Category: School

By Aziah Siid What do Martin Luther King Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Vice President Kamala Harris have in common? They’re all graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The schools saw a surge in applications from high school seniors after the murder of George Floyd. And along with increasingly being seen by Black high school students and families as havens of safety — both physically and culturally — HBCUs produce nearly 13% of all Black graduates, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. I’m a Morgan State graduate, so I know first-hand these schools aren’t just academic institutions. They’re a The post 5 HBCUs Leading the Charge in Creating Black Excellence appeared first on HBCU News.

Oil prices edged lower in early European trading as prospects of increased supply from OPEC+ offset risks of supply disruptions in the Middle East.

With the Fed cutting interest rates, some savers are learning that there is fine print on their certificates of deposit.

The pound was mocked as the “Great British Peso” not long ago. Suddenly, it is the best-performing currency in developed markets.

Base-metals demand in China will be largely driven by electric vehicles, renewable power, lithium-ion batteries and related infrastructure investment in 2025, offsetting some losses from a weaker property market, the Shanghai Metals Exchange said.

U.S. stock futures wavered. Growth was in focus as a new quarter got under way, with data on manufacturing and the U.S. jobs market due.

Walt Bettinger, who oversaw the company’s rise to a personal-finance juggernaut, will retire after a 16-year tenure.

Find insight on Peel Hunt, the Malaysian banking sector and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Financial Services sector.

The dollar was higher and could rise further after Powell signaled interest rates might be cut in smaller increments after last month’s 50 basis-point cut, ING said.

Expectations for another quarter-point rate cut by the European Central Bank are on the rise due to growing evidence of a significant slowdown in both inflation and economic activity.

By Ashley Brown Project Kitty Hawk, an initiative founded by the state of North Carolina, is making significant strides in increasing adult learner enrollment at North Carolina Central University. Launched by the General Assembly in 2021, the project aims to assist public universities in recruiting and supporting individuals aged 25 and older who have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree. Since beginning its partnership with NCCU in October 2023, Project Kitty Hawk has experienced remarkable growth. The program started with just ten students and has expanded to 221 adult learners this fall. “There might be people who want an education but have The post NCCU Welcomes Surge of Adult Learners Thanks to Project Kitty Hawk appeared first on HBCU News.

By Kathryn Palmer In the 14 years Michael Curry worked as a chemistry and materials science professor at Tuskegee University, he and his colleagues got research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies. But the grants awarded to Tuskegee—a private historically Black university in Alabama that, like most HBCUs, has battled systemic underfunding dating back to its founding in the Jim Crow–era South—often weren’t nearly as big as the grants received by Curry’s peers at predominately white, Research-1 institutions, such as the University of Alabama or Auburn University. “We had a lack of infrastructure, The post Federal Agencies Aim to Boost Research at HBCUs appeared first on HBCU News.