Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].News RoundupGeorgetown Joins List of Schools Divesting from Fossil Fuel CompaniesAmid pressure from student activists, Georgetown University announced it will stop investing its endowment funding in fossil fuel companies and will withdraw all previous investments in those firms. The Jesuit school cited Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, which called for the church to combat climate change, as one of its reasons for divesting. “The […]February 10, 2020African-AmericanHow Dr. Hasan Jeffries is Rethinking the Way We Teach Black HistoryAs a teenager in 1980s Brooklyn, Dr. Hasan Jeffries tried piecing together two different stories: the history he was learning in school and the events he was witnessing on the train to and from school. But they didn’t fit.February 7, 2020HBCUsLetter Requests Progress on Small Business Administration’s Outreach to HBCUsFive members of Congress has signed a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) associate administrator, Allen Gutierrez, requesting that the agency report its progress in implementing last year’s outreach goals to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In April 2019, Gutierrez testified on how SBA could provide better entrepreneurial services to HBCUs in […]February 7, 2020Leadership & PolicyUNCF and H.E.L.F. Partner to Build HBCU Leadership PipelineWith the average tenure of a college president steadily decreasing and a “mounting void within HBCU leadership,” the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) have announced a three-year partnership in which they will work together to educate and prepare a pipeline of individuals who wish to serve in leadership […]February 7, 2020Social JusticeSouthern University Law Center Joins ‘Universities Studying Slavery’, a 40+ School ConsortiumSouthern University Law Center (SULC) is the latest of 40+ schools to join a consortium titled Universities Studying Slavery (USS). Organized through the University of Virginia, the consortium addresses historical and contemporary issues related to race and inequality in higher education as well as how the complicated legacy of slavery still shapes modern American society. […]February 6, 2020News RoundupDr. Lynn Perry Wooten Named First Black President of Simmons UniversitySimmons University, a women’s undergraduate school and co-ed graduate school in Boston, has appointed Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten as its ninth president. She will be the first Black to serve in the role and will succeed Helen G. Drinan, who held the position for the past 12 years. Wooten has assumed various leadership positions throughout […]February 6, 2020News RoundupEducational Technology Entrepreneur Named Chair of Hampshire’s Board of TrusteesHampshire College’s Board of Trustees has appointed Jose Fuentes, an educational technology entrepreneur, as its next chair—a role in which he plans to help update the school’s curriculum, support a major fundraising campaign, implement a sustainable business model and celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary. A 2005 alumnus of Hampshire, Fuentes has been involved in various […]February 6, 2020African-AmericanColumbia Honors Jay-Z, Discusses African American Culture With New Lecture SeriesIn honor of the New York City-born rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) has launched the Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter Lecture Series. While speaking with students and faculty in an exclusive event earlier this week, Carter says he hopes the series inspires real conversation and open dialogue […]February 5, 2020News RoundupTexas Southern Terminates President Austin Lane, Cites Several Contract ViolationsTexas Southern University’s (TSU) board of regents has terminated its president Dr. Austin Lane — who was suspended in January — for several contract violations, such as allegedly not reporting allegations of fraud in the university admissions process and directing a former law school dean to “engage in acts that violate university policy,” reported the […]February 5, 2020News RoundupVanderbilt Names First Female Athletics Director, First Black Woman to Lead SEC SchoolDr. Candice Storey Lee has been named interim athletic director at Vanderbilt University, marking history as the school’s first female athletic director and the first Black woman to lead a Southeastern Conference (SEC) athletics department. Lee has been a leader at the university for almost 20 years, most recently serving as deputy director of the […]February 5, 2020Previous PagePage 34 of 43Next Page
