Ridesharing company Lyft has announced plans to partner with online credentialing and nanodegree company Udacity to begin offering scholarships to learners who want to develop self-driving cars. http://mashable.com/2017/09/19/lyft-udacity-self-driving-car-scholarships/#AsNqYRsFS5qg Officials say […]
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Prairie View A&M's Tonya Webb Offers the Keys to STEM Success, Entrepreneurship
Prairie View A&M alumna and immunologist Tonya Webb shares her path to a career in STEM, the value of STEM entrepreneurship (www.webbcures.com) and how to create pathways for future black […]
Mississippi's Landmark HBCU Lawsuit Shows the Reach of Inequity Beyond Borders and Across Generations
Five years from now, the State of Mississippi will make its final payout to its three public historically black universities as mandated by a Supreme Court desegregation decision ordered in […]
Wilberforce President Fact Checks UPENN Professor on HBCU Leadership Training Pipelines
In a recent interview with the Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania Professor Marybeth Gasman commented on her Center for Minority Serving Institution’s Aspiring Leaders program, which she claimed to be […]
The White House Initiative on HBCUs: Making the Paper Tiger Roar
There’s a growing disconnect between all of the joy and despair of working for black colleges. What we’ve been programmed to do, and what must be done to save or […]
Sources: White House to Name Consultant Jonathan Holifield Executive Director of HBCU Initiative
The White House is expected to name entrepreneur and consultant Jonathan Holifield as the next executive director of the White House Initiative of HBCUs, a long-awaited appointment which will be […]
In Larry Robinson, What is FAMU Waiting For?
Trustees at Florida A&M University are either doing the worst job of trying to elevate Interim President Larry Robinson to a title many feel he earned years ago, or the best […]
US News and World Report College Rankings Are Damn Near Racist – And HBCUs Won't Stop Celebrating Them
Few other college comparison lists and rankings are as destructive to the public HBCU narrative as the annual US News and World Report best college rankings lists. The rankings, which for […]
How Paine College Can Survive: By The Numbers
Paine College President Jerry Hardee writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week to make the case for the school’s survival. Battered by years of scandal, turnover, enrollment decline and accreditation […]
Tarik Cohen is HBCU Football's Biggest Gift and Biggest Curse
Tarik Cohen belongs in the NFL. He is the greatest football player in North Carolina A&T’s history, among the top five greatest of all-time in MEAC football history, and through […]
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