“The Town of Berlin has some room to improve financially,” said Berlin Mayor Zack Tyndall. “We’re not going to do that through cutting jobs or services.”
BERLIN – Maintaining the town’s finances, improving its appearance and supporting its businesses are Mayor Zack Tyndall’s goals moving into the new year.
Tyndall, who served as a town councilman until he defeated incumbent Gee Williams in October’s election, said that moving into 2021, his focuses for Berlin are the budget, beautification and empowering the town’s businesses. During the past two months, he’s had countless meetings with Berlin’s department heads, adopting a hands-on approach to leading the town.
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Last week, a JBHE post reported that, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual
Survey of Earned Doctorates, universities in the United States conferred 55,693 doctorates in 2019. Of these, 3,095, or 5.6 percent, were earned by African Americans or Black students from foreign nations.
The report shows that 437 doctorates were awarded by historically Black colleges and universities in 2019. (Medical and juris doctorate degrees are not included in these figures.) Thus, HBCUs conferred just 0.8 percent of all doctoral degrees awarded in the United States in 2019.
Here is a list of HBCUs and the number of doctorates they awarded in 2019.
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