HBCUs

Dillard University to Offer Its First Master’s Degree Program in Its 153-Year History

The new master's degree program in nursing will be a 12-course, 36-39 credit hour hybrid degree program designed to be completed in four consecutive semesters for full-time students; and six semesters for part-time students.

Good News! Florida Memorial University Has Been Removed From Accreditation Probation

On Thursday, June 17, 2021, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges voted to place historically Black Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens on “probation for good cause.” After some significant budget cuts, the university's probation has now been lifted.

Boeing Makes New $8 Million Commitment to Train and Recruit Students From HBCUs

Boeing and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund have renewed a partnership agreement that seeks to develop students from historically Black colleges and universities for careers in the aerospace industry.

Elizabeth City State University Partners With Lenoir-Rhyne University for Teacher Education

Under the agreement, students and alumni from ECSU will have priority admission to the Masters in Art of Teaching (MAT) degree program at Lenoir-Rhyne University. ECSU graduates will receive a 10 to 20 percent tuition discount.

Florida A&M University Gets a $70 Million Windfall in Increased State Funding

The funding is designed to beef up the university’s student success initiatives, including graduation and retention rates, first-time licensure pass rates for nursing, pharmacy, and physical therapy, boosting the number of STEM graduates, and the recruitment and retention of faculty.

Alcorn State University Enters Partnership With Copiah-Lincoln Community College

Copiah-Lincoln Community College operates campuses in Wesson, Mendenhall, and Natchez, Mississippi. Under the agreement, students who complete specific associate degree requirements at the community college will receive guaranteed admission to Alcorn State University’s four-year degree programs.

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Aims to Boost Nursing Enrollments

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, the historically Black educational institution in Los Angeles, is joining forces with CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States in an effort to address the severe shortage of nurses in California.

Historically Black Claflin University Teams Up With London Metropolitan University

Under the partnership agreement, students from both universities will have opportunities for customized study abroad programs, international summer school, internships, and service-learning placement scholarships.

Prudential Financial Launches Program to Train Endowment Professionals at HBCUs

The goal of the program is to provide investment management education and training for HBCU decision-makers who manage endowments in order to boost endowment performance and therefore reinforce the financial stability of HBCUs.

Southern University Signs a Five-Year Partnership Agreement With Georgetown University

The agreement represents a pledge by the leaders of Georgetown and the Southern University System to collaborate on activities that could include joint research and curriculum projects, the exchange of faculty and research scholars, faculty training and development, and grants and student pipeline programs. 

HBCU Students to Participate in Medical Research Program at the University of Pennsylvania

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is expanding its Penn Access Summer Scholars Program to include students from five historically Black educational institutions. The selective program provides two summers of research for undergraduates with a goal of preparing them to matriculate into medical school.

NFL Partners With Black Medical Schools in an Effort to Diversify the Sports Medicine Pipeline

HBCU medical students interested in primary care sports medicine and/or orthopedic surgery will be selected by their respective schools to complete one-month clinical rotations with NFL clubs during the 2022 NFL season. Eight NFL teams each will host two medical students.

Bluefield State College in West Virginia Will Transition to University Status

Historically Black Bluefield State College in West Virginia was founded in 1895 as the Bluefield Colored Institute to provide higher education to the children of African-American coal miners in the region. Today, the college, which will now become a university, is only 10 percent Black.

Fort Valley State University in Georgia to Begin a Master of Social Work Degree Program

The graduate-level program will focus on mental health, addiction, and clinical behavioral health. Internship and fieldwork placements will allow students to further their understanding of addiction and mental health through direct practice. The first classes are scheduled to begin during the Spring 2023 semester.

Benedict College Is the Inaugural Participant in the VA’s Health Care Talent Academy

The pilot program will increase awareness, knowledge, and empathy of future health conditions common in veterans among Benedict students interested in the health care field. Students will have an opportunity to do 20-40 hours of clinical shadowing and observing at the nearby Dorn VA Medical Center.

Historically Black Grambling State University Enters Partnership With the University of Belize

The agreement establishes a path where graduates of the University of Belize in Central America can work on and complete graduate degrees in the department of curriculum and instruction at Grambling State University through an online program.

IBM to Establish Cybersecurity Leadership Centers at Six Historically Black Universities

IBM will develop for each HBCU a customized IBM Security Learning Academy portal. The six participating HBCUs are Clark Atlanta University, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, South Carolina State University, Southern University, and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Savannah State University to Offer a New Degree Program in Data Analytics

The data analytics degree program is a joint effort between three of the university’s colleges: the College of Business Administration, the College of Sciences and Technology, and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and draws on critical competencies from each area of study.

Howard University Acquires a Collection of Gordon Parks Photographs

The breadth of the collection — which spans Parks’s earliest photographs in the 1940s through the 1990s — makes it one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of Parks’s life and work anywhere in the world.

HBCU Medical Schools Team Up to Increase Organ Donorship Rates Among African Americans

The Consortium of HBCU Medical Schools has announced a new initiative to increase the number of African Americans who register to be organ donors. The initiative will also seek to find ways to eliminate racial disparities among recipients of donated organs.
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