Monthly Archives: November 2012
Several HBCU Campuses Are Getting a Makeover
Significant new construction is underway at Delaware State University, Cheyney University, Meharry Medical College and Johnson C. Smith University.
Norfolk State University Looks to Boost Retention and Graduation Rates
The university hopes to raise the six-year graduation rate from 34 percent to 40 percent during the next five years. To help reach this goal, a student success center had been established on campus.
Howard University College of Pharmacy Establishes a Board of Visitors
For the first time in its history the College of Pharmacy at Howard University in Washington, D.C. has established a board of visitors that will advise the school's administration on educational, fiscal, and fundraising issues.
Spelman College Is Dropping Intercollegiate Athletics
According to President Beverly Daniel Tatum, the college will now focus instead on "fitness/wellness/intramural programs, emphasizing those activities that career women are likely to maintain for a lifetime - tennis, golf, swimming, yoga, Pilates, running and walking."
The Discovery of a New Novel by Claude McKay
Jamaican-born author Claude McKay died in 1948 but recently a researcher in the Columbia University archives discovered a novel penned by the key figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Grambling State University Honors a Former President
The university's new 157-acre west campus is being named in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones who served as president of Grambling for 41 years from 1936 to 1977.
African American Faculty News
Birgitta Johnson joins the faculty at the University of South Carolina and Cynthia Nance of the University of Arkansas and Jessica Buck of Jackson State University are elected to prestigious positions.
Two African Americans in New Administrative Positions
Debra Latimore was named vice president for fiscal affairs at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Ernest Brothers, of the University of Tennessee, is the new associate director for diversity enhancement at NIMBioS.
