Despite representing roughly 12% of the U.S. adult population, in biopharma, Black professionals account for just 7% of the total workforce and 3% of executive teams. Today, in an initiative designed to increase access to and awareness of the biophar ...
Posted Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 2:14PM
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The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $500,000 grant to Edward Waters University (EWU) for the restoration of Centennial Hall. This grant is part of the $9.7 million awarded to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in ten state ...
Posted Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 2:08PM
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Gabrielle S. Howard, a 2021 graduate from Hampton University’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, is now serving as the President-Elect of the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA). Howard is the first Ham ...
Posted Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 2:05PM
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Spelman College, the leading historically Black liberal arts institution for women of African descent, is expanding its stellar academic model to launch eSpelman. The new enterprise will deliver online education and certificates to support the upskil ...
Posted Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 1:51PM
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Former Alabama State basketball player Nia Symone Sapp is the host of Nike's latest web series, "Come Thru." The series is Nike's first long-form series and is centered around bring "together game-changing Black women for real talk about real issues. ...
Posted Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 1:44PM
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Johnson C. Smith freshman wide receiver Ky'Wuan Dukes recently inked a deal with Charlotte-based fast-food chicken franchise Bojangles, making him the first HBCU athlete to sign an endorsement deal.
Ever since the NCAA ruled to allow student-athl ...
Posted Tuesday, August 10th 2021 at 1:00PM
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Virginia State University has announced new names for four buildings that were previously unnamed on the VSU campus. The VSU Board of Visitors approved renaming each of the four buildings to honor Black women, all VSU alums, who have made significant ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 8:16PM
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Howard University has selected a team of private real estate development firms to construct a 260,000-square-foot laboratory and office building located at what will become the northwest corner of Georgia Avenue and Bryant Street NW, adjacent to How ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 3:17PM
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Fayetteville State University (FSU) today announced it received a $30,000 grant from Truist Foundation to establish Transformational Leadership for Diversity and Inclusion, a multidisciplinary curriculum development and training program for faculty a ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 3:05PM
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Dillard University will introduce a slate of new academic offerings for the fall of 2021. The University will introduce health science as a new major along with a new healthcare science minor, a concentration in supply chain management, a certificati ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 3:01PM
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Coppin State University (CSU) is pleased to announce its Student Debt Relief Initiative (SDRI) which is federally funded by the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act.
In total, Coppin State’s commitment will clear roughly $1,000,000 in student balances. T ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 2:57PM
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Claflin University has earned widespread respect and admiration for being among the nation’s HBCUs that according to President Dwaun J. Warmack, “not only survived but thrived” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The most recent benefit of Claflin’s st ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 2:51PM
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Recognizing that many Hampton University students and their families have experienced financial hardships due to the pandemic, Dr. William R. Harvey, Hampton University President, has announced the University is providing assistance to its returning ...
Posted Friday, August 6th 2021 at 2:32PM
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Gay’s career path into the financial services sector is both inspirational and unconventional. When Gay graduated with an IT degree, she found that technology jobs in her country, the Philippines, were hard to come by. “I’m not from a wealthy background, so to support myself I took a role in pharmac ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2021 at 9:00PM
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Lane College has been approved by the Tennessee State Board of Education as an Educator Preparation Provider (EPP).
Aspiring Tennessee educators must complete an approved educator preparation program and Lane’s new program includes a variety of p ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2021 at 3:05PM
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