https://www.diverseeducation.com/awards-honors/dr-john-hope-franklin About this award: In recognition of Dr. John Hope Franklin’s extraordinary career as a historian, scholar and social activist, <i>Diverse: Issues In Higher Education</i> each year presents an award in his name for individuals and organizations that have expanded access to and created opportunity in American higher education as well as produced exemplary scholarship and research. en-us https://www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/article/15741025/dr-sylvester-james-gates-jr-pioneering-theoretical-physicist-bridges-mathematical-worlds https://www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/article/15741025/dr-sylvester-james-gates-jr-pioneering-theoretical-physicist-bridges-mathematical-worlds Gates is the 2025 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:37:42 -0500 Faculty & Staff https://www.diverseeducation.com/from-the-magazine/article/15382552/inspiration-and-innovation https://www.diverseeducation.com/from-the-magazine/article/15382552/inspiration-and-innovation Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson receives Dr. John Hope Franklin Award at 2023 American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting. Sat, 15 Apr 2023 08:15:13 -0500 From the Magazine https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/article/15383142/dr-shirley-ann-jackson-lauded-at-dr-john-hope-franklin-reception https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/article/15383142/dr-shirley-ann-jackson-lauded-at-dr-john-hope-franklin-reception WASHINGTON — Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, noted physicist who recently retired as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), was honored with a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award last Friday night by Diverse. Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:36:26 -0500 Demographics https://www.diverseeducation.com/awards-honors/jhf/article/15281526/dr-freeman-hrabowski-ii-awarded-dr-john-hope-franklin-award https://www.diverseeducation.com/awards-honors/jhf/article/15281526/dr-freeman-hrabowski-ii-awarded-dr-john-hope-franklin-award Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III was awarded the Dr. John Hope Franklin award on Tuesday by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:26:13 -0600 Awards/Honors / JHF https://www.diverseeducation.com/press-releases/press-release/15280010/diverse-issues-in-higher-education-is-pleased-to-announce-the-recipient-of-this-years-dr-john-hope-franklin-award https://www.diverseeducation.com/press-releases/press-release/15280010/diverse-issues-in-higher-education-is-pleased-to-announce-the-recipient-of-this-years-dr-john-hope-franklin-award Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:32:10 -0500 Press Releases https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106505/meet-frank-wu-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106505/meet-frank-wu-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient During his childhood, Frank Wu planned on being an architect. His parents even bought him a drafting table at a garage sale. But as a teenager, a local hate crime and homicide in Detroit changed his mind.  With Detroit being known as the “motor city,” residents depended on the larger automobile companies for employment. After […] Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:24:06 -0500 Latest News https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106507/meet-kimberl-crenshaw-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106507/meet-kimberl-crenshaw-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient Dr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:57:50 -0500 Latest News https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106506/meet-dr-walter-r-allen-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15106506/meet-dr-walter-r-allen-a-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-recipient When Dr. Walter R. Allen takes on a research project, there must always be a larger purpose — something he discusses with graduate students and young academics. According to Allen, African American scholars cannot live in an ivory tower. All research — including his more than 150 publications — must, in some way, illuminate the challenges that communities of color face. Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:56:32 -0500 Latest News https://www.diverseeducation.com/page/2020-john-hope-franklin-awards https://www.diverseeducation.com/page/2020-john-hope-franklin-awards Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:23:18 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15106449/top-35-women-in-higher-education https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15106449/top-35-women-in-higher-education Profiles of 2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Winners Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:48:29 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/press-releases/article/15106250/2020-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners-announced https://www.diverseeducation.com/press-releases/article/15106250/2020-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners-announced PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maya Matthews Minter Email: Maya@DiverseEducation.com Phone: 703.385.2411 FAIRFAX, Va. — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Walter Allen, one of the nation’s most distinguished professors of education, sociology and African American studies, is the Allan […] Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:04:31 -0600 Press Releases https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15105149/a-view-from-the-founders-diverse-at-35 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15105149/a-view-from-the-founders-diverse-at-35 During the initial preparation for the inaugural edition of Black Issues In Higher Education, co-founders Dr. Bill Cox and Frank L. Matthews spoke with a large number of professionals throughout the country. They also spent many days, weeks and months surveying the higher education community to determine the need for a professional publication of this nature. Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:13:56 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/news-roundup/article/15104106/announcing-the-2019-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners https://www.diverseeducation.com/news-roundup/article/15104106/announcing-the-2019-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners Diverse is pleased to announce the names of the two distinguished recipients of the 2019 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, one of the nation’s most prominent historians, is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has been a tenured faculty member at […] Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:00:55 -0600 News Roundup https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15104033/2019-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners-announced https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15104033/2019-dr-john-hope-franklin-award-winners-announced FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maya Matthews Minter Maya@DiverseEducation.com Phone: 703.385.2411 FAIRFAX, Va. — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, one of the nation’s most prominent historians, is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African […] Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:02:58 -0600 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15103203/harvard-history-professor-makes-history https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15103203/harvard-history-professor-makes-history Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s appointment as the first African-American chair of the Department of History at Harvard University is significant, but not for the reasons most would expect. Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:20:53 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15102129/pioneering-historian-mines-black-womens-history https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15102129/pioneering-historian-mines-black-womens-history As a young professor at Purdue University in the early 1970s, Dr. Darlene Clark Hine was confronted with a challenge that would ultimately change her career trajectory and position her as one of the nation’s most prominent historians. Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:54:17 -0600 Demographics / African-American https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15101998/diverse-honors-3-stellar-educators-with-dr-john-hope-franklin-award https://www.diverseeducation.com/latest-news/article/15101998/diverse-honors-3-stellar-educators-with-dr-john-hope-franklin-award Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has announced the 2018 recipients of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. They are: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:02:43 -0600 Latest News https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15098191/acuna-accepts-john-hope-franklin-award-at-ace https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15098191/acuna-accepts-john-hope-franklin-award-at-ace SAN FRANCISCO — Last night, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña, the founder of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, accepted Diverse’s 2016 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award at the 98th American Council on Education Annual Meeting. Notably, at the height of the civil rights movement, Acuña, […] Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:58:24 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15097226/dr-sybil-mobley-founder-of-famu-school-of-business-dies https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15097226/dr-sybil-mobley-founder-of-famu-school-of-business-dies Dr. Sybil Mobley, founding dean of the School of Business and Industry at Florida A&M University, died Tuesday in Tallahassee. Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:29:10 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096566/belle-wheelans-drive-pays-off-for-higher-education https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096566/belle-wheelans-drive-pays-off-for-higher-education As an African-American woman with more than 40 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Belle S. Wheelan has certainly become used to breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings. Tue, 19 May 2015 10:48:43 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096168/belle-wheelans-drive-pays-off-for-higher-education https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096168/belle-wheelans-drive-pays-off-for-higher-education As an African-American woman with more than 40 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Belle S. Wheelan has certainly become used to breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings. Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:28:59 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/institutions/community-colleges/article/15096147/belle-wheelan-recognized-for-groundbreaking-career-in-higher-ed https://www.diverseeducation.com/institutions/community-colleges/article/15096147/belle-wheelan-recognized-for-groundbreaking-career-in-higher-ed Hundreds gathered to pay tribute to the longtime trailblazer on being named the recipient of the 2015 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine. Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:48:34 -0500 Institutions / Community Colleges https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096156/renaissance-woman https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15096156/renaissance-woman 2015 John Hope Franklin Award Winner Belle Wheelan has made her mark at all levels of academe, and beyond. Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:28:16 -0500 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15095928/unfinished-business https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15095928/unfinished-business Through the movie “Selma,” many people who weren’t born yet when police forces attacked marchers on the route to Montgomery, Alabama, are getting an opportunity to learn about that episode of history. Sun, 01 Feb 2015 23:27:00 -0600 https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15094417/james-rosser-honored-with-john-hope-franklin-award https://www.diverseeducation.com/home/article/15094417/james-rosser-honored-with-john-hope-franklin-award Dr. James M. Rosser, former president of California State University, Los Angeles, was presented last night with the Dr. John Hope Franklin award at the American Council of Education conference. Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:26:27 -0500