The hires of Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who are highly regarded writers who have each produced high-impact work on urgent questions about race in America, are a major recruiting victory for Howard University.
The UNC Black Student Movement says the acting chief is a threat to the safety of Black students after they say he assaulted protesters at a recent trustees meeting.
The rate at which students stayed enrolled at a postsecondary institution dropped by two percentage points last fall, yet more evidence of the impact of the pandemic and recession.