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 year off with a bang.
Give the Drummer Some, a fr ...
Posted Friday, July 25th 2014 at 12:14PM
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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 costs, students are facing ever-increasing costs ...
Posted Friday, July 25th 2014 at 10:14AM
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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 all while informing the students of important inf ...
Posted Friday, July 25th 2014 at 9:37AM
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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, "HELLO HARLEM" -a summer series to benefit the BOYS ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 6:23PM
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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-week, all-expenses-paid program, founded by astronaut ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 6:19PM
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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 scheduled for August 4-7, under the theme, "Sustainin ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 5:47PM
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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 in October 2014.
Marita is currently of counsel ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 3:25PM
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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 Entertainment Industry: How Do I Get In?” Knowles’ course ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 10:53AM
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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 costly private student loans. For thousands of prospec ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 10:48AM
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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 also protect against sexually transmitted infections ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 10:36AM
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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 ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 9:42AM
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“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 display through August 15 in Salisbury.
The exhib ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 9:23AM
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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 in Charlottesville in November.
Williams earned ...
Posted Monday, July 21st 2014 at 3:33PM
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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 Friday and Saturday before making their choice afterwa ...
Posted Monday, July 21st 2014 at 11:38AM
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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 can also become more complicated. There is more a ...
Posted Monday, July 21st 2014 at 10:55AM
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