Grants of Interest to African Americans
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.
Jul 23, 2014 | 0 comments
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University of Kansas Partners With a University in Ghana
An agreement with the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Ghana calls for cultural, educational, and scientific cooperation between the two institutions.
Jul 23, 2014 | 0 comments
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My Brother’s Keeper: Some Gaps That May Keep the Nation From Making Progress Among Males of Color
D. Jason DeSousa offers suggestions to strengthen the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force’s final report.
Jul 23, 2014 | 6 comments
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Patrick Liverpool to Serve as Provost at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Since retiring from his post as the MBNA Professor of Management and dean of the School of Management at Delaware State University, Dr. Liverpool has filled in as an interim executive at several universities.
Jul 22, 2014 | 0 comments
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Wayne Frederick Named the Seventeenth President of Howard University
Dr. Frederick has served as interim president of Howard University since October 2013. Previously, he was provost and chief academic officer of the university. He graduated with a medical degree from Howard University at the age of 22.
Jul 22, 2014 | 0 comments
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UCLA Settles a Racial Profiling Claim by a Los Angeles Judge
Judge David S. Cunningham said he was was shoved against his car, handcuffed, and placed in the back of a police cruiser. He filed a $10 million claim against UCLA for excessive force and racial profiling.
Jul 22, 2014 | 0 comments
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A New Clandestine Website Calls for Ouster of Paine College’s President
In June the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed Paine College on accreditation probation. The college has 12 months to address the commission’s concerns or it could lose its accreditation.
Jul 22, 2014 | 0 comments
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In Memoriam: Alice Marie Coachman Davis, 1923-2014
Alice Coachman Davis was a standout track star at Tuskegee University in Alabama and the first African American woman to earn an Olympic gold medal. She won the national high jump championship 10 years in a row.
Jul 22, 2014 | 0 comments
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University of Cincinnati to Study Effects of Lead Exposure on African American Women
The study is part of the long-term Cincinnati Lead Study that has followed 376 people who were born in high-risk areas of Cincinnati between 1979 and 1984.
Jul 21, 2014 | 0 comments
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More Than 4 Million Black Students Are Enrolled in Higher Education
In the 2012-13 academic year, there were 4,082,004 Black or African American students enrolled in Title IV institutions in the United States. Blacks made up 14.4 percent of all students at these educational institutions.
Jul 21, 2014 | 0 comments
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Let’s Create a National Endowment for HBCUs
Professor Richard F. America calls for a national fundraising effort to strengthen historically Black colleges and universities well into the twenty-first century.
Jul 21, 2014 | 11 comments
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In Clinical Trials, New Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease Shows Promise
The compound was originally developed by a team of researchers at the Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, a joint effort of the School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Jul 21, 2014 | 0 comments
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