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JANUARY 19, 2024

This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., Spelman College is just one of the several prestigious HBCUs in Atlanta. Who are Spelman College’s donors? which we know today. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013. Dr. Sean M.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The California State University has allocated $250,000 in one-time funding that will be used to support Sacramento State’s new Black Honors College. Dr. Luke Wood The funds will be used to help support the school's Black Honors College. It is designed for students who are interested in Black history, life, and culture.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). After completing his undergraduate studies at Manhattanville College in New York state, Gonzalez worked for College Track, a nonprofit college completion program in California. “It

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." Sharpton, president of the National Action Network and the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, took aim at DeSantis and the College Board that administer the exam. Intersectionality is a uniting framework.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Byron Perkins, a defensive back for the Hampton University Pirates, became the first openly gay football player at a historically Black college or university (HBCU) after publicly coming out this week via social media. I thought it could be just football and school, but there was a component missing.

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University Business

MARCH 23, 2023

history or government class would become a graduation requirement for future North Carolina public university and community college students in legislation approved Wednesday by the state House. A civics course is already needed by public high school students. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) AP) — Passing a U.S. Read more from WRAL News.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 12, 2023

The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US history--and rise again as a state-run robocollege. With the school's remains are approximately one million people buried alive in an estimated $14-$35B in student loan debt. Subprime Colleges and Programs Threatened. Consumers Empowered.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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The Higher Ed Marketer

JANUARY 23, 2023

How much should colleges and universities lean on legacy branding? Jason Trainer , Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at ISU, shares how their school balances academic and athletic branding while giving students just the right dose of historical perspective.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. in American studies from The College of William & Mary.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in the fall, the honors college will enroll students who have a GPA of 3.5

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MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

It marked the first time in the test’s 53-year history that fourth grade math scores have gone down. One such model is the corequisite course, in which students are simultaneously placed in a college-level course and a mandatory additional course that provides extra support. ” Partnering With K-12 Schools.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Ontario-based Northern College has revoked over 500 acceptance letters it previously sent to international students waiting to study at its partner campus. The students involved were due to take up places at Pures College of Technology , in Scarborough, Ontario – the subject of a public-private partnership with Northern College.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New faculty unions at Howard Community College and Frederick Community College have been certified and recognized, with full-time faculty recognized as AFT-Maryland members, Maryland Matters reported. That’s why it is such a hot labor summer.” Unions do not necessarily have to be adversarial.

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MARCH 31, 2023

As colleges struggle to cope with declining enrollment as the influx of federal COVID-19 money dries up, a wave of closures is widely expected. Already this year, at least six campuses are expected to shutter, including Finlandia University, Cazenovia College , and, after an announcement last week, Iowa Wesleyan University.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It shows the undergraduate college of people who received doctorates in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. So use the controls at top to find colleges by region, by religious affiliation, or by broad Carnegie type. So use the controls at top to find colleges by region, by religious affiliation, or by broad Carnegie type.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

The University of Phoenix has continued to receive more GI Bill funding than any other institution of higher learning, despite its history of government scrutiny for misleading military veterans. The Veterans Affairs Department sent the for-profit school $1.6 The post This controversial, for-profit college has received $1.6B

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MAY 24, 2023

And these negative sentiments are also affecting the state’s private schools. The group found that academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida’s public colleges and universities are facing a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2023

” The school’s enrollment—and consequently its revenue—has suffered from a dwindling pool of local high school students and a lack of interest among those graduates for a college education, according to the Board’s letter. In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The College Board has released the official framework for its new AP African American studies course. Dr. Marvin T Chiles The release builds upon the pilot program that College Board released and implemented in select U.S. public high schools last year. “I Looking through what they put together, I have no issue with what's here.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has chosen the schools that will participate in the third annual Institute on ePortfolios , which will begin on Jan. Edward Watson, AAC&U associate vice president for curricular and pedagogical innovation.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. Part of Grinnell College’s mission is to help create citizens that go out to do wonderful things in terms of social justice and community,” said Dr. Stephanie Jones, an associate professor at Grinnell. “I

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MARCH 26, 2024

Dartmouth College is boosting financial aid significantly for middle-income students, thanks to a $150 million donation—the largest scholarship gift in the college’s history.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

George Mason University, College of Public Health. The College of Public Health at George Mason University (Mason) launched in November. It is the first college in Virginia to focus primarily on public health. The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. Invitational to promote social justice and equity. Four years later, 82.8%

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MAY 18, 2023

Free expression organization PEN America is suing Florida’s Escambia County School District and School Board, alleging that the district’s recent book bans areunconstitutional. The lawsuit is asking for the affected books to be put back on school library shelves. "[PEN They're blatantly unconstitutional.

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