Four of Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities are receiving a $50 million boost from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. It is the largest gift Blank has made to higher education in Atlanta. In November 2019, Arthur Blank made a $50 million gift to his alma mater, Babson College, based in Wellesley, Mass., to […]
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AI Ethics Council balancing concerns and opportunities
The AI Ethics Council is helping provide a framework around ethical issues related to artificial intelligence, according to John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO of Operation HOPE.
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Novel Center for Urban Research launched by Georgia Tech and Atlanta
Georgia Tech and the City of Atlanta are launching a Center for Urban Research to help revitalize communities and address racial inequities.
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The new PROPEL Center will be built at Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University has been selected to be the site of the new PROPEL Center, a global innovation headquarters of HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).
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Clark Atlanta’s George French seeks to revitalize its historic holdings
Clark Atlanta University President George French envisions an expansive renovation and restoration of CAU’s significant historic structures – buildings that played a pivotal role in Atlanta’s African American history.
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Google’s Atlanta presence expanding in stature and office space
Google celebrated its love for Atlanta when opened its new Midtown office space on July 27. In its new office space, the technology company clearly has embraced Atlanta and Georgia – spotlighting its role as a center for civil and human rights for all as well as its multicultural offerings of music and entertainment.
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Atlanta-based CodeHouse working to diversify tech industry
There’s no denying a diversity gap exists in the technology industry. But in recent years tech companies have focused efforts to increase diversity within their ranks.
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More HBCUs, ‘Despicable:’ How the Black History Month bomb threats could have been prevented
In addition to Howard University receiving its fourth bomb threat, three new schools receive their first. By Allison Joyner UPDATE: The outbreak of bomb threats to Historically Black Colleges and Universities continues to be sustained. Monday, Howard University received its fourth bomb threat this year and three Carolina schools had their first on Tuesday. Columbia, […]
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Atlanta must rise to the challenge of becoming the next superstar city
By Guest Columnist BRIAN McGOWAN, president of the The Centennial Yards Co.
Returning to Atlanta after spending nearly three years in the Pacific Northwest, I see a city now facing the similar opportunities and challenges Seattle encountered on its journey to becoming a top market for tech talent and employers.
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Georgia Power to invest $75 million in racial equity, social justice efforts
Georgia Power and its foundation will invest $15 million a year for the next five years to help advance racial equity and social justice efforts in Georgia – an effort that will total of $75 million.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Georgia becomes first state to repeal citizen’s arrest law
Over the weekend, Colonial Pipeline, which fuels much of the East coast, shut down its services after a ransomware attack. 49% of Georgia gas stations are without gas, according to CNN. The pipeline restarted Wednesday, May 12, but it could take a few days for things to return to business as usual. In the meantime, […]
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Fulton development authority partners with foundation to improve infrastructure of two HBCUs
By Guest Columnist Dr. SAMUEL D. JOLLEY, Jr., secretary of the board of directors for the Development Authority of Fulton County
The call was a clear one: We were asked to help upgrade essential infrastructure at a major university center while preserving debt capacity.
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Beyoncé, Peloton donate health app, increase intern opportunities at HBCUs
The Freshman 15 weight gain was a challenge for college students even before the pandemic. Beyoncé and Peloton have responded with a free health program for students of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse University and Morehouse School of Medicine.
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Historic Fountain Hall receives grant from National Trust
Fountain Hall, the historic tower owned by Morris Brown College, has received an important $75,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
In all, the National Trust announced Friday morning it was awarding a total of $1.6 million to 22 sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
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UnitedHealth Group, Atlanta’s HBCUs launching data science initiative
The Atlanta University Center Consortium has received an $8.25 million investment from UnitedHealth Group Inc. to strengthen the offerings of the colleges in the fields of data science.
The AUC Consortium brings together the four major historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) clustered on the westside of Atlanta – Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University and the Morehouse School of Medicine – to work on areas of common interests.
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Ron Johnson, president of Clark Atlanta University, to step down
Clark Atlanta University President Ronald A. Johnson submitted his resignation Friday after a meeting with his board of trustees.
Johnson was named president of Clark Atlanta on March 31, 2015. The historically black college celebrated its 30th anniversary as a stand-alone institution on July 1, the same day that Johnson marked his third year as CAU’s president. In 1988, Clark Atlanta was formed as a result of a merger between Atlanta University, founded in 1988, and Clark College, founded in 1869.
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The Power of “We” – The Atlanta University Consortium (AUC)
Note from John Ahmann: The Atlanta University Consortium (AUC) by definition demonstrate the power of We as the world’s largest consortia of African American private institutions of higher education. These constellations of institutions have long served as an anchor for the Westside and have had an incredible impact morally, economically, and politically on not only […]
