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Students

Report: Housing, Food Insecurities on Rise for Community College Students

Food and housing insecurities continue to be a major issue for community college students across the nation, particularly African-American and Southeast Asian students.

December 4, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Omarosa to Represent Trump at NAFEO’s Presidents and Chancellors Briefing

Presidents of the nation’s 106 HBCUs are set this weekend for a dialogue on the impact of this year’s elections, one that will include an emissary of President-elect Donald Trump.

December 1, 2016

Students

Oregonian Analysis: State College Enrollment Diversifies

PORTLAND, Ore. — The number of Latino and multiracial students attending Oregon’s public universities has more than doubled in the past seven years, according to an analysis of enrollment records by a Portland newspaper. The state’s public universities collectively saw enrollment rise 5 percent from 2010 to 2016, largely because of an influx of minority […]

November 30, 2016

Students

Diverse Conversations: Addressing Needs of Students from Different Backgrounds

It is important for every campus to do more than simply represent the racial and cultural campus majority.

November 30, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Scholar: Make Tenure Great Again

Dr. Andre Perry says that tenure—giving a teacher or professor an appointment until retirement—provides a firewall of protection, saving academic freedom from Donald Trump’s “post-truth” United States.

November 28, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Black Doctoral Network a ‘One-stop Shop’ for Universities

Experts say the Black Doctoral Network is the answer for colleges and universities that constantly claim they “can’t find Black faculty.”

November 28, 2016

Students

NCCU Chancellor Debra Saunders-White Dies

Debra Saunders-White, 59, the first permanent female chancellor of North Carolina Central University, died of cancer Saturday.

November 27, 2016

African-American

Rodriguez: Nation Not Treading Lightly in Unchartered Territory

Without question, this country is in unchartered territory. People across the country continue to express themselves in despair. Others in fear. Some panic, while still others prepare.

November 27, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway Named Northwestern University Provost

Jonathan Holloway, the Dean of Yale College and the first African American to hold that position, has been named provost of Northwestern University.

November 21, 2016

African-American

Turn the Page from November 8, 2016

We can lament, cry and whine all we want to about this election, but it is too late. We had the chance and the opportunity, but we didn’t seize the moment.

November 20, 2016

Students

Cornel West Returning to Harvard Faculty

Dr. Cornel West—arguably one of the nation’s most visible Black public intellectuals—will rejoin the faculty of Harvard University.

November 20, 2016

Students

Hiring Its Own Graduates Could be Key to HBCUs’ Survival

Who would be a better fit to transform the outcome of HBCUs than qualified HBCU graduates?

November 20, 2016