Blacks Appear to Be Shut Out in Election of New Members to the National...
From 2010 to 2013, JBHE research found that there was one Black engineer elected each year. This year, it appears that there are no new Black members.
A New African American Member of the Board of the Harvard Corporation
Kenneth I. Chenault, CEO of American Express, has been elected to the board of the Harvard Corporation, the principal fiduciary governing authority of the nation’s oldest university.
Southern University Chancellor Voted Out by Board
The board of supervisors at Southern University in Baton Rouge voted not to renew the contract of the university's chancellor James Llorens. His last day on the job will be June 30.
Roslyn Clark Artis Named President of Florida Memorial University
Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens has named Roslyn Clark Artis president of the university. She is the first woman to serve as president in the historically Black university's 135-year history.
Howard University Reported to Be Cutting 200 Jobs
The university did not specify which positions were being cut and how many layoffs will occur. Howard employs nearly 5,500 workers at the university and Howard University Hospital.
Rutgers Professor Clement Price Named Official Historian of the City of Newark, New Jersey
The post of official historian of Newark, New Jersey, has been vacant since 2005 but was revived as the city prepares to celebrate the 350th anniversary of its founding in 2016.
Michael Drake Appointed President of Ohio State University
When he takes office in June, Dr. Drake will be the first African American to be president of Ohio State. Currently, Dr. Drake is chancellor of the University of California, Irvine.
Central State University Designated a Land Grant Institution
The university will now have access to a share of federal funds earmarked for land grant universities. The designation will help foster partnerships and research with other land grant institutions.
UCLA May Departmentalize African American Studies
If the program became a department, Black studies could recruit its own faculty, expand partnerships with other academic entities, and possibly develop a doctoral program in the field.
William F. Tate Named Dean of the Graduate School at Washington University
Professor Tate will oversee 50 Ph.D. and 19 master's degree programs with enrollments of about 1,800 students. When he takes office on July 1, Dr. Tate will also hold the title of vice provost for graduate education.
Black Authors Named Finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards
Included among the 30 finalists are Jesmyn Ward an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama. Hilton Als and Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie, who have both taught at U.S. universities, are also finalists.
The New Dean of the College of Business at Grambling State University
Tsegai Emmanuel is a professor in the department of management and marketing at the university. Dr. Emmanuel has been on the Grambling State faculty for 30 years and served as dean of the College of Business from 1980 to 1990.
Colleges Commit to Increasing Access for Low-Income Students
Leaders of 119 institutions made commitments to increase financial aid programs, boost outreach efforts, or take other measures to increase access for students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
African American Graduate School Enrollments Hold Steady
Overall African American enrollments in higher education dropped by 3.4 percent from 2011 to 2012. But it appears that in graduate schools, African Americans are holding steady.
Vernon Jordan to Head the Search for a New Howard University President
Vernon Jordan has served on the university's board of trustees since 1993 and was a member of the search committee that recommended hiring the previous president, Sidney Ribeau, who stepped down last year.
The Racial Gap in College Graduation Rates
At publicly operated colleges and universities, 39.7 percent of Blacks earned their bachelor's degrees within six years from the same institution at which they enrolled in 2006 compared to 60.2 percent of Whites.
Claude Steele Named Provost at the University of California, Berkeley
Since 2011, Dr. Steele has been dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Before becoming dean, Professor Steele served for two years as provost at Columbia University in New York City.
Florida A&M University Names Its Next President
Elmira Mangum, vice president for planning and budget at Cornell University, has been chosen as the 11th president and first woman president of historically Black Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
A New Provost at North Carolina Central University
Since 2007, Dr. Johnson O. Akinleye has been associate vice chancellor for academic programs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He holds a Ph.D. in communications from Howard University.
Glenn Vaulx Chosen as Interim President of Lane College
Glenn M. Vaulx Sr. has been named interim president of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. He has a 40-year career as a teacher and administrator for the public school system in Jackson.
New Data Shows a Drop in African American Enrollments in Higher Education
The U.S. Department of Education reports that in the fall of 2012 there were 2,864,723 African Americans enrolled in degree-granting institutions in the United States, down more than 3 percent from a year earlier.
Shaw University Names Acting President
Dr. Gaddis Faulcon has been serving as an associate professor of public administration and dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies at the university. He has been on the faculty since 1998.
Arthur Dunning Is the New Leader of Albany State University
Dr. Dunning was serving as a professor and senior research fellow at the Education Policy Center of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is expected to serve as interim president for up to one year.
More Than 5 Million Living African Americans Now Hold a Four-Year College Degree
Some 21.2 percent of the African American population over 25 years now has at least a bachelor's degree. For Whites the comparable figures is 34.5 percent.
Gwendolyn Boyd Named President of Alabama State University
Dr. Boyd has been serving as the executive assistant to the chief of staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.
George Miller Named Dean of Graduate Studies at Norfolk State University
Dr. Miller is the former president of Martin University in Indianapolis. He resigned as president on November 1 after being appointed to the position in February 2012.
Charles D. Howell to Lead the Department of Internal Medicine at Howard University
Dr. Charles D. Howell has been serving as a tenured professor of medicine and director of hepatology research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Nuclear Engineer Named Dean at South Carolina State University
Kenneth Lewis was appointed dean of the College of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Technology. He served in the same post from 2005 to 2011.
Alcorn State University President M. Christopher Brown II Resigns
Dr. Brown has led Alcorn State since 2010. Earlier in his career, he was provost at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennesee, and dean of education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Major Effort to Boost Faculty Diversity
Since the year 2000, the percentage of all faculty at Penn who were racial or ethnic minorities increased from 12.8 percent to 20.5 percent. But President Amy Gutmann says, "We still have more work to do."
No Progress in Closing the Racial Gap in Doctoral Degrees
In 2012, African Americans earned 2,079 doctoral degrees. This was 6.3 percent of all doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. In 2002, African Americans also earned 6.3 percent of all doctoral degrees.
Yale University Authenticates Account of a Nineteenth-Century Black Prison Inmate
Yale University has announced that researchers have determined that a manuscript acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2009 is the earliest known memoir written by an African American prison inmate.
Two HBCUs Removed From Accreditation Probation
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has lifted the probation of accreditation at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
Significant Progress in Black Graduation Rates at Flagship State Universities
Every year since JBHE has tracked graduation rates for Black students, the University of Virginia has had the highest graduation rate for African Americans. But other flagship universities have narrowed the gap.
Destenie Nock Wins Mitchell Scholarship
She is a senior at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, where she is majoring in electrical engineering and applied mathematics. She will study at Queen's University in Belfast.
Former Superintendent of Boston Public Schools to Teach at Vanderbilt University
Carol R. Johnson, who has led the public schools in Boston, Memphis, and Minneapolis, will be teaching in the department of leadership, policy, and organizations in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development.
