Bruce Shepard, the president of Western Washington University, walks across the college campus every day and he doesn’t like what he sees: Too many white students. Shepard, who is white, is taking on race by circulating a bold questionnaire to all students enrolled at the college: “How do we make sure that in future years […]
A group of Black law students at Washington and Lee University are demanding that the school’s administration publicly denounce its Confederate past and distance the…
This past February, a trio of University of Mississippi students allegedly hung a noose and placed an old Georgia state flag bearing the Confederate symbol on the campus statue of James Meredith. Meredith was the school’s first Black student. The students are under investigation by the University and the FBI, but cannot be charged with […]
Music producer and art enthusiast Swizz Beatz announced via Instagram he was accepted into the President Management Program at the Harvard Business School! He shared an email sent to him of his acceptance letter (above) with the caption: “This might be one of the happiest days of my life. From the BX to Harvard #hardwork #dedication […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been chosen to deliver the commencement address at his old stomping grounds, Howard University. The HBCU in the Nation’s Capital announced Tuesday that Diddy will also be among five people to receive honorary degrees as trailblazers in their fields. The Bad Boy founder, a student at the school in the late […]
This is something to celebrate! The class of 2018 at Harvard University has already broken records. The ivy league school has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 11.9% are black, the highest ever for the university. The journal estimates that nearly 170 black students will […]
It’s just human nature that extreme measures have to be taken just to make people in power do the right thing. We’ve seen it with civil rights, affirmative action and now, maybe, with college sports. When I first heard the news about college football players at Northwestern University wanting to unionize, I initially thought they […]
A Morgan State University professor was convicted Tuesday in connection with a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation and his students. The Baltimore Sun reports: Manoj Kumar Jha, 46, of Severn faces 20 years in prison for each of four counts of wire fraud, and for one count each of mail fraud and falsification […]
LOS ANGELES – Wells Fargo Education Financial Services and First Generation Films recently kicked-off the “Go College!” tour, a national education initiative launching in Los Angeles with screenings of the award-winning documentary “First Generation” at six Los Angeles Unified School District high schools and culminated with a red-carpet screening at L.A. Live. Go College! Los […]
The Miami Heat and BankUnited are offering $25,000 in scholarship funds to high school seniors attending Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe or Palm Beach schools. Scholarship applications are available each school year and recipients are awarded in May. Students with financial needs are giving priority. This will be the eighteenth year that the Miami Heat has offered scholarships. Scholarships are […]
Now this is a trend we can get behind. Remember Chad Thomas, the 18-year-old student from Booker T. Washington Senior High in Miami, who received 150 scholarship offers because he is able to play nine instruments in addition to being a rising football star? Here comes more good news. Avery Coffey, a senior at Benjamin […]
Joanne Berger-Sweeney, PhD, has been appointed the first African-American and first female president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Berger-Sweeney will be the school’s 22nd president. She currently serves as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Berger-Sweeney holds a doctorate in neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School […]
