Appointments & Awards

Honors & Awards

Anna Deavere Smith Chosen to Receive the George Polk Career Award in Journalism

Appointments & Awards

New Administrative Posts for Four African Americans in Higher Education

Appointments & Awards

New Administrative Duties in Higher Education for Three African American Men

Honors & Awards

Honors and Awards for Four African American Scholars

Appointments & Awards

Four Black Faculty Members Named to New Posts

Books

Cornell University Scholar Honored for His Young Adult Literature

Appointments & Awards

Andre Watts Named a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University

Appointments & Awards

Four Black Scholars in New Faculty Roles in Higher Education

Books

Vievee Francis to Receive the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Appointments & Awards

Two African Americans Appointed to Administrative Posts at North Carolina Universities

Appointments & Awards

Six African Americans Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

Honors & Awards

Ohio University Scholar Honored for Her Contributions to Teacher Education

Appointments & Awards

Lawrence Jackson Is a New Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins

African-American History

Two African American Giants of Higher Education to Have Highways Named in Their Honor

Appointments & Awards

Two Purdue University Political Scientists to Edit a Major Journal

Appointments & Awards

New Appointments for Three Black Scholars

Books

Alabama State University Scholar Wins Best Book of the Year Award

Appointments & Awards

New Administrative Roles for Eight African Americans in Higher Education

Books

More Accolades for the Books of Carole Boston Weatherford

Honors & Awards

Colorado College Scholar Wins Major Playwriting Award

Appointments & Awards

Two Black Scholars Given Additional Roles at Major Universities

Honors & Awards

Four Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards

Appointments & Awards

Eight African American Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Appointments & Awards

The New Dean of the School of Nursing at Florida A&M University

Books

Crystal Wilkinson Wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

Appointments & Awards

Seven African Americans Appointed to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Appointments & Awards

University of Southern California to Launch the Race and Equity Center

Appointments & Awards

Selwyn Rogers Named the Founding Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center

Appointments & Awards

Black Scholar From the University of California, Davis Is Heading to Oxford

Appointments & Awards

A Quartet of African American Scholars in New Faculty Posts

Appointments & Awards

Four African Americans Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Honors & Awards

Donovan Hicks, Wofford College Graduate, Named a Mitchell Scholar

Honors & Awards

Washington University Scholar Named a Newspaper’s “Person of the Year”

Appointments & Awards

A Pair of African Americans Appointed to New Administrative Positions

Appointments & Awards

Jazz Musician Named to an Endowed Chair at Arizona State University

Honors & Awards

Swarthmore College President Honored by Hong Kong Baptist University

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Breaking News

American-Born Layli Maparyan Appointed President of the University of Liberia

Breaking News
Dr. Maparyan, a distinguished academic and prolific scholar, had been serving as the executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and a professor of African Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Kyle Farmbry Has Resigned as President of Guilford College in North Carolina

Breaking News
Before being named the first African American president of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2022, Dr. Farmbry served as a professor of public administration in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University in Newark.

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