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Students

Leadership Encouraged HBCUs a Part of National Conversation

At an executive leadership forum, HBCU leaders across the HBCU spectrum gave their take on digital media, veteran students, student success and retention, and other topics of interest for HBCUs.

February 19, 2017

African-American

Advocates Cautiously Optimistic About Potential Executive Order on HBCUs

While there has been no word from the White House on when the order might be released and what directives it might contain, organizations have laid out their own proposals for what the order could accomplish.

February 19, 2017

Students

Bob Jones U to Get Tax-exempt Status Back After 30 Years

GREENVILLE, S.C. —A conservative Christian university in South Carolina is getting its federal tax-exempt status back 30 years after losing it over a ban on interracial dating. Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit told The Greenville that the ban was dropped in 2000 and a former university president apologized for discrimination eight years later. But […]

February 19, 2017

African-American

Wake Forest Opens Dorm Honoring Poet Maya Angelou

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University has named a new dorm in honor of poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. Multiple media outlets report Wake Forest cut the ribbon on the five story residence hall for 224 students on Friday. Angelou was an American Studies professor at the university in Winston-Salem up until her […]

February 19, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Kentucky State Presidential Search Accompanied by Controversy

Kentucky State University’s search for a new president has run into a rolling storm of troubles amid widespread criticism this week from across the university’s community over its search committee’s recommendations.

February 16, 2017

African-American

Economist: Education Alone Won’t Close Racial Wage Gap

Though Black college graduates generally fare better than Black high school graduates, higher education has not proven sufficient to remedy America’s racial wage gap, a leading labor economist said recently during a Black History Month lecture.

February 16, 2017

Students

University of Wisconsin Students Demand Free Tuition for Black Students

MADISON, Wis. — Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for Black students today, the student government said Wednesday. The Associated Students of Madison said in a resolution that students from suburban high […]

February 16, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Trump Issue Dividing Howard University Administration, Students

In a town hall meeting on Tuesday night, students expressed disappointment that the administration of the nation’s flagship historically Black university had not done more to put itself at the frontline of resistance to the new administration.

February 15, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Mangum to Join Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions

Dr. Elmira Mangum, former president of Florida A&M University (FAMU), will join the University of Pennsylvania this April, where she will research leadership pathways at HBCUs.

February 14, 2017

Leadership & Policy

List of Finalists for Kentucky State U. President Stirs Controversy

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky State University faculty and alumni are expressing concern with the list of finalists for university president, and that interim university President Aaron Thompson is not among them. Media outlets report that Thursday, the KSU Board of Regents voted to approve three finalists for the job: M. Christopher Brown of Southern University […]

February 14, 2017

African-American

Rodriguez: The Indigenous and Black Roots of Mexico

By knowing their intertwined histories, perhaps both peoples will come to struggle together, which in fact they are increasingly doing so already.

February 13, 2017

Students

College Students Finding Their Roots

Colleges and universities are using AfricanAncestry.com to connect students with their background and heritage.

February 13, 2017