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Two History Professors Chronicle the Lives of the First Black Scholars Hired at PWIs

by Lois Elfman | February 13, 2020 Dr. David Canton, associate professor of history at Connecticut College, is working on a biogra Read more

Remembering Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, the Man Behind the Harlem Renaissance

by B. Denise Hawkins | February 10, 2020
Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, a longtime Howard University professor, art critic, Harvard-educated wri [...] Read more

How Dr. Hasan Jeffries is Rethinking the Way We Teach Black History

by Jessica Ruf | February 7, 2020
As a teenager in 1980s Brooklyn, Dr. Hasan Jeffries tried piecing together two different storie [...] Read more

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Que-Lam Huynh

by Lois Elfman | January 29, 2020
Studying issues of ethnic minority identity and marginalization comes naturally to Dr. Que-Lam [...] Read more

University of Cincinnati to Remove Slave Owner’s Name From its College of Arts and Sciences

by Jessica Ruf | December 17, 2019
The University of Cincinnati (UC) board of trustees unanimously voted to discontinue the school [...] Read more

Diversity, Ukraine, and Impeachment

by Emil Guillermo | November 16, 2019
There’s a diversity angle in the impeachment hearings you may have overlooked.It’s not just [...] Read more

Higher Ed’s Impeachment Role

by Emil Guillermo | November 4, 2019
Make no mistake, Higher Ed must play a role in impeachment. Not as partisans. But as the contex [...] Read more

Our Shared History

by Frank Wu | October 24, 2019
People are ignorant of history, even their own. [...] Read more

William & Mary Granted $1M to Research Slave Legacy

by Sarah Wood | August 5, 2019
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted the College of William & Mary $1 million to res [...] Read more

Family Storytellers Inspired Professor-Historian

| October 30, 2018
Dr. Allyson Hobbs comes from a family of storytellers, perhaps chief among them her Aunt Shirle [...] Read more

‘The Obama Years: The Power of Words’ Premieres Tonight

by David Pluviose | February 27, 2017
Tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, the Smithsonian Channel premieres “The Obama Years: The Power of W [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice