The Graduate School of Education and Psychology mourns Kingsley B. Jones, an alumnus and doctoral student who died Dec. 6.
GSEP Dean Helen Williams shared the news with the GSEP community Dec. 18, via email, honoring Jones’ work and passion for social justice and higher education as well as sharing some of his notable accomplishments.
“Kingsley was a true change agent with a heart for justice,” Williams wrote. “He was committed to servant leadership and generously gave of his time and talent to such causes. He envisioned a world where poverty would be a thing of the past and the disenfranchised would be valued, and he worked tirelessly to make his vision a reality.”
During this season of giving two MS HBCUs receive hefty donations from philanthropist
During this season of giving two MS HBCUs receive hefty donations from philanthropist
Mackenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and one of the richest person’s in the world is sharing her more than $60 billion fortune. According to
The Washington Post Scott’s gifts to HBCU’s and other colleges surpasses $800 million.
Tougaloo College and Alcorn State University are two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in Mississippi that are recipients of these gifts.
Tougaloo College received a generous donation of $6 million from Scott. “This is an incredibly exciting time for Tougaloo College,’’ said President Carmen J. Walters.
New Project Aims to Re-Define Sensing and Analysis of Hypersonic Vehicles
Written by AZoSensorsDec 16 2020
NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are backing a team of four universities, led by The University of Texas at Austin, in a project to re-define sensing and analysis of hypersonic vehicles, which can travel at least five times the speed of sound and potentially revolutionize space and air travel.
The three-year, $3.3 million project is funded by NASA s University Leadership Initiative, and the team s goal is to create a new paradigm in sensing for hypersonic vehicles, which could also be applied to lower-speed craft.
Popular culture made it impossible to ignore America s reckoning with racism in 2020
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN
Updated 9:03 AM ET, Tue December 22, 2020 (CNN)Whether you lived in rural America, the bustling streets of a big city or even another country, you couldn t ignore the nation s racial reckoning of 2020 and how Black Lives Matter resonated throughout popular culture.
From the basketball arenas and football fields, to Hollywood movie sets and grocery store shelves, the country was awakened to the inequities that Black and brown people have known for generations.
The death of George Floyd was the tipping point.
As video of the brazen police killing of Floyd spread through social media, protesters poured into the streets demanding racial equality. Civil rights leaders and historians say the movement s reach was incomparable to uprisings of the past.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris formally named Miguel Cardona as their nominee to serve as Secretary of Education on Wednesday, touting him as the person to lead the nationâs schools out of a pandemic that has upended nearly every facet of education in the U.S.Â
In nominating Cardona, Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to install a public school teacher as Secretary of Education. Cardona, who currently serves as Connecticutâs Commissioner of Education, began his career as an elementary school teacher, became the stateâs youngest school principal and rose through the ranks of the public school system where he was educated in Meridian, Conn.Â