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LGBTQ+

Report Examines How HBCUs Can Create Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Students

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a report analyzing ways historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have fostered an inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) students on their campuses.

December 14, 2020

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Diversity Takes Center Stage in Biden-Harris Nominations

With about six weeks to go before President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take office, their incoming administration is likely to be the most diverse in the nation’s history.

December 10, 2020

African-American

MSNBC’s Joy Reid to Join Howard University Faculty in Spring

MSNBC’s Joy Reid is joining the Howard University faculty as a visiting professor in the Spring semester. Reid, who hosts “The Reid Out,” will teach a course titled, “Covering Race, Gender & Politics in the Digital Age,” and will hold the Hearst visiting professorship in the university’s Department of Media, Journalism and Film housed within […]

December 5, 2020

African-American

Howard University Receives $1 Million Gift for Nonprofit Leadership Program

Howard University’s School of Social Work has received $1 million to create the Fred Taylor “Roll Away the Stone” Program, a new certificate program for human service leadership for nonprofit and public service professionals. The funding will also offer financial assistance to social work master’s students selected as “Fred Taylor Emerging Leaders.” The gift from […]

December 4, 2020

African-American

Kamala Harris Touts Her Howard University, Alpha Kappa Alpha Connections

At 17, in the early 1980s, Kamala D. Harris made her first run for an elected office. Then, the woman who would become a U.S. senator seized the moment to lead, representing her freshman class on the Liberal Arts Student Council at Howard University in Washington, D.C. As soon as she got to campus, Harris, […]

October 28, 2020

HBCUs

Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself: A Message on Behalf of Greatly Underinvested, Often Forgotten Historically Black Colleges and Universities

To say that 2020 has been one of the most abnormally jagged and oddly long years serves as an understatement. From a pandemic that has emancipated the souls of over 211,000 Americans to young people taking to the street to erasure of the country’s oldest institutions, 2020 has shaped into one of the most unpredictable and emotionally exhausting years in decades.

October 13, 2020

Military

Higher Ed Institutions Step Up to Support Veteran, ROTC Students

Amid the changes necessary to adapt to a new normal of all-virtual or hybrid instruction given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, higher ed institutions are stepping up to meet the unique needs of student veterans.

October 11, 2020

News Roundup

Howard University Mourns the Death of Alumnus and ‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman

Howard University is in mourning after actor and alumnus Chadwick Boseman, 43, died on Friday following a private, four-year fight with colon cancer. He rose to international fame after starring as T’Challa in the groundbreaking 2018 film “Black Panther,” becoming a beloved Black icon for fans, young and old. “Boseman was a man of grace […]

August 31, 2020

African-American

Howard, Columbia Collaborate on Reparations Project

The U.S. African American Redress Network was created when the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University teamed up to spotlight the numerous local reparations initiatives across the nation and be a resource in support of such efforts.

August 16, 2020

African-American

Global Manufacturer of COVID-19 Test Kits Partners with HBCUs to Ensure Safe Return to Campus

On Wednesday, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s largest maker of scientific tools, announced a project to support testing, at no-cost, to the nation’s HBCUs, including establishing national HBCU testing centers to process COVID-19 tests and provide timely results throughout the academic year.

August 12, 2020

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Biden Picks Harris as Running Mate

Former Vice President Joe Biden has tapped U.S. Senator Kamala Harris—a Howard University graduate—to be his running mate in this year’s presidential election.

August 11, 2020

African-American

Howard, Johns Hopkins Reverse Course, Opt for Virtual Fall Semester

Howard University, in the nation’s capital, will now hold its fall semester entirely online for undergraduates and will not house students. The decision announced late Friday afternoon is a reversal of plans to offer students the option of in-person and virtual classes. It also signals the angst and gravity that campus leaders are facing as they decide how or if they will re-open their institutions as the coronavirus pandemic rages.

August 7, 2020