May 2022

Texas Southern University (TSU) will establish an India Studies program for the TSU Graduate School, which is meant to promote the study of India in the U.S., particularly in the Houston region.Krishna Vavilala (left) and Dr. Gregory Maddox This program is the product of a partnership between TSU and the Foundation for India Studies – […]

Dr. Robin Suzanne Poston will become Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) next dean of the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies and associate provost for graduate education. Dr. Robin Suzanne Poston Poston is currently vice provost and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Memphis. She is also director of the Systems Testing Excellence

Southeastern Grocers (SEG) – parent company of Jacksonville-based grocery store chain Winn-Dixie – has launched its annual six-week community donation program to support scholarships for members of military families. And the company will also give $100,000 towards that cause, News4JAX reported. The SEG Gives Foundation has pledged $100,000 to nonprofit Folds of Honor, which provides

Young Americans know that the country is in trouble. A December poll of 18-29-year-olds conducted by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government found that over half of young people believe that American democracy is under threat. But youth voter turnout rates remain stubbornly low, typically under 50%. And participation by African Americans and Hispanics is lower

College football is the big dog and the tail its wagging is the ivory tower. That’s the reality, higher ed fans. I know, I know. Football is not higher ed’s raison d’etre. At least, that’s what all the purists keep telling themselves. It’s just hard to keep up the traditional downplaying of college athletics, specifically

The Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) will be giving civil rights leader Reverend James Lawson its Centennial Award at the 2022 Whitney M. Young, Jr. Gala. Lawson is one of the Civil Rights Movement’s leading activists and tacticians of nonviolence. He worked directly with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to train students and volunteers in

A recent Oregon State University (OSU) study indicates that, when trying to inform college students about campus resources to help boost grades, students were more likely to click on links sent via email than via text message, and the most frequently used resource were the extra practice problems online. The study – published in the

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (UCLA-LPPI) has awarded a total of $150,000 to six Latino-led research projects at UCLA aimed at developing policy solutions to challenges facing California’s Latino communities. The $150,000 comes in the form of the inaugural Latino Applied Policy Research Awards. The six research teams will spend the next year

Brown UniversityIn Rhode Island, home to Brown University, two proposed bills could make private, nonprofit higher education institutions pay state taxes on their endowments and properties. Such moves are part of a national trend to tackle long-standing inequities between rich, predominantly white universities and poor, often Black and brown communities surrounding them. Opponents, including Brown,

Spring 2022 enrollment data reveals another dramatic loss of students in higher education, a continuation of declines seen since the onset of the pandemic. That’s according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Current Term Enrollment Estimate report, published in the spring and fall each year. The Research Center collects data from over 3,600 colleges,