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TSU’s exciting football season gets underway on September 10th with a match up against the Panthers of Prairie View A &M at Delmar Stadium. TSU will play the majority of its home games at Delmar Stadium, including the match-up against the Southern University Jaguars. Reliant Stadium was not available this year. Besides Prairie View and Southern, the Tigers will play [...]

Norfolk, Va.— The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that Norfolk State University has been awarded an $800,000 grant to create an on-campus WoMen’s Resource Facility. Awarded through the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program, one of several initiatives administered by HUD’s Office of University Partnerships, the grant is part of $2.4 million awarded to HBCUs to help [...]

(Richmond, VA)- Students interested in visual arts, theatre, and music will once again be able to fine tune their skills through Virginia Union University’s revived Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) major. Students will have the opportunity to pursue a BFA degree beginning fall 2011. The Board of Trustees gave its approval to reinstate the program at its May meeting.  Although [...]

Virginia State University will host a delegation of 20 faculty, administrators and student leaders from the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Nigeria’s top ranked university, from June 20-30. VSU President Keith T. Miller invited the delegation to campus as part of the International Institute for Capacity Building in Higher Education, a professional development program that emerged from a recent partnership between the [...]

Interdisciplinary Group to Study Data Visualization for Under Homeland Security Grant Fifteen Morgan State students have been selected to go to Purdue University this June to study data visualization under a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The interdisciplinary group will be trained and conduct research during an internship at Purdue's VACCINE center from June 12-24. VACCINE stands for [...]

  Two years ago, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous congratulated the Class of 2009 at Morgan State University’s 133rd Commencement, saying, “You will forever carry the badge of honor as the generation that changed the world before it graduated.” More recent events are proving that Generation Y at Morgan is still upholding the banner of positive change. A new organization on campus [...]

Just a week before graduation, on of the most anticipated events of the year, a security booth on the campus of Dillard University was vandalized. The pictures began to spread through the internet and the word began to spread around campus what happened. Before giving alumni, faculty and visitors the chance to be embarrassed of the crime, the Collegiate 100 [...]

Recently, a pictures of McDonald’s taking action on the crime rate in some of their establishments has raised suspicions of Racism. Personally, I’m hoping its a sick joke, however several sources believe it to be verified. This note was placed in our historically black community McDonald’s As in the Photo the Note from administration follows; As an insurance measure due [...]

Hampton, Va. –The Hampton University Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) program has been re-accredited for 10 years by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). “Students, future employers, and the general public can be assured that Hampton’s DPT Program has a solid, comprehensive curriculum delivered by a highly qualified faculty that prepares graduates to be competent physical therapists,” said [...]

BALTIMORE – (October 12, 2010) – Coppin State University(CSU) added an exciting new component to its eight-year-old pre-nursing students enrichment program this summer, a step aimed at improving the university’s retention and graduation rate. As a part of a Summer Nursing Academy established in July 21, 2010, students who aspire for nursing careers participated in a two-week program designed to [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Officials from Florida A&M University (FAMU), alongside Florida State University’s College of Medicine, are working with the Gadsden County School Board and the Gadsden County Health Department to develop a 4,000 square feet state-of-the-art Health and Wellness Service and Training Center at Havana Middle School. To provide quality health care for students, Havana School Board employees and [...]

  Huntsville, AL – Jennae Leslie is only 6 years old. However, her age has never stopped her from getting things done. “She’s always been very inquisitive. She has a go get it attitude. She’s always wanted to do things on her own,” says Jennae’s mother, Jessica Fortune. Now, she is putting that “go get it” attitude to work by [...]

MOBILE, Alabama — Bishop State Community College will upgrade math and science facilities with a $25,000 grant from BP PLC. Bishop State President James Lowe said the school formed a relationship with the company while he was on the governor’s task force for cleanup related to last year’s oil spill. The spill occurred last year on April 20 when the [...]

  Bowie, MD – Bowie State University assistant football coach Antone’ Sewell has been selected to participate in the 2011 NCAA Expert Forum to be held June 16 and 18 in conjunction with the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Convention at the World Marriott in Orlando, Florida. The NCAA has invited Division I & II coaches to [...]

Jackson State University Chinese exchange student Lei Wang won a gold and silver medal in his United States Fencing Association Fencing Tournament debut, held April 30 in Oxford, Mississippi. He won the gold medal in the Men-Mixed foil event, and a silver medal in a Senior Men foil event. Lei, a graduate exchange student from Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China, is currently [...]

GRAMBLING, LA —In its sixth consecutive year Grambling State University will host the LA GEAR UP Summer Learning Camps this summer starting with week I which will be held during July 10 thru 16 and week II activities will be held from July 24 thru July 30. The focus of the LA GEAR UP (Louisiana Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness [...]

  PRINCESS ANNE – (May 27, 2011) – A $1 million federal grant to train “Great Principals for Maryland” will be used by two public universities to collaborate in offering classes at a new Lower Eastern Shore School Leadership Institute. A four-year Race to the Top grant has been awarded to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University, [...]

NCAA Triple Jump Champion and FVSU student Antoinette Oglesby (center) stands on the winner’s block with coaches O’Kelley and Wells. During the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championship Banquet in Turlock, Calif. on May 25, Fort Valley State University’s Antoinette Oglesby was named the NCAA South Region Field Female Athletic of the Year. Oglesby, a senior, is the three-time [...]