Johnson C. Smith University’s New Book Examines the History of Its Surrounding Neighborhood
The anthology, entitled Let There Be Light, explores how the historic West End neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, where the historically Black university is located, has helped shape racial relations of the New South.
Clark Atlanta University Sues the City of Atlanta Over Morris Brown College Land Deal
Historically Black Clark Atlanta University has filed a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta claiming that the university had rights to land recently bought by the city from Morris Brown College.
Fort Valley States University Announces Plans to Deal With Budget Shortfall
President Ivelaw Griffith announced that the jobs of 14 staff members would be eliminated and 11 other positions that are currently vacant will not be filled. He also announced energy savings initiatives, changes in degree programs, and renewed marketing efforts to attract new students.
First Students Enroll in Johnson C. Smith University’s Master of Social Work Degree Program
The two-year degree program, which is offered in the evenings, allows students with full-time jobs the opportunity to enroll. There are 29 students in the inaugural class. Of the 29 students, 27 are women.
Kentucky State University Gets Serious With Students Who Hadn’t Paid Their Bills
Interim President Raymond Burse explained that the university faced a deficit of nearly $7 million, largely the result of students who hadn't paid their bills. After 645 students were dismissed, about 70 percent found ways to settle their accounts within a week.
Cheyney University Opens Its New $23 Million Science Center
The 40,000-square-foot structure houses chemistry, biology, physics, and computer laboratories, seminar and lecture rooms, faculty offices, a planetarium, and an external greenhouse. It's the first new academic building on campus in 30 years.
Charter School Moves Its Operation to Johnson C. Smith University Campus
The charter school is affiliated with Elon Homes, which was established in 1907 as an orphanage and now is one of the region's largest foster care organizations. The charter school has now expanded to serve the entire community, but about 10 percent of the students enrolled at the school are in foster care.
Dillard University to Offer Free Hazardous Waste Management Training for New Orleans Residents
The free training program in hazardous waste management, housed at Dillard's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, is funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
Grambling State University Pushes Back Timetable for Selecting Its Next President
Grambling State University in Louisiana had planned to name its next president in October. But a delay in securing the services of an executive search firm has now pushed the timetable for the announcement of a new president to the spring of 2015.
Alabama State University President Appears to Have the Faculty in Her Corner
New Alabama State University President Gwendolyn Boyd has had her troubles with the university's board of trustees but she appears to be a favorite of the university's faculty.
Albany State University Forms Partnership With Walmart
The partnership will include scholarships, internship opportunities, in-kind contributions from Walmart to the university and job readiness workshops led by Walmart professionals in fields such as logistics, law, and transportation management.
North Carolina HBCU Tightening Its Belt
Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina, saw tuition revenue drop by $3 million during the last academic year. It has taken several steps to deal with the loss in revenue including the recent decision not to rehire 75 adjunct faculty members for the new academic year.
Ohio HBCU Enters Into a Parntership With a University in Cameroon
Central State University, the historically Black educational institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, has entered into a partnership agreement with Santa Monica University: The American International University in Cameroon.
Norfolk State University Trying to Gets Its Financial House in Order
Norfolk State was placed on accreditation warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools due to the commission's concerns about the university's finances. President Eddie Moore Jr. stated that the next six months were "critical to our survival and success."
North Carolina A&T State University Enters the Peanut Business
A partnership with a Toronto-based firm will develop food products from hypoallergenic peanuts using a process patented by researchers in the university's School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
Kentucky State President Takes Pay Cut to Help Low-Wage University Workers
New interim president Raymond Burse has voluntarily reduced his salary from$349,869 to $259,745 so that university employees who had been earning minimum wage would have their hourly rate boosted to $10.25.
Black Undergraduates at Two HBCUs Participate in Prostate Cancer Research
Students from two historically Black educational institutions in Mississippi - Jackson State University and Tougaloo College - participated in a 10-week program this summer involving prostate cancer research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Alumni Step Up to Help Wilberforce University
At a recent national alumni conference, $400,000 was donated to help the school financially and another $1.4 million was pledged. With overall debt of $23 million, a lot more work needs to be done to shore up the university's finances.
Florida A&M University Establishes the Sustainability Institute
The institute's mission is to enhance the university’s academic and research programs on sustainability issues; improve the efficiencies and environmental stewardship of campus operations; and perform outreach and engagement initiatives.
Tuskegee University to Participate in Space Vehicle Design Project
Tuskegee students and faculty will have the opportunity to work on the development of the Dream Chaser Orbital Transportation System of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems division.
Jackson State University to Establish a School of Journalism
Eric D. Stringfellow, an award-winning journalist, will serve as interim director of the new school. He has been serving as executive director for university communications and will continue in that role.
Alabama State University to Build National Park Service Center on Campus
Alabama State University in Montgomery has signed an agreement with the National Park Service to develop a new $5 million interpretive center on campus that will be part of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.
HBCU Tackles the High Cost of College Textbooks
The new program at Tennessee State will allow first- and second-year students to buy electronic books for general education classes instead of traditional paper textbooks. Students could save as much as $735 per semester.
Delaware State University Signs Agreements With Five Universities in China and Ghana
The Chinese universities will send undergraduate and graduate students to Delaware State and the universities in Ghana will participate in faculty and student exchanges, research collaborations, and other ventures with Delaware State.
University of the District of Columbia Offering Free Soil Testing for Residents With Urban...
Urban vegetable gardens can produce healthy and inexpensive food to help meet the dietary needs of city residents. But food from these gardens is only as good as the soil in which it is grown.
A New Clandestine Website Calls for Ouster of Paine College’s President
In June the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed Paine College on accreditation probation. The college has 12 months to address the commission's concerns or it could lose its accreditation.
Let’s Create a National Endowment for HBCUs
Professor Richard F. America calls for a national fundraising effort to strengthen historically Black colleges and universities well into the twenty-first century.
Eight HBCUs Sign Agreement With China’s Ministry of Education
Eight historically Black colleges and universities have signed an agreement with the China Education Association for International Exchange. The agreement calls for 1,000 scholarships for students at the HBCUs to study abroad in China.
Winston-Salem State University Announces an Academic Reorganization
The College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business and Economics, and the School of Education and Human Performance will be consolidated into the College of Arts, Sciences, Business, and Education.
HBCU Puts the University at the Fingertips of Its Students
The new University of Maryland Eastern Shore app provides fingertip links to a faculty directory, a campus map, university social media platforms, the resources of the university's library, and emergency contact information.
Southern University Seeks to Expand Enrollments in Its Computer Science Program
A partnership agreement allows students who have a completed an associate's degree in computer science at Baton Rouge Community College to gain admittance to the bachelor's degree program in computer science at Southern University.
North Carolina Central University Enters Dual Enrollment Partnership With Community College
The new Eagle Connect Program allows students enrolled at Durham Technical Community College to live on the nearby North Carolina Central University campus during their first two years of study.
Xavier University of Louisiana Establishes a New Doctoral Program
The board of trustees of Xavier University of Louisiana has approved the establishment of a doctorate in educational leadership degree program. The new degree program will focus on urban education and turning around poor-performing schools.
Howard University Teams Up With Chrysler and Arizona State University
Under the agreement, two students from each university will participate at an internship program in supply chain management at Chrysler during the summer months and then study at the other university this fall.
Dillard University in New Orleans Restructures Its Academic Divisions
Under the new restructuring plan, which will be in effect for the 2014-15 academic year, the university's four colleges will be reduced to three academic units. The College of Health Sciences has been eliminated.
Six New Bachelor’s Degree Programs at Florida A&M University This Fall
The new bachelor's degree programs, which will begin this fall, are in physical and teacher education, health, leisure, and fitness studies, two bachelor's degree programs in interdisciplinary studies, and two programs in environmental studies.
