By Lauren Poteat (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In her historic role as Bowie State University’s first female president, Dr. Aminta Hawkins Breaux said that she’s ready to...
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. (President & CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund) While “Diversity” is not a new term for the business world, it appears to...
By Rushern Baker (County Executive, Prince George’s County, Md.) UNCF’s iconic, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” advertising campaign remains the gold-standard for shining...
By Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-N.C.) Summer internships are one important way that students can explore passions they want to pursue as a profession. They are exposed...
By Johnny C. Taylor Jr. (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) My job is to promote the interests of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. So naturally I...
By Glenda Baskin Glover (President, Tennessee State University) This article summarizes why African Americans should be eager to vote this year, and why historically Black colleges...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The countdown to President Obama’s last one hundred days began on October 13. Already, the President has committed to spending...
[DIVERSEEDUCATION.COM] If Dr. Bill Cosby’s greatest contribution to the Black community was his creation of The Cosby Show, then the spin-off to the popular 1980s television...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — In a speech at the 2015 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Week Conference here last...
(New York Times) – Norman Francis was just a few years into his tenure as president of Xavier University of Louisiana, a small Catholic institution in...
(The Washington Post) – Howard University students and alumni took their frustration public — and viral — Wednesday, with a gush of complaints on social media...
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – Friends and fans of an student shot and killed at Savannah State University Thursday night took to social media Friday to mourn the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Tuesday [Aug.25], the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) opened the application process for the Apple...
(Slate) – Having a college degree is supposed to insulate you a bit from the worst effects of a recession. But as a new report highlighted in the New York...
(Philadelphia Tribune) – For Qualyn Meade, Cheyney University is a “school for second chances.” After an old knee injury sidelined a cheerleading scholarship offered at Kutztown...
by Rebecca Rivas Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Thirty college students from across the country came to St. Louis from July 23-25...
Mangum, Edward Waters research director among honorees at Hampton Special to the NNPA from the Florida Courier Two of Florida’s Black universities were honored last week...
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head a university system in the United...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When Morgan Grayned opened the envelope from the Buick Achievers’ scholarship program and learned that...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A little help may be on the way for historically Black colleges and universities struggling against falling...
(Business Insider) – A decade ago, Wilberforce University was struggling but stable. The storied historically black university (HBCU) was in debt, and enrollment was beginning...
(The Washington Post) – E. Ethelbert Miller, a noted poet and longtime director of the Afro-American Studies Resource Center at Howard University, believes he was...
Mike Morris, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION ATLANTA (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)—The U.S. Bankruptcy Court this week approved a plan that will let financially-strapped Morris Brown College emerge...
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper (NNPA) – Some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) will soon benefit from a...
