Radio Astronomer, Dr. Victor Migenes, has come to TSU to help the Physics program in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology develop a Radio Astronomy program. Migenes will teach advanced electives in senior thesis research and radio astro ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2015 at 5:06PM
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No one can tell the story about the renaissance of Texas Southern University better than Glenn O. Lewis. And the “O” stands for extremely "Optimistic”. As chairman of the TSU Board of Regents since 2007, Lewis now knows more about t ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2015 at 5:02PM
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Earl Francis Lloyd (1928-2015) was the first African American to play in the NBA for the Washington Capitols in 1950. Subsequently, he was also the first African American to both win an NBA Championship (1 ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2015 at 5:35PM
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Professional vocalist Jolie Rocke Brown, a soprano, has joined the TSU faculty as a visiting professor of Music for the fall semester. Committed to passing on her passion for performance technique by educating future generations, Rocke Brown will be ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2015 at 1:51PM
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Francis Vazquez has been accepted into the 2015-2016 HBCU All-Star cohort to serve as the White House Initiative on HBCUs student ambassador for Texas Southern University. Vazquez will work to advance President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13 ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2015 at 1:45PM
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By Alexander Nazaryan 8/18/15 at 4:37 AM
Coutesy of NewsWeek - http://www.newsweek.com/black-colleges-matter-363667
Medgar Evers College, an overwhelmingly black branch of the City University of New York, sits atop a hill in central Brooklyn. ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 6:08PM
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Texas Southern University’s Heritage of Zion Singers, a group comprised primarily of the university’s opera workshop and university choir students, recently returned from an exciting series of concerts of Negro Spirituals, Black Gospel Mu ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:54PM
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Jelisa Barringer is the 47th National Miss Black America Titleholder. She Joined the Ranks of Oprah Winfrey, Toni Braxton, Bernadette Stanis, Alexandra Morton and more.
Jelisa is a 25 year old native of Columbus, OH crowned Miss Black America 2015-1 ...
Posted Friday, August 28th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Coutesy of The Huffington Post
As Posted ByJarrett L. Carter, HBCUDigest.com
Hillary Clinton today became the latest democratic presidential hopeful to call for increased higher education access through loan or tuition-free governmental fun ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:28PM
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By Carmen Jones
Courtesy of XOJane.com
One day I woke up, and Twitter had exploded. A young Black woman had gotten everyone into a tizzy. “A 4.0 at an HBCU is not equivalent to a 4.0 at a PWI,” she tweeted. It really got me thinking. Is ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 6:23PM
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Allen University has opened its doors to the new Mother Mary Ann Norris Honors Program Center.
Angel Risher is the current Miss Allen University. She and the other honors students in her class will be the first to graduate in the honors program ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:57PM
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Xavier University of Louisiana’s College of Pharmacy has been awarded an $8,362,190 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. Over the next three years, the grant wi ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2015 at 5:38PM
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By Barbara WatersExcerpt from Tyler Morning Telegraph
"Texas College students will have a better environment when Phase 1 campus improvements, which cost $19.3 million, are complete in November," President Dwight J. Fennell said. "Phase 1 involves ' ...
Posted Tuesday, July 28th 2015 at 6:14PM
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NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute®(EI), is a “must attend” day long series of business development workshops and breakthrough training sessions. The EI attracts new entrepreneurs, current business owners and small business professionals seeking the knowledge and tools of success. EI provides professional development via workshops, panels, discussions, networking opportunities and ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Chicago, IL and Houston, TX - In its search for proven and flexible instructional programs to serve its mission of, “empowering students, parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders in an effort to develop independent learners&rdquo ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2015 at 3:10PM
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Alcorn is one of eight Mississippi institutions to share a $2.25 million higher education grant from the Department of Education’s Student Support Services program. Alcorn will receive $329,571 to aid its Student Support Services program.Alcorn ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 5:03PM
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Breaking color barriers is par for the course for African Americans. Lee Elders did exactly that 40 years ago by making history for becoming the first African American to attend the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia in 1975. In a star studded ce ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2015 at 4:58PM
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Fisk University trustees recently established a Global Studies Fund to enable Fisk students to attend The London School of Economics and Political Science. This Study Abroad project was conceived by Trustee Hassell McClellan with the support of Trust ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 at 6:21PM
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Fisk University recently signed an unprecedented nine partnership agreements with leading Chinese universities, which are expected to pave the way for significant academic and cultural exchanges in the years ahead for the University.
Seven agreement ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 at 6:13PM
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Fisk University will begin its 150th Anniversary celebration with a Pre-Sesquicentennial event, the play, “Lady Patriot.” Written and directed by actor and prolific author/playwright Ted Lange, the play tells the story of Mary Bowser, the ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 at 6:11PM
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On July 23, Oakwood University will host the Huntsville Beautification Awards. The work of Oakwood's Grounds Department has been recognized on the City's Beautification Honor Roll for more than 14 years. The award, which is a green and gold sign cons ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2015 at 7:04PM
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Teachers and leaders of colleges, high schools, and college-prep programs, who need an innovative, educational resource, for preparing students to succeed in college, have a new solution. Acing The Undergrad: The Show is a ten-episode web-series avai ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2015 at 6:59PM
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The Second Annual National HBCU Pre-Law Summit will be held on Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the only national conference in the country created especially for HBCU students and graduates inter ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2015 at 6:14PM
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Tomorrow, July 17th, Congresswoman Alma Adams, Ph.D (NC-12) will host a Twitter chat about HBCUs. This week, 19 HBCU Presidents and Chancellors were on Capitol Hill to celebrate 1890 Land Grant institutions. Congresswoman Adams wants to keep the cele ...
Posted Thursday, July 16th 2015 at 5:26PM
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Braves football quarterback Gibbs and the Alcorn Braves football team won awards for Male Athlete of the Year and Men’s Team of the Year at the fifth annual HBCU Awards presented by AARP at Hampton University Friday, July 10 in Hampton, Virgini ...
Posted Tuesday, July 14th 2015 at 2:53PM
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