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HBCUs make up just 3% of the country’s colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and 50% of Black lawyers.
Declining interest in the teacher profession and recent Trump administration budget cuts pose challenges to developing a diverse educator workforce.
The Trump administration has clashed with elite private universities and threatened to pull their funding. But most college students don’t attend these institutions.
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
For a project on identifying lead water pipes in homes, outreach through partner groups produced a more representative set of volunteers.
The new book “Black and Queer on Campus” explores the range of experiences that Black LGBTQ students face at colleges across the US.
With the expansion of Second Chance Pell grants, more colleges and universities will soon offer degree programs to students in prison.
Kittrell’s legacy shows that home economics was always about more than cooking and sewing. It’s also a reminder that issues that affect families are simultaneously local and global.
The approximately $12 billion she’s given away in the past two years has shattered conventions, explains a philanthropy historian.
When white philanthropists made large gifts to these schools in the 19th century and early 20th century, many insisted upon a vocational focus for Black higher ed.
A professor of urban education argues that an epidemic of majority-Black public school closings is hurting already vulnerable communities across the country.
Her giving style is unusual for a billionaire donor.
Members of the nation’s four Black sororities, including Vice President Kamala Harris, commit to lifelong acts of service for their communities.
While support for social services and historically black colleges and universities rose sharply, these donors spent a tiny fraction of what the government distributed to people who needed help.
By not attaching any strings to the money, championing representation and generally taking care to respect nonprofit leaders, she’s following five best practices.
From thousands of people chipping in as little as $5 to George Floyd’s GoFundMe to donations well in excess of $1 million to HBCUs, anti-racist philanthropy is rising.
By not attaching any strings to the money, championing representation and generally taking care to respect nonprofit leaders, she’s following five best practices.
Any HBCU closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially hinder the careers of many Black Americans.
When Mikey Williams, one of the nation’s top high school basketball players, announced that he was thinking about going to a historically black college, the college basketball world paid attention.
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Professor of Economics, University of New Orleans
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Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University
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Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Executive in Residence, University of Southern California
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Assistant Professor of History, Howard University
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Professor of Urban Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Shaw University
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Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College
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Professor of History
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Executive Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of North Texas