Tremell Parker, a 20-year-old sophomore from Durham, N.C., is the latest HBCU All-Star chosen to represent Johnson C. Smith University on the national stage. On Aug. 19, the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities annou ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 3:32PM
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Virginia Union University (VUU) nearly $380,000 to provide more intensive research experiences to students in the biological sciences. The money will be used over a three-year period to implement an ...
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The crowd of students who turned out Wednesday afternoon to attend the dedication and grand opening ceremony for the renovated student activity center in the Fred T. Long Student Union was immense. The words shared with them by speakers prior t ...
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Dr. Kemba Chambers, Interim President of J.F. Drake State Community and Technical College has been appointed as a member of the Peer Review Advisory Board (PRAB) for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
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Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 3:04PM
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Mr. Mark Wilson, Chairman of the Wilberforce University Board of Trustees, is excited to announce the appointment of five new board members. “These appointments support a continued renewal of the Wilberforce commitment of excellence to its constitue ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:32PM
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Brandi Gourdine’s change in direction is nothing but amazing.
As a senior at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte three years ago, she had a low grade-point average and saw her friends being accepted into college. Then, the transformation starte ...
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When choosing a major, you want to select an affordable degree program that will support you on your chosen career path. At Arkansas Baptist College, we are with you every step of the way. As a respected HBCU in Arkansas, we believe in providing our ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:18PM
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Cynthia Warrick, PhD RPh
Interim President
Stillman College
Dr. Cynthia Warrick began her tenure as Interim President of Stillman College on January 1, 2017. A pharmacist and health services researcher, Dr. Warrick has 20 years of Higher Educa ...
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The UNCF® Career Pathways Initiative, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., awarded $35 million in grants to selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs) to address social and economic issues of minority graduation, unemployment, and underemploy ...
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Mobile Lab Helps Young Students in Greater Memphis Get Hands-On STEM Experience
In 2015, Baptist Memorial Health Care helped sponsor a LeMoyne-Owen College mobile lab designed to help get young students excited about science. This bus, known as “S ...
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Oakwood University kicks off Black History Month tomorrow during Chapel service at 9:50 a.m. at the University Church. The program entitled "Walk With Me" is a musical narrative commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Stree ...
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Head women’s basketball coach Sheba Harris earned her 100th career coaching victory as the Lady Marauders of Central State University defeated the Lane College Dragons, 68-63, on Monday night.
At the end of the 1st quarter, LC took a 16-9 lead but ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 1:24PM
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ASU's Founders' Day is Friday!
- Historic Bell Ringing Ceremony at 9 a.m. in front of the ASU Library -
- Founder's Day Convocation at 10 a.m. in the ASU Dunn-Oliver Acadome -
HISTORIC BELL RINGING CEREMONY @ 9 a.m. FRIDAY
Join us at Alabama St ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 6:19PM
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In gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness.
Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression and the threat of ...
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Students toured Meharry Medical College (a BCF school), along with local United Methodist agencies and offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
From The United Methodist Church, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
The Lina H. McCord progra ...
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The Fisk University Computer Science Club has been awarded $3,000 from the Student Seed Fund to help launch a new chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W) on campus. Sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:35PM
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The Lina H. McCord program welcomes eight students from United Methodist-related historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) to serve as its 2017 summer interns. The summer intern program, sponsored by the Black College Fund (BCF), a ministry ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:08AM
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Welcome Brenda Hatton-Ficklin!
Pine Bluff Native is New Director of Alumni Relations
Following a rigorous national search, Brenda Hatton-Ficklin of Little Rock has been selected to serve as Director of Alumni Relations at Philander Smith Colleg ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:02AM
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By Darran Simon, CNN
Alex Liddell Jr. sang an Al Green song as he sorted through recently dry-cleaned uniforms -- deep crimson with Carolina blue accents -- for his marching band's biggest performance ever.
Liddell, the tuba section leader of T ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:56AM
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The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Dr. Wayne J. Riley as president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Riley is currently a clinical professor of Medicine and adjunct professor of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Univ ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:52AM
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Concordia has once again expanded its academic reach by adding a new degree concentration to its growing list of academic programs. Students now have the option to study music with this new Associate of Arts degree with Music Concentration. The music ...
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The Auburn Avenue Research Library, in collaboration with Hammonds House Museum and Take on the Arts, hosts The Highwaymen: Legacy of a Landscape. This exhibition honors the artistic contribution and historical relevance of The Highwaymen an innovative ensemble of self-taught African American landsc ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 8:20PM
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CBS NEWS- Oprah Winfrey, the esteemed broadcaster, producer, actress and philanthropist, will become a special contributor to “60 Minutes,” the news magazine’s executive producer Jeff Fager announced on Tuesday.
Winfrey will make her first appeara ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 3:52PM
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The New York Times Magazine published the below article about the Opportunity Scholarship students -- also known as "Dreamers" -- who have been provided access to higher education at Delaware State University. The undocumented children of illegal imm ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 2:29PM
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