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Simply having a college degree will not get you hired. We need to break away from this idea. In all reality, most employers could care less about your GPA or where you went to school. Today, getting hired in entry-level positions requires experience and fine-tuned skills, not a 4.0 GPA. This probably isn’t what most new grads want to hear, [...]

Tommy Meade is the Senior Editor of HBCU Buzz. Follow him on Twitter: @tommymeade If you are a underachiever in your studies, maybe you ought to skip college and become a plumber instead. Well at least that is what billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg advised ‘so-so’ students to do in order to avoid expensive college fees. @dailymailus [...]

After four (five, six, etc.) years of college, students at Morehouse College had to tackle one more obstacle at graduation today: the rain. President Barack Obama, who address the historically black college as Commencement speaker, jokingly told students the unavoidable truth. “I also have to say you all are going to get wet,” Obama said at graduation. “I would be out there [...]

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, told graduates of Morehouse College Sunday to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people’s lives. Noting the Atlanta school’s mission to cultivate, not just educate, good men, Obama said graduates should [...]

Michelle Obama spoke to 600 graduates and thousands of family, friends and supporters at Bowie State University in Maryland on Friday. FOTUS Obama reminded students in her 21-minute address of struggles blacks faced in the past and the importance of personal responsibility. “Today, more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the end of Separate But [...]

Did you vote for your HBCU campus queen for a chance to be featured in the September issue of Ebony magazine? Have you voted for your favorite HBCU Campus Queen yet? You can vote more than once. Click to see the queens: bit.ly/13G3IA8 #HBCU — EBONY (@EBONYMag) May 16, 2013 The Ebony Campus Queens program honors young women who are role [...]

It is nothing but California Love for record producer, rapper and entrepreneur Dr. Dre and his next business move. Dr. Dre along with longtime friend and business partner Jimmy lovine have donated $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, according to school officials on Tuesday night. The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology [...]

Many of the 106 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are in need of major renovations in order to remain competitive and attract top talent. The Home Depot recognized this need, and responded by providing help through a campus-improvement grant program called Retool Your School. This program, now in its fourth year, provides aid to help historically black colleges and [...]

Charles Ramsey, a local dishwasher in Cleveland, Ohio who helped rescue three woman and a girl from captivity, once attended Central State University for one semester in the fall of 1989. According to University officials, Ramsey is said to have taken classes like health, mathematics and student orientation as a freshman student at Central State in 1989. “The university applauds [...]

“If my story doesn’t show that you can do anything in life I don’t know what else does,” said Howard University student Corey Arvinger. Last Monday Arvinger was busy replying to mentions on his Twitter account where news that mtvU and SALT, a free resource that helps college students and recent alumni take charge of their finances, payed off his [...]

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the Commencement address at Howard University on the Upper Quadrangle of the main campus just hours ago. “Try to do something that will make you happy,” Clinton said to hundreds of graduates from the historically black university. Bill Clinton gave a great message at Howard’s graduation today! — g · n i u s (@visualg_nius) May 11, 2013

The Bronner Sisters, identical twins Kirstie and Kristie Bronner, have been named co-valedictorians for the Spelman College Class of 2013. With a 4.0 GPA, the Bronners are the first twins to receive the designation in the history of Spelman. “Being co-valedictorians of our class is very exciting and a blessing for us,” said Kirstie. Following graduation, Kristie and Kirstie, both [...]

“America’s Doctor” Regina Benjamin will deliver the commencement address to more than 500 graduates at Spelman College and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. at the Georgia International Convention Center. Benjamin is the United States Surgeon General and a medical trailblazer with accolades like the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be [...]

Head Coach of the Southern University Jaguars Dawson Odums looks to continue his success from last season when the football team take on the Univerity of Houston Courgars in The Bayou Bucket at Reliant Stadium on August 30. When asked what’s the game plan for the upcoming season, Coach Odums replied @tommymeade_ WIN #GOJAGS — Coach Dawson Odums (@Coach_Odums) May 8, 2013 But before the first-year [...]

The Virginia Union University football team will graduate a record number 18 players when the school hosts its Commencement on Saturday, May 11 in Richmond, Va. The total amount of graduates this year doubles the amount of nine the football team had last year. After a .500 season during its 2012-2013 football schedule, the Virginia Union Panthers hope to have better overall [...]

Former Howard University Vice President for Human Resources James Jones referred himself and others as “H.N.I.C.,” or “Head Nigger in Charge” and now he and the university faces a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, according to the Washington City Paper. Jeannette Frett worked under Jones during his stay at the university and said he repeatedly used the expression in 2011 to “emphasize [...]

  As the lights went out and his fellow students settled into their dorms, Joshua Williams would store two duffel bags of belongings in a friend’s room and disappear into the darkness. He would leave the secure surroundings of the Bethune-Cookman University campus and head across the International Speedway Boulevard bridge and walk, sometimes all night. In the early morning [...]

You can connect with students from Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts to students from Tuskegee University’s Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences–all within the click of a button. The ‘follow’ button on social media network Twitter that is. Here’s what some people tweeted this past week on students graduating from HBCUs Nothing is more motivating than going to a graduation filled with nothing but young [...]