Although Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been shaking up higher education since 2012 by offering free courses to students anywhere in the world, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been notably absent from MOOC platform ...
Posted Thursday, September 11th 2014 at 6:24PM
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How does your HBCU rank against the other top HBCUs in the country? Check out this recent ranking on HBCUConnect.com! ...
Posted Thursday, September 11th 2014 at 3:17PM
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Yesterday, U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) released the 2015 Best Colleges Rankings for the 30th consecutive year. Oakwood University was number 33 on the list.
The annual peer survey is conducted in the spring, where administrators at HBCUs (i ...
Posted Thursday, September 11th 2014 at 2:51PM
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Thirteen years ago, militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. On that day - September 11, 2001 - which has come to be known as "9/11" - two of the four airplanes ...
Posted Thursday, September 11th 2014 at 2:49PM
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Dozens of volunteers and alumni spent Thursday at Knoxville College to give the struggling school a helping hand.
Help came with huge handout of $50,000 worth of renovations from Home Depot. The national hardware chain named Knoxville College the ...
Posted Monday, September 8th 2014 at 5:16PM
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Southern University students got a rallying cry from civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, encouraging them to speak out against injustice and to become a strong voting block for change.
Sharpton, who was joined by legal counsel for a New I ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2014 at 2:42PM
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Alcorn State University President Dr. Alfred Rankins Jr. named Derek Horne as the University’s new intercollegiate athletic director during a news conference Friday, August 8, at the Vicksburg Expansion Center.
Horne previously served as director ...
Posted Thursday, September 4th 2014 at 7:01PM
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced a CAREER award of $430,000 over five years to Texas Southern University in support of Dr. Miao Pan, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at the College of Science a ...
Posted Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 at 5:54PM
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Years ago when defensive coordinator at the University of Memphis, Jay Hopson came calling on the offensive coordinator at Mt. Olive High School, Fred McNair, for recruits, neither had an inkling of their future destiny at Alcorn.
Hopson, when hir ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 3:22PM
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The Bennett College Board of Trustees is hosting a Naming Ceremony for the Pfeiffer Heating Plant that houses the Journalism and Media Studies Program. The Julianne Malveaux Journalism and Media Studies Building will be unveiled following the College ...
Posted Friday, August 22nd 2014 at 7:19PM
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This Summer, Grambling State University senior De’Shon Swafford accepted an invitation from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama to participate in the Robotics Academy. The academy selects high achieving students in all types of a ...
Posted Monday, August 11th 2014 at 7:00PM
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Dr. Loretta Walton-Jaggers, a seasoned educator at Grambling State University was recently named Louisiana Reading Association’s Educator of the Year. Dr. Jaggers is a professor of Education Curriculum and Instruction and is the founder and coordinat ...
Posted Thursday, August 7th 2014 at 5:09PM
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Courtesy of TSPN Sports
Three HBCU products — Michael Strahan (Texas Southern), Claude Humphrey (Tennessee State) and Aeneas Williams (Southern) — were officially enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday night.
Their paths to the NFL ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2014 at 2:43PM
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During the Grand TimkenSteel Parade, a tradition for the Pro Football Hall of Fame weekend, there were huge inflatable balloons, classic cars, walking units, football legends and bands as far as the eyes could see – then almost an hour into the popul ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2014 at 2:25PM
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Coming this fall to Comcast SportsNet - "Inside VSU Football" featuring Virginia State University Coach Latrell Scott ...
Posted Monday, July 28th 2014 at 3:30PM
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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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The improvement of Alcorn State continues with the future addition of a new facility on the main campus.
Alcorn's School of Agriculture, Research, Extension, and Applied Sciences (AREAS) began the construction of its product development center, wh ...
Posted Thursday, July 17th 2014 at 2:03PM
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When Sophomore Rodrick Patterson Jr. applied for a scholarship for young farmers during this past spring semester, he knew that he was headed in the right direction.
“I applied for this particular scholarship because I come from an agricultural fa ...
Posted Wednesday, July 16th 2014 at 1:34PM
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In a move that many educators, prognosticators and medical practitioners saw coming for years, Georgia native Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice becomes the first woman president of Morehouse School of Medicine.
The Macon, Ga. native succeeds outgoing pr ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 2:02PM
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MEDIA ADVISORY
July 3, 2014
GRAMBLING STATE INTERIM PRESIDENT HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE
WHO: Grambling State University Interim President Cynthia Warrick
WHAT: Media availability and news conference
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. THURSDAY, July 10
WHERE ...
Posted Friday, July 4th 2014 at 3:43PM
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Erik Johnson is a rising senior and an Army ROTC cadet heading to Germany for a special experience.
Of thousands of cadets across the nation, Johnson is the only cadet from Louisiana, the only cadet from Grambling State University and the only one ...
Posted Tuesday, July 1st 2014 at 5:44PM
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Tanisha LaVerne Grant media correspondent and Cheyney University alum interviews legendary director Spike Lee about his kickstarter film the "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" which was the closing film for the 18th annual American Black Film Festival held in ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 5:28PM
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