By William J. Ford Facing an $18 million budget deficit for next fiscal year, Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest historically Black university, said it will cut 79 positions from its workforce. According to a message from Bowie State University President Aminta Breaux, the university plans to cut those jobs through a combination of vacancies, reorganization and layoffs.
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Courtesy of Howard University Arsene Frederic Jr., a 2026 graduating doctoral student in Howard University’s School of Education, is working to address legislative barriers to college affordability for HBCU students with his qualitative study. Frederic recently defended his dissertation, “Policy Advocacy, Institutional Power and Political Engagement: A Critical Study of State Legislative Black Caucuses and
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Texas Southern University today joined fellow leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., for the official launch of the Association of HBCU Research Institutions (AHRI), a transformative national collaboration designed to expand research capacity, strengthen institutional competitiveness, and elevate the national impact of HBCU research. AHRI brings together very high-research and high-research HBCUs committed to accelerating
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Florida A&M University (FAMU) will host a first-of-its-kind HBCU Student Success Summit led by an institution on April 17, convening higher education leaders from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to share practical strategies that strengthen student persistence, engagement, and academic achievement. “Student success requires intentional strategies and coordinated support across the institution,” said Allyson L.
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An audience watches the conclusion of the 37th Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, which was held at Torrance, CA on April 13th, 2026. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer) More than 200 college students from across the country came to Torrance earlier this week to compete in one of the most prestigious academic competitions — the
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The Saint Augustine’s University bankruptcy filing has placed one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs at the center of a difficult conversation about money, accreditation, student support, and the future of historic Black institutions. The Raleigh, North Carolina university announced that its Board of Trustees approved a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as part of a larger
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By Jane C. Timm Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature passed a new congressional map dividing up the state’s lone majority-Black district, swiftly responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s major redistricting ruling last week. The redrawn district lines, which Gov. Bill Lee signed into law, put Republicans in position to gain a seat in this fall’s midterm elections and secure full
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The study is uncovering the potential long-term health benefits of attending an HBCU. A new study has revealed the long-term health benefits of attending a historically Black college or university. The study, published in February in Jama Network Open, suggested that students in a culturally affirming academic environment often fare better decades later. According to
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By Corky Siemaszko Thirty former Ohio State University football players, including more than a dozen who went on to play in the NFL, signed on to the class action lawsuit brought by other ex-OSU students who say they were sexually abused decades ago by campus doctor Richard Strauss. While the eight-year legal battle to get OSU
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By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal court ruled Thursday against the new global tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court. A split three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade in New York found the 10% global tariffs were illegal after small businesses sued. The court ruled 2-1 that Trump
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