By Texas Southern University The Executive Master of Public Administration program (eMPA) at Texas Southern University has announced a new multi-year partnership with the Texas Lyceum. The partnership includes fellowships for graduate student recipients ($5,000 per annual fellowship), stipends for faculty advisors, and funding to support programming and research. For more than 40 years, the
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By Fayetteville State University The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has selected Fayetteville State University’s Kimberly Smith Burton, Ph.D. to receive the 2022 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Burton is one of 17 outstanding faculty members across the system to receive the prestigious award. “Dr. Burton is one of our most outstanding faculty
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Courtesy of Hampton University Delta Airlines is proud to announce that Hampton University has joined the Propel Collegiate Pilot Career Path Program, the airline’s first such partnership with a historically Black university. This partnership is a part of the airline’s work to better reflect the diversity of the world it serves. It helps broaden diversity
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By Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College is expanding its academic computational science programs with a new Biomedical Data Science Ph.D. at the School of Applied Computational Sciences. The School is currently accepting applications for the first Ph.D. cohort that will begin classes in August of 2022. “This is an exciting addition to our master’s degrees
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Courtesy of Stillman College Let’s Go Racing! Stillman College will make its NASCAR debut Sunday, March 20 in the Folds of Honor QuickTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. The No. 44 Stillman College themed Chevrolet Camaro will be driven by Greg Biffle of NY Racing Team. Qualifying for the race will occur
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By Bayan Atari Fourteen years before the landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka desegregated American public schools, Howard University graduate and psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark (BS ’38, MA ’39), with the help of her husband Kenneth Bancroft Clark, was already doing revolutionary work on the profound impact of segregation and racism
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By Curtis Bunn Google fosters a work environment that marginalizes Black employees, denies people of color advancement opportunities and ignores sexual harassment claims, among other indiscretions, according to plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company in California this week. At a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, attorney Ben Crump and two former
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By K. Harrington Livingstone will host some of the leading voices of criminal justice reform on Wednesday during a town hall meeting in partnership with the national group, Reform Alliance. The meeting, titled “Criminal Justice Reform: A Critical Conversation,” will begin at 3 p.m. at Varick Auditorium and is open to the public. The panelists
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BY D. AILEEN DODD Morehouse College is partnering with The National Training Institute on Race and Equity (NTIRE) to help address issues of implicit bias in business, criminal justice, education, healthcare, and governmental agencies. NTIRE offers diversity and anti-bias training sessions to organizations that want to improve community relations and employee interactions, as well as provide opportunities
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