Alcorn State University in Lorman, Miss., is among 16 historically Black land-grant universities that the Biden administration says have been collectively underfunded to the tune of $12.6 billion over the last three decades.
“We found that race-targeted policies were associated with a significant increase in Black students, whereas race-neutral policies didn’t affect the percentage of Black, mixed and Indigenous Brazilian students in college,” Neil Lewis Jr., Inácio Bó and Rodrigo Zeidan write.
Whitney Perkins has held her role as graduate program director for Jackson State University’s Department of Communicative Disorders since 2022.
“For Black students at higher education institutions—especially at predominantly white institutions—a lack of representation and lack of diversity among their peers exacerbates the sense of loneliness,” Pamela Dankins writes.
Dr. Arianna C. Stokes answers lingering questions surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in institutions of higher education. “We’ve already witnessed technology advance and shape how we teach and learn,” she writes. “AI is here to stay. It’s time to shape it.”
“One year after Trump’s executive order—formally known as Executive Order 13950—was introduced, federal, state and local governmental agencies introduced 250 measures to outlaw the teaching of critical race theory. The theory is meant to explain how race and the law have been used to produce systemic racism in American society.” CRT Forward Project Director Taifha Natalee Alexander writes.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28, 2023, regarding a multistate lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program. John Patrick Hunt, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and Celeste K. Carruthers, an economics professor at the University of Tennessee, explain what’s at stake and what clues the court has given as to how it may rule on the matter.
Director of Advancing Health and Black Equity for Gilead Sciences Tiffany West said Tougaloo College’s rich history as a Mississippi-based institution was one of the many reasons the foundation chose the school as a recipient for the Creating Possible Fund.
JPS students are making academic gains in Mississippi academic assessment despite the negative impacts of COVID-19, Jillian Smart writes.
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