Daily News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Delaware State University is featured in the latest edition JET Magazine for its efforts to become a greener campus. This is monumental, and not just because DSU is pioneering environmental efficiency in the state. It’s because Hornet Nation will now claim a well-deserved place in living room JET Magazine collections maintained by Black grandmothers throughout [...]
Ronald Mason Jr., one of America’s most renowned and publicly-embattled HBCU leaders, has been selected as the next president of the Southern University System. He will resign his position as president of Jackson State University on June 30 of this year. From the release: After the announcement of Mason being selected as president, Murphy Bell, [...]
Dr. Cordell Wynn, former president of Stillman College and the man credited with significant gains in the university’s history, died yesterday at the age of 83. His legacy is not comprised of just raised enrollment and a generator of funds and good will for the college, but one of partnership and collaboration with the surrounding [...]
Two Fayetteville State University students have won an all-expenses paid trip to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Senior Junious Smith and freshman Tatianna Mosely entered a video essay contest sponsored by the Coca-Cola Foundation seeking students for its South African outreach effort. From the release: The trip is made possible by The Coca-Cola [...]
A full day of services and events will be held on the campus of Jackson State University today to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the campus shooting that killed JSU student Phillip Gibbs, high school student James Green, wounded several JSU students and scarred a generation of black college activists and supporters. From the Clarion-Ledger: [...]
A fight yesterday evening on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University may have drawn a large crowd, but certainly not the large headlines that accompanied it in this morning’s local coverage of the incident. WFTV in Orlando classified the incident as “Another Large Fight Involving at least 100 Students.” It was, in reality, one small fight [...]
Senior adviser and assistant to President Barack Obama for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Valerie Bowman Jarrett will be the keynote speaker for the 2010 Morgan State University commencement exercises, to be held on May 15 beginning at 10:00 a.m. in W.A.C. Hughes Stadium. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Jarrett served as a Director [...]
Police officials from the Atlanta University Center and nearby PWIs met yesterday to discuss rising crime committed on or near college campuses in the city. A press conference is scheduled for this afternoon to address the issue. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Atlanta police Sgt. Curtis Davenport told the AJC that a news conference will be [...]
North Carolina’s 11 historically black colleges and universities have partnered to create a groundbreaking program to encourage international study and global exposure among their student bodies. Signed into effect last Friday, the Study Abroad/Global Engagement Consortium will coordinate curriculum at each of the state’s HBCUs in an effort to increase global study, and increase the [...]
A rotating group of nearly 50 Fisk University students took turns yesterday protesting the closure of the Wesley Foundation, a campus Methodist ministry organization. From the Tennessean: But on Monday, the students were told to gather their belongings and leave. The locks were changed, and the campus minister, the Rev. Gwen Brown-Felder, was told she [...]
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Albany State Presents Former Coca-Cola Executive Adrienne Johnson
Morehouse Health Educators Present... Morehouse > AIDS Day
The Musicianship Presents: Howard's Afro Blue
Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Annual African American Music Gala