Daily News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Digest Columnist Imani Jackson is an award-winning journalist and mass communication graduate of Grambling State University. Currently a freelance writer, she served as editor-in-chief of The Gramblinite newspaper for two and a half years. Follow her @faithspeaks on Twitter. “No parent should have to be ashamed,” Vice President Joe Biden said in an on-the-record telephonic conference with journalists [...]
South Carolina State University Trustees were informed yesterday that the school faces a $4 million shortfall, with plans to reduce the projected deficit including job terminations and potentially a move from its NCAA Division I membership. Officials attributed losses to enrollment dropping by 500 students, and a $750,000 revenue drop in the school’s dining hall. [...]
The need to protect and secure cyberspace for U.S. military and consumer use will continue to be a major challenge in the future. In response to this need, the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University is aggressively pursuing research opportunities to support and provide solutions to industry and government. Cloud Computing Security research at [...]
Nearly half an hour after Justin Clark, a man who was shot in the head yesterday on the Lane College campus was pronounced dead, more than 200 Lane students were in the streets bordering the college, demanding an end to violence and safety for their campus. The students blocked traffic on a mile-and-a-half march to [...]
Josh and Mat Shockley, former art students at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, were recently profiled by the Capital News Service as creators of a comic book series with a superhero based on the Eastern Shore. The Fall is developed under their independent company, PLB Comics.
The Central Virginia Affiliate of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure has awarded the VSU Student Health Center a second, $50,000 grant to continue funding its PEAM (prevention, education, access and mammograms) breast cancer awareness and prevention program. The grant funding period begins Feb. 1 and ends Jan. 31, 2013 and will serve both [...]
Morehouse College today announced that President Robert M. Franklin would resign effective June 30, 2012. Dr. Franklin will serve as Scholar-in-Residence at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute with plans to return to Morehouse in the role of Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics, according to the school’s release. The Morehouse Board of Trustees recognized [...]
Students and employees at Southern University are embracing the school’s recently-implemented four-day work week. Southern Chancellor James Llorens says that measurable savings in energy costs and wages won’t be confirmed until the end of the year, but students have largely positive reviews of the cost-savings measure. “It’s good in way, but you also have bad,” [...]
Florida A&M University President James H. Ammons today announced the temporary suspension of induction, enrollment, initiation, membership intake and recruitment for all campus-based student clubs and organizations until fall 2012. Dr. Ammons also announced the cancellation of the 2012 Summer Band Camp. The announcement was made at a university-wide safety forum held on campus this [...]
Florida A&M University is investigating another alleged incident of off-campus hazing, this time involving a chapter of national band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, and its spring 2011 initiation ceremony. News of the investigation was revealed by FAMU President James Ammons at a recent meeting of the school’s board of trustees, but limited details were given [...]
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