January 6, 2021 | : Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick is urging Black America to get vaccinated in a public service announcement, according to university officials. Frederick – a practicing surgeon who has the sickle cell disease – was one of the first to get vaccinated at Howard University Hospital. Dr. Wayne […]
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January 6, 2021 | : University of North Carolina Wilmington’s College of Arts and Sciences will be making a cluster hire in the areas of Africana studies, race, racial inequality and social justice, according to a UNCW university officials. The hires will be in psychology, history, sociology, criminology, film studies and philosophy, with more hires
January 6, 2021 | : Dr. Ronnie Hopkins has been appointed interim president of Voorhees College after the departure of Dr. W. Franklin Evans, the school’s ninth president, The Times and Democrat reported. Dr. Ronnie Hopkins After four years as president, Evans took another job as the first African American president of West Virginia’s West
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January 6, 2021 | : Dr. Micah Griffin has been appointed senior director of University Health Services (UHS) at Penn State. Dr. Micah Griffin He previously served as director of health programs at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College. Griffin has extensive experience with matters of campus and student health, now serving
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January 6, 2021 | : Marcelo Velez, vice president for Manhattanville Development at Columbia University, has been charged with aggravated sex assault – and other counts – for allegedly engaging in sex acts with a child under 13 in New Jersey, NBC New York reported. Marcelo Velez The prosecutor’s office in New Jersey is alleging
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Like much of the nation, Julian Alexander Arriola-Hemmings had spent the past few months closely monitoring the two U.S. Senate races in Georgia. A 2020 graduate of Morehouse College, Arriola-Hemmings, 22, remained hopeful that Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock would ultimately be declared winners in Tuesday’s special runoff election and flip the
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January 5, 2021 | : Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna, who was recently appointed president of Monroe Community College (MCC), has always found education to be “inherit” in her genes. Her mother held various roles at K-12 schools, including serving as Burt-Nanna’s teaching aid in kindergarten. “She has always been a gem of an educator, not
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Dr. Charlie Nelms Like many people across America, I breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved not one but two vaccines in the war against COVID-19. For many who consume news from myriad sources, the daily count of those infected with COVID, or who died from
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The college radio station is where I learned to be me. Maybe that’s because the radio audience doesn’t really see me. I was just a voice. Just like on the page or screen, the words are my voice through you. So you don’t instantly reject them. They could be your thoughts. But listening to me
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Judson College, the sixth oldest U.S. women’s college will stay open, having met its fundraising goals, Alabama Political Reporter reported. Judson College In December, the all-women Alabama school had said that it would close by the year’s end without $500,000 in donations and $1 million in long-term contributions by Dec. 31. “The Judson community surpassed
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