Texas Southern University recently recognized Dr. Sarah Janes, vice president of Continuing and Professional Development (CPD) at San Jacinto College, and has selected her to receive the TSU Paul Cuffee Maritime Leadership Award (PCMLA) for promotio ...
Posted Monday, July 29th 2013 at 7:35PM
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HBCU CONNECT once again publishes the most complete listing of Homecoming dates and Football classics for our nation’s 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
A tradition that has gone back now for over 100 years, Black College homecomings draw thousands of professional African American ...
Posted Monday, July 29th 2013 at 7:03PM
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Alcorn State University hosted 25 Sodexo college and university executive chefs and general managers from Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana for a district-wide culinary excellence training on July 25, 2013.
“This training was designed to create ...
Posted Monday, July 29th 2013 at 6:02PM
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The Office of the President is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. C. Rob Shorette II to the position of presidential ombudsman for administrative affairs.
In his capacity, Shorette is responsible for strategic planning, managing and contributin ...
Posted Monday, July 29th 2013 at 6:00PM
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Oakwood University science students Jordan Matthews and Amal Taylor return to US, having received both high accolades and a top prize for their research training in health disparities in South Africa.
In its first-ever ranking of academic program ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:17PM
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The Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) held its second awards and promotion ceremony for summer interns on July 12, 2013.
Congratulations are in order for our own sophomore, Chelse ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:14PM
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We're one step closer to constructing our Home Depot-sponsored outdoor pavilion. Representatives from Home Depot stopped by Oakwood this week, to present the $50,000 award (in gift cards, as displayed), that you helped us win by voting for OU in the ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:11PM
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Boren Scholarship Funds Student’s Study Abroad Program
A Bowie State University undergraduate with dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer will travel to her childhood home of Nigeria in the fall to study the Yoruba language, as a recipient of th ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:06PM
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Dear Alumni and Friends,
As you might have heard, tighter standards in the Parent PLUS Federal Loan Program, used by parents to help pay for college for their children, have caused reductions in enrollment at colleges and universities nationwide. ...
Posted Wednesday, July 24th 2013 at 8:19PM
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Arkansas-Pine Bluff said a freshman walk-on linebacker was shot to death outside his home in Louisiana.
The university said Lydell Hartford Jr., 20, died early Tuesday at his home in Waggaman, La. Authorities said Hartford was fatally shot by a 16 ...
Posted Wednesday, July 24th 2013 at 8:05PM
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Chris is ready to head to college, so he is throwing one last party where he can show off his skills with words and women. But a little get together becomes a hilariously epic disaster.
House Party: Tonight’s The Night includes the original house ...
Posted Monday, July 22nd 2013 at 5:56PM
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42 - The True Story Of An American Legend
Starring Chadwick Boseman & Oscar Nominee Harrison Ford Comes The Heroic True Story About JACKIE ROBINSON Breaking Major League Baseball's Infamous Color Line.
Own This Piece Of American History Now On ...
Posted Tuesday, July 16th 2013 at 6:28PM
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National President Jimmy Hammock and the General Board of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. announced that Alcorn President M. Christopher Brown II is the coveted recipient of the 2013 Image Award for Education.
President Brown will receive the awa ...
Posted Wednesday, July 10th 2013 at 3:21PM
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by HBCU Digest
Four months after announcing his candidacy for US president, then-US Senator Barack Obama stood before a captive audience of clergy at Hampton University, serving as a keynote speaker at the college's 2007 annual Ministers' Confere ...
Posted Wednesday, July 10th 2013 at 3:17PM
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Editorial, Politics
Essence magazine and even an earlier Digest article called it a “war on HBCUs.” And while, to some, this language may seem hyperbolic, it can certainly be said that HBCUs have seen a more troub ...
Posted Wednesday, July 10th 2013 at 2:58PM
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