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'Need for Love More Profound, Harder than It's Ever Been'

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, housed within the North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) College of Education, held its tenth annual Dallas Herring Lecture on Tuesday, featuring Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart, chancellor of the Austin Community College District (ACC). She’s remarkable. She’s smart. She’s ambitious.

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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If the past several years has reinforced anything, it’s that none of us knows what lies ahead. Yet each of us has the power to shape events in real time. This election offers an important opportunity to do just that. It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties.

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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a groundbreaking achievement that marks a significant milestone for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University has become the first HBCU to receive the prestigious Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, placing it among the nation's most elite research institutions. Dr. Bruce A.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Immediately, Dayshawn and I went into planning, says Jackson, Eight years later, Compton College is breaking ground on a 250+ bed housing facility, becoming the first community college in Los Angeles County to offer campus housing to its students. I give them the credit for it because they got me to think about it differently and what we could do.

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black Male Initiative (BMI) officially began in 2005, when the New York City Council approved funding for BMI throughout the whole of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, 25 institutions in total. Innovation And Growth The seeds of BMI were first planted in 2000 at Medgar Evers College, a CUNY institution in central Brooklyn.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, an external review found no evidence of financial mismanagement. Still, that fight was nothing compared to the stage IV colorectal cancer he had already faced at only 35. And similarly, it paled in comparison to the stage IV metastatic breast cancer diagnosis his wife, Sadiqa Kendi, received in 2023. Cole "cannot do." It's not always easy.

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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We are attracting talent who see Coppin as a place where they can reach their educational goals is very humbling for me and my faculty and staff. The growing interest in Coppin, Jenkins says, has elevated its national recognition, including being listed as a top producer of HBCU students by Diverse.