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The professors taking on new roles in the academic world are Evelyn Field of South Carolina State University, Avery Willis Hoffman at the University of Chicago, Nicole McConlogue at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Gerald Horne at the University of Houston.

After a controversy surrounding the handling of an incident where an art history instructor showed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad during an Islamic art class, Fayneese Miller, president of the university, announced she will retire on June 30, 2024. In January, a large majority of the university's faculty urged President Miller to resign over her handling of the incident.

Here is this week’s roundup of Black scholars who have been hired or assigned new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Fayneese Miller currently serves as dean of the College of Education and Social Services and professor of leadership and developmental sciences at the University of Vermont. Previously, she taught for 20 years at Brown University.