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The DL B , blog of the Digital Library of Georgia featured a number of items from the Spelman College Archives in a post several weeks ago, " Preserving and Sharing Spelman Archival Treasurers ."  Mandy Mastrovita authored the post where she describes some of the items that are available through Our Story : Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions ", a partnership of the Spelman Archives , the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives Research Center , and the Digital Library of Georgia . The Our Story archives of the Atlanta University Center offers resources for studying  African American higher education and a number of fascinating institutions:  Atlanta University, Clark College, Clark Atlanta University , Gammon Theological Seminary , Interdenominational Theological Center , Morehouse College , Morris Brown College , and Spelman College .

The Selma Times-Journal  published this week that, " Concordia College Alabama to close at the end of spring semester ."  Reporter Blake Deshazo visited  with  Dr. James Lyons, chief transition officer and interim president for the college, who had shared the news with faculty, staff, and students on Wednesday.  Concordia is a historically black Lutheran College with approximately 400 students. Deshazo of The Times-Journal previously reported the institution was facing financial pressure on February 6, 2018 that " Concordia College in need of investors to remain open ." The institution was founded as Alabama Lutheran Academy & College in 1922 .   Alabama Luther College graduated its first class of four women in 1926, but discontinued the college program for a time during the Depression and it was renamed Alabama Lutheran Academy.  College coursework was added back and the name changed to Alabama Lutheran Academy and College.   Then ...

The U.S. Bureau of Education organized an extensive study of black colleges and universities that is available at no charge as a .pdf, " Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities, Bulletin 1928, No. 7 ," on the ERIC website.   Dr. Arthur J. Klen, chief of the Division of Higher Education, served as the director for the survey with cooperation of seventy-nine higher education institutions, nineteen state departments, and several church foundations or educational boards.  Data gathering included visits to the institutions and the report presents a detailed picture of life on the campuses through text and tables.  The survey certainly serves as an authoritative source of information on black higher education in the 1920s.