The Hampton University Business Incubator closed Friday after 17 years as city funding stopped, the director said. The incubator at 6 W. County St. in Phoebus helped mentor small business […]
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HBCU Digest Founding Editor to Take Indefinite Leave of Absence
HBCUDigest.com Founding Editor Jarrett Carter Sr. announced today that he will take an indefinite leave of absence from reporting and commentary writing for the publication. In a message posted to […]
Miles Appeals to Dept of Ed For Renewal of Five-Year Upward Bound Grant
When Reginald Reese describes his first year at Alabama A&M University, he can’t help but smile. “It went well. It went well. I’ve got a really great professor. I’ve got great friends. All my […]
Lincoln (Mo.) Faces Dramatic Fight for Funding, Survival
Lincoln University is perched high on the hills above Missouri’s capital city, but the school is often overlooked by state government. Lincoln, ignored by federal officials and state lawmakers, faces […]
Kentucky State Board Approves New Research Center Dedicated to Race, Democracy
Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II today announced the establishment of the Atwood Institute for Race, Education and the Democratic Ideal. The University’s Board of Regents today approved […]
HBCU Advocates Offer Closing Remarks in Federal Lawsuit Against State of Maryland
Lawyers representing students and alumni from Maryland’s four HBCU’s ended last week’s HBCU equity trial with powerful arguments justifying the methods and costs to dismantle Maryland’s discriminatory system of higher […]
Inside the Howard West Campus at Google Headquarters
Howard University, one of the nation’s largest historically black colleges, is granting 25 to 30 students the chance to spend their summer as Googlers. For three months starting this summer, […]
Federal HBCU Preservation Bill Passes House Vote
The U.S. Senate failed last year to take up a House-passed bill reauthorizing a program to preserve and restore historically black colleges and universities. It was stymied by a packed […]
New NCCU Chancellor Eyes $1 Million Investment in Campus Safety
In an exclusive interview with ABC 11 in Durham, NC., new North Carolina Central University Chancellor Johnson Akinyele says that the university will invest $1 million in campus security infrastructure […]
Intel Announces $4.5 Million HBCU STEM Development Initiative
Shaping a more diverse technology industry requires that we rethink our sources of talent and broaden our recruiting pipeline to access available diverse talent. As part of our commitment to […]
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