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Harvard-Trained Doctor Named to Head United Nations Effort on HIV/AIDS in Africa

September 3, 2013

Dr. Speciosa Wandira-Kasibwe is a senior adviser to the president of Uganda on population and health. From 1993 to 2004, she served as vice president of Uganda, the first woman in Africa to hold such a position.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Administrator Named to United Nations Post

September 19, 2012

Joan M. Prince is vice chancellor for global inclusion and engagement at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Foundation to Help Child Soldiers Establishes a Chapter at Oberlin College

October 3, 2011

Ishmael Beah was a child soldier in Sierra Leone but went on to graduate from Oberlin College.

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Orlando McMeans to Lead Southern University in Louisiana

Breaking News December 22, 2025

Beginning January 1, Dr. McMeans will serve as interim president of Southern University in Louisiana. For the past six years, he has served as chancellor of the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center and dean of the university's College of Agricultural, Family, and Consumer Sciences.

A Change in Leadership at Allen University in South Carolina

Breaking News December 22, 2025

Ernest McNealey has stepped down as president of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, effective December 15. The HBCU's board of trustees has selected Stanley Pritchett, Sr., former president of Morris Brown College, to serve as Allen's interim president.

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