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No Progress in Closing the Racial Gap in ACT Test Scores

The ACT data shows that only 5 percent of Black ACT test takers met the organization's college readiness standards in all four major subject areas.

Morris Brown College Files for Bankruptcy

Since the college lost accreditation a decade ago, students enrollments have dropped from 2,500 to 50. Facing a foreclosure sale on much of the campus, the college filed for federal protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Former Associate Attorney General to Lead an Investigation of Roxbury Community College

The college has hired Wayne Budd, a litigator with the law firm Goodwin Proctor and a former associate attorney general of the United States, to conduct a sweeping investigation of all allegations of impropriety at the college.

President of Alabama A&M University Receives Major Vote of Confidence

The university's board of trustees extended President Andrew Hugine's contract to July 2017.

Stanford’s Condoleezza Rice Is One of the First Two Women Members of Augusta National

Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state in the administration of George W. Bush and current professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, achieves yet another milestone.

Muriel Poston Named Dean of Faculty at Pitzer College

She has been serving as division director for human resource development at the National Science Foundation. Previously, she had served on the faculty at Howard University for more than 20 years.

Joyce Blackwell Takes on Senior Academic Post at Bennett College

She was vice president for academic affairs and a tenured professor of history at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg.

Saint Paul’s College Suspends Classes for the Fall Semester

With the loss of accreditation looming, the HBCU has decided it would be "prudent" to suspend most campus operations, including fall classes. An appeal of the accreditation ruling is expected to be heard next week.

Kenneth Saunders to Lead Nassau Community College on Long Island

He has been serving as the executive vice president of the college and previously served for 12 years as the college's vice president for academic student services.

University of Texas Defends Its Consideration of Race in Undergraduate Admissions Decisions

The plaintiff, in the case the Supreme Court will hear on October 10, argues that she was denied admission to the university in 2008 because she is white.

Fisk University Completes Agreement to Share Its Stieglitz Art Collection

The university received $30 million, with $15.2 million earmarked for its endowment. Nearly $6 million is being used for legal fees associated with the eight-year legal battle to share or sell the art collection.

Penn Creates Africana Studies Department

The new department will have 11 standing faculty members and will be chaired by Camille Z. Charles, a professor of sociology at Penn.

Charles Becton to Lead North Carolina Central University

A former judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, he has been teaching at the law schools of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cecilia Rouse Named Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School

A member of the Princeton faculty since 1992, Dr. Rouse served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2011.

The First Black Dean of the Duke Chapel

Luke E. Powery has been serving as the Perry and Georgia Engle assistant professor of homiletics at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.

Claflin University Appoints Its First Provost

Karl S. wright in the first provost in the 143-year history of Claflin University, an HBCU in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

John Ellis Price Stepping Down as President of the University of North Texas at Dallas

When the institution opened in 2001, there were only 55 students enrolled who took classes in a leased space at a business park. Today, there are more than 2,000 students enrolled in 19 degree programs at the university's 264-acre campus in south Dallas.

President Announces the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans

The new initiative will work "to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American students' achievement in school and college."

Shirley Ann Jackson Named a Fellow of the British Royal Academy of Engineering

The former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Jackson is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

In 2011, Blacks Earned 9.9 Percent of All Degrees Awarded by Four-Year Institutions

The data showed that Blacks earned 286,597 degrees at four-year institutions during the 2010-2011 academic year. This was slightly less than 10 percent of all degrees awarded.
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