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Columbia University will become the first major university to drop from the U.S. News rankings of undergraduate schools.
Columbia University and Southern University and A&M College, a historically Black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize a new partnership that will facilitate faculty research collaborations; exchange and experiential learning programs for students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty; and innovation and economic development initiatives.
Pathway programs for students will be a major focus of the partnership, encouraging promising Southern University undergraduates to apply to Columbia Ph.D. programs for graduate studies, where they will be co-mentored by both Columbia and Southern faculty before returning to Southern for tenure-track positions.
Dennis Mitchell, executive vice president for university life, senior vice provost for faculty advancement, and professor of dental medicine at Columbia, said that โwe are looking forward to opening up collaborations for students, faculty, and trainees across our campuses. By enhancing the diversity of Columbia graduate programs, and ultimately the professoriate, we are making a long-term investment in inclusive excellence that reaches far beyond our two institutions.โ
โAt this pivotal moment for HBCUs, when federal agencies have carved out funding for underserved institutions, we have extraordinary opportunities to leverage,โ added Dennis J. Shields, president of the Southern University System and chancellor of Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. โThe intellectual capital and resources that a university like Columbia has, teamed up with an under-resourced but intellectually strong institution like Southern, could open new doors for faculty and students while creating a long-lasting impact on higher education.โ
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The Bancroft Prize is one of the nationโs top honors in the field of American history. The prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for books published in the previous year, and judged by a panel of distinguished historians โin terms of scope, significance, depth of research, and richness of interpretation that they present in the areas of American history and diplomacy.โ The prize includes a $10,000 award.
This year, one of the three winners is Black.
Kelly Lytle Hernaฬndez holds the Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was honored for her book Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W.W. Norton, 2022). The book is an โambitious and exciting study of the Mexican Revolution as both Mexican and American history focused on the liberal-turned-anarchist Ricardo Flores Magรณn and the radical men and women that surrounded him,โ according to the prize committee.
Dr. Lytle Hernรกndez is also the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Currently, Professor Lytle Hernรกndez is the director and principal investigator for Million Dollar Hoods, a university-based, community-driven research project that maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles.
Professor Lytle Hernaฬndez is s graduate of the University of California, San Diego and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York has announced that it will acquire the archives of Tania Leoฬn, the noted composer, conductor, and educator. Her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic in celebration of the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
A native of Havana, Leoฬn left Cuba in 1967 and settled in New York. She found work at the Harlem School of the Arts as a substitute pianist for dance classes and later became the music director of the Dance Theater of Harlem. She has been visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas, Purchase College, and the Musikschule in Hamburg, Germany, among others.
Alejandro L. Madrid, who has written her biography Tania Leoฬnโs Stride, A Polyrhythmic Life (University of Illinois Press, 2022), writes: โI have no doubt that Tania Leoฬn is one of the most important and accomplished composers of her generation. Her music has influenced several cohorts of composers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, while also serving as a bridge to positively acknowledge and accept the music and culture from Latinx composers as a serious interlocutor in European and American concert halls. At the same time, her advocacy and commitment to the advancement of marginalized communities of people of color has led to her pioneering work as a musical activist.โ
John L. Jackson Jr. has been chosen to be the next provost at the University of Pennsylvania, effective June 1. He will be the 31st individual to serve as provost at the university.
โI could not be more honored and genuinely humbled to be asked to serve in this important post,โ Dr. Jackson said. โI look forward to working closely with President Magill and the entire Penn community as we navigate the challenges and opportunities of today and prepare, together, for the ones that will emerge tomorrow.โ
Dr. Jackson is currently the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and senior advisor to the provost on diversity at the university. Professor Jackson joined the faculty at the university in 2006 after erving as an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.
An urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity, Dr. Jacksonโs work explores how film and other nontraditional formats can be effectively used in scholarly research projects. He is the author or co-author of several books including Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013), Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas, 2008), and Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Dr. Jackson is a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he majored in communication He holds two masterโs degrees and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in New York City.
Nemat Shafik, who previously served as deputy governor of the Bank of England, spoke during the International Monetary Fund spring meetings in 2016 in Washington.
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