By Anthony Howard Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz toured Jackson State University last month to highlight investments to preserve HBCUs. JSU received an investment of $650,000 from the National Park Service. The funding received will help preserve the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Civil Rights Education Center and Ayer Hall.
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Courtesy of Benedict College The FBI Columbia field office announced today that it is launching its first Mentoring Program inspired by the FBI’s Beacon Project. FBI personnel will serve as mentors to select students from Benedict College, Allen University, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, and Morris College. The students will meet with FBI mentors
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By Claretta Bellamy For the first time, Black veterans are getting a monument to acknowledge their service and contributions in all U.S. wars. The African American Veterans Monument was unveiled Saturday in Buffalo, New York, to honor Black veterans and active-duty military service members who served in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines and
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Courtesy of Delaware State University Multiple efforts to improve and expand Delaware State University’s graduate education programs are proving successful, with enrollment up 729 % over the past eight years. Under the leadership of Dr. Nirmaljit Rathee, Director of Education Graduate Programs, the department has undergone transformational change, with an updated quality curriculum, increased practicality of
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By Jackie Torok North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has announced its newest cohort of Cheatham-White Scholarship recipients, representing some of the highest-achieving students among members of the class of 2026. The 20 academically talented first-year students boast an average cumulative GPA of 4.45 and, on average, ranked in the top 5 to 10
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 By Meredith Kolodner Uchenna Ihekwereme walked to the front row of the 150-person auditorium for a political science class at the University of Georgia. She sat down, as she always did, with her back to the sea of white faces. She had become accustomed to being the only Black student in her classes, but it
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Courtesy of Fayetteville State University Fayetteville State University’s (FSU) Jennifer K. Addison, interim associate vice chancellor of finance and controller in the Office of Business and Finance, has been named to The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) 2022-23 cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program, a professional development opportunity for promising mid-level
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Courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana  Xavier University of Louisiana is one of 13 recipients of the Gilead Foundation’s Creating Possible Fund™, which was launched to support creative and high-impact strategies that advance health through education equity. As one of the nation’s leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Xavier continuously seeks to expand opportunities
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By Misha Cornelius Shared Voices is a contemporary classical music program for undergraduate and graduate students, which is reminiscent of the rich history and connection between elite Historically Black Colleges and Universities and America’s most preeminent Conservatories. Shared Voices is a year-long program that will bolster collaboration between students and administrators which will lead to
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By Joel McCord For years, the study of environmental sciences has taken place in an overwhelmingly white world. While African Americans make up about 13% of the U.S. population, they receive fewer than 3% of environmental science degrees annually, according to a 2020 Data USA study. Now, officials at Morgan State University, a historically Black
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