North Carolina A&T State University Announces Record Enrollments
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University recently announced that the school is educating about 13,500 students for the 2022-2023 academic year, making it the largest historically black university in the nation for the ninth straight year and the largest enrollment ever recorded by an HBCU.
Savannah State University Partners With Michigan’s Grand Valley State University
The universities recently signed an agreement that allows some undergraduates at Savannah State to eventually qualify for in-state tuition at Grand Valley State University in one of three master's degree programs: cybersecurity, criminal justice, and communications, none of which are currently offered at Savannah State.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore Launches Rebranding Initiative and New Logo
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has embarked on a new branding initiative. The effort includes a new logo that includes the university's hawk mascot and identifies the school as a historically Black university.
Saint Augustine’s University Teams Up With Wayne County Community College in Detroit
Historically Black Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, has entered into a partnership with the Wayne County Community College District in Detroit to allow community college students a seamless pathway to transfer to Saint Augustine's to complete a bachelor's degree.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Florida A&M University Extends Contract and Issues a Nice Bonus to President Larry Robinson
The Florida A&M University board of trustees has voted to give President Larry Robinson a 3.5 percent raise, a 17.5 percent bonus and to extend his contract for another year. Under the State University System regulations, the board of trustees can only extend the president’s contract for 12 months.
Howard University to Offer Free Test Preparation Services to Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Howard University announced that through a new partnership with Kaplan Inc., it will immediately begin providing all of its undergraduate students with free test prep courses for graduate-level admissions exams and free test prep for professional licensing exams for its students enrolled at its graduate schools.
New Scholarship Program at Yale to Offer Financial Aid to New Students Who Attend...
The Yale and Slavery Working Group revealed details of an effort by individuals within the Yale and New Haven communities who thwarted a proposal in 1831 to establish what could have been America’s first institution of higher learning for Black students. The new Pennington Fellowship, to provide scholarships for New Haven students to attend HBCUs, is part of the reckoning process.
Spelman College Will Be the First HBCU to Offer a Bachelor’s Degree in Documentary...
Support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation for the new film documentary program began during the pandemic with equipment purchases, which allowed students to continue their studies remotely and without interruption. Now a $1 million donation will fund the creation of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Center for Documentary Media Studies.
Fayetteville State University of Offer Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training
Fayetteville State is the first HBCU in the country to host a sexual assault nurse examiners training program at its nursing school. Today, there are fewer than 100 SANEs certified across the state of North Carolina. The university's SANE program aims to train 20 of these specially qualified nurses per semester, including the summer, with a goal of reaching 60 per year.
Accrediting Agency Places Saint Augustine’s University on Probation
Citing concerns about Saint Augustine's University's finances, the board of trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges recently voted to place the historically Black university on accreditation probation for a year.
Lincoln University of Missouri Offers Cybersecurity Education to Local High Schools
Historically Black Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and the Jefferson City School District are partnering on a new academic initiative designed to bolster the nation's cybersecurity workforce entitled Project REACH (Realizing Equitable Access to Cybersecurity in High School).
Norfolk State University Enters Partnership With the University of the West Indies
The agreement calls for joint research activities; joint teaching and supervision of students; and the staging of joint seminars, conferences, and academic meetings. The agreement will also facilitate education abroad for undergraduate and graduate students, including exchanges and internships.
Jackson State University to Participate in Research on Coastal Flooding
The College of Engineering, Science and Technology at historically Black Jackson State University in Mississippi recently established a multi-year, three-pronged partnership with Woolpert, an international architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, to improve and expand upon current numerical coastal inundation modeling systems.
