Taking on new roles are T’Keyah Crystal Keymah at Florida A&M University, Chiquita A. Collins at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Brian Purnell at Bowdoin College in Maine, and T’Mars McCallum at Horry-Georgetown Technical College in South Carolina.
For the past five years, Dr. Martell Teasley has been chair of the department of social work in the College of Public Policy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This past February, Dr. Teasley was elected president of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work.
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 study by researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Texas, San Antonio finds that school districts across the country are not taking appropriate steps to deal with the racial disparities in school discipline.
DeBrenna LaFa Agbenyiga, who has been at Michigan State University since 1999, was appointed dean of the Graduate School and vice provost at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The study by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas San Antonio finds that racial minorities make up 28 percent of the corporate directors who serve on a single board but are only 8 percent of the corporate directors who serve on more than one board.
This June eight college juniors from across the nation will participate in the African American Literatures and Cultures Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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