Tagged: California State University Stanislaus

The appointments are Keiko Price Carter at Emory University in Atlanta, Talibah M. Bayles at Miles College in Alabama, Markel Quarles at California State University, Stanislaus, Traevena Byrd at George Washington University, Rodney D. Smith at Texas Southern University, and Willie D. Moore at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

Dr. Hughes served as the first woman and first African American president of California State University, Stanislaus. She then became the first woman president of Dillard University in Louisiana, where she oversaw major recovery efforts after the HBCU's campus was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Incidents of racial hate continue to plague the campuses of American higher education. Here is a roundup of recent incidents at campuses across the United States.