By Sholnn Z. Freeman The Howard University Center for Journalism & Democracy has announced the inauguration of the Center for Journalism & Democracy Visiting Professorship Program. The visiting professorship is meant to attract working journalists at the top of their fields in investigative journalism and data journalism. Selected journalists will be in residence at the Center for Journalism
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By Jasalyn K. Lucas The Coahoma Community College Student Government Association (SGA) recently attended the National Association of Student Affairs Professional Student Leadership Institute (NASAP). The conference, which took place in Savannah, Georgia, from May 31 through June 5, welcomed Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) student leadership groups from across the nation. NASAP is
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Courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana has, since its establishment nearly 100 years ago, been driven by the need to make higher education more accessible to people, particularly Black and brown students, who otherwise may not have gotten the opportunity to go to college. That is the vision of educational equity
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Courtesy of Gadsen State Community Collge Students in Cherokee County and the surrounding area will have more academic courses to choose from at Gadsden State Cherokee in Centre. “It is important that we increase accessibility to academic courses to the students in our area,” said Leslie Burton, facilities director at Gadsden State Cherokee. “We want
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Courtesy of Southern University Shreveport Lousiana Southern University at Shreveport’s (SUSLA) Aerospace Technology Center recently received a $10,000 grant for state-of-the-art computers for training aircraft technology students. PSA Airlines representatives presented the gift on April 14, 2023, at the Aerospace Technology Center. The representatives also took time to connect directly with students and instructors and
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Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University will host ninth graders from the Douglass High School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Academy for the Google Career Community Scholars Academy as part of the university’s Professional Learning and Continuing Education (PLACE) initiative on June 20 – 23. The 4-day academy will give the students
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Courtesy of University of Maryland Eastern Shore University of Maryland Eastern Shore president Heidi M. Anderson was recently recognized by the Maryland Daily Record in its Power List profile featuring members of higher education throughout the state. As part of the honor, Dr. Anderson was one of three HBCU representatives in Maryland interviewed for the publication centering
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Courtesy of Miles College HBCU 20×20, a national nonprofit that connects the HBCU and Black community to career resources, has partnered with Amgen to host the second cohort of the Amgen Operations Biotech Fellowship program. Over the course of 12 weeks, the fellows will participate in professional development programming, be paired with professionals at Amgen
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Sixteen Elizabeth City State University students have been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and will travel abroad in 2023. Scholarship funding totals $70,000 for students traveling throughout the 2022-2023 academic year. The Gilman Scholarship is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and was designed to offer
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By Emmanuel Freeman Two Tennessee State University graduate students have been selected for the Tennessee Hospital Association’s (THA) Agenda 21 Internship Program. J’la Jenkins, and Bege Mallam, both public health majors, were among 12 students from schools across the country who participated in a 12-week, paid supervised learning experience for qualified graduate students in healthcare administration
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