HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – Rust College junior, Hardest Vaughn, was selected by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to receive a free iPad as a part of their #PassTheTorch4HBCUs Social Media Campaign.
UNCF hosted a social media challenge during November ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2023 at 10:40AM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS - Rust College has been selected to receive funding under the federally
funded Upward Bound Program in the amount of $1.4 million over a five-year period. The
program will begin in September and will serve schools in the Marshall ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2022 at 11:14AM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – For the second time this Spring, Rust College President Dr. Ivy R.
Taylor, announced receipt of a large grant that will aid in the restoration of Mississippi Industrial
College (MIC), an HBCU which closed in the 1980s. The Natio ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2022 at 10:26AM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – President Ivy R. Taylor is pleased to announce that New York Times Best Selling Author and Chair of Princeton’s Department of African American Studies Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. will deliver Rust College’s 156th Commencement address on ...
Posted Monday, April 11th 2022 at 1:06PM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS - Rust College has received its first Congressional special project appropriation recommended by Senator Roger Wicker. The transformative $1 million allocation will help in the creation of the Ida B. Wells Social Justice and Interpr ...
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 at 6:28PM
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Stone Teague, a Sophomore on the Rust College Baseball Team, received the 2021 Championship of Character Award from NAIA.
Stone has displayed the five core values Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Servant Leadership, and Sportsmanship.
The Ra ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2022 at 12:33PM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – The Rust College women’s basketball program are GCAC Tournament Champions for the first time in school history, earning the conference’s automatic berth to the NAIA Tournament with a 70-49 beatdown of Philander Smith on their own ...
Posted Monday, February 28th 2022 at 2:18PM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – Along with many HBCUs throughout this country, Tuesday morning, our beloved Rust College received a bomb threat against our campus community. The administration and campus security immediately responded by reaching out to law enfo ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 at 11:40AM
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HOLLY SPRINGS, MS – Roshaun Hughey, first-year student from Chicago, Illinois, was the first-place recipient of the 2021 Upsilon Delta Academic Scholarship presented by the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated on January 12.
As a part o ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2022 at 5:01PM
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