Texas College’s men’s track team had two members win back to back Conference Championships at the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) meet. Both athletes won first place at the RRAC meet in 2016 and 2017.
- Eddie Shoots, 400 meter hurdles
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Posted Friday, May 19th 2017 at 4:05PM
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By Molly Bloom - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Second chances were invented for kids like Keith Glass. Third, fourth, and fifth chances too.
Glass started high school at South Atlanta with ambitions of being a rapper. He invested in a set of gold grills. As for college, “All I heard was t ...
Posted Friday, May 19th 2017 at 10:50AM
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The Department of Nursing at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) has been granted full approval by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing (ASBN) for the pre-licensure (generic) program. The approval extends through 2020.
“The new nursing program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluf ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:26PM
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Tennessee State University will receive nearly half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its research on meat goat production.
The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture on May 16 announced 47 grants totaling almost $17.5 million to improve sustainable ag ...
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Almost anyone on the Savannah State campus these days will recognize Carl Sneed. He is the guy with a mesh fishing hat and a big grin. One reason for the eternal smile is that Sneed returned to SSU after a trip around the solar system – at least via his work.
A Savannah native, Sneed was always t ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:17PM
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Contact: Tenisha Taylor Bell
(678) 429-4254
tbell@cau.edu
ATLANTA (May 17, 2017) Clark Atlanta University will bestow four doctoral degrees honoris causa during the 2017 Commencement Convocation Monday, May 22, 8 a.m. at Panther Stadium, 735 Beckwith St. SW. “These four pioneers were selecte ...
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Virginia Union University's Taylor White, who was the 2015-16 CIAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was chosen to the All-CIAA Volleyball Team in 2016 was honored as Co-Valedictorian of the Class of 2017 at the University's Commencement on Saturday, May 13, in Richmond, Va.
White, who was co-vale ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:09PM
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Suzanne Walsh, deputy director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success Team, will deliver the keynote address during Johnson C. Smith University’s 145th Commencement Exercise 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, 2017. The event will b ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 2:47PM
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Summer Music Camp for River Region Middle Schoolers!
Sharpen Kid's Skills in a Day-Long Setting; Nurtured by Trained ASU Faculty Music Professionals
WHAT: Area middle school band & choral students can enhance their music skills in a fun settin ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 2:20PM
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HBCU Records, a student-run indie record label formed by the University's Curb Institute, is preparing to release its first mixtape fall 2017. The mixtape, which is currently untitled will feature, Daniel "DJ DGlove" Glover, a student from the College of Liberal Arts who will mix on the production a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 9:41AM
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Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. encouraged Claflin Universityfs newest graduates to define themselves using their own standards, not the standards of others.
"Don't play it safe and accept assumptions. I pray that you refuse this temptation," he said Saturday.
Glaude, the chairman of the Departme ...
Posted Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 9:32AM
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Nidiyah Malkia-Elisa McDuffie, a graduating senior at Richland Northeast High School, has made her college decision. After 8 months of filing applications and 19 acceptance letters, Claflin University is her choice.
Although all the colleges and universities have her major and offered her merit ...
Posted Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 9:17AM
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University of the Virgin Islands St.Thomas Campus 53rd Commencement Ceremony- Keynote Address - Iyanla Vanzant ...
Posted Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 8:39AM
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Ashley Stewart will award a $10,000 scholarship to one student who is currently attending North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&T) and meets the criteria outlined below.
Ashley Stewart is a market-leading brand in the plus-size fashion industry after emerging from bankruptcy only three ...
Posted Tuesday, May 16th 2017 at 10:51AM
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–Lincoln University’s Board of Trustees announced at a special meeting held May 11 the selection of Dr. Brenda Allen, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Winston-Salem State University, as president of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Allen, who is an alumna of Lincoln University ...
Posted Tuesday, May 16th 2017 at 10:45AM
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Author: K. Dawn Rutledge
Although native Floridians, Freddie L. and Dr. Susie Blocker Stewart Robinson, Sr. , were only two hours away from each other in their hometowns of Fort Pierce and Sanford, respectively. It was an 11-hour trip up the road to Nashville, Tennessee that created the sett ...
Posted Tuesday, May 16th 2017 at 10:43AM
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Why History?
History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. - Robert Penn Warren
The Department of History is dedicated to the humanistic study of the past for a b ...
Posted Tuesday, May 16th 2017 at 10:38AM
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Mother's Day weekend is extra special for one Orangeburg family. They're not just celebrating one college graduation, but three!
Dora Waymer graduated from Claflin University right along side her daughter and son.
She, along with her son Jayson, were part of the very first class to earn th ...
Posted Tuesday, May 16th 2017 at 10:32AM
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Contact: Tenisha Taylor Bell
(678) 429-4254
tbell@cau.edu
Renowned business leader and newspaper publisher William Pickard, Ph.D., has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the 2017 Clark Atlanta University Commencement Convocation. This year more than 800 CAU undergraduate and graduate stud ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2017 at 3:35PM
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Attending college, graduating within four years, and exiting Cheyney University’s historic quadrangle to assume full-time, competitive positions were merely dreams for Cheyney seniors Leonard Brown and Tyneesah Davenport. However, following their graduation Saturday, May 13, that scenario is the rea ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2017 at 2:34PM
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Alumnus Clarenton “Nicky” Crawford fulfilled a lifelong dream during the 2017 Spring Commencement at Alabama State University.
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Clarenton “Nicky” Crawford is a man who dreams big and works hard to see those dreams fulfilled. His hard work paid off in 1974 when he completed his coursework ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2017 at 1:13PM
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Students who graduate from North Carolina Central University have many options – now including the opportunity to assist schools in struggling communities around the United States.
NCCU has partnered with City Year, an education nonprofit that is dedicated to helping students and schools succeed ...
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