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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

Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Saga Exposes Racism in Academia

by Brandon Tensley The months-long tenure struggle between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Nikole Hannah-Jones was never about debates over the 1619 Project. The fight was about power — about the White conservatives who thought that the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist had gained too much of it. “I have studied power my entire life from within institutions where I wielded none. I have written about it. I have reported on it. I have read about it. I have observed it. And, over the years, I have worked myself to accrue it, which is really what angers

Nikole Hannah-Jones Inspires Black Academics to Choose HBCUs

By Joel Brown There were many Black professionals and academics watching Tuesday morning’s interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones as if they were sitting in a Black church. That is to say, there were some loud “amens” spoken in agreement to what Hannah-Jones said about achieving success in white spaces. “I’ve spent my entire life proving that I belong in elite white spaces that were not built for Black people,” she told interviewer Gayle King, detailing the clarity she gained from what she called the “shabby” treatment she received from UNC-Chapel Hill through her tenuous battle for tenure. “I decided I didn’t

Cornel West Resigns from Harvard Over Tenure Dispute

By Eric Levenson and Gregory Lemos Cornel West, the eccentric professor, public intellectual and progressive activist, resigned from Harvard after a tenure dispute and accused the university of “spiritual rot” in a letter posted to his Twitter on Monday. “How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay,” he wrote in the letter. “The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large.” His resignation comes after he said Harvard denied him an opportunity to receive tenure, the indefinite academic appointment that makes

UNC Black Student Groups Demand Action After Hannah-Jones Exit

By DeJuan Hoggard Just one day after acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones decided against accepting a tenured position at UNC-Chapel Hill, instead. taking a job at Howard University, Black organizations on campus came together to present their list of demands to university officials. During a Wednesday afternoon press conference, members and leaders from the Black Graduate & Professional Association, the Carolina Black Caucus, and the Black Student Movement met inside a room at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center on campus to express their continued support for Hannah-Jones and used the time to share what they called their “2021 Priorities”. “It was

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