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Kamala Harris advocates for HBCU investment during Hampton University visit

By Jessica Floyd, “If we are to invest in the strength of our nation we must invest in our HBCUs,” said Vice President Harris on Friday at the Home by the Sea campus. “HBCUs are not only competing but they’re leading,” Vice President Kamala Harris said during a visit to Hampton University on Friday. A majority of the vice president’s trip to Hampton focused on the intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics educations and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The White House, which is in the midst of its 2021 National HBCU Week, has been heavily driving initiatives

Demonstrators gather on Georgia college campuses to protest lack of mask mandates

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By Steve Almasy and Kiely Westhoff, A weeklong series of protests has begun on some of the biggest college campuses in Georgia, a state where less than 50% of residents are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and the governor has left mask mandates to local officials. The protesters are demanding mask mandates at all Georgia state-funded universities, with demonstrations scheduled to take place at 17 campuses, according to the Georgia chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). “The one thing we want to achieve is an immediate mask mandate,” Georgia Conference AAUP President Matthew Boedy said. In late July, system officials

Virginia HBCU Hampton University is a vaccinated island in a sea of COVID

By Chanelle Chandler As it marks its return to in-person classes, Hampton University, a prominent historically black college known colloquially as “Home by the Sea,” is setting an example of how to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. The school, which is located in Hampton, Va., has required that students be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, mandated masks in the classroom and taken efforts to curb the spread of the virus at large gatherings. But despite these measures, the college is something of an island, smack in the middle of a raging COVID ocean. In recent weeks, the city of Hampton has seen

Howard University cancels classes after ransomware attack

By Zachary Cohen, Howard University canceled classes Tuesday as it continues to investigate a ransomware attack on the school’s network, according to an interim update on the situation posted by the university, which is in Washington, DC. The university’s information technology team detected “unusual activity” on the network last week and shut it down to investigate the situation, the statement said. “The situation is still being investigated,” according to the university, but “based on the investigation and the information we have to date, we know the University has experienced a ransomware cyberattack.” “To date, there has been no evidence of personal information

Chadwick Boseman fought to reestablish a fine arts department. It’s now named after him

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By Faith Karimi, Chadwick Boseman’s alma mater has officially renamed a building after him. Howard University placed the late actor’s name over its fine arts building, a year after he died of colon cancer at age 43. The historically Black university released a statement and posted a time lapse video of the letters going up on the building. “The letters were installed over the now official Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts,” the university tweeted. “An icon in his own right who has left an immeasurable legacy for the next generation.” Boseman graduated from Howard with a degree from the College of Fine Arts

Tulane University relocating students to Houston due to power outages

By Ryan Young, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, Two Chicago-area freshmen, Lilly and McKenna, were on the Tulane campus for just a week when Hurricane Ida roared through and knocked out power to almost all of New Orleans. And on Tuesday, with two packed bags each, they boarded buses to Houston with hundreds of other students to fly home. “This is really scary, it’s nothing like anything I’ve ever had to endure ever in my whole life,” Lilly said of the experience. “I’ve been with people that I just met and they’ve all been really nice so like, it was

University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with university’s vaccine mandate

By Liam Reilly The University of Virginia has disenrolled 238 students for its fall semester on Friday for not complying with the university’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, according to a university spokesperson. UVA requires “all students who live, learn, or work in person at the university” to be fully vaccinated for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, according to current university Covid-19 policies. Out of the 238 incoming Fall semester students, only 49 of them were actually enrolled in classes, and the remaining 189 “may not have been planning to return to the university this fall at all,” UVA spokesperson Brian Coy told

19-Year Old HBCU Student Opens Vegan Bakery In Washington, DC

By Simon Osuji Chanice McClover-Lee, a 19-year old Black woman who is a student at Howard University, has opened her own vegan bakery called Baked by Chanice in Washington, DC that offers gourmet vegan treats such as cookies and custom cakes. Chanice, a Howard University student, started baking last year as a pastime during the pandemic. She decided to sell her baked goods at farmers’ markets in South Florida and when it became an instant hit, she pushed through with launching the business. Now, she is opening a bakery in a food hall and commercial kitchen in Washington, DC that

Some of Connecticut’s community colleges rank among the best in the country

By Rob Polansky   Several Connecticut community colleges rank as some of the best in the country. The personal finance website WalletHub.com on Monday released two lists, including 2021’s Best & Worst Community Colleges and 2021’s States with the Best Community College Systems. Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted ranked as the 20th best community college. Connecticut’s community college system ranked as the 6th best in the country. WalletHub said it said it compared more than 650 community colleges across 19 key indicators of cost and quality. The data included cost of in-state tuition and fees, student-faculty ratio, and graduation

University seeks to shine light on its past acts of discrimination

By Erin Gretzinger A UW-Madison student evicted from university housing for dating a Black man. Others expelled amid an administrative campaign to systematically seek out and remove homosexual male students from campus. Abusive conduct by a UW-Madison police officer who led the department for decades with impunity. It’s not exactly the stuff of college brochures. But beginning next fall, information about some of the university’s past blemishes will be on public display at the direction of top administrators. It’s all part of the Public History Project — a multiyear research effort funded by the university to unearth a history of

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