Brandi Gourdine’s change in direction is nothing but amazing.
As a senior at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte three years ago, she had a low grade-point average and saw her friends being accepted into college. Then, the transformation starte ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:22PM
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When choosing a major, you want to select an affordable degree program that will support you on your chosen career path. At Arkansas Baptist College, we are with you every step of the way. As a respected HBCU in Arkansas, we believe in providing our ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:18PM
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Cynthia Warrick, PhD RPh
Interim President
Stillman College
Dr. Cynthia Warrick began her tenure as Interim President of Stillman College on January 1, 2017. A pharmacist and health services researcher, Dr. Warrick has 20 years of Higher Educa ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:15PM
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The UNCF® Career Pathways Initiative, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., awarded $35 million in grants to selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs) to address social and economic issues of minority graduation, unemployment, and underemploy ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:10PM
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Mobile Lab Helps Young Students in Greater Memphis Get Hands-On STEM Experience
In 2015, Baptist Memorial Health Care helped sponsor a LeMoyne-Owen College mobile lab designed to help get young students excited about science. This bus, known as “S ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:05PM
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by SAMANTHA SCHNURR
Time to drop a beat, Prince Harry.
The 32-year-old royal watched with a smile Wednesday as he spent some time with young students enrolled in rap lessons at Nottingham Academy.
The classes are part of the Royal Foundati ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 1:53PM
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In gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness.
Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression and the threat of ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:50PM
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Students toured Meharry Medical College (a BCF school), along with local United Methodist agencies and offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
From The United Methodist Church, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
The Lina H. McCord progra ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:46PM
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Voorhees College will host its annual Absalom Jones Feast Day celebration, to recognize the African American presence in the Episcopal Church, on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. in St. Philip’s Episcopal Chapel.
Absalom Jones was the first ordained Afr ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:40PM
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The Fisk University Computer Science Club has been awarded $3,000 from the Student Seed Fund to help launch a new chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W) on campus. Sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:35PM
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The Lina H. McCord program welcomes eight students from United Methodist-related historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) to serve as its 2017 summer interns. The summer intern program, sponsored by the Black College Fund (BCF), a ministry ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:08AM
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Welcome Brenda Hatton-Ficklin!
Pine Bluff Native is New Director of Alumni Relations
Following a rigorous national search, Brenda Hatton-Ficklin of Little Rock has been selected to serve as Director of Alumni Relations at Philander Smith Colleg ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:02AM
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By Darran Simon, CNN
Alex Liddell Jr. sang an Al Green song as he sorted through recently dry-cleaned uniforms -- deep crimson with Carolina blue accents -- for his marching band's biggest performance ever.
Liddell, the tuba section leader of T ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:56AM
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The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Dr. Wayne J. Riley as president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Riley is currently a clinical professor of Medicine and adjunct professor of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Univ ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:52AM
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Concordia has once again expanded its academic reach by adding a new degree concentration to its growing list of academic programs. Students now have the option to study music with this new Associate of Arts degree with Music Concentration. The music ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:46AM
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The New York Times Magazine published the below article about the Opportunity Scholarship students -- also known as "Dreamers" -- who have been provided access to higher education at Delaware State University. The undocumented children of illegal imm ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 2:29PM
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The President and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and
Science (CDU) will moderate his second annual President’s Breakfast, Thursday, February 9th at
the Marriott in Marina del Rey, CA. He will moderate a spirited panel of experts in ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 2:23PM
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Knoxville College is a private, church-related, four-year, coeducational, liberal arts institution. The College is open to students of diverse backgrounds and cultures who seek a quality liberal arts education.
The College provides various public ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 2:17PM
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Tennessee lawmakers will experience a wave of Tiger Blue at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Tennessee State University administrators, faculty, students and alumni will converge on Legislative Plaza and the Hill to showcase the university’ ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 11:42AM
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As a private citizen of the United States, and in my role as President of American Baptist College, I feel compelled to stand against President Trump’s recent executive order limiting and banning Muslim immigration to the United States from seven cou ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 11:20AM
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Members of Bishop State Community College’s culinary program were recently featured on WKRG-TV5 (CBS) preparing a Frittata. To view the program click the video below, and see below for the full recipe.
FRITTATA
RECIPE:
3 eggs
Splash of ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 11:12AM
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Alcorn State University’s Dr. Akash Dania’s hard work in the business world has landed him at the helm of a global business publication.
Dania, associate professor of finance and director of the Graduate Business Programs at Alcorn’s School of Bus ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 10:58AM
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Dear Morgan Family:
Last night (Friday, Jan. 27), President Trump signed an Executive Order, which, among other things, imposes a ban on individuals entering the United States from seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somal ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 10:35AM
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BY CHUCK WILLIAMS
chwilliams@ledger-enquirer.com
The Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce on Thursday night honored during its annual banquet two men at different stages of their community leadership.
State Rep. Calvin Smyre, in his 43rd year ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2017 at 3:47PM
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