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Dr. Dwight McBride Named President of The New School

Dr. Dwight A. McBride, a prominent literary scholar who is currently the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University, has been named the ninth president of The New School. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Dwight to The New School,” said Joseph R. Gromek, chair of the Board of Trustees and […]

October 13, 2019

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Emory History Professor’s New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

Emory University assistant professor of history Dr. Carl Suddler puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

August 23, 2019

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Emory University Announces Increased Stipends for Ph.D. Students

Emory University’s Laney Graduate School has announced it will increase the base stipend for Ph.D. students to $31,000 for the 2019-20 academic year, in efforts of attracting top graduate students and improving its doctoral programs. “Emory’s investment in graduate education is a tangible sign of our dedication to enhancing faculty excellence and graduate program distinction,” […]

October 3, 2018

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Learning from ‘Absentee’ Mentors

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker began her trajectory into education believing she wanted to be a journalist. She enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a journalism major but discovered that the field was not her calling.

September 26, 2018

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A Social Scientist Committed to Inclusive Research

Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s scholarship is fueled by a responsibility to make her research on human development inclusive for youth of color. In doing so, she has resisted the traditional, stereotypical notions about the development of diverse children throughout her decades-long career.

September 24, 2018

Pre-Law Summit Introduces HBCU Students to Law School

The fifth annual National HBCU Pre-Law Summit & Law Expo, the only large-scale national event in the U.S. aimed at assisting HBCU students and alumni become lawyers, is scheduled to kick-off on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. Attendees will participate in workshops, networking events, and panel discussions over […]

September 10, 2018

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Theological Schools Face Challenges of Diversity, Relevancy

Beyond issues that have captured media attention – declining enrollment, financial uncertainty, student protests over lack of faculty diversity, LGBTQ concerns about curriculum inclusivity – school administrators have additional concerns such as debt loads of graduates and how to tailor the education to a student body that is increasingly older, female, non-White and second-career.

September 9, 2018

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Expert Helps Educators Adjust Implicit Biases

Bentley Gibson had magical powers as a princess from another planet. At least, that’s how the 5-year-old Black girl presented herself to a sea of White classmates in White Plains, N.Y. on the first day of school. She sensed that they regarded her as different, and make-believe was her mechanism for coping with the racial tension and subtle prejudice she would encounter in life.

June 11, 2018

Emory, 13 Others Bring List of American Talent Initiative Members to 100

The American Talent Initiative has pushed forward in its goal to enroll 50,000 more high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students at educational institutions by 2025. The list of member institutions has reached 100.

April 18, 2018

Cultural Diversity Highlights 2018 List of Guggenheim Fellows

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday its 2018 recipients of annual Guggenheim Fellowships, with a total of 173 being awarded in the United States and Canada across the fields of science, scholarship, writing and the arts. Among recipients is Dr. Carol C. Anderson, an African-American historian and Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair […]

April 5, 2018

Author Harper Lee’s Will Made Public, But Not Estate Details

MONROEVILLE, Ala. — The will of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee has been made public following a lawsuit by The New York Times, but details on her estate remain a secret. The move came as Emory University in Atlanta said separately it had acquired a collection of personal correspondence and memorabilia of Lee, […]

March 1, 2018

‘Black Scholars Matter’ Series Celebrates Academicians and Their Work, part 1

This is the first in a three-part Black History Month series this week celebrating Black academicians and their scholarship.

February 13, 2018

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