Coppin State University Launches “All In” Marketing and Branding Campaign
The In campaign is designed to illuminate the extraordinary accomplishments of Coppin State University while deepening pride in the university from students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community partners.
Grambling State Begins an ROTC Student Exchange Program With a University in Taiwan
Grambling State University, the historically Black educational institution in Louisiana, has signed an agreement with Management College of National Defense University, a military academy located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The agreement establishes an ROTC Student Exchange Program. The goal is to have each institution send one or two students to the other institution annually for one to two semesters of study each year.
New Center for Black Entrepreneurship Created at Historically Black Spelman and Morehouse Colleges
The new center, supported by a $5 million grant from the Visa Foundation, aims to grow the pipeline of Black entrepreneurs and connect them to investment opportunities. The grant will support the development of an entrepreneurship program, which includes hiring faculty and building curricula for students at Spelman College and Morehouse College
Declining Enrollments Have Led to a Budget Crisis at Savannah State University
The university has seen a 25 percent decline in enrollments since 2011 which have triggered mandatory cuts in state funds for operating the university. The university is facing a $11 million budget shortfall for the 2023-24 academic year. The university plans to "deactivate" several academic programs to help close the budget gap.
North Carolina A&T State University Fined for Enrolling Too Many Out-of-State Students
North Carolina A&T State University has a state-imposed limit where only 35 percent of its student body can be from outside the state. In 2021, 41 percent of all students were not from North Carolina. As a result, the board of governors assessed a $2 million fine that will be allocated to need-based financial programs.
A New Center for Agroecology Established at Florida A&M University
The Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology will provide an interdisciplinary space, a think tank, where Black farmers’ voices, needs, ideas, challenges, and strategies are discussed together with the support of scholarship and research to promote relevant changes and policy recommendations as a part of the solutions.
Tuskegee University Forms Partnership With Auburn University to Address Healthcare Inequality
The agreement calls for a commitment to blend resources and intellectual capacity to address racial and health disparities in communities across the state of Alabama. Through faculty research and outreach collaborations, both universities will work to address lack of healthcare access and other social and health inequities in the local areas.
Shaw University Files a Civil Rights Complaint With the U.S. Department of Justice
In October, a bus carrying 18 Shaw University students was stopped on a highway in South Carolina. Multiple sheriff deputies and drug-sniffing dogs searched the suitcases of the students and staff located in the luggage racks beneath the bus. Now the university has filed an official civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Florida A&M University to Establish a New Center on Indoor Air Quality
The new Indoor Air Quality Center of Excellence will recommend methods and technology to effectively improve indoor air quality with active air monitoring, filtering, and ventilation. The center also will facilitate workshops and training to educate the public on the importance of air quality monitoring and develop a Statewide IAQ Management Plan.
Bowie State University Teacher Education Programs Buck the National Trend
While many teacher education programs across the country are showing declining enrollments, the opposite is true at historically Black Bowie State University in Maryland. The number of students enrolled in bachelor's education programs at Bowie State grew from 221 students in 2018 to 319 in 2021, almost a 50 percent increase.
Morris Brown College Partners With the Technical College System of Georgia
Associate degree graduates of the 22 campuses of the Technical College System of Georgia can now seamlessly transfer as juniors to Morris Brown College to pursue bachelor's degree programs in organizational management and leadership and hospitality management.
Atlanta University Center Consortium to Launch an Institute on Dual-Degree Engineering Programs
The new Institute for Dual-Degree Engineering Advancement (IDEA) will be a national hub for collaboration between 250 dual-degree engineering programs across the nation, providing models for best practices for dual-degree engineering students.
Bowie State University Begins a Bachelor’s Degree Program at a State Prison in Maryland
Incarcerated citizens at Maryland’s Jessup Correctional Institution can now earn a bachelor's degree in sociology. Incarcerated students who apply and are accepted into the university will have all fees and tuition covered by Pell Grants. Bowie State is the first HBCU in Maryland to offer a degree program for individuals incarcerated at a state correctional facility.
Morehouse College Establishes the Center for Broadening Participation in Computing
Morehouse College, the nation's only historically Black liberal arts institution dedicated to educating and developing men, and the Information Technology Industry Council, a global technology trade association representing 80 of the world's most innovative companies, are partnering together to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech ecosystem.
Southern University Ends 50-Year Campus Ban of Students Who Mounted a Protest in 1972
On November 16, 1972, student protesters were confronted with tear gas canisters that they threw back at police. During an ensuing melee, two students were shot and killed. Four student leaders were arrested, expelled from the university, and banned from campus. The ban has now been lifted.
Tougaloo College Partners With Mississippi State University’s College of Engineering
Under the agreement, Mississippi State University and Tougaloo College will continue to develop options for “3+2” programs, where students can earn a bachelor’s degree from Tougaloo and a bachelor’s or a master’s degree in engineering from the university’s Bagley College of Engineering.
Prairie View, Southern Methodist, and Goldman Sachs Team Up for Cybersecurity Research
The research relationship with the two universities will tap the skills of undergraduate cyber security majors from Prairie View in tandem with graduate-level cyber security students at Southern Methodist. Researchers from both universities envision a pipeline to high-paying cybersecurity jobs for students who start their studies at Prairie View.
Morgan State University in Baltimore Adds Courses in Several Foreign Languages
The new course offering are in Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Yoruba. The Yoruba language is primarily spoken in the African nations of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The department is also offering a new second-level course in Italian. According to Morgan State University, it is the only HBCU to offer courses in Italian.
Columbia University School of Social Work Debuts New Scholarship Program for HBCU Graduates
The scholarship is named for Winona Cargile Alexander who was the first HBCU graduate to enroll in what is now the Columbia University School of Social Work. She earned a master of social work degree in 2016 and then became the first Black social worker in New York City.
Fort Valley State University Enters Partnership Agreement With Utah State University
Paul Jones, president of Fort Valley State University, earned bachelor's and master's degrees and was a two-sport athlete at Utah State. Both of this children graduated from Utah State and his son Isaiah currently works for the university as the orientation and family program coordinator.
Howard University Posts a Record Year in Grants and Contracts for Research
In 2018, historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. announced a goal of raising $100 million in grants and contracts for research by 2024. Today, Howard surpassed that goal two years early by raising $122 million in its 2022 fiscal year. This is a record sum for any historically Black college or university.
North Carolina A&T State University to Debut a Physician’s Assistant Degree Program
Nationwide, African Americans are 7.4 percent of all physician assistants. In North Carolina, where Blacks make up 22 percent of the state's population, African Americans are just 4.5 percent of all physician assistants. This new degree program aims to address the shortage of African American physician's assistants in North Carolina.
Tuskegee University Students Offered an Accelerated Path to a Law Degree
The new 3+3 degree program allows for Tuskegee students to attend the first year of law school at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, after finishing their junior year at Tuskegee, therefore earning a bachelor’s degree followed by a juris doctorate in six years instead of seven.
Charles R. Drew University Gets Approval to Establish Its Own Medical Doctorate Program
Up to now, medical students at Charles R. Drew University complete their training in a joint program with the University of California, Los Angeles. Now, the university has received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to establish an independent medical doctorate program.
Edward Waters University Teams Up With the University of Florida College of Nursing
Edward Waters University does not have a nursing program. This partnership gives qualified biological sciences majors at Edward Waters University who are interested in a nursing career the option to pursue a nursing degree at the University of Florida. This is the first partnership between an HBCU and the University of Florida College of Nursing.
Tougaloo College Partners With the Southern Illinois University School of Law
The two educational institutions have instituted a 3+3 dual degree program agreement for qualified college students. Successful students will have the opportunity to complete both their bachelor’s degree and law degree in six years.
A Major New Initiative Will Boost Genetics Research at Black Medical Schools
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recently announced a partnership with the nation’s four historically Black medical colleges to further support the cutting-edge scientific research they are leading to address significant gaps in genomics research, create new tools and methods to prevent and treat disease.
Florida A&M University Working to Extract Nitrogen From Wastewater to Make Fertilizer
Historically Black Florida A&M University is a partner in a five-university consortium that will create and operate the Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production.
Howard University to Administer a New Fellowship Program for the Department of Agriculture
Historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. has announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) that will create a new fellowship program with the goal of increasing diversity in the FAS.
Shaw University President Outraged by Traffic Stop and Search of Bus Carrying Black Students
A bus carrying 18 students and two advisers from Shaw University in Raleigh, was stopped by officers on a highway in South Carolina. Officers boarded the bus while drug-sniffing dogs examined the luggage in bins underneath the coach.
Six HBCUs Team Up With the World Bank Group
The World Bank Group today signed a new agreement with the presidents of six historically Black colleges and universities that will promote the sharing of knowledge and talent between the development and learning institutions to advance more inclusive and sustainable social and economic development.
New Initiative to Expand Opportunities in Classical Music for HBCU Students
Under the year-long Shared Voice program, students from Howard University, Fisk University, Morgan State University, and Morehouse College will form musical alliances with The Metropolitan Opera, faculty and students from The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
Shaw University Enters Partnership With Wake Technical Community College
Shaw University, a historically Black educational institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, has entered into an agreement with Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, that will allow for a smooth transition for Wake graduates who earn an associate's degree in computer science to transfer to Shaw University to complete a bachelor's degree.
Six Florida A&M Students File Lawsuit Claiming the State Underfunds the HBCU
The law firm Grant & Eisenhofer and noted civil rights attorney Joshua Dubin have filed a class action complaint in federal court in Florida, alleging that the state deliberately and systematically maintains a racially segregated higher-education structure that favors traditionally White schools over historically Black colleges and universities.
IBM Names Six HBCUs Where It Will Establish Cybersecurity Leadership Centers
Cybersecurity Leadership Centers will be established at North Carolina A&T State University, Southern University System, Clark Atlanta University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Morgan State University, and South Carolina State University.
Prairie View A&M University in Texas Creates a Major in African American Studies
Now of the first time in the nearly 150-year history of historically Black Prairie View A&M University in Texas, students will be able to pursue major and minor degree programs in African American studies. The program will prepare the emerging generation of leaders to communicate effectively, think critically, research, and examine any field of work through a comprehensive cultural lens.
