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Ruth Simmons to remain at Prairie View A&M as professor after leaving presidency
Ruth Simmons will stay at Prairie View A&M as a teaching and fundraising specialist following her stepping down as president.
Several HBCUs placed on federal financial sanctions last fall, but context is key
The department has been uneven in recent years at data keeping for default rates, which has been scrutinized for lacking context on the raw numbers associated with graduation or attrition rates.
HBCU boards must resist the temptation of proving innovation through untested leadership
Boards must consider the time and temperature of their work and the long-term impacts they can create by miscalculating institutional fit between campus and leadership.
LISTEN: Digest After Dark – Let's Go On Strike
We discuss the new Executive Director of the White House HBCU Initiative, threats of faculty strikes at Howard University, and leadership chaos at Kentucky State University.
HBCU DIGEST: Hampton to offer free tuition, room and board to Ukrainian refugees
Hampton University this week announced plans to offer free summer session tuition and housing to students displaced by Russian military aggression in Ukraine. “The collective Hampton University faculty, staff and […]
HBCU DIGEST: Total HBCU enrollment fell to lowest mark in 22 years in 2020
Hampered by a global pandemic, a nearly year-long hiatus from in-person business, and economic uncertainty, cumulative attendance for the historically Black college and university sector dropped for the third consecutive […]
HBCU DIGEST: Meharry announces $20 million gift from MacKenzie Scott
Meharry Medical College is the latest historically Black institution to announce a transformational gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, yesterday revealing a $20 million gift from the serial benefactor. In a […]
HBCU DIGEST: HBCU law school alumni pen letter of support for Ketanji Brown Jackson
Graduates of the nation’s six historically Black schools and of law have penned a public letter of support for Supreme Court Justice Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. The letter, dated March […]
HBCU DIGEST: Ruth Simmons was HBCU primetime well before Deion Sanders
If Deion Sanders’ being named Jackson State University head football coach turned a corner for historically Black athletics, then Ruth Simmons delivered to the HBCU community an entirely new way […]
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