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Faculty & Staff

Remembering Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr.

Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr., a pioneering educator who served for more than a decade as provost of his alma mater, Morehouse College, and later acting president, died last week at the age of 80.

HBCUs

Dr. Lester McCorn Selected to Lead Paine College

Dr. Lester McCorn has been named the next president of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.

Leadership & Policy

Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy Named President and CEO of AACTE

The dean of the School of Education at American University has been named president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Ruth Simmons Awarded National Humanities Medal

Dr. Ruth Simmons was among 18 other individuals who was honored on Monday with a National Humanities Medal at the White House.

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

A prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert, Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.

International

Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

"Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black Early-Career Black Academics by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. think tank.

Faculty & Staff

"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

Dr. Rema Reynolds Vassar has been in a lifelong fight for equity and justice, and it all started in a school. Today, her fight continues.

Faculty & Staff

Leading the Path Forward

Over the next two years, Dr. John A. Nunes is determined to strengthen the foundation of California Lutheran University and increase its ability to meet the needs of students from underserved populations.

Faculty & Staff

AAUP Releases New DEI Statement

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is calling on colleges and universities not to give in to the pressure to abandon diversity initiatives.

Demographics

A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Dr. Christopher A. Brooks can link a recent trip to the African continent back to childhood.

Faculty & Staff

Poet, Interdisciplinary Scholar Among the 2024 MacArthur "Genius" Fellows

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant."

Leadership & Policy

Holloway to Step Down as President of Rutgers University

Rutgers University President Dr. Jonathan Holloway has said that he will step down as president of the public New Jersey institution at the end of the 2024-2025 academic school year.

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