The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases. Here are the latest selections: Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism by Simone Drake et al. (Routle ..read more

Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African Americans in higher education. The articles selected do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. We invite subscribers to e-mail us with suggestions of articles for inclusion in this feature. Donations To Spelman College Highlight Funding Disparities to HBCUs Black Enterprise Black-Owned School Created by HBCU Grad Launches ..read more

Roscoe Hightower Jr., professor of marketing at historically Black Florida A&M University, passed away unexpectedly on April 4. He was 58 years old. Dr. Hightower’s career in academia began in 1997 as an assistant professor of marketing with the University of Akron in Ohio. He first joined the faculty at Florida A&M University in 2000 as an assistant professor of marketing and was promoted to full professor in 2012. Three years later, he was promoted again to the Centennial Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor of Marketing and Facility Management. In addition to his teaching appointment ..read more

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. An anonymous donor has gifted $20 million to historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama. The funds will go towards establishing endowed faculty leadership positions, creating endowed scholarships, enhancing student affairs and campus security staffing, developing STEM and research programs, and fulfilling a United Negro College Fund pooled endowment fund match. Historically Black Morehouse College in A ..read more

O. Jerome Green, president of Shorter College, passed away unexpectedly on April 8 at the age of 69. In 2012, Green became the forty-fifthth president of Shorter College, a private, faith-based, historically Black two-year college in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Under his leadership, Shorter College experienced record-breaking enrollment and graduation rates, created new academic programs, and established the STEM Center for Academic Excellence. Earlier in his career, Green held leadership roles with the Arkansas Ethics Commission and historically Black Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama. “Pr ..read more

A recent report from the United States Government Accountability Office has documented a large underrepresentation of Black faculty members in higher education. The same report also revealed a frequent delay by the Department of Education when referring discrimination complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The report found that despite recent increases in higher education faculty diversity, Black professors remain underrepresented when compared to students and industry professionals within their same field. For example, in the fields of law, science, and engineering ..read more

Christopher Span has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Jersey, effective July 1. Dr. Span currently serves as a professor of education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the educational history of African Americans, which led him to authoring From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). In addition to his academic work, Dr. Span has held numerous leadership positions with the University ..read more

A new study led by Xiaolong Hou, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, has examined the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among Black and White communities across the United States in an effort to further analyze health disparities between the two populations. The pandemic disproportionately impacted the African American community, who experienced more exposure, illness, and death from the virus than other groups. Hou and his co-authors from Texas A&M University and AirBnB used data from the United States Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 tracke ..read more

Corrie Fountain, associate provost for faculty affairs at Georgia State University, has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. She will join the Clayton State University community this spring and return to Georgia State University at the end of the fall 2024 semester. Dr. Fountain joined the Georgia State University staff in 2021 as director of faculty development. She was selected to serve as interim associate provost in 2022, and was officially promoted to her present position in 2023. She also holds a ..read more

A new report from the Consumer Federation of America has found over six million Americans own uninsured homes, approximately 7.4 percent of all United States homeowners. Black homeowners are disproportionately impacted by the lack of housing insurance. Some 11 percent of African American homeowners do not have insurance for their properties compared to 6 percent of White American homeowners. Using data from the 2021 American Housing Survey and American Community Survey, the report estimates $1.6 trillion in property value is uninsured, $206 billion of which is owned by Black Americans. Older B ..read more