Several HBCUs are competing in a national marketing contest sponsored by NASCAR. While not specifically geared to increasing minority interest or participation in the sport, the contest does provide hands-on experience with organizing and planning for large-scale spectator events. From the Detroit Free Press: The NASCAR competition, in its second year, offers participants hands-on marketing [...]
Tuskegee University alumnus Lonnie Johnson was the keynote speaker at the Boys and Girls Club of South Alabama’s Youth of the Year Banquet yesterday evening. The message from the business owner and inventor of the Super Soaker? Never giving up. From the Mobile Press-Register: “Persevere,” Johnson said afterward. “I’ve run into a lot of obstacles [...]
Bennett College was crowned regional champion in last month’s annual Students in Free Entreprise competition in Charlotte. Based on developing business-oriented presentations to improve quality of life, Bennett developed a number of economic and environmental plans to capture the regional title. From DiversityInc.com: Some of the outstanding projects included a seminar on “Getting Out of [...]
Could the cultural, social and academic experience of an HBCU education be soon coming to a desktop near you? Thanks to Latimer Education, a corporation seeking to establish online, for-profit educational opportunities for African-Americans, we may soon find out. From Inside Higher Ed: The founders saw the potential to make a niche in the for-profit [...]
Texas Southern University MBA student Anasthasia Lewis recently placed second in Executive Leadership Council’s 7th Annual Business Case Competition. Lewis defended her case for twenty minutes before a panel of distinguished judges at Exxon Mobil Corporation offices in Fairfax, VA recently. Winning presentations received the following cash prizes; $20,000 to the University of Michigan, $15,000 [...]
Students from the Alabama State University College of Business Administration will tour a variety of financial and industrial companies in South Korea and China in the school’s third annual trip to Asia. The student program is part of a grant the school received for business and international education. The grant, from the U.S. Department of [...]
In its latest move to expand facilities and opportunities throughout Washington D.C., the Washington Business Journal reports that the University of the District of Columbia has leased space near one of the area’s largest mass transit stops, Union Station. According to the lease terms, UDC will occupy 121,000 square feet, about 88,000 square feet of which [...]
A study commissioned in large part by the Louisiana Economic Development Department reveals that business development in Baton Rouge will largely rely on the involvement of Southern University’s Center for Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development. The study, which revealed a new business innovation strategy for the region, calls for the center to have a richer community [...]
The five historically black fraternities have joined forces to establish GreekDiversity.com, a job board exclusive to members of the participating organizations. Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, and Iota Phi Theta along with Personnel Strategies Inc. (PSI) announced a partnership to jointly produce a diversity job board. The job [...]
Harvard University students are seeking to join Morehouse College as the only two collegiate student bodies in the United States to publicly call for a university-wide divestment from companies conducting business with Iran. The student-led campaign calls for the Ivy League school to divest from companies conducting more than $20 million in business with Iran’s [...]
