$25 Million National Program Supports Programming, Re-skilling, and Upskilling for Students of Color; Includes Partnerships with Major Employers and The Aspen Institute Baltimore, MD — Morgan State University and Bank of America today announced a new $1 million jobs initiative partnership to help students of color successfully complete the education
HOUSTON, TX –November 16, 2020 –The Center for Justice Research (CJR) atTexas Southern University received support from Chevron with a $50,000grant, aiding the Center’s research on equity-based criminal justicereform. Since the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery and Breonna Taylor, therole of police officers in
ITTA BENA, Miss.— Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) has named Donell D. Maxie as its new Director of Communications and Marketing.Maxie has over fifteen years of experience as a Staff Writer, photographer, and Editor with the now-closed, Bolivar Commercial Newspaper of Cleveland. For the past
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University doctoral student TyKera“Kera” Marrow has been selected to participate in Health Policy ResearchScholars, a leadership program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(RWJF). Marrow is the first student from a Mississippi institution to be selectedfor the program. She joins the
NASA C ommunity College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) wants to connect with two-year degree seeking community college students to inspire them to become the next generation of the STEM workforce. NCAS gives community college students an opportunity to learn from experts about NASA’s missions and current research in
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University’s fall 2020 enrollment sees only a slight decline since fall 2019. The university’s current preliminary enrollment is 6,921, or a 1.6 percent decline, and represents a difference of 99 students from last year’s preliminary figure of 7,020. Higher education
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University announced today that it’s oneof 19 universities to join a three-year institutional change effort todevelop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention practices inSTEM. It’s co-partnering with Association of Public and Land-grantUniversities (APLU) in an effort known as Aspire: The
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Seeking greater inclusion and diversity in themilitary, U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy convened Wednesday at JSU withleaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and otherinfluencers during a daylong forum and presented a $2.8 million check tobe divided among 26 HBCUs. In May,
(JACKSON, Miss.) — The W.E.B. Du Bois-Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey HonorsCollege is observing its 40th Anniversary at Jackson State University.Founded in 1980, the honors college has a long history of preparingstudents for success. “What started at a dining room table with ideas and recruiting brochuresfrom
HAMPTON, Va. (September 16, 2020) – The Hampton University Museum and Archives has been awarded a $249,898 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to conserve and digitize twelve Letter Books that belonged to the founder of Hampton University, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong.
