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For their service and contributions to the community, the president of Tuskegee University and six of the institution’s alumni were honored at a breakfast ceremony Friday at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center at Tuskegee University. The People of Influence Breakfast was sponsored by SouthEast Small Business magazine, a publication that compiles an annual list of people of influence who [...]

Ten UMES students sat for a multiple-choice test in October that they did not study for and received no grade. They took it with a TV camera rolling and discussed their reactions and results. As part of WBOC-TV’s recurring news feature, “Heart and Soul,” UMES students voluntarily answered an abbreviated version of a questionnaire created by the Pew Forum on Religion & [...]

The School of Business and Management at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will welcome the university’s first Fulbright Foreign Language Teacher Assistant (FLTA) as part of an on-going initiative to internationalize business curriculum. Ms. Maki Eguchi, Ph.D. student at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, will spend the academic year at UAPB as a language teacher and cultural [...]

Tennessee State University and the Tennessee Board of Regents met today with the Senate Higher Education Subcommittee in a public hearing to address allegations of wrongful and inappropriate grade changes by University administrators. During the two-hour hearing called by Subcommittee Chairman Senator Jim Summerville (R-Dickson), TSU academic and administrative officials, internal audit staff, and TBR officials provided testimony after local [...]

Lincoln University senior defensive end Tim Green (Fanwood, N.J./Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS) continued to add to his list of honors as he was named Monday to the USA College Football NCAA Division II Preseason All-American Team. Green, who has earned the Lindy’s Sports College Football, Beyond Sports Networks All-American Team honors and was a preseason All-CIAA selection, led NCAA Division II [...]

Dr. David Chamblee has been appointed by Paine College president Dr. George C. Bradley, as the Dean of the School of Professional Studies. Chamblee will be responsible for leading the coordination and supervision of the following areas within the School of Professional Studies: Department of Education, Department of Education, and the Department of Business. Chamblee is skilled in management and [...]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has landed on Mars. Now DSU’s Dr. Noureddine Melikechi will soon contribute his optics expertise as part of the Curiosity ChemCam Team and assist the space agency in analyzing the data that comes back from Mars through the rover. Culminating a 367 million-mile and 36-week flight from earth, the Curiosity Rover was lowered gently by ropes from [...]

Fayetteville State University (FSU) Theatre announces its fourth 24 Hour Theatre Project on August 24-25, 2012.  The project invites participation from FSU students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the community to the highly caffeinated adventure in which plays are written, rehearsed, designed, and performed in 24 hours.  A trend over the last decade in educational and professional theatres, [...]

With its marching band sidelined because of a deadly hazing incident, Florida A&M University has announced an “enhanced football experience and halftime entertainment,” to keep fans cheering during this season’s home football games. In addition, the school’s athletics department has partnered with Visit Tallahassee, which promotes the city as a tourist destination, to create travel packages that include game tickets [...]