Since 2016, I’ve written about the high rate of turnover in executive leadership positions (Chancellors and Presidents) at Historically Black Colleges and Universities for HBCU Digest. Over the course of […]
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HBCU DIGEST – The Quiet Success of Billy Hawkins
We could have, and probably should have, heard from him more often. Talladega College President Billy Hawkins resigned as president last week, nearly a year early than his previously announced […]
Online, Adult Learners Help Morehouse Set New Student Enrollment Record
Morehouse College has spent the last three years rebuilding brand, confidence, and its financial coffers under new leadership and within a national reckoning on race and equity. This week, the […]
Rural School Districts Closing Due to Covid Infection Spike
A school district in central Virginia will close all public schools until Sept. 13 following a rise in covid positivity rates. The News & Advance reports on the closure, which […]
Fisk Jubilee Singers Receive $1.5 Million Gift
A historically Black collegiate choir that made American history as a fundraising machine for a financially embattled university received one of the largest gifts in school history this week. The […]
School Year Begins With Workforce Shortages
The start of the 2020 school year is being defined by two key headlines; the handling of potential Covid outbreaks and the number of personnel missing from key positions in […]
Do Predominantly White Institutions Owe Money to HBCUs?
Noted journalist, author, and Alabama A&M University alumnus posits a question in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education from his new book, The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always […]
Report: Maryland HBCU Lawsuit, Settlement Will Total More than $2 Billion in Funding for Black Colleges
A new report from the plaintiffs in the landmark federal lawsuit between students and alumni of Maryland’s four historically Black universities suggests that the total amount of support to the […]
How WIll COVID Impact Special Education?
Education officials in New York City are engaged in public planning on how lost months of in-person instruction for students in city special education programs will receive their missed services. […]
What Governors Are Saying About the Department of Education's Mask Mandate Investigation
The U.S. Department of Education has launched a formal inquiry into the legality of mask mandate prohibitions in school districts across several states. Here is what governors in some of […]
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