The CIAA Basketball Tournament is popular for many reasons – history, tradition, and parties are just some of the outward characteristics that make it among the most attended athletic events in all of college sports. But one thing that folks who don’t even come for the games can appreciate is the surprising and fantastic finishes [...]
The Xavier University Gold Nuggets women’s basketball team is the second team in GCAC history to finish conference play undefeated, and head into the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament with the top seed and a chance to earn a top-seeding in the NAIA national tournament. The Gold Nuggets (25-5 overall, 18-0 GCAC), winners of [...]
I usually have no problem with the Huffington Post, and have been especially receptive of their recent articles on historically black colleges and universities. However, the HuffPo’s recent pictorial homage to the largest HBCUs is a colossal failure to put it mildly. You can cycle through the list for yourself, but here are the embarrassing [...]
The committee charged with finding Grambling State University’s new president has halted its search efforts, taking its cues from a recent campus forum where participants expressed praise for interim president Frank Pogue. Search committee and board member Wayne Parker of Ruston said Pogue was “getting the job done.” He described the interim president as “a [...]
Dr. Claudette Williams, the first female president in the history of Edward Waters College, has resigned her position to become vice president with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. “Today is a bittersweet day as we honorably accept the resignation of Dr. Claudette Williams as president of Edward Waters College,” said McKinley Young, chairman of [...]
In a scenario that plays out on college campuses across the country, Norfolk State students are expressing concerns over malfunctioning emergency call boxes on campus. Students say that the faulty emergency call boxes are one of their major safety concerns. The police chief tells NewsChannel 3 that only about seven of the thirty around campus [...]
With the diminished chances of former Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter being reinstated to the position, 13 applicants have surfaced for the vacancy. The list includes: Belinda Childress Anderson, former Virginia Union University president in Richmond, Va. She resigned in June. Mohammad Bhuiyan, director of the Fayetteville State University Center for Entrepreneurship in North [...]
Alabama State University has reinstated nine students expelled from the university for off-campus protesting - 50 years after their dismissal. That day was exactly half a century ago — Feb. 25, 1960 — when ASU’s president at the time, Harper Councill Trenholm, expelled the students under pressure from then-Gov. John Patterson and the Alabama Board [...]
President Barack Obama will sign into law this afternoon an executive order channeling more than $98 million dollars in federal funding to minority institutions, and more than $400 million in funding for the Pell Grant program. In addition to the $98 for strengthening HBCUs, the budget includes $20.5 million for the HBCU Capital Financing program [...]
Recent controversy surrounding the proposed merger of Mississippi’s historically black colleges and universities has sparked national discussion on the financial and social merits of HBCUs in contemporary times. Several black media pundits have offered a startling perspective on the value of HBCUs to minority communities, and their importance in establishing social equity through education. But [...]
