The University of Washington has announced who will serve as their 34th President when current President Ana Mari Cauce steps ...

Dr. Robert Jones is set to become the new president of the University of Washington, succeeding Ana Mari Cauce, who will step down at the end of her term.

The University of Washington (UW) has named its new president, who will also be the first African-American president in ...

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The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the ...

Public statements on social media have suggested President Trump moved to end observance of Black History Month.

Robert J. Jones, currently the chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been chosen to become the 34th ...

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has named the theme for this Black History Month.

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Jones will be the first African American president at the 164-year-old institution. He joins on a five-year contract. His wife, Dr. Lynn Hassan Jones, is a muscular skeletal diagnostic radiologist.

The college was started in 1900 in the basement of a high school in West Baltimore to train African American students to become teachers.