The Vice President for Academic Affairs reports to the President and has responsibility for fostering and sustaining an academic culture that promotes collaboration, innovation and excellence in teaching and learning, especially among faculty.
Candidates must have advanced to candidacy or earned their Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering or a related area to support the Chemical Engineering Program within the department.
The system routinely leased out prisoners to local plantations and other private landowners, where they were worked under horrendous conditions. Large numbers of these leased prisoners were African Americans.
In October 1962, James Meredith became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Rioting occurred on campus resulting in two deaths. Now Meredith is receiving the highest honored bestowed by the Ole Miss Alumni Association.
On April 17, 1849, Frederick Douglass delivered an address at the First African Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey. The church, which no longer exists, was located on the current site of the university’s athletic fields. The fields now have been named to honor Frederick Douglass.
The President is Alvernia University’s chief executive officer and reports directly to the Board of Trustees.
The Accounting Area of the UCLA Anderson School of Management is seeking to fill an associate or full professor position (with tenure) starting in the 2019-20 academic year.
SMU’s Cox School of Business invites applications for an Endowed Chair in Finance position at the associate or full professor level.
SMU’s Cox School of Business invites applications for an Assistant Professor or higher rank position in Finance.
Dr. Troy has been a member of the faculty at Tuskegee since 1999 and is the founding director of the Tuskegee University Health Disparities Institute for Research and Education.
Two of the three new Black members of the National Academy of have current academic affiliations. They are Lynden A. Archer, the James Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Cornell University and Gary S. May, the chancellor of the University of California, Davis.
The study estimates that living in a high-lynching county is associated with 34.9 additional deaths per hundred thousand per year for White males, 23.7 deaths for White females, and 31 deaths for African American females. African American male death rates today were not affected.
The board of regents of Kentucky State University has extended the contract of M. Christopher Brown II for four years through July 2022. The four-year extension is the maximum allowed by state law. Dr. Brown was appointed the 15th president of Kentucky State University in March 2017.
The Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University is seeking candidates for the non-tenure track position of Clinical Professor in the Marketing department for Fall 2019.
The Department of Psychology at the University of Denver is seeking exceptionally well-qualified candidates for one assistant- or associate-level, tenure-line position and one assistant-level teaching position.
Primary duty is to preserve and enhance EHE’s assets and allow the college to achieve our vision, implement our mission, and promote our values.
After conducting a randomized clinical trial among 1,300 Black men in Oakland, the researchers found that the men sought more preventive services after they were randomly seen by Black doctors for a free health-care screening compared to non-Black doctors.
Dr. Gay is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies and is the founding chair of Harvard’s Inequality in America Initiative. She joined the faculty in 2006 and has served as dean of social science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 2015.
The Dean will play a critical role in the University’s strategic planning initiative, provide leadership and direction for the AACSB-accredited College to ensure the highest standards of quality in Business Administration education and research.
The Director of Diversity and Inclusion will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and assessing the advancement of diversity and inclusion of all stakeholders of the Pamplin College of Business.
The Wilf Family Department of Politics seeks qualified candidates for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions.
Early studies have shown that early childhood education programs have initial benefits but that the positive effects slipped away when children entered elementary school. But new data shows that the long-term effects may be positive.
The Board of Trustees of the Pasadena Area Community College District is seeking a visionary and forward thinking chief executive, committed to a 21st century comprehensive community college mission.
The Assistant Professor will be responsible to a Chair or other appropriate higher-level administrator of the university and will perform teaching, research, service, and related administrative activities.
Taking on new assignments are Coray Davis at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, Terrell L. Strayhorn at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Lydia Thompson at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The new core curriculum reduces the mandated course requirements from 60 hours to 40 hours. The streamlined core curriculum offers students greater opportunities to pursue minor degrees, certificates, double majors, and to take classes outside of their chosen degree path.
The Program in Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University invites applications for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, to be filled at the rank of tenured Associate Professor or Professor, beginning fall semester 2019.
The honorees are Erin Berry-McCrea, a lecturer in the department of communications at Towson University in Maryland and Renee A. Middleton, dean of the College of Education at Ohio University in Athens.
Albany State University, the historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has announced a restructuring of its academic units. The university will now have three academic colleges instead of five.
Here is this week’s roundup of African Americans who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Sixteen students received housing, meals, course materials and faculty instruction at no cost for the two-week program held earlier this summer. The program aims to enhance students’ problem-solving, legal reasoning, critical reading and thinking skills.
Etienne M. Thomas was named director of athletics at Kentucky State University in Frankfort and George L. Bright is the new director of athletics at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina.
The Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant or Associate Professor position in the tenure track.
This forward-thinking position provides the strategic vision and leadership for the College’s enrollment and student experience programs, ensuring an integrated and dynamic student experience from application through graduation.
The University of Michigan seeks nominations and applications for a vice president for development.
The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure research track.
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