Before accepting an admissions offer from a college, a college visit can provide valuable feedback on whether that institution provides the best fit for you as a college student. Rather than banking on a college website, make sure that you visit coll ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 5:11PM
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By Mia Watkins | mwatkins@al.com
Stars gathered at the Sunday night BET Awards to pay tribute to Alabama native Lionel Richie who received ceremony's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Pharrell Williams gave Tuskegee a shoutout while schooling the crowd on Richie's history and roots with The Commod ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 4:10PM
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A Texas Southern University team of researchers consisting of Dr. Xin Wei, Dr. Yuanjian Deng, Dr. Renard L. Thomas, and Dr. Bobby Wilson recently received a patent entitled “Instantaneous Electro Deposition of Metal Nanostructures on Carbon Nanotubes ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 3:43PM
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by Associated Press
Peter Millet is taking over permanently as president of Stillman College as the sixth president of the historically Black school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Stillman, who has been interim president since last fall, replaces Ernest ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 1:33PM
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by George Johnson Jr., director of integrated marketing and public relations
Twenty-one representatives from Oakwood University consisting of students, and staff, and a few non-Oakwood volunteers, arrived in Kenya on June 11 for the 2014 4HIM Over ...
Posted Friday, June 27th 2014 at 6:47PM
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By Jeffrey Mervis
Senate appropriators want the National Science Foundation (NSF) to do more for faculty and students at the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It’s the latest attempt by Congress to push NSF in that di ...
Posted Friday, June 27th 2014 at 4:00PM
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By Rosaland Tyler
Associate Editor
New Journal and Guide
Nicholas M. Perkins recently donated $1 million to his alma mater Fayetteville State University, inspired in part by two glaring sets of footprints.
The first trail of footsteps ...
Posted Friday, June 27th 2014 at 3:46PM
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The comedian-actor donated the dough to the HBCU’s band after finding out that they were trying to see Michael Strahan inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.
By: Breanna Edwards
omedian Kevin Hart is well-known for generating big laughs.
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BY Deon Jones/GSU Media Bureau
Abdulalim A. Shabazz, a distinguished professor at Grambling State University with a national reputation, has died. He had been hospitalized at Northern Louisiana Medical Center less than two weeks ago.
“I’ve know ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 6:33PM
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Alcorn President Alfred Rankins Jr. announced today the appointment of LLJuna Weir, associate director of athletics/senior women administrator, as the interim director of intercollegiate athletics, effective July 1.
Rankins describes Weir as a lea ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 6:28PM
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By Marybeth Gasman & Felecia Commodore
For the last decade or so, there has been much discussion in education centered on preparing students, faculty, and professionals who are globally competitive. With advances in technology, increased trade, an ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 4:11PM
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One-day event takes place in conjunction with the 20th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Oct. 29-31, in Orlando.
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) today announced it is gathering leaders from across the community of historic ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 4:07PM
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By Leslie King | Emory Report | June 25, 2014
More than 20 librarians from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance spent the week of June 16-20 at Emory learning about digital tools for blogging, compiling online exhibits ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 4:01PM
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HBCU’s have always been involved in STEM and STEAM, the paradigm of change is from the 19th century to 21st century integration and application.” William Jackson Adjunct Instructor Edward Waters College HBCU’s like Edward Waters College are empoweri ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 4:00PM
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The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) applauds federal legislation introduced today by Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC), Representative Jim Matheson (D-UT), and Representative Richard Nugent (R-FL) that would provide consumers with un ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 1:13PM
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