When I speak to HBCU students about the importance of school pride, I urge them to never get caught up in the emotions of the moment. I also challenge them to compete against proud students or graduates from some of the country's most well-respected ...
Posted Tuesday, April 16th 2013 at 5:07PM
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The Yes We Must Coalition will hold its fourth annual membership meeting on the campus of Paul Quinn College March 22-23, 2013. Yes We Must was formed to increase the number of degrees received by students from under-resourced communities by advocat ...
Posted Friday, March 15th 2013 at 12:12PM
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DALLAS – Paul Quinn College was named as a finalist on the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning ...
Posted Monday, March 11th 2013 at 3:27PM
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New York, NY - Paul Quinn College has been announced as a finalist in The Home Depot’s 2013 RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL campus improvement grant program. Designed to reinvigorate Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), finalists are competing fo ...
Posted Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 12:10PM
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Independence. Most college students can’t wait to have it, and most parents can’t wait for them to have it. Visions of a great job, a starter home –in a super trendy area of course—and finally driving a brand new car fill the minds of most newly minted graduates. ...
Posted Saturday, February 9th 2013 at 1:13PM
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Paul Quinn College has received approval from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, also known as TRACS, to include Entrepreneurship and Fundraising and Philanthropy as concentrations in the College’s Business Administratio ...
Posted Monday, February 4th 2013 at 2:38PM
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Paul Quinn is featured in the 2013 Journey Through African-American History Resource Guide. The College is the June feature along with a write-up on Golden Globe winning actor, Idris Elba. The calendar is part of a fundraising program by the Black ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 5:56PM
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To be a member of a National Pan-Hellenic Council organization is a beautiful thing. Many don't seem to realize it but members of the fraternities Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, and Iota Phi Theta and the sororities ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 10:17AM
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Dallas, Tex. - John McWilliams, a senior at Paul Quinn College, was featured on the Thursday, December 6 broadcast of the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” as one of the Tom Joyner Foundation’s Hercules Scholars. McWilliams is a Busine ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 10:01AM
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At any given time on the campus of an Historically Black College or University you will find a non-traditional student, someone who enters college after the age of 25. That student may be a full-time working parent who selected the institution becaus ...
Posted Thursday, December 6th 2012 at 3:06PM
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Dallas, Tex. - Bishop College alum and president of the Bishop College Alumni Association, Bobby Moten, was inducted into the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame (TBSPHOF) class of 2012 on Saturday. Moten joined a highly distinguished group, which inclu ...
Posted Monday, December 3rd 2012 at 10:51AM
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The NAIA announced that Paul Quinn finished the 2011-2012 academic year as third-scoring NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution. The College finished with a score of 91 out of 100. The Champions of Character Scorecard measures each insti ...
Posted Wednesday, November 28th 2012 at 6:04PM
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Dallas, Tex. – D’Amante Deveaux, a sophomore at Paul Quinn College, received a $2,400 UPS Scholarship provided through the ICUT Foundation. D’Amante is the son of Sharetha Ivory and Robert Deveaux of Cedar Hill, Texas and a 2011 graduate of Cedar Hi ...
Posted Wednesday, November 28th 2012 at 2:23PM
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Dallas, Tex. - Bishop Vashti McKenzie, presiding prelate of the African Episcopal Methodist (AME) Church’s 10th District, will serve as a special guest for the Bishop 5+1 revival. Bishop McKenzie will join Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III on Thursday, N ...
Posted Thursday, November 1st 2012 at 6:51PM
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Dallas, Tex. - In 2011, Paul Quinn College students led the Highland Hills community in a nationally acclaimed movement called "We Are Not Trash". The protest came as a result of residents' outrage with the City of Dallas' plan to force waste hauler ...
Posted Monday, October 29th 2012 at 3:51PM
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Dallas, Tex. - Dr. Kizuwanda Grant, Paul Quinn's Vice President of Academic Affairs, will serve on the Advisory Committee for the annual HBCU Conference sponsored by the College Board. Dr. Grant accepted the invitation on October 18. As a member of ...
Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 3:37PM
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The Quinnite Nation and internet viewers enjoyed the 2012 Miss Paul Quinn College Coronation on October 25 when T'Edra Z. Jackson was crowned Miss Paul Quinn College 2012-2013. Six students from six different cities competed for the crown. Themed " ...
Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 3:24PM
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Paul Quinn College has promoted alumna Jessika Lara to the newly created position of Director of Recruiting. Lara, a 23-year-old graduate of the PQC class of 2010, will be the first Hispanic and the youngest member of the senior staff at the 140-year ...
Posted Wednesday, October 24th 2012 at 10:30AM
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Senior Legal Studies major, Dexter Evans, won the 2012 Distinguished Campus Leader Award from the Texas Association of Developing Colleges on September 29. Evans served as president of Paul Quinn's award-winning Student Government Association during ...
Posted Wednesday, October 24th 2012 at 10:26AM
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The official 2011 Spring enrollment for Southern University at New Orleans is 3,318, representing the University’s highest enrollment since Hurricane Katrina. This figure also signifies a 91% return of SUNO’s pre-Katrina enrollment of 3,647 students ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 11:38AM
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U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan will serve as the commencement speaker at Southern University at New Orleans on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 4 p.m. in the Lakefront Arena. Secretary Donovan officially accepted the invitatio ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 11:35AM
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Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) welcomed its inaugural Honors Program class at an initiation ceremony on Friday, October 24th in the University’s Park Campus cafeteria. University administrators, faculty, staff, students and honorees’ fami ...
Posted Monday, October 27th 2008 at 5:44PM
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Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) has named noted basketball coach Dale Valdery as head coach of the men’s basketball team. He replaces interim head coach James Rowley whose team ended the 2007-2008 season with a 5-20 record.
“Building a championship program at SUNO is no longer a d ...
Posted Tuesday, October 21st 2008 at 7:18PM
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Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) will serve as the host institution for the 18th Annual National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME, http://www.nameorg.org) International Conference. The conference will take place at the Sheraton ...
Posted Tuesday, October 21st 2008 at 6:57PM
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