By LCC Admin:
Kwame Kwei-Armah is the new Chancellor of the University of the Arts London and takes up this honorary post with immediate effect. His association with the University began in 2002 when he studied for an MA in Screenwriting at LCC wh ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 1:13PM
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By Jan Moller:
Gov. Bobby Jindal is considering a college consolidation plan that would effectively close the University of New Orleans and the Southern University at New Orleans and replace them with a "new, single accredited institution" consis ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 1:06PM
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By Max Brantley:
Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College, is one of five candidates named yesterday as semi-finalists for the job of chancellor of Southern University, the historically black state university in Baton Rouge.
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Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 1:00PM
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By: B Warren
More than 800 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association athletes will plunge into the next phase of their training with the U.S. Navy SEALs during all-day conditioning and team-building events next month.
The training—part of ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 5:51PM
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By: Debra Mason
Enter by May 2, 2011, for a chance to win $600 cash plus trip to Durham, N.C.
Students who have published three stories on faith, ethics or spirituality are invited to enter the 2011 Chandler Award for Student Writer of the Yea ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 4:36PM
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By: John Wildman
Another New Directors/New Films selection which was a buzz-rific hit coming out of Sundance (which I know very well, as I was one of the people doing the cinematic Paul Revere thing, heralding the wonderfulness of the movie I just ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 2:34PM
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By Michele Frisby
ICMA Joins National Coalition to Establish Benchmarks That SupportHigh-Quality Computer and Internet Access at Public Libraries $2.8 million in new Gates Foundation funding will support initiative.
As part of an unprecedented ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 1:54PM
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Hey HBCUConnect members!!!
I'm here to help connect you to your future internship and/or career opportunity that's out there waiting for you. Here's a list of employers who want to hear from you and hire you!
>Comcast--IT, Telecommunications, Sales, Marketing
>PPG Industries--Engineering, ...
Posted Thursday, March 31st 2011 at 4:09PM
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By: The Editors
The number of blacks taking academically challenging Advanced Placement courses in high school has surged over the past two decades. The bad news is that the racial scoring gap on Advanced Placement tests continues to be large and, ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 5:46PM
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By: Justin
Harsh rain and wild wind were not enough to stop the first annual Black & Proud to Be College Bound conference. 180-plus tenacious students and parents from across the Bay Area made the trek to San Francisco State University to take par ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 5:26PM
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By: Wayne Washington
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will be S.C. State University’s commencement speaker, the university said Monday. Having Powell, a retired U.S. Army general who served in high positions in three administrations, add ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 5:17PM
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By: Ron Grossman
Perhaps it is because Gwendolyn DuBose Rogers and her beloved college professor, though raised continents apart, had childhoods scarred by bitter, dehumanizing prejudice.
Or maybe it's that the teaching didn't end after graduat ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 5:12PM
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Submitted By: Joye Griffin
$1 Million Needed From Concerned Individuals, Corporations & Foundations
UNCF–the United Negro College Fund–the nation's largest and most effective minority education organization, needs communities' support acros ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 3:43PM
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Submitted By: Nancy Owen
Three Students Receive College Scholarship Money
ACT has announced the winners of its annual student poster contest. The purpose of the poster is to encourage students to plan and prepare for college. Winners are selec ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 3:38PM
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By: Be The Match Foundation
Be The Match has announced six cities will host a Be The One Run in 2011. The cities are Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland, Charlotte, Houston, Atlanta and Long Beach.
These run/walk fundraising events help give patient ...
Posted Wednesday, March 30th 2011 at 3:25PM
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By: Charles
The College Democrats of North Carolina (CDNC) will hold the first-ever leadership conference for students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Saturday, March 26, in Greensboro. The event is expected to draw about 100 st ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 7:12PM
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By: Dyson Show Staff
Many think about post-traumatic stress disorder as it relates to troops coming home from war. However, natural disasters like the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan can cause PTSD, not only in the people who lived through ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 7:00PM
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By: Jeffrey Meisner
The spring finalists for the U.S. Imagine Cup 2011 competition were announced Wednesday. It is exciting that this year’s competition has featured the most diverse collection of students in its nine-year history.
While the ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 6:55PM
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By: depro
Lockheed Martin earned national recognition this month for mentoring a small woman-owned business supplier performing for the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies.
The Mentor-ProteÌgeÌ agreement between Lockhee ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 6:39PM
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By: Cindy Chang
In an effort to fend off a merger with the University of New Orleans, the president of the Southern University System is proposing a restructuring of the Southern University at New Orleans that would attempt to raise an 8 percent ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 6:15PM
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By: asaunders
A former NBA player out of Detroit is reaching out to underprivileged kids in the motor city to offer them a leg-up on the ladder to a good education. WWJ Newsradio 950′s Pat Sweeting spoke with former UM and NBA basketball s ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 3:00PM
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By: Christina Hennessy
The last time Frank J. Mercede saw Diana Ross in concert, he was a student at Ohio University and she was leading the Motown group the Supremes.
"It's a small world," he said of the fact that four decades later, the Stam ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 2:55PM
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By: Times-Dispatch
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has suspended a yearlong investigation into possible gender discrimination in college admissions. The probe of 19 schools includes the University of Richmond and Virginia Union University. ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 2:45PM
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By: Trial Lawyer Richard .
The GOP's War On Education has been totally exposed. In Florida the GOP is moving quickly to terminate a popular college tuition program that costs taxpayers nothing. Here in Florida the GOP has veto proof majorities i ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 2:36PM
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