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FAMU Forgives Student Debt for 2020-21 Graduates

By Lauren M. Johnson Florida A&M University students got a welcome surprise when the university announced it would be paying off student financial balances for the 2020-2021 school year. President Larry Robinson broke the news at the commencement for 2020 graduates Saturday. “This is an indication of our commitment to student success and our hope that your time on the ‘Hill’ has been transformative as you take on the challenges of the day, go out and make a difference,” Robinson told the graduates. The historically Black university used more than $16 million of funding from the federal CARES Act, which was

Mayor Bottoms Joins HBCU Leadership Fellowship Program

by Vanessa Roberson Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is going back to school. Bottoms, whose mayoral term ends in January, will be the first honorary fellow of a new effort to train people for careers as leaders of historically Black colleges and universities. The HBCU Executive Leadership Institute will be based at Clark Atlanta University, the state’s largest, private HBCU. The mayor’s role will include speaking to the first cohort of fellows. The institute is funded in large part by the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, which contributed $1 million toward the effort. “For more than 150 years, HBCUs have not only played an

Dillard University Denies Claims of Academic Fraud

by Jarrett Carter, Sr. Officials at Dillard University are denying claims of widespread academic fraud made against the school president and several administrators between 2013 and 2019, and considering legal action against the former faculty member making a public case against the university. According to a letter forwarded to the HBCU Digest and to several print and broadcast outlets nationwide, former College of Business Dean Christian Fugar says that President Walter Kimbrough, Dillard Vice President for Academic Affairs Yolonda Page, and others within the executive cabinet facilitated the awarding of degrees to dozens of students who had not qualified for

N.C. A&T Students to Receive Free Textbooks Starting Fall

by Alexis Davis Beginning this fall, all undergraduate students at North Carolina A&T State University will receive free textbooks for two school years, courtesy of a partnership with Barnes & Noble College (BNC). Created in 2019, BNC First Day Complete is a program focused on ensuring that a lack of funds and resources do not hinder a college student’s success. BNC does this by meeting in the spring with institutions to discuss material usage patterns and a funding package to allow access for each student. N.C. A&T is the first historically Black college and university (HBCU) to participate in the

NASA Awards $1.2M to Universities to Boost STEM Diversity

By Vanessa Roberson Creating a future for humanity in the stars and continuing to improve life on Earth are tasks NASA can only achieve by involving all of humanity. To challenge the barriers to entry for students from diverse backgrounds in engineering, NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project, or MUREP, called upon Minority Serving Institutions to develop proposals for how they could use NASA funding to strengthen their support for underrepresented communities. Today, NASA has chosen six universities to win the MUREP Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science, or INCLUDES,

Grambling Eyes First HBCU Women’s Gymnastics Program

By WILL GRAVES Grambling State University is in the exploratory process of becoming the first historically Black college and university to offer women’s gymnastics. “Our university leadership is looking at young gymnasts in our community and realizing and understanding the path from toddler gymnastics tumbling to the Olympics for a Black and brown gymnast is arduous,” said Raven Thissel, the marketing and public relations director for The Doug Williams Center, located on Grambling’s campus. “How can we make it a smoother one?” Grambling hosted 100 Black and brown gymnasts over the weekend for the Brown Girls Do Gymnastics annual conference. Derrin Moore founded

Charlotte Morris Named Tuskegee University President

By Jarrett Carter Sr. The winding road to Charlotte Morris finally being named as Tuskegee University’s permanent president reached its destination today, as the long-serving executive will finally steer the Machine with a formal executive’s title, salary, and expectations. Her credentials as a key part of the university’s academic enterprise for the better part of 30 years affirm her as the right choice for the job. For over three decades, Dr. Morris has served in several roles at Tuskegee University including Chief of Staff to the 5th President and Secretary to the Board of Trustees. As Chief of Staff, she

HBCUs Gain Momentum with Funding, High-Profile Hires

By Stephanie Saul Historically Black colleges and universities are having a moment, one that many educators say is more than a century overdue. It may have started with the new vice president, Kamala Harris, who has celebrated her roots at Howard University, calling it “a place that shaped her.” Howard, in Washington, also recently announced a string of high-profile hirings, including the writers Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones and the actor Phylicia Rashad, who was appointed dean of the fine arts program. Athletic programs are landing top recruits, and making big-name hires. Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., recently announced

Howard U Boosts Prestige with Coates, Hannah-Jones Hires

BY FARRELL EVANS Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick is a board-certified surgeon, trained at Howard University, where he is president and a faculty member in the medical school, but he can also sound like a football coach and a griot when it comes to describing developments at the private historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Washington, where prominent Black journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates recently joined the faculty. “I think it often gets overlooked, but the reality is that our academic institutions, the anchoring of them, should be academic excellence,” Frederick told me. “It’s been the same blocking

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