William Jackson
NCCU
A new report revealed that historically black colleges help in terms of vaulting lowest-income kids into the top quintile as adults but these institutions have a lower than average graduation rate than non-HBCUs, and...
Category - Research
Tommy G. Meade Jr.
Wallace Foundation Selects VSU To Help Improve How Aspiring Principles Are Trained
The Wallace Foundation selected Virginia State University, among six other universities, to participate in a national $47 million initiative to develop models over the next four years for improving university principle...
Myja Gary
Tuskegee Professor Breaks ground in Science and is Granted $1M Grant
AL.com When Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green receives invitations to be a guest speaker for professional groups, schools and nonprofit organizations, she almost never turns them down. “Usually if there is an invitation to...
HBCU Editors
Central State University Partners With Ohio State University
Historically Black Central State University and nearby Ohio State University recently entered into a new partnership. Central State and Ohio State, located just an hour’s drive from one another, are collaborating in a...
HBCU Support Strategies for Student Success
Black Engineer Online Over 80 percent of the students in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University are undergraduates. Their hometowns are located throughout the state of...
Hampton Professor and Colleagues Chronicle Earth’s Cooling Efforts in The Face of Global Warming
You and I have options for keeping cool on a hot summer day. For instance, we can find a spot in the shade, take a dip in a pool, or perhaps turn on a fan. Our planet, however, doesn’t enjoy the same luxury. It has...
Research Day Showcases Integrated Learning Experience at Spelman College
ATLANTA (April 8, 2015) – Spelman College’s annual Research Day on April 17 will offer more than 200 Spelman students an opportunity to display their scholarly work and investigative research through oral and poster...
Spelman College
SC U.S. Rep. James Clyburn kicks off Presidential Lecture Series at Cheyney
The Delaware County Daily Times Democratic U.S. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina kicked off Cheyney University of Pennsylvania’s Presidential Lecture Series with a bang last Wednesday. Clyburn took an auditorium...
HBCU Students Hope to Win Big at Torrance Quiz Bowl Competition
LA Times When D’Ondre Swails went to college, he looked for a way to replicate the energy and team spirit he had when he ran varsity track in high school. At the historically black, all-male Morehouse College in...
FAMU to Host Second Annual STEM Day
WTXL Students may get “blinded with science” this weekend! FAMU is hosting its second annual STEM day. It’s a way to get students interested in pursing careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and...
President Obama Announces Over $240 Million in STEM Commitments
Whitehouse.gov WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama hosted the 2015 White House Science Fair March 23 to celebrate the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from...
TSU To Bring Data Science Experts from Harvard, China
The Tennessean Tennessee State University is jumping on a growing industry: data science. The university’s college of engineering presents a two-day data sciences workshop, bringing experts in mathematics, engineering...
Kentucky State University Measures Quality with Real Data
We are often asked how higher education institutions measure their quality. The answer is there are many ways. Higher education institutions are evaluated, assessed and accredited at the institution and at the program...
Fort Valley State University Signs Agreement with Albany Tech
Albany CEO Albany Technical College and Fort Valley State University will hold an articulation agreement signing ceremony on Monday, March 9, 2015, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Executive Board Room of Albany Tech’s...
HBCU Innovation in the Fast Lane
If someday you’re eating your beloved peanuts and they don’t spark an allergic reaction, think about innovation at an HBCU. Or if your vehicle, supported by an artificial intelligence valet system, can find...
HBCUs and DOE sites receive NNSA Funding for STEM Education in Minority Partnership
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of six Department of Energy (DOE) sites that will receive funding along with 22 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), for research areas in science...
HBCUs, which play a vital role in minority education, need more funding
It’s evident: A long history of chronic underfunding, classrooms with broken air conditioners and tattered library books have handicap many of the nation’s 105 historically black colleges and universities in their quest...
Clark Atlanta University ranks worst in student debt.
As tuition fees have increased, more students have trusted student loans to help finance their education and debt loads have gone up. This situation in turn has had an impact on individual students’ financial...
Robert Hoggard
