A student organization invited a podcaster to speak at Ohio University, where he called students multiple slurs. A school spokesperson said officials can’t prohibit free speech.
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Mentors can make the difference for young Black men in college. Here’s how to be a good one.
Mentors, especially those who are Black and male-identifying, can help students with challenges like juggling work and class and finding community on campus.
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The Trump administration is pressuring Illinois universities to end a diversity fellowship
The Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois fellowship is meant to make Illinois professors look more like the state’s student body. It’s funded by the state and part of Illinois law.
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How inflation could affect HBCU students buying homes after graduation
From a higher education perspective, we have seen the impact of student loan debt, coupled with employment challenges, eliminating Black housing opportunities.
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Tougaloo College continues work documenting modern sundown towns
The school maintains the only active database of these racially exclusive communities.
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As organized religion declines, some church-founded HBCUs market themselves as secular institutions
Church-founded HBCUs are a part of a monumental turn in history. Religious schools are now seeing in real time the shift happening as people decide where to attend college.
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‘This can’t be happening’: HBCU students reflect on election results
When David Robinson learned who won the presidential election, he was devastated. But he wasn’t surprised. “The result put a lot of the past year in perspective for me,” said Robinson, a recent graduate from North Carolina A&T. He spent a lot of 2024 traveling and was surprised at how many signs he saw supporting […]
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UNT faculty slam university for removing references to race and equity in course names
Professors and instructors say the university is preemptively censoring itself after administrators removed references to race and equity in dozens of College of Education course titles and descriptions.
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How political science professors are preparing HBCU students to navigate today’s political climate
As the political climate becomes increasingly polarized, political science professors say they’ve had to change how they teach.
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Support for Haitians rises amid “pet-eating” allegations
Activists and Haitian Americans are advocating for Haitian students and the diaspora following former President Donald Trump’s false claim during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, Sept. 10, that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were “eating the dogs and cats.” Despite city officials denying credible evidence of such claims, last month in a […]