Meet Morehouse Alumnus & Filmmaker Terrance Daye

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This summer, Morehouse 2017 Alumnus, Terrance Daye was recognized as a finalist in the 44th Student Academy Awards for his film, The Colored Hospital.

The awe-inspiring film came to Daye within a span of a few mere hours. “[The Colored Hospital] was the direct result of months and months of thinking and research. I had a number of images circulating in my head, photographs that I had seen or ideas that I jotted down.” Daye tells HBCU Buzz.

All of these mental images became the premise for the film. Terrance Daye expresses that he had an interest in mental health, particularly depression within black men. Confessing to having dealt with depression during his time at Morehouse, the intent of his film was to create a film that spoke directly to the narratives of depression within the black community.

“So often we lack the words or the vocabulary to articulate our feelings. This film was my attempt at that.”

The Colored Hospital serves as a Capstone Film Project under Morehouse College’s Cinema, Television & Emerging Media Studies Program. Terrance says that through this program, he truly found his passion for visual storytelling. As ironic it seems, Terrance actually did not anticipate going to Morehouse.  

 

“Morehouse turned out to be the only school that accepted me. I took those rejections really hard at first…When I look back at how God used those closed doors to re-position me on the amazing journey that I am on now, I am speechless! I will always embrace rejection as another opportunity to trust God for that reason. The AUC was also a perfect hub to develop as a person and an artist.”

Terrance ended up graduating from Morehouse in May, earlier this year. Through hard work and dedication, he graduated as the top scholar in his department with Latin Honors.

This Fall Terrance will begin studying at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts in their graduate film program. He plans to finish his studies at the prestigious film school within three years.

When asked what he aspires to do as a filmmaker he states that he wants, “to make people uncomfortable.”

Daye is looking to spark conversations in a realm of different areas. He identifies as not just a filmmaker, but a poet and playwright.

“I want to create content that engages people, that invites us to think deeply on topics and subject matter that are difficult and, yes, uncomfortable. I think discomfort has the potential to heal. I was uncomfortable the first time I stepped into a therapist’s office, but the experience changed my life and opened my eyes to a form of self-care that I didn’t know I needed. Film definitely has the potential to do that: change our way of seeing and thinking about a thing. So you can always expect that from my films: discomfort, but behind that will always be a well of love and behind that, a deep desire to participate.”

We look forward to witnessing the work that Terrance Daye will produce. He is an HBCU artist that the Buzz Team is deeply proud of.

To view his film, The Colored Hospital, click here.

 

Howard University Beats UNLV for the Largest Point-Spread Upset in College Football History

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The end of a busy college football Saturday provided a historic result. Entering its game against UNLV as 45-point underdogs, Howard stunned its FBS opponents defeated the Rebels 43–40 in their own stadium.

According to renowned sports bettor RJ Bell, it’s the biggest upset in college football history based on the betting line. He noted a $100 bet on the Bison beating UNLV would have netted $55,000.

Caylin Newton, the younger brother of Cam Newton, threw for 140 yards and a touchdown while under center for Howard. He really shined with room to run, totaling two rushing touchdowns and 190 yards on the ground. Newton led the Bison to the game-winning score with 7:34 still to go in the game, following a 42-yard pass to Anthony Philyaw with a four-yard dash into the end zone to put Howard up 43–40.

In UNLV’s three subsequent drives, the team punted, fumbled and failed to score in their final play with 13 seconds remaining. That secured the first-ever win at Howard for head coach Mike London, who formerly served as Virginia head coach from 2010 to ’15, and more

 

NCAT Enrolls Largest Student Body Ever

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North Carolina A&T State University announced yesterday a fall enrollment total of 111,877 in the fall term that just began, expanding the student body to its largest size ever and adding significantly to a growth trend that began in 2013.

The growth rate this fall of 6.3 percent means that over the past five years, N.C. A&T has added more than 1,300 students in direct response to A&T Preeminence 2020, the institution’s strategic plan, which A&T began implementing in 2011. That document calls for the Land Grant university to expand to an overall enrollment of 13,500 over the next three years.

This fall alone adds 700 students to A&T’s overall headcount – one of the single biggest increases in A&T history – and almost certainly cements the university’s status as America’s largest historically black college or university, a status it has held since 2014.

“The growth we’re experiencing this fall illustrates how much students, parents and families want to be part of the North Carolina A&T experience,” said Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. “We deliver an education that not only prepares our students for rewarding careers in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, we deeply value each and every individual who entrusts us with that responsibility. Our students know that their success matters here.”

The university’s growth was driven in large part by 2,309 new freshmen, the largest first-year class in N.C. A&T history, as well as its most academically accomplished, with an average GPA of 3.51, average SAT score of 1,023 and average ACT of 20.

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Inside The Tense, Unusual HBCU-White House Relationship

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Last year, Omarosa Manigault-Newman wanted Howard University — the historically black school known as “The Mecca” — to welcome Donald J. Trump.

The prospect of Trump visiting Howard turned into a persistent rumor on campus last year, and the source of quiet activity. Howard’s student newspaper strongly opposed the idea. The RNC donated $2,000 to start a College Republican chapter at the school — but students couldn’t gather enough signatures. One source briefed on talks told BuzzFeed News that someone had proposed a town hall event in which Trump would answer questions, maybe with TV personality A.J. Calloway.

By September, though, time was running out: As a last ditch effort, Manigault-Newman invited a handful of Howard students to Trump International, the D.C. hotel where the candidate planned to speak that day, according to a senior campaign staffer at the time and others familiar with the event.

She introduced the students to a series of Trump-world figures like Katrina Pierson — and Steve Bannon, who looked “super stoked,” one person familiar with the meeting said, as Manigault-Newman explained that she was trying to bring Trump to Howard’s campus. The students also got the chance to shake the hand of Donald Trump himself.

This all happened on the day Trump said, without apologizing, after years of his birther crusade, that President Obama was born in the United States.

The plan for a Howard visit never got off the ground.

The ill-fated efforts to bring Trump to the school, though, were just the beginning in the the complicated — and increasingly tense — relationship between this White House and the country’s historically black colleges and universities. The most pressing issue: a conference scheduled for September, just weeks after Trump seemed to defend a group of white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville by saying they had “very fine people” in their ranks.

After Trump’s response to Charlottesville, two prominent groups — the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the United Negro College Fund — have joined a black Democratic lawmaker in calling on the White House to postpone the annual conference put on every year by the White House Initiative on HBCUs.

The White House has refused to postpone the event. The conference is just one part of the traditional infrastructure between a White House and the schools. In recent days Manigault-Newman has “pushed hard” to name members to the president’s board of advisers on HBCUs, according to a person familiar with the planning.

Manigault-Newman in particular wants to serve as an organized, front-facing liaison between Trump and HBCU leaders. Historically black colleges and universities face a much more delicate and difficult balance: The schools depend on federal funding, while serving students and alumni who largely can’t stand the president. And that tension keeps intensifying.

School presidents reached for this story referred BuzzFeed News to a statement by Dr. Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund. “At a critical time in our nation, and in the spirit of unity among our HBCUs, we believe this postponement would allow us to work together to develop a common agenda that will serve the best interests of our HBCUs, and especially our students.”

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“Snake Bit in the Snake Pit” The Culture at the Jake Gaither Classic

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Whenever I’m asked what separates an HBCU from the typical collegiate gridiron experience, I always respond with two words… The atmosphere.

Be it the local vendors lined along the stadium selling everything from BBQ ribs to Shea Butter or the echo of the school band playing their way through campus on the dewy morn before a noon kickoff, the HBCU football experience is markedly unique from anything else we see in amateur athletics.

DSU Welcomes 2nd Cohort of Undocumented Immigrant Students

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The latest class of Dreamers – undocumented immigrant students who are recipients of the Opportunity Scholarship Program – have excitedly started their academic journey at DSU.

There are 47 students in the second class of Dreamers, following the successful group of Opportunity Scholarship students who finished the 2016-2017 school with group cumulative GPA of 3.7; that inaugural class has now begun their sophomore year at DSU.

The scholarship recipients are undocumented immigrants who as children came with their parents into the United States and attended public schools, excelling academically.

Through no fault of their own, they found themselves locked out of state institutions of higher education – either by being declared out-of-state students (with unaffordable out-of-state tuition costs) or by laws in certain states that prohibit the enrollment of undocumented students at state colleges and universities.

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Grambling Names Brian Howard New Sports Information Director

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GRAMBLING, La. – Grambling State University director of athletics Paul Bryant announced Monday the hiring of Brian Howard who will serve as the sports information director for the Tigers.

“I am truly excited to welcome Brian Howard to Grambling State University,” said Bryant. “He is recognized as a leader in his field and we are fortunate to have him at GSU. His ability to connect with the national media will be a valuable asset to the athletics department.”

“I am extremely excited to join the athletics department at Grambling State University,” Howard said. “I am very thankful to director of athletics Paul Bryant, as well as assistant athletics director of marketing and communications Karen Carty for this opportunity. From the moment I stepped onto campus, I felt right at home. I am honored to join the Grambling family and can’t wait to get started.”

Prior to coming to Grambling State, Howard spent eight months at Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) member institution, Alabama State University, as the director of athletic strategic communications. He was the primary sports contact for football, men’s basketball, bowling, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf and baseball.

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Tuskegee Athletics Donates Shirts To Hurricane Harvey Victims

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The Tuskegee University men’s and women’s basketball teams have joined college basketball coaches across the country to help support victims from the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

After a massive hurricane ripped through the city of Houston and left much of the area submerged underwater, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reports that University of Houston men’s basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson has a challenge for his coaching counterparts: Donate 10 pairs of shoes and 20 shirts to the victims who lost everything. Wednesday morning the Tuskegee Athletics department accepted that challenge.

There are 351 Division I men’s basketball teams in the NCAA, according to the 2016 Pomeroy College Ball Ratings. Full cooperation with Sampson’s challenge would provide more than 3,500 pairs of shoes and 7,000 shirts to those whose homes were damaged in the hurricane.

Tuskegee head men’s basketball coach Jerry Dunn wanted his team to join in despite being a Division II school that is a part of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).

“I just think it is really a blessing to be able to assist those that are in need,” Dunn stated. “Coach Sampson came up with this brilliant idea and I am just pleased that Tuskegee’s athletic department is able to lend a helping hand to those suffering through this catastrophic and life threatening event.”

Coach Dunn has also asked his players to donate a pair of sneakers while he has committed to donating two pairs of his own.

It didn’t stop there with TU. The women’s basketball team also elected to join in. Head coach Quacy Barnes-Timmons has pledged shirts and other items. “It is difficult to watch families suffer like this, “Barnes-Timmons said. “This isn’t a lot, but when I saw the request from coach Sampson, I just knew we needed to do something”, Barnes-Timmons noted.

Men’s basketball opens the season November 14 hosting Johnson C. Smith.

 

Why Did Betsy DeVos Meet Privately With HBCU Leaders?

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with leaders of several historically black colleges and universities in Florida on Wednesday.

The roundtable event was not listed on DeVos’ public schedule, which did not include any events for Wednesday. Her office told the Miami Herald the event was deemed “private.”

According to the readout of the event, which was released Wednesday afternoon following the event, those invited included a board member at Bethune-Cookman University, numerous officials at Florida A&M University, as well as a number of African-American church leaders and Rep. Al Lawson, D-Fla.

The event was held at the Bethel Family Life Center in Tallahassee, Fla. DeVos’ spokesperson did not confirm to the Miami Herald who attended the roundtable.

According to the release, the event consisted of two 45-minute sessions, the first titled “Saving, Sustaining and Strengthening Public Education and Schools of Choice” and the second titled “Saving, Sustaining and Strengthening HBCUs and Higher Education.”

On Tuesday, DeVos visited a private school and a public charter school in Tallahassee.

In May, DeVos was notably “booed” while delivering the commencement at Bethune-Cookman University.

The Washington Examiner has reached out to DeVos’ office for comment.

Issa Rae to Speak at Dillard University

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Issa Rae is best known as the star and co-creator of the Golden Globe series, INSECURE, which premiered this past October on HBO. Coming off her second straight year on the Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 List, she was named by The Rolling Stone as “one of the 23 funniest people in America.”  Between her digital following and her presence as a strong African American female role model, Issa has been profiled by The New York Times, National Public Radio (NPR), The Washington Post and CNN. She released a book of essays entitled THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL.

Issa will speak at Dillard University Lecture Series “Brain Food” on September 6th at 7pm EST in Georges Auditorium.

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The lecture series is an integral part of history of Dillard University. Our first official president, William Stuart Nelson launched what he called the aesthetic spirit of Dillard in the late 1930s, designed to build a closer relationship between the students and the community, and elevating awareness of the university throughout the nation.

He was followed by Albert Dent who organized the Edwin R. Embree Memorial Lecture Series in the 1950s, to help students achieve a high sense of personal and social values in their thinking and learning. Guests included Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jackie Robinson. Broadus Butler followed Dent, and established the Scholars-Statesmen Lecture Series in the late 1960s, to bring to students and the community distinguished people who modeled excellence to which students aspired and the community respected.logo

Samuel DuBois Cook not only established a lyceum series, but built a fine arts center to provide a new venue for lectures, theater and music. Michael Lomax followed Cook, and expanded the lyceum series to achieve his goal to “make Dillard the nation’s leading center for discussion of African-American culture, history, direction and aspirations.” Finally, Marvalene Hughes led the post-Katrina renovation of facilities so they would be better for events, created new space, like the Georges Auditorium, and launched the annual Justice Revius Ortique lecture on Law and Society.

In 2013 Walter M. Kimbrough continued the Dillard tradition of lectures with Brain Food. He launched the nationally recognized “Bless the Mic” series at Philander Smith College in 2005, a series that continues today. This time, he sought a name that would highlight the unique culture of New Orleans with this educational activity.Image result for dillard university

New Orleans is known for so many unique characteristics: Jazz, Mardi Gras, festivals, and major sporting events to name a few. But many think about food: King Cakes, beignets, crawfish, gumbo, red beans ‘n rice, jambalaya, pralines, po boys, ettoufee, & bread pudding. Many call the city the culinary capital of the world.

But a university should want to feed minds, so this series serves “brain food,” hence the name. Brain Food is intellectual sustenance; it’s information that feeds intellectual craving. And just as many Americans suffer from obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure due to poor diets, our intellectual diets are deficient, making us mentally malnourished and academically anemic. This series hopes to ensure this community has the proper intellectual diet to remain healthy and happy.

A Kenya proverb says it best: A wise man fills his brains before emptying his mouth. Brain Food aims to fill brains before mouths are emptied.

National HBCU Pre-Law Summit Provides Pivotal Opportunity for HBCU Students & Alumni

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Fourth Annual National HBCU Pre-Law Summit & Law Expo 2017 Sponsored by AccessLex Institute is scheduled to take place on Friday, September 15, 2017 at Bennett College and Saturday, September 16, 2017 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. This groundbreaking summit is the exclusive national event of its kind in the entire country focused on empowering HBCU students and graduates interested in attending law school, and addressing the unique issues, concerns and challenges facing them on the road to becoming lawyers.

Students and graduates from all HBCUs are invited to meet and come together in Greensboro to take part in two intensive and power-packed days which will expose them to game-changing information, resources, and connections designed to help them achieve success in a demanding educational endeavor and tough field in great need of diversity.

The summit will provide inspirational keynote sessions featuring prominent and dynamic speakers. Keynote speakers include Juan R. Thomas, Esq., President, National Bar Association, Emily M. Dickens, Esq., Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Relationship Officer, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Dr. Aaron N. Taylor, Esq., Senior Vice President and Executive Director, AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence, Demetra L. Liggins, Esq., Partner, Thompson & Knight and Co-Founder, Corporate Homie, Jalene Mack, Esq., Attorney, Actress, Writer, Producer and Non-Profit Founder, and Dr. Christina R. Kirk, Esq., Municipal Court Judge, Teacher and Founder & Dean, Prep “U”niversity.

In addition to outstanding keynote speakers, special guest speakers, and Black lawyer and law student organizational leaders, there will also be an unprecedented conversation featuring all six HBCU law school deans from Southern University Law Center, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University, Howard University School of Law, the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, and Florida A&M University School of Law. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Jamal Watson, Executive Editor, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

The event will also include the National HBCU Pre-Law Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. This year’s honorees include The Honorable Craig Washington Sr., former Texas State Senator and U.S. Congressman, The Honorable Henry Frye, the first Black North Carolina Supreme Court Justice and Chief Justice, Juanita Jackson, Esq., Criminal Attorney and Creator, Producer and Cast Member of the WETV Reality Show “Sisters in Law”, and The Honorable Dr. Alma S. Adams, U.S. Congresswoman and Founder of the first-ever Bipartisan Congressional HBCU Caucus.

In addition, the event will showcase informative panel discussions on critical topics for aspiring lawyers including law school admission, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), the law student experience, the different career paths for those with a law degree, and Black lawyers and entrepreneurship. Also planned are sessions on financing legal education and writing the law school personal statement and diversity statement.

Further, a law school expo will take place where students will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from up to 100 law schools and law-related organizations. Networking breaks and social receptions are scheduled to take place where attendees will have the opportunity to participate in both structured and informal networking activities and are required to connect with new accountability partners and mentors. A one-on-one consulting and practical assistance session will also be offered so that participants can ask any admissions, preparation or career planning questions. Complimentary resources, professional headshots and free food will also be provided.

The event will end on a high note with the Aspiring Lawyers Pinning Ceremony where all pre-law students will be pinned by licensed attorneys, encouraged to move forward in their endeavors and commit to giving back to others.

Admission to the entire event is completely free of charge, open to the public, and seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Aspiring lawyers, their pre-law and career advisors, professors, parents and supporters are all welcomed to register and attend. For more information, please visit the summit’s official website at http://www.hbcuprelawsummit.org/.

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FAMU Alumni Mic-Lo Releases Song About Undergrad Life

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After graduating from a historically black college or university, it is very easy to miss the campus, living steps away from new lifelong friends, the entertaining events, and being in a purely progressive, youthful environment.

One Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) alum, Mic-Lo, reminisces on his college days, capturing his sentiments in song “F.A.M.U.”

Check out this video the former student athlete, released.

 

Howard University Black Girl Magic Promotes “Black Girls Rock”

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Recent Howard University graduate, Tiara Bolton was recently featured in BET’s newest commercial for it’s event “Black Girls Rock.” Appearing on screen next to event host and fellow HU graduate, Taraji P. Henson , Tiara is seen standing strong in solidarity and dancing with other beautiful black women.

Bolton secured her position in the commercial by running into Alan Ferguson, an accredited director and husband of Solange. On July 21st, Tiara and her friends were at The Promontory Nightclub in Chicago to celebrate a friends birthday. That night, he and his assistant approached them, asked what they were doing the next day, and if they wanted to be in the commercial.

“It was so unexpected. I was walking out of the club to take pictures of one of my friends. When we passed him, we whispered to each other like ‘is that Solange’s husband?’ When he said come here at first I was like ‘omg he heard us,'” says Bolton.

He was very quick, introduced her to his assistant, who later sent her the information that night. The next day, she went to a huge house in Indiana to film.

The house was decorated cute and had lights everywhere. “It was HOT! There were floors for make up, hair, clothes, and then the main floor was for shooting,” says Bolton. There was another building next door that provided food and solo shots. To her surprise, they were even serving delicious soul food. Tiara reminisces on the great food, saying “they served macaroni & cheese, crab cakes, green beans, and dessert. I laughed in my head thinking, ‘very black of you, BET.'”

When picking out scenes, Tiara and the other actresses stood around in a circle and were hand chosen. Luckily, she got to be in a few scenes with fellow Howard University alumna, Taraji P. Henson. In between takes, Henson was laughing and joking with the extras.

“She’s super down to earth and small. We talked about us both graduating from Howard. She told me about a scholarship she gave to be given to [School of Communications] students,” Bolton says.

Though Tiara doesn’t have any aspirations in acting, she admits that she enjoyed the entire experience, especially the monetary compensation. Black Girls Rock!

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UAPB Receives Historic $900,000 Grant From NCAA

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PINE BLUFF – The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is celebrating a feat never before accomplished by its athletics program – the winning of a major grant from the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) that will vastly improve the level of academic support that it will be able to extend to its student-athletes.

The grant, known as the Accelerating Academic Success Program (AASP), is a comprehensive (multi-year) grant dispersed over a period of three years. UAPB is one of just three schools nationally which saw its application for the award approved and one of just two athletics programs that were awarded the maximum amount of $900,000. Southern University, like UAPB, is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and was also awarded a $900,000 AASP grant. Morgan State University, a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, was awarded $887,700.

“We’re elated to receive the multi-year comprehensive grant from the NCAA,” UAPB Chancellor Lawrence B. Alexander said. “This award honors the supportive academic environment that exists in our athletics department and it recognizes the broad university-wide support for even greater academic achievement by student-athletes across campus units.”

Lonza Hardy Jr., UAPB’s Director of Athletics, echoed Chancellor Alexander’s sentiments, saying getting the AASP grant is an historic accomplishment for the University’s athletics program.

“The $900,000 AASP grant will be a game-changer for Golden Lion athletics,” said Hardy.

“With it, we will not only be able to implement initiatives which will positively affect our academic support program during the duration of the three-year grant period, but those initiatives will extend well into the future. This was our third time applying for the multi-year grant and winning it this time around is a testament to the collective efforts of personnel in our athletics program as well as key individuals from other areas across the UAPB campus which are integral to the success of all of our students.”

Hardy said the initiatives of UAPB’s AASP grant application, the brainchild of Student-Athlete Academic Services Director Kimberly Evans, includes four initiatives which should aid the athletics program as it works to make sure that UAPB student-athletes continue to pace their non-athlete counterparts in academic achievement. The initiatives include: installation of a Student-Athlete Academic Center at the J. Thomas May Field House, hiring of additional academic counselors and tutors and the purchase of computer hardware and software; funding to increase the number of student-athletes who will be able to attend the LIONS summer bridge program; a Degree Completion and Scholarship Program that will assist students who will need additional time to earn their degrees after their playing eligibility has expired; and professional development that will provide funds for members of the academic support staff to take advantage of opportunities that would help them to better assist student-athletes.

Schools eligible to apply for the AASP comprehensive multi-year grant program are non-Football Bowl Subdivision Division I schools in the bottom 10 percent of resources as determined by per capita institutional expenditures, athletics department funding and Pell Grant aid. Bernard Franklin, the NCAA’s Executive Vice-President of Education and Community Engagement and Chief Inclusion Officer, said he has been pleased with the program’s success.

“The impact of the Accelerating Academic Success Program has exceeded expectations and the reach has expanded far beyond the Academic Progress Rate (APR),” said Franklin. “The program’s success is an illustration of the transformation that can take place when adequate resources are combined with creative and strategic planning.”

In addition to the three universities which have been awarded the multi-year grants, six other universities have been awarded single-year grants. Combined with the multi-year grants, a total of $3.1 million is being dispersed to the nine schools by the NCAA.

For UAPB, the AASP grant comes just four months after the athletics program received a $315,000 grant from the NCAA which is being used to assist with academic support, promotions and athletics training services. This year alone, the athletics program at UAPB has generated more than $1.2 million to better serve its student-athletes.

For more information about the grant, please call Kimberly Evans at (870) 575-7900.

FAMU Rolls Over Texas Southern In Inaugural Jake Gaither Classic

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Florida A&M University beats Texan Southern University for the inaugural Jake Gaither Classic in Tallahassee, Florida Saturday.  FAMU dominated Texas Southern from start to finish on national television, claiming a 29-7 win in the inaugural Jake Gaither classic.

 

Tatyana Ali To Speak At University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

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Pine Bluff, Ark. (August 24, 2017) – Actress, singer and activist Tatyana Ali will be the keynote speaker for the annual Lyceum event Thursday, September 7 at 10:30 a.m. at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The free, public event will be held in the John McLinn Ross auditorium of the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Building.

Tatyana Ali motivates audiences to actively pursue their goals, while encouraging them to cherish education as the path to personal growth. Best known for playing Ashley Banks on the hit sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” Ali is an accomplished actress, musician, advocate and Harvard graduate whose presentations affirm and empower the next generation to become active in strengthening their communities.

A five-time NAACP Image Award winner, she delivers passionate entreaties on the importance of civic participation, as well as the need to be true to one’s self. As the host of the United Negro College Fund’s “Empower Me” Tour, she has traveled the country inspiring students to take control of their academic, personal and professional destinies.

Ali’s jubilant personality lights up rooms as she offers practical advice for maintaining pride and self-esteem when the going gets tough. With behind-the-scenes stories of growing up in the entertainment business, she illustrates the importance of identifying and holding on to your core values, and defining your own version of success.

For more information about the event, please call (870) 575-8866