Statehouse Report today reports on the contrasting investment strategies from South Carolina legislature for its public colleges and universities, outlining how institutional appropriations have dramatically dropped in recent years while support for merit-based scholarships have increased over the same period.… Read More
Former Ivy League Business Dean, Professor David Thomas Named Morehouse President
David Thomas, a former dean and endowed professor of business at some of the nation’s top non-historically black colleges and universities, was yesterday appointed by the Morehouse College Board of Trustees as the school’s 12th president, and the first non-Morehouse graduate to hold the position in the last 50 years.… Read More
ESPN’s The Undefeated Debuts HBCU Marching Band Rankings
With an impressive slate of current and former band directors behind the wheel, and a long road to HBCU cultural credibility in front of it, ESPN’s The Undefeated has revealed its inaugural HBCU Marching Band rankings list, with the Bethune-Cookman University Marching Wildcats taking the number one spot.… Read More
North Carolina A&T Repeats as HBCU Hackathon National Champions
A mobile app designed to enhance the car buying experience propelled a team of budding tech entrepreneurs from North Carolina A&T State University, as the school won Black Enterprise Magazine’s TechConneXT BE Smart Hackathon for the second consecutive year.… Read More
Albany State Homecoming Expected to Bring Major Economic Impact to Region
Albany State University homecoming is one of the biggest economic drivers of the year for the city and region. WALB-TV profiles an examples of that growth through the eyes of ASU graduate and local catering manager David Milliner.… Read More
Hampton Alumna Credits Playboy For Legacy of Affirmed Black Womanhood
Hampton University graduate, screenwriter and actor Rebecca Jackson-Artis writes for CNN.com about the legacy of Playboy and its founder Hugh Hefner, which through hiring her aunt as the magazine’s first black centerfold in 1965, helped to establish a family legacy of strength and self-pride.… Read More
Plans For Mary McLeod Bethune Statue to Replace Confederate General in US Capitol Advance
Members of the Bethune-Cookman University campus community overwhelmingly endorse plans by Florida state lawmakers to replace a statue of a Confederate general with iconic school founder Mary McLeod Bethune in the halls of Congress. … Read More
Lawsuit Against Embattled Paine College Headed for Trial
A former Paine College administrator who is suing the embattled private university for unlawful termination appears to be heading to court.… Read More
Political Fallout Continues From Canceled Speech at Texas Southern
A canceled speech from a controversial Texas state lawmaker at Texas Southern University has spurred confusion among the school’s administration, and a war of words between legislators.… Read More
Is the NAACP Hurting HBCUs?
Thurgood Marshall College Fund President and CEO Johnny Taylor Jr. is taking aim at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, saying that the advocacy group’s longstanding opposition to charter school development is harmful to black communities, and HBCUs looking to grow in the alternative education enterprise.… Read More