North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has partnered with The Bernard Osher Foundation to create The Osher Scholarship Program at North Carolina A&T State University. This program is designed to support nontraditional students who are working on a degree. The Osher Foundation has committed to a $50,000 bridge grant and a $1 million endowment […]
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The turmoil at West Virginia University continues. Faculty members will vote next week on resolutions to express no confidence in embattled president E. Gordon Gee and to oppose his proposed cuts to the university’s academic programs, which will affect roughly 2% of the student body. E. Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia UniversityThe no-confidence resolution
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Four universities will be excluded this year from the Campus Pride’s Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges & Universities list. These colleges were previously honored on this list but due to the new state laws in Florida and Texas that effectively ban LGBTQ+ inclusion programs and services, the new restrictions will result in a lower
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There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students. Likewise, we have witnessed
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The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Ally Financial will host Moguls in the Making, a pitch competition where HBCU students compete for scholarships and paid internships. “This is our fifth year celebrating the innovation and entrepreneurship of over 200 HBCU students, whose successes have provided viable business ideas that support economic mobility in our communities,” said
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Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has donated $1 million to Jackson State University’s (JSU) football team, continuing his pattern of support for HBCUs. Combs presented the check to JSU between the first and second quarters of the school’s victory over South Carolina State on Saturday. Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs“If it wasn’t for HBCUs, I
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As generative AI disrupts the world of teaching and learning, academia has been slow to address its use in scholarly research. Universities have made it clear: they are not fans of students using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in their coursework, as it could be considered academic misconduct. As the conversation on the use of AI
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Monique S. AllardMonique S. Allard has been appointed vice president for student life at the University of Southern California. She served as interim vice president for student affairs. Allard holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from California State University, Los Angeles, and master’s and doctoral degrees in education from the University of Southern California.
A 20-year-old University of South Carolina student was fatally shot Saturday when he accidentally tried to enter the wrong house on the street where he lived and was mistaken for a burglar. University of South Carolina in southeast Columbia. The student was identified as Nicholas Anthony Donofrio. Classes for the fall semester had just started the
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Wayne GersieWayne Gersie has been appointed vice president for equity and inclusion at Quinnipiac University. He served as vice president of diversity and inclusion and as a research assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Gersie holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from The Pennsylvania State University.
