The Richland County Council rejected a proposal from Benedict College to renovate an unused hotel facility into a campus dorm earlier this week, bringing relief to community members and alumni who say the university never invited them into the planning process for the building. From WSPA.com: Council member Gwendolyn Davis Kennedy, who represents the area, [...]
Drugs, homelessness and rough surroundings were the hallmarks of Tennessee State University sophomore Tyree Taylor’s upbringing in suburban Chicago. But as he recently told a group of students at Chicago State University’s Wisdom for Greatness Success Camp for Teens, circumstances do not have to define future success. From the Chicago Tribune: He told the nearly [...]
As Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. prepares to celebrate its 99th anniversary, the organization finds itself at a unique crossroads of public service accomplishments and social stereotypes. The fraternity, the first founded at an historically black college or university, boats a membership in excess of 100,000 and millions of dollars given to community building projects. [...]
Paul Quinn College began a massive renovation project yesterday morning with the razing of 13 abandoned campus buildings. In front of hundreds of students, PQC administration, local legislature and a global audience tuning in on UStream, the campus embarked upon the next phase of a mission to become “one of America’s great small colleges.” From [...]
Morris Brown College is launching its “reemergence” campaign with significant outreach efforts to students, alumni and supporters. The first measure of the campaign – social networking impact with Facebook. Launched on July 7, the page displays pictorial and musical offerings to create excitement about what Morris Brown is, and what it soon will be. From the [...]
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Hampton University recently received a $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation, in support of educational learning opportunities for adults 50 and over. From the release: “We are so excited to have received the $1 million endowment. The gift will allow OLLI to continue to offer non-credit courses [...]
Elizabeth City State University is reaching out to regional first-time homebuyers with a series of free seminars on the price and process of home ownership. Funded by the U.S. Department of Urban Housing Development, the Community Development Program at ECSU has helped more than 25 families since the program’s inception last month. From the release: [...]
Jackson State University’s Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy will be among the host sites for NBC’s national town hall series on Civil Rights, “Finishing the Dream: Learning from the Civil Rights Era,” on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in the Rose McCoy Auditorium beginning at noon. From the release: “The Hamer Institute at [...]
Xavier University of Louisiana will be the host site of the New Orleans Hornets’ Inaugural Youth Leadership Academy, beginning July 5, 2010. In partnership with Royal Engineers and Consultants, the Hornets will host seventh, eighth and ninth graders from the Recovery School District in the XULA University Center, where participants will develop and fine tune [...]
A Morgan State University engineering student is among the 14 litigants poised to receive more than $870,000 in a lawsuit settlement against Baltimore City. Filed in 2006 and headed by the NAACP against the Baltimore City Police Department, the plaintiffs alleged wrongful arrest under a “zero tolerance” policy endorsed by then mayor and current Governor [...]
