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The Rams are playing in Saturday’s NCAA Division II National Championship game in Florence, Ala., and they’ll have plenty of support. Not only will WSSU fans being cheering them on, but the team is vying to become the first from a historically black college or university to win the D-II football title. “Saturday, we had some CIAA teams that brought [...]

Defending Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) and 2011 NCAA semifinalist Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) scored 21 points in the second half and rolled to a 35-3 victory over Bowie State University (BSU) on Saturday Sept. 29 in Bowie, Md. The Bulldogs fell to 3-2 overall on the season and 0-2 in CIAA play, while Winston-Salem State improves to 5-0 overall [...]

A former chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Winston-Salem State University died Saturday. Roland Watts, 77, taught at WSSU for 39 years and was known across the Southeast as a skilled woodblock printer. He designed the chancellor’s mace, a rod with an ornamental head, carried during ceremonial occasions at the university. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Velma [...]

Charles Mullen, an occupational therapy graduate student from Kings Park is one of six students from Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) named to the 2012-13 class of North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows. Mullen will spend next year learning to address social factors that impact health and will work with the Area Agency on Aging to conduct fall prevention screenings through the [...]

Once the Winston-Salem State (WSSU) Lady Rams got the lead, there was little debate who was going to get the ball. It didn’t matter that WSSU pitcher Brittany Lane had just come off a 13-inning gem only two hours before. Her team ahead entering the third inning, Lane got the call. And that was it. Lane earned her second win [...]

Fees and tuition at Winston-Salem State University will increase by 13 percent next year under a plan approved by the university’s board of trustees Friday at its quarterly meeting. Yearly tuition and fees are $4,513 this year. The increase will mean a jump of $594, to a total of $5,107. Chancellor Donald Reaves said the jump in fees and tuition [...]

Courtesy: WSSU Sports Information WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The #9 ranked Winston-Salem State’s Kameron Smith threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, as the Rams remained unbeaten on the season with a 21-14 win over CIAA rival Shaw University on Saturday. With the win WSSU moves to 9-0 overall and 7-0 in CIAA play. Shaw falls to 2-7 on the [...]

The School of Business and Economics at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) is launching a collection of essays on factors that affect success in today’s competitive environment on Tuesday, September 13, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium lobby of the R. J. Reynolds Center on campus. Editors for the book, Modern Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Experiences, included three faculty [...]