Tennessee’s historically Black colleges and universities will soon have a team of advocates and an executive director in the state’s capital of Nashville. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s signing of the new Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities officially created an office within the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to represent those institutions. “Governor Bill Haslam’s signing of the HBCU initiative […]
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William J. Taggart, Morehouse College Interim President has Died
ATLANTA (AP) — An interim president at Morehouse College, one of the nation’s top historically Black colleges based in Atlanta, has died. Morehouse College Interim President, William J. Taggart. (Courtesy Photo) Morehouse College said in a statement that William J. Taggart died Thursday morning. He was 55. The cause of his death has not been […]
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John Wilson Out Early at Morehouse, William Taggart to Handle Day to Day Operations
Just days after a media blitz in which he criticized meetings with presidents and the details of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in support of historically black colleges and universities, Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson has been officially ousted from the position three months ahead of the expiration of his contract. […]
