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Statement from Tuskegee University Department of Athletics Although Tuskegee University and its supporters treasure the long-standing relationship we have maintained with Alabama State University and the Turkey Day Classic, the Department of Athletics at Tuskegee University has decided not to participate in this season’s classic in order to pursue more challenging opportunities for our football program. The decision is definite. [...]

The fellas over at The Princeton Review recently named Tuskegee University as the ‘least awesome college town’ in the nation. Hmm…I wonder why? Blacks represent 95 percent of the population in Tuskegee, Alabama, where TU was founded in 1881. Famed educator Booker T. Washington got the nod to become the university’s ‘first teacher’ and took the century old school from [...]

As thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Columbus Saturday, Arrica Baker remarked on the tradition that brings people together for the annual Tuskegee-Morehouse Classic Parade. “I just love things like this because it’s like a big family reunion, the opportunity to get out, see and meet people,” said Baker, standing on the sidewalk along Broadway. She was among [...]

Tuskegee University hosted the USDA/1890 Task Force meeting, Sunday and Monday, at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center at Tuskegee University. The task force is a partnership between the United States Department of Agriculture and 1890 land-grant universities; Tuskegee is one of 18 such institutions established by the second Morrill Act of 1890. Gilbert L. Rochon, Tuskegee University president is [...]

Tuskegee University President Gilbert L. Rochon has appointed Shamima Amin as chief of staff, according to a news release from the university. “Amin replaces Dr. Carlen McLin who served admirably in the role before accepting a position at the University of New Orleans as executive assistant to the president,” Rochon said in the release. Amin, who will report directly to [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a grant of $2,153,184 to Tuskegee University. The funds are part of more than $26 million awarded to five institutions under the Historically Black Graduate Institutions program. Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles; Georgia Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta; Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.; and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta were [...]

A new sports information director has joined Tuskegee University. Michael Stewart, the former sports information director at Langston University in Oklahoma, will replace Arnold Houston. Houston served in the position since 1985 and retired July 31.    Stewart Stewart, who graduated from Langston in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism, begins his duties today. Stewart, a [...]

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 [...]

Patric Simon, the former athletic director for Langston University in Oklahoma, has been chosen as Tuskegee’s new athletic director. He will replace Alvin Jackson who had been the university’s athletic director since February 2010. Simon will assume his responsibilities today. During his four-year tenure with Langston, Simon had a combined total of 10 conference championships in the Red River Athletic [...]

Tuskegee University will be expanding science education with the addition of a new building to its 5,000-acre campus. In a ceremony on Friday on land between Milbank and Campbell halls, ground was broken on the James Henry Meriweather Henderson Hall Agricultural Life Science Teaching, Extension and Research Building. The facility will be more than 40,000 square feet, and will house laboratories [...]

Tuskegee officials released the school’s 2012 football schedule on Monday, which includes three home games at Abbott Stadium and its annual classic with Morehouse College. One thing it doesn’t include is a date or location for its regular-season finale with Alabama State. As the two sides continue to negotiate the renewal of the Turkey Day Classic, the future of the [...]

11 players and coaches were inducted into the Black College Hall of Fame this past Saturday. The list of inductess include 9 time Pro Bowler Harry Carson of South Carolina State University and former NFL MVP Steve McNair of Alcorn State University. The entire list of the 2012 class is listed below: Cleve Abbott, Head Coach, Tennessee State University Willie [...]

Being the son of an NBA player usually comes with a fame factor in and of itself, but Tuskegee sophomore forward Moriah Johnson inadvertently paved his own path to stardom when he joined the cast of BET’s reality series, Baldwin Hills. Johnson, the son of former NBA forward Marques Johnson, was a sophomore and a straight-A, four-sport athlete at Crenshaw [...]

Tuskegee University senior Joshua Eichelberger has been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week and Stillman College senior Phyllice Eubanks has been named SIAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Stillman College sophomore Jeffrey Wherry and Kentucky State University sophomore Brandon Darrett have been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Co-Newcomers of the Week while Kentucky State University junior Sharnita Lloyd [...]

ATLANTA—Tuskegee University senior Joshua Eichelberger has been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week while Miles College senior Sammeika Thomas and Stillman College senior Jamila McKinnis have been named SIAC Women’s Basketball Co-Players of the Week. Clark Atlanta University sophomore Jermille Fluker has been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Newcomer of the Week while Miles College junior Courtney English has been named SIAC Women’s Basketball Newcomer of the [...]

ATLANTA—Tuskegee University senior Joshua Eichelberger has been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week while Kentucky State University sophomore Brandon Darrett was named SIAC Men’s Basketball Newcomer of the Week. Stillman College senior Jamila McKinnis and Albany State University freshman April Thomas have been named SIAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week and Newcomer of the Week, respectively. Eichelberger, [...]

ATLANTA—Benedict College junior Marcus Goode has been named SIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week while Stillman College senior Jamila McKinnis has been named SIAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Paine College junior James Devlin and Tuskegee University sophomore Alondra Rivers have been named SIAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Newcomers of the Week, respectively. Goode, a native of Chapin, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Howard University will host the sixth annual Ford Black College Quiz Game Show at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec 1, in Cramton Auditorium. This televised event will feature students from 12 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), including Howard, competing for thousands of dollars in scholarship funds and cash prizes for their schools. The Black College Quiz Game [...]