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Come swing with North Carolina Central University instructor and drummer extraordinaire Thomas E. Taylor along with an impressive gathering of NCCU alumni percussionists to start the 2014-15 school ye

Nicole Allen Director of Open Education, SPARC With the summer now halfway over, students and their parents are looking ahead to college in the fall. In addition to budgeting for rising tuition

Oakwood University will host its 2014 New Student Orientation on August 13-19. Themed "Get Connected!" the major focus of this event is to help make the experience of first-time students a special one

Last night Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alum and media correspondent Tanisha LaVerne Grant was on the red carpet to cover the THIRD INSTALLMENT of Sean Combs REVOLT TV's community initiative, "H

About 50 area middle-school students are using the summer break to sharpen their math and science skills during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at Bowie State University. The two-wee

by Timothy McDonald, Ed.D., provost and senior vice president To "Start Strong and Finish Strong" is the challenge that will be issued to faculty and staff during the school's annual Colloquium sch

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to announce that Marita Rivero has been named chairman-elect to the National Trust’s Board of Trustees. Marita will assume the chairman’s role i

By NewsOne “It’s professor Mathew Knowles (pictured) to you!” Beyoncé’s headline-making dad will be teaching a course this September 13 at the Houston Community College (HCC) called “The Entertainm

By Ashlee Kieler Federal financial aid is a vital part of funding many college careers; even the slightest mistake on a form could mean the difference between attending school and taking out cost

But if they did, they would use them. A new study shows that contraceptive communication is vital for young adults Jenny Kutner There are two primary barrier methods of contraception that al

This afternoon, President Obama visited the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, D.C. to participate in a town hall with youth, and to announce new commitments in support of the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative. As the President said today, "We want fewer young men in jail; we want more of

“Continuum,” representing 30 years of artworks by Michel Demanche, who has spent the previous 25 as a professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, will be on di

Hampton University (HU) Alumna and Former Miss Virginia, Desiree Williams, was crowned Miss Virginia Beach July 19. The competition is a preliminary contest to the Miss Virginia USA Pageant, which is

by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs Over the weekend, Wilberforce University trustees selected the president they hope would restore the badly ailing school. Trustees interviewed three candidates last Frid

by Charnae Sanders The differences between dating in college and dating in high school: time, accessibility and expectations. While dating in college can be more fun than dating in high school, it