Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].African-AmericanNorth Carolina HBCU Launches First Graduate Program in Its 154-Year HistoryAn historically Black university in North Carolina, Saint Augustine’s University, has launched a graduate program for the first time in its 154-year history, announced the school Wednesday. The fully online program will offer a Master of Public Administration (MPA) designed to prepare career professionals to serve as public administrators, public managers and policy analysts who […]January 7, 2021Women183-Year-Old Women’s College To Close If It Doesn’t Raise $500,000 by Dec. 31Founded in 1838, the all-women’s Judson College has weathered multiple wars, The Great Depression, two fires and several recessions — but 2020 may have been too much.December 22, 2020News RoundupLubbock Christian U Receives $810,000 Gift For Scholarships, Faculty DevelopmentLubbock Christian University has received a $810,000 gift to fund student scholarships and faculty development from the estates of Bill and Mildred Crozier and Lewis Wayne Crozier, a family from the nearby city of Midland, Texas, reports KCBD 11 news. “The Crozier family’s significant investment into the students and faculty at Lubbock Christian University is […]December 21, 2020HBCUsOmnibus Spending Deal Includes $1.3 Billion in Debt Relief for HBCUsSeveral of Congresswoman Alma Adams’ (NC-12) equity-oriented higher education priorities are included in the FY21 Omnibus spending deal, including her bill, The HBCU Capital Finance Debt Relief Act, which cancels over $1.3 billion in debt held by historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). According to Adams’ office, the bill also includes “the largest expansion of […]December 21, 2020HBCUsMissouri’s Lincoln University to Become First HBCU With Police AcademyLincoln University will become the first historically Black college and university (HBCU) to house its own police academy next year, upon receiving Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s signature last week granting the university’s basic training center license, reports The Missouri Times. “At a time when law enforcement agencies are working to attract more diverse officers and […]December 21, 2020Community CollegesPennsylvania’s Lehigh Carbon Community College Receives $1M From Late Professor EmeritusA beloved Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) professor who died this year has left nearly $1 million for the college to use as scholarships for students in technology. Clifford F. Miller, who joined LCCC to teach mechanical technology in 1968, was among the first professors at the Pennsylvania college founded just two years prior. Miller […]December 21, 2020Faculty & StaffUNC Greensboro’s Faculty Diversity Jumped in Five Years. How Did It Do It?In the past five years alone, the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) has experienced a notable jump in faculty diversity for each ethnicity category, excluding White. How did it do it?December 18, 2020News RoundupUSD School of Law Taps Equity-Minded Emory Professor as Next DeanAn Emory University law professor praised for both his legal scholarship and commitment to diversity has been appointed dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, “a program that ranks high nationally in the scholarly impact of its professors,” reports The San Diego Union-Tribune. Robert Schapiro will take up the post in January, […]December 17, 2020COVID-19Universities Allege Increase in Academic Dishonesty Amid PandemicWith exams being held online, Texas A&M University faculty have reported heightened concerns of student cheating “on a very large scale,” reports The Texas Tribune. According to faculty, some students have answered online test questions faster than they can possibly read them and other faculty had discovered entire exams posted to the textbook rental and […]December 17, 2020SportsSupreme Court Takes Up Long-Running NCAA Dispute Over Student-Athlete CompensationThe Supreme Court will take up a dispute between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and a group of student-athletes who say the NCAA’s restrictions on education-related compensation violate federal antitrust law, reports CBS News. The court agreed on Wednesday to consider the appeal, which was filed by the NCAA after the 9th U.S. Circuit […]December 16, 2020Previous PagePage 11 of 43Next Page
