Alabama State Football Coach Donald Hill-Eley Pursuing Football Wins, Doctorate

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Donald Hill-Eley didn’t just listen to his players when they pointed to the challenges of juggling academics and football amid Morgan State’s struggles with the NCAA’s Academic Progress rate.

He has embraced the challenges himself, leading by example off the field as well.

Now coach at Alabama State, Eley went back to school in 2013 at Morgan State to pursue a doctorate in higher education and administration. He’s hoping to finish that work in December, a rare feat for a head coach in a profession that often demands marathon days of practice, meetings and film study.

“I was like, you know what? I’m going back to school as well,” Eley said. “Once we finish practice, we eat and shower. You go to class, I go to class.

“And that continued for about two years and then when I looked up I had completed all the course work for the doctorate. Now, it’s just finding the time to finish the dissertation.”

He hopes to do that and go through a review in December, not long after also finishing his first full season as the Hornets’ head coach. Eley is studying the factors behind football players choosing to attend historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Research included sending 43-item questionnaires to the teams at Jackson State, Mississippi Valley State, Norfolk State and Hampton.

Perhaps the most prominent coach/PhD: Former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, who had a doctorate in educational psychology.

Alabama State players say it makes a difference to see their coach practicing what he preaches.

“Some people like to preach and they don’t show you,” offensive lineman Tytus Howard said. “But he’s actually showing you, ‘Hey man I’m taking advantage of this myself.'”

Eley squeezes in work on his dissertation when he can, whether it’s early in the morning, late at night or at his office desk when his schedule permits.

It helps that wife Kelley, a middle school teacher, is also in the late stages of doctoral work. They’re each other’s editor and sounding board.

Kelley Eley said young athletes have taken note of the fact that her coaching husband prioritizes education not just football and that “he sees being a continual learner as a path to success.”

WATCH: This Alpha Chapter AKA Tells Us Why She Denounced Her Sorority

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25 year old Laurina Rochelle, Howard University alumna and now former member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Chapter walks us through her testimony for denouncing her organization and receiving deliverance. In this youtube post she discusses her experiences that led her up to this point and the specifics as to why she believes her organization wasn’t of God.

She goes on to say;

“I’m not here to bash anyone, but just spread the truth about greek organizations.

“I love each one of the women, I had the opportunity to meet through this organization.”

“Please remember “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

“This is a spiritual battle, my war isn’t against the person, but the spirit behind it.”

We have seen mixed responses to her testimony.

” I am definitely a believer that God will remove you from a place that isn’t for you or where you aren’t suppose to be. However, that doesn’t mean that is a “bad” place just not where he wants you to be. I hope that people don’t get your testimony confessed with a reflection of an organization or something they need to take notes on and stop them from being on the destined path. ” a comment from a member of Delta Sigma Theta.

While on the other hand,

” I am proud of her for doing what she felt the Holy Spirit was telling her to do. Many refuse to speak up on the initiation processes with some of these sororities and fraternities and how conflicting it can be with your Christian faith. Great testimony Lala 🙌🏾”

In a later video she explains her undergraduate AKA process at Howard University. She explains in this post; “This is my testimony about receiving my deliverance and understanding the character of God and the nature of who He is as Abba (Father). This process reflects nothing of Christ and I will bear truth about it”. Followed by her new recent video warning greek org pastors and ministers.

CSU Drum Major Tylor Roseberry Believes It Takes True Teamwork To Keep The IMM Legacy Alive

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Deeply inspired by the legacy of Central State University’s Invincible Marching Marauders, CSU Drum Major Tylor Roseberry said on Thursday that it takes teamwork to keep that legacy alive.

“Being a student at Central State University is whatever you make it! Some people get here, and leave after a semester/year because they couldn’t find their spot on this campus. I have experienced very few unfortunate moments while attending CSU, but none of which I allowed to push me away from what I really love which is Music and the IMM,” Roseberry said of the black university and their incredible band, recalling her time spent at CSU so far.

“My time spent only as a CSU student isn’t exactly what prepared me for my new role as Drum Major,” she said. “It was my determination in the percussion section of IMM, training, working with the Alumni Drum Majors and the amazing Alumni Band Association. All of those things combined is what prepared me to achieve my goal of becoming a CSU Drum Major.”

“I don’t believe it’s up to me to keep this legacy alive, it takes true teamwork. Between the other 2 Drum Majors, myself, and the rest of leadership, we plan to uphold the standards that were held before us. We will also continue to motivate our fellow bandsmen to be the best that they can be because WE PERFORM WITH PRIDE.”

Roseberry added that she is in fact, the second female Drum Major to leave her footprints in the sand of the Invincible Marching Marauders however, she is not the Head Drum Major of this amazing organization.

Racism Is Why Black Colleges Have To Pay More For Loans Than Other Schools

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It’s expensive to be poor. And few places in higher education feel that more acutely than historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), where endowments are typically smaller and enrollments have fluctuated wildly over the past decade.

Now, to be clear, the financial misfortune of black colleges does not rest squarely on their shoulders. Born out of necessity primarily after the Civil War to educate black people who were shut out of most other colleges, the institutions have been plagued by unequal and inadequate funding ever since. HBCUs, half of which are public, draw a lion’s share of their revenue from state and federal funding. And as states tighten their belts on higher-education spending, these institutions are struggling to come up with the funds to improve their campuses by constructing new buildings or renovating ones that have started to wear down.

But there’s a way for colleges to circumvent their funding woes to pay for campus improvements: taking on debt. But even then, the legacy of racism in the treatment of black colleges is apparent.

There are a couple of steps colleges have to go through to issue bond debt. First, they have to find a bank to buy the debt. The bank will then sell the debt to public investors. The banks are the gatekeepers, and they’re essentially signing off on the fact that the loan isn’t a scam. But the banks don’t do this for free. They typically sell the debt at a slight markup as compensation for expenses and management fees—and that ultimately falls back on the college to pay off.

A forthcoming study in the Journal of Financial Economics examines the differences in these markups for HBCUs and non-HBCUs. The researchers—Casey Dougal of Drexel University, Paul Gao of Notre Dame, William Mayew of Duke University, and Christopher Parsons of the University of Washington—used a 23-year sample of 4,145 tax-exempt municipal bonds issues issued by 965 four-year, not-for-profit colleges.

They found that black colleges pay more to issue debt. “For the typical non-HBCU, 81 cents out of every $100 raised flows to banks. The average for HBCUs is 11 points higher, at 92 cents per $100 raised.” So, for a $30 million bond issuance, a black college would pay $276,000, while a non-HBCU would pay $243,000.

Now, that doesn’t definitively mean that race is the determining factor. The hard part of the analysis, Gao told me, was figuring out whether the difference could be attributed to any factors other than black colleges’ affiliation with racial minorities. So, the researchers controlled for the bond features such as the amount raised, when the bond will be paid off, and colleges’ ability to pay early. They also looked at the quality of the bank selling the bond, as well as school metrics like enrollment, alumni-giving rates, and rankings. But even after controlling for all of these factors, black colleges still paid significantly more—16 points more than non-HBCUs.

Another possible explanation, that HBCUs have bad credit and aren’t appealing to investors, also couldn’t explain the difference. The researchers controlled for credit rating, and only looked at deals with AAA-ratings—the kind where timely repayment is essentially a given—and the difference, 16 points, remained the same.

That led the researchers to conclude that there could not be any other answer: Racism was the primary driver.

Yet another finding drove home that conclusion more clearly. “If racial animus is the primary reason why HBCU-issued bonds are harder to place,” the researchers wrote, “then these frictions should be magnified in states where anti-Black racial resentment is most severe.” And sure enough, by separating out black colleges in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the researchers found that the markup rates for HBCUs were 30 points higher than non-HBCUs in those three states, nearly triple the 11-point difference elsewhere in the country.

Black colleges have a few options to get around this. The federal government has a program—the HBCU Capital Financing Program—that provides low-cost loans to the institutions, but it has its fair share of problems. The researchers offer a handful of policy fixes: Giving incentives to out-of-state investors for buying the bonds, or, perhaps, exempting HBCU bonds from all taxes, which would make them more appetizing for potential investors.

Whether those recommendations will be taken seriously is unclear, but what isclear is that the factors driving difficulties for black people in financial markets aren’t sparing black colleges.

NSF Gives Center For The Advancement Of STEM Leadership $9 Million Grant

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The Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership has received a $9 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP).

This will be HBCU-UP’s first Broadening Participation Research Center to conduct research on the impact of HBCU leadership to advance diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)

The project involves four higher education partners, including the lead institution, University of the Virgin Islands, the Fielding Graduate University, North Carolina A&T State University, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

“As an institution with a long history of leadership in STEM disciplines, North Carolina A&T State University is truly excited about the timely creation of this new center for STEM leadership,” said Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. in a statement.

“As we and so many of our peer institutions scale up to meet the growing national demand for highly educated, well-prepared graduates in STEM professions, the work of this center will provide meaningful support for these efforts.”

With the NSF grant, the Center will examine how leadership at historically black colleges and universities has played a role in broadening the participation of African Americans in the STEM fields.

“The future of the U.S. and world economy turns on the work that is occurring in various STEM fields, and HBCUs play a critical role in attracting, developing and inspiring future leaders in this field,” said Dr. David Hall, president of the University of the Virgin Islands.

The Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership‘s administrative offices will be housed in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill and headed by the center’s executive director Orlando Taylor, who is also Fielding’s vice president for strategic initiatives and research.

A 12-Year-Old, Benjamin Coverdale, Taking College Classes At Central State University

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WILBERFORCE — She didn’t believe him.

He was having lunch the other day at the Student Center on the Central State University campus when he said a woman who worked there approached him.

“She thought I was there because I was one of the teachers’ sons, but I told her, ‘No, I’m a student,’” Benjamin Coverdale said with a faint smile. “It took a little while to convince her of that. I don’t think she’s ever seen a college student this young before.”

But if the woman still has doubts, she just needs to drop in on a couple of classes this week as CSU begins its fall semester.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon – likely sitting up in the front row as he usually does – Coverdale will be in his Water Resources Management class. Tuesday and Thursday afternoon he’ll be in a History of Africans in the U.S. class.

Meanwhile, over at Jacob Coy Middle School in Beavercreek, Coverdale has gotten some of the same disbelief the woman showed, except it’s from a few of his fellow eighth grade students.

“Some of them didn’t believe I went to college either,” he said.

The skepticism is understandable.

There may not be another student like Coverdale in the entire Miami Valley.

He’s just 12 years old.

Thanks to College Credit Plus – a program which enables junior high and high school students in Ohio who are college ready to attend college classes for free, provided they pass admission requirements – Coverdale began taking classes at CSU last school year as a seventh grader.

He took a philosophy course in the spring and then a global history class this summer.

This fall, along with his afternoon classes at CSU, he’ll spend mornings at his middle school on Dayton Xenia Road taking honors courses, including a 10th grade geometry class.

He also trains daily with the Dayton Raiders Swim Club, where, in just a year of competitive swimming, he’s become a budding talent.

This summer he made the finals in five different events at the state Junior Olympic competition at Miami University and just two weeks ago – competing against swimmers from seven states in a Central Zones Age Group Championship at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio – he medaled in the 50 butterfly event.

“He is the true definition of a student athlete,” said his mom, Dr. Tonjia Coverdale, who is the Vice President for Information Technology and the Chief Information Officer at Central State.

While Benjamin has experienced real success in both his sports and his studies – he got As in both classes a CSU last school year and, his mom said, the top mark in the entire philosophy class – the water was initially a little rougher for him in the pool.

When he, his mom and his younger sister, Anna, moved here last summer from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands — where Tonjia has been a professor at the University of Virgin Islands and then the President and CEO of Virgin Islands Next Generation Network, a telecommunications provider — Benjamin joined the much acclaimed Dayton Raiders program.

“When he came to us a year ago, I won’t use the word terrible, but he was very, very novice,” said Raiders coach Brent Peaden.

“He wanted to swim. He wanted to be Michael Phelps and he wanted to be a gold medal Olympian blah, blah, blah, but the truth is, he wasn’t very good whatsoever.

“He’s a loving and caring kid, but he had to learn to listen and work in group settings. He’s skinny, but he’s muscular and he didn’t float very well. He was heavy in the water and we focus on children’s balance.

“We told him, ‘Look, it’s going to be a long road for you, Ben. Let’s take the tortoise approach here and not try to be the hare. Slow and steady. Don’t expect any gold medals any time soon. It might be a couple of years until you see any real success.

“But he finally bought in and since February, he’s been on a trajectory where the sky’s the limit. He had top eight finishes in Ohio in the butterfly and the freestyle. Then he gets a top eight at the Zone. The whole thing has been pretty dramatic.”

Tonjia agreed: “Coach Peaden has done an amazing job with him. He told me Benjamin is the first one of his swimmers in 20 years who went from the bottom and medaled in the Zones his first season.

“It’s really been something to see.”

Always ahead of schedule

Benjamin’s always has been an ahead-of-schedule kid.

“He was born six weeks premature and weighed like four pounds,” Tonjia said. “Seeing him so small like that gave me extra determination to do everything I could to make sure he had the same type of opportunities as everybody else.

“I made sure he went to music classes at just six weeks because I read music stimulated the brain. I knew water makes you comfortable – kind of like in utero – so we started swimming lessons for him at five months.”

She started to laugh.

“He hated them!” she said. “He’d cry and scream. He wanted nothing to do with the water. That’s why everybody is so surprised now.”

From the time Benjamin was little, Tonjia said she tried to “nurture his curiosity.”

She and Greg, her husband at the time – the couple has since divorced and he lives in Delaware, though, she said. they continue to “co-parent” their two children – both have a strong appreciation of education and passed it on to their children, each of whom is now a standout in the classroom.

Tonjia had taken a similar tact growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. She finished high school at 16 and graduated summa cum laude from Morgan State University in Baltimore. She got her MBA at Georgia State and her PhD in business administration back at Morgan State.

After working as an instructor there, she became a professor at Delaware State and the University of Virgin Islands, where she taught computer information services.

Early on she said she could tell her son was “intellectually advanced.”

Omarosa Talks About Nearly Everthing In Interview With Jamal Simmons, Including Central State And Howard

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OMG 😮 #OmarosaManigaultNewman sat down with Hill.TV correspondent #JamalSimmons to discuss her remarkable life and her extraordinary time in the White House as one of President #DonaldTrump‘s top aides. During the extensive interview #Omarosa reveals that former White House communications director #HopeHicks was a low IQ airhead who knew NOTHING about politics and was selected by #Trump solely because of her looks  😮

Virginia State Alum Wale Travels Through History With His Queen In ‘Black Bonnie’ Video: Watch

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Wale works a Bonnie-and-Clyde narrative into his progressive black love storyline in “Black Bonnie.” The Yasha Gruben-directed clip starts with a simple statement — “Beside every good man, is a great woman” — before casting Ashley Blaine Featherson (Joelle Brooks from Netflix’s Dear White People) as the title lady.

The video starts in Africa, where Wale and Featherson are waited on like king and queen. The couple trade in their indigenous, embellished garb for leather coats and berets as they fast-forward to the 1970s in America as members of the Black Panther Party. Where the first setting made them feel straight out of the Black Panther film, Wale and Featherson are depicted as icons of the political movement in the ’70s. Spray-painted black fists in the air and secret meetings to plot their revolution set the backdrop for this moment in their journey as lovers.

Wale puts his trust in her as the FBI breaks down the door of their hideout, singing, “She tell me I got you, I trust her intuition,” as she leads him out the back. Jacquees, although not present in the music video, croons over the chorus, emphasizing that being on the run doesn’t mean they can’t “still chase our dreams.” It’s a romance depicted throughout black history, telling the story of being in love while living in a life-threatening time.

Nonviolent protests turn into kids playing with water guns, as Wale travels to the ’90s and still kicks it with the same girl. As he calls her from outside her apartment to pick her up, the police pull up behind the rapper’s red Mustang convertible. From a single fist up to both hands raised in the air, Wale’s defense is the same — as it has been for African-Americans throughout the history he depicts in just four minutes.

With cassettes in his bag, the police leave the Black Clyde to his Black Bonnie. The video cuts to a collage of their historic times together — clinking gold chalices in the motherland, fighting oppression and hugging in his car — as he sees Bonnie “as his best friend, confidant and co-defender.”

In present time, Wale approaches the actress and tells her she looks familiar, a feeling she reciprocates. If the ancient love has dissipated, the modern connection is only beginning. “Clyde,” he introduces himself. “Bonnie.”

Watch the full music video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmR47_vyD2w&feature=youtu.be

NBA Legend Isiah Thomas Partners With Florida Memorial University On ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice’ Initiative

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Former NBA player Isiah Thomas will partner with Miami Gardens’ Florida Memorial University to encourage athletes, entertainers and other success stories to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The initiative will be called “Lift Ev’ry Voice,” which is named after the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” that is often referred to as the “Black National Anthem.”

Thomas will launch the initiative on Tuesday along with FMU Interim President Dr. Jaffus Hardrick. FMU said in a statement that “Lift Ev’ry Voice” is “intended to inspire successful athletes, entertainers and other influential partners to re-commit, embrace and support Historically Black Colleges and Universities.”

Thomas, a two-time NBA champion, was drafted in 1981 by the Detroit Pistons – where remained for his 13-season career as a player. He would later become an NBA and college basketball coach, spending time at Florida International University.

FMU will also appoint a new head coach for its men’s basketball team on Tuesday.

#OntheHunt The Predator HBCU Contest

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20th Century Fox & HBCU Buzz have teamed up in the #OntheHunt HBCU Contest. (1) Lucky campuses will win a free THE Predator movie screening for their campus and watch the film before anyone else.
RULES
  • The contest will start Aug 20th and will end Sept 4th.
  • You can vote for your campus once every (5) hours.
  • The top campus with the most votes and social media posts will win!
  • Social Media posts must include the hashtag #OnTheHunt and Tag @hbcubuzz
  • After you vote, use the share buttons below get your campus engaged.

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THE PREDATOR

From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

Good luck and stay tuned to find out who wins! 

Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis: ‘We Are Grateful And Proud Of Our Generous BC Tigers Who Pay It Forward’

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Benedict College last month announced a record breaking year in fundraising, exceeding its overall annual philanthropic goal by 32 percent, increasing alumni gifts by 18 percent and raising more than $1 million for the fourth consecutive year.

Officials say that all areas of fundraising grew in 2017, including among faculty and staff, executives, and among private groups and sponsored grants.

Trustees contributed more than $167,000 for the year and increased participation by 11 percent from the previous year, while support from churches and religious organizations increased by four percent, adding to sponsored program and grant funding totaling more than $8 million.

“We are grateful and proud of our generous BC Tigers who pay it forward by investing in the education and development of the next generation of BC scholars and leaders. Our alumni are TheBESTofBC!” commented Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis, President and CEO of Benedict College.

“I am grateful for all of our supporters, who through gifts and contributions, enable us to empower the next generation of leaders through innovative learning and positive cultural experiences.”

According to federal data, private giving to HBCUs increased by more than $55 million between 2014-2016, and with more than $320 million in 2016 posted the sector’s second-highest philanthropic high since 2012.

Benedict also follows record HBCU fundraising announcements in recent weeks, inlcuding historic totals from Fisk University and Elizabeth City State University in the last month.

AAMU Business Dean To Head Economic Development Post

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Huntsville, Ala. — Alabama A&M University has named its business college dean to direct ambitious economic development endeavors for the 143-year-old institution.

Dr. Delmonize “Del” Smith, current dean of AAMU’s College of Business and Public Affairs, will serve as executive director for economic development.  Smith’s added role will entail coordinating AAMU’s civic and corporate outreach to promote a thriving regional economy and to fulfill the university’s mission to serve as an economic leader for the region.

Additionally, Dean Smith will guide a university-wide collaboration to develop strategic initiatives, cultivate relationships, and convene regional stakeholders to accelerate business development; promote business incubation; stimulate commercialization of intellectual property and technology; and align university graduates with local and global workforce demands.

Finally, the dean will identify economic development initiatives such as “opportunity zones” and tax incentives that will help AAMU advance its economic development goals.

Smith has served in numerous roles throughout his career, including systems analyst in the U.S. Army, consultant for Fortune 1000 firms, economic development commissioner, and serial entrepreneur. His experience as a minority entrepreneur has fueled his interest in what it takes for minority-based entrepreneurial firms to reach high levels of success. His related research has appeared in leading journals, such as Human Relations, the Journal of Business Research, and the Journal of Information Technology Management.

Dr. Smith received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Faulkner University, the Master of Science degree in management from Troy University, and the Ph.D. in management from the University of Alabama.  

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Dillard University Establishes Urban Water Management Certificate

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NEW ORLEANS — This fall, Dillard University will launch its Urban Water Management Certificate Program designed to train students for water management jobs in government agencies and private industry. Students will learn to handle issues such as: flooding from hurricanes, stormwater management, sinking land caused by subsidence, as well as more mundane issues such as providing clean, safe water to residents. This is the first and only program of its kind in the state.

Urban Water Management involves the governance, planning, design and implementation of water supplies within urban environments. Challenges involving the urban water cycle pose some of the most serious threats and greatest opportunities for planning the future resilience of cities. This certificate program provides an integrative approach to water management in the urban environment, focused on skills development that are essential for better preparing workers in this field.

“In addition to providing the skills to protect cities from floods, water-induced infrastructure decay such as sinkholes, and water-borne illness, Water Management is also an ever-expanding industry in terms of job growth in both the public and private sectors,” said Robert A. Collins, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor. “This program will help to put New Orleans on the cutting-edge of the Urban Water Management Industry nationwide.”

Water management is among the top six growth industries over the next 10 year with 14,000 job openings filling an industry that already employs 34,350 people. The Greater New Orleans region will always have a need for better water management, whether this entails flood mitigation practices or developing new urban water systems that contribute to urban resilience. The University seeks to provide a more integrative approach where the holistic management of water in the urban environment becomes the norm. To move this region towards more successful implementation of urban water projects, industry professionals need to understand the bigger picture.

The crux of the program is to focus on water issues at the municipal level. “Currently, industry professionals tend to work in their own silos and there is a need for people who can connect the different areas in order to solve water issues and implement urban water projects,” said Casey Schreiber, Ph.D., Urban Studies & Public Policy Program Coordinator.  “I predict Urban Water Manager will soon be a job title.”

Efforts to establish the program started two years ago, after brainstorming efforts between Dillard and Greater New Orleans, Inc., (GNO, Inc.) to find areas where the University, as an education partner, could offer something unique in terms of our expertise that would align with the workforce development needs that GNO, Inc., recognized for the greater New Orleans region. Pairing our Urban Studies Program with the water management job projections in the area leads us to Urban Water Management.

Successful completion of four courses (12 credit hours) and all program activities, under the direction of Urban Studies & Public Policy Program advisors, are required to earn the certificate in Urban Water Management. This is not a degree-seeking program, but the classes count as general electives credits for any Dillard student regardless of their major. Also, there are plans to package the certificate program as a continuing studies program, for those who work in urban planning, government, architecture, structural engineering, hydrology, construction management, policy, among other fields.

East coast universities such as Columbia and New York universities offer other certificate programs of this kind. Collins said that one of the reasons New Orleans needed a certificate program is each university tends to teach about the geology of their own geographic region, with its own set different set of adversities. “Right now, there are no training programs focused the unique challenges of the Gulf Coast region,” Collins said.  “So we know there is both a need and a market for this program.”

This post originally appeared on Dillard.edu.

Report: ‘White People Are Becoming The Majority Of HBCU Students’

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Revealing that the group was rising in many cases at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, a new report shows that white people are becoming the majority of HBCU students.

“Here’s the good news: Enrollment at Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) has never been higher, with the trend showing no signs of slowing anytime soon,” writes Bruce C.T. Wright of News One, adding that coinciding with that rise in white students was the “lower shares of blacks attending these institutions.”

“Now, here’s the, um, not so good news, at least for traditionalists: As that spike in students bolsters the bottom lines for schools which may not have been on the firmest of financial footings, it has also been threatening to change the typical racial makeup of HBCU students.”

According to a new report from Diverse Issues in Higher Education published last week, in many cases, Black “students have ceased being a majority at HBCUs,” and “At some, they are a small minority among a White majority.”

“The report did not single out schools in particular that apparently fell under that category, but a closer look at recent statistics showed an increasing number of white people have been enrolling as undergraduates at HBCUs over the years,” writes Wright.

Freshman Class Of 2022 Arrives To Howard University

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Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2018) – Howard University’s class of 2022 has arrived.

The nearly 1,600 incoming freshmen and their families were greeted with smiling faces and helping hands Saturday, during Move-In Day, as hundreds of students and faculty assisted them with moving their belongings into residence halls across campus.

“We want our arriving students and families to immediately feel the University’s commitment to excellence in truth and service,” says Kenneth Holmes, Vice President of Student Affairs. “Move-In Day is symbolic of the supportive and community-oriented nature of our students, faculty, staff and alumni.”

President Dr. Wayne A. I Frederick walked the halls of each dorm to welcome students and thank parents for entrusting their young scholars into Howard’s care.

“Thirty years ago I was doing exactly what these students are doing as I moved into the dorms on Howard’s campus, so I know how important a day like this is to both the students and parents involved,” says President Frederick. “This is a huge milestone and we are excited to help them begin this journey toward their chosen careers.”

This year’s freshman class arrives to Howard from a variety of locations, both domestic and international, and is one of the largest classes welcomed to the University in recent years, with 1,599 students. The College of Arts and Sciences will receive the largest number of new students, with biology being the most popular major.

Melissa Constantin is an incoming freshman from Lanham, Maryland and says she chose to study Biology to conduct groundbreaking research.

“I want to eventually conduct research on uncurbable illnesses and diseases, specifically surrounding medicine and treatment,” says Constantin. “I’m most excited to learn new content within the sciences that I’m unfamiliar with now.”

While the new biology students support University initiatives to produce innovative STEM professionals, the class of 2022’s presence within the School of Business continues an upward trend of more women choosing to purse business degrees. Of the 263 freshman students entering, 55 percent are women.

“We have seen a trend over the last eight to ten years of more women studying business,” says Barron Harvey, Ph.D., Dean of Howard University’s the School of Business. “They are not only looking for a return on their education, but opportunities to start their own businesses.”

Crystal Cox, a second generation Howard student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will spend the next several years studying at the School of Business.

“I’m most excited to meet the people I’ll be taking classes with, since I’m sure we’ll be spending a lot of time together over the next four years,” says Cox, an incoming business management student.

Howard University’s class of 2022 reflects a talented group of future industry leaders, equipped with standardized test scores averaging 1220 on the SAT and 25 on the ACT. To mark their arrival, the University has planned a week of welcoming events and informational sessions leading to the first day of classes on August 20.

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About Howard University

Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University operates with a commitment to Excellence in Truth and Service and has produced four Rhodes Scholars, 11 Truman Scholars, two Marshall Scholars, one Schwarzman Scholar, over 70 Fulbright Scholars and 22 Pickering Fellows. Howard also produces more on-campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, visit www.howard.edu.

Media contact: Ramzey Smith, Ramzey.smith@howard.edu.

This article was written by Ramzey Smith on Howard.edu, where it originally appeared.