By Brionna Hopkins Florida A&M University (FAMU) alum and tennis great Althea Gibson will be honored with a street name. The Leon County Commission is expected to adopt the proposal to rename Wahnish Way to Althea Gibson Way at its Tuesday, March 19 meeting. This comes on the heels of action last fall when Tallahassee
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By Kaci Jones There’s a push to bring one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges in North Carolina back to a thriving state as the enrollment is flirting with single-digits. Barber-Scotia College is dealing with academic, structural and financial issues, but the new President Chris Rey says he has a plan to push the institution forward. Barber-Scotia has
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By Brittany Bailer The Center for Digital Business at the Howard University School of Business presented its inaugural Tech Titans Talk. The panel, produced in collaboration with Maximus, gathered distinguished Black chief information officers (CIOs) from across the technology industry for a discussion at the Armour J. Blackburn Center. At a time when Black people
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Courtesy of Bowie State University Executives from MLB Network, the production arm of Major League Baseball, will visit the Bowie State campus Wednesday, March 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center to speak to students about the company and conduct interviews with individuals interested in
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By Bennett Leckrone More schools are adding online master of business administration (MBA) degrees geared toward working professionals, adding to a growing nationwide trend. Kean University in New Jersey and Northwestern College in Iowa both recently announced plans to launch online MBA programs in fall 2024. Those schools come from vastly different parts of the higher education landscape: Kean University
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Courtesy of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Seven University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) STEM students are attending the 55th Lunar & Planetary Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, from March 11 – 15, 2024, as part of NASA’s Here to Observe (H2O) program. NASA calls the student participants Student Observers. The UAPB Student Observers are
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By Sydney Heiberger It’s been about nine months since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race could no longer be a factor in college admissions decisions. Queen City News contacted all five of North Carolina’s public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to see whether the decision impacted the number of students applying to those institutions.
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By Bennett Leckrone International business schools tout diverse student populations from across the globe — and one such institution flexed its global reach by breaking a Guinness World Record for the number of nationalities represented in a single business class. Students from 60 countries attended a class at Hult International Business School’s Holborn campus in
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By Curtis Bunn Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill Wednesday making hers the latest state to enact bans on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public colleges and offices. SB 129 requires that DEI offices and initiatives funded by public colleges or government agencies be eliminated or vastly changed. It also seeks to minimize teachings
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Courtesy of Texas Southern University Texas Southern University is proud to announce that Trushna Parekh, Associate Professor of Geography, has been awarded a 2024 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program provides flexible support that attends to the research, teaching, and service commitments at
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