Education

ABOVE PHOTO: Acting Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole (Photo/phila.gov) ASSOCIATED PRESS  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to mandate that its 20,000 teachers and staff members be vaccinated against COVID-19, but details of when the mandate would go into place are still being worked out, school district officials said. The move comes…

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania and Oboseke University of Excellence (OUE) in the West African nation of Ghana have reached agreement on a collaboration that will allow Cheyney to share its expertise, especially in aquaculture and aquaponics, and permit both schools to establish a student exchange program. The Accreditation Board of Ghana requires a new university…

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The nation’s first HBCU will clear all outstanding balances dating back to spring 2020. In light of the financial and emotional hardships that students and their families have experienced because of the coronavirus pandemic, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will forgive student balances from the spring 2020, fall 2020 and spring 2021…

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The long-term impacts of the COVID-19 education gap will be significant to children’s developmental preparedness — especially the children the organization Cradles to Crayons serves who were already struggling. Cradles to Crayons serves more than 150,000 Philadelphia area children each year with high-quality everyday essentials.  Families spend on average $320 a year on back-to-school supplies….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Dr. George T. French, Jr. (Photo: www.cau.edu)  Clark Atlanta University President Dr. George T. French, Jr. recently announced that the university is canceling all student account balances for the Spring 2020 through Summer 2021 semesters, bringing them to a zero balance.  This initiative will have no impact on the students’ future financial aid eligibility…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Book illustrated by Floyd Cooper ILLUSTRATED BY FLOYD COOPER.  Cooper died early Friday after being ill with cancer for several months.  (Image courtesy of  HarperCollins Publishers) By Hillel Italie ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Floyd Cooper, an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s books whose mission to offer candid and positive images of…

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ABOVE PHOTOS: Ta-Nehisi Coates (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) and Nikole Hannah-Jones (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) By Tom Foreman Jr.  And Aaron Morrison ASSOCIATED PRESS  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.  — A Black investigative journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking work on the bitter legacy of slavery in the U.S. announced Tuesday that she will…

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The Alumni of Dobbins worked feverishly to ensure an alum was selected and extended the position. Murrell Dobbins Career & Technical Education Centers High School celebrated another glorious first! Shervon Thompson, graduate of the Class of 1996 became the first Alum in Dobbins 85-year history to lead the helm as principal of the illustrious school….

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By TOM FOREMAN WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to accept the tenure application of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, following weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about her teaching credentials. The board accepted the application at a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Wilberforce University President Elfred Anthony Pinkard, Ed.D.  (Photo/wilberforce.edu) By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — There are usually lots of cheers and applause at university commencements. But 2020 and 2021 graduates of Wilberforce University, a school affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, had an extra reason to celebrate during their ceremony on Saturday…

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