Greetings HBCU Library Alliance Membership! It is an honor to serve as Board Chair. I am excited about this opportunity to give back to an organization that assisted me in my leadership role as the Director of the James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University (NC). The Board Members, Executive Director Sandra …
March (2019)— Researchers at Morehouse School of Medicine have received a three-year, $1,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the mechanisms underlying sleep homeostasis – the body’s effort to maintain an adequate amount of sleep. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a third of U.S. adults report that they usually … Continue reading
February (2019)—Nonprofit organization Base 11 has announced it has given Morgan State University a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant that will support Morgan State’s rocketry lab and establish a student rocketry team. The commercial space industry is predicted to become a $2.7 trillion economic section in the next three decades, according … Continue reading
February (2019)— Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., (AKA) in partnership with the Educational Advancement Foundation, has pledged an endowment in the amount of $100,000 to SC State University as a part of the AKA-HBCU Endowment Fund initiative. On February 28, SC State president James E. Clark will join 31 other presidents of historically black colleges … Continue reading
February (2019) — Spelman College has received a $900,000 grant from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. as part of its Thriving in Ministry initiative. The funds will be used to establish a fellowship and programming that provides leadership development, mentoring and relationship building among Black millennial women ministers. Spelman’s WISDOM (Women in Spiritual Discernment of Ministry) … Continue reading
February (2019) Why this story matters: Bennett College in Greensboro is one of two historically black colleges for women left in the United States. It raced against the clock to meet a $5 million fundraising goal by Feb. 1 to avoid closing after 145 years. Bennett College has met its fundraising goal and then some. During … Continue reading
January (2019)– Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Pauletta Brown Bracy is the winner of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award pays tribute to the quality and magnitude of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton. Dr. Bracy is Professor of Library Science and Director … Continue reading
January (2019)— Thanks to a generous grant from the IMLS, the HBCU Library Alliance and Digital Library Federation are pleased to announce the first of three annual cohorts of Authenticity Project Fellows! These fifteen Fellows work in libraries and archives at historically black colleges and universities. They will receive full travel, lodging, and registration expenses to the 2019 DLF Forum in Tampa, … Continue reading
