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Jackson State business students advance to national Deloitte FanTAXtic Tax Case Competition

By Jackson State University A team of Jackson State University (JSU) College of Business students were recently named as one of nine regional winners of Deloitte FanTAXtic Tax Case competition. The students,Ā Camryn Gaines, Jayla Manor, Jessica TateĀ andĀ Ashanti Campbell, competed virtually with nearly 200 other students and faculty, representing more than 40 colleges and universities. ā€œI am proud to bear witness to the success of these four phenomenal JSU scholars who rose to the regional challenge,ā€Ā Sharon Simmons, Ph.D., associate professor of entrepreneurshipĀ said. ā€œThe schools that advance to the national FanTAXtic competition are considered to be the nationā€™s top accounting and tax

FAMU SOAHS Announces $1.5M Partnership with HCA Healthcare

By Florida A&M University, Donation will include scholarships and internships to strengthen pathways to management careers for students in the School of Allied Health Sciences. HCA Healthcare, Inc.Ā (NYSE:HCA), one of the nationā€™s leading health care providers, announced Thursday, December 2, that it will donate $1.5 million to Florida A&M Universityā€™s (FAMU) School of Allied Health Sciences to strengthen studentsā€™ pathways from undergraduate to graduate to management careers in the health care industry. The partnership is part of HCA Healthcareā€™s broader commitment announced earlier this year to give $10 million over the next three years to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Protests held at Boise State after professor says at conference that men, not women, should be recruited into fields like medicine and law

By Jenn Selva and Amy Simonson, Hundreds of protestors demonstrated at Boise State University in Idaho over the weekend following comments made at a conference by a professor who said men should be prioritized for fields of study such asĀ engineering, medicine and law. BSU political science professor Scott YenorĀ made disparaging remarksĀ about women and spoke critically ofĀ feminismĀ at theĀ National Conservatism ConferenceĀ in Orlando, Florida, on October 31 in a speech titled “The Family Form that Nations Need.” “Every effort made must be made not toĀ recruit womenĀ into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers,” Yenor said. “Ditto for

Covid-19 Omicron Variant Poses ‘Great Concern,’ TSU Public Health Expert Says

By Lucas Freeman A Tennessee State University public health expert calls the COVID-19 omicron variant ā€œone of great concern,ā€ and is applauding the U.S. governmentā€™s quick response in imposing travel restrictions on people coming in from southern African, where the variant was first detected. The Biden administration is going even further by requiring all Americans entering the U.S. to be tested. Dr. Wendelyn Inman, an infectious disease expert and professor and director of the public health program in the College of Health Sciences, says she does not see the need for a shutdown or lockdown, but calls the measures ā€œanother

Del State Expands its Physical Presence in Dover & Wilmington

Courtesy of Delaware State University Within the course of the last few months, Delaware State University has expanded its reach and footprint with the historic acquisition of Wesley College near Downtown Dover and a donation gift of the Capital One Building in Wilmington.Ā These additions add to the already existing main Del State Campus; the Barros Building and the Schwartz Center for the Arts in Downtown Dover; theĀ DSU@WilmingtonĀ and Georgetown locations in New Castle County and Sussex County, respectively; as well as two farm properties near Cheswold andĀ Smyrna. One of the first orders of business after the acquisition was to move most

Associate Professor Douglas A. Jackson Selected to Serve on NC Humanities Board of Trustees

By Elizabeth City State University Music and Visual Arts Associate Professor, Douglas A. Jackson, is helping North Carolina enhance and deepen its cultural life and human connections. Jackson will serve as a representative and advocate for ECSU and eastern North Carolina as a new member of the North Carolina Humanities 2021-2022 Board of Trustees. He is volunteering his time and expertise to the statewide nonprofit organization to help promote and grow its signature programs, grants, and partnerships. ā€œAs a teacher my job is literacy, and I enjoy participating in the humanities because of the connection to arts and education,ā€ said

Assistant Professor Farhana Ferdous Awarded HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovation in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship

Written By the Howard University Newsroom, Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous was recently awarded theĀ HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching FellowshipĀ for her course, “Health and Design in Segregated Landscape.” The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. The “Health and Design in Segregated Landscape” course provides students with a framework to assess different urban and built environments from health and wellbeing viewpoints. ā€œI am extremely honored to receive this prestigious pedagogy

Grambling State University Becomes First HBCU to Partner with Skilltype

Courtesy of Grambling State University The Grambling State University Digital Library and Learning Commons has partnered with Skilltype to modernize talent and organizational development at the 120-year old institution. Launched in 2020 in response to the shift to remote work and online conferences, Skilltype enables personalized professional development for Gramblingā€™s employees while producing real-time talent insights for administrators across the organization. Grambling Stateā€™s Digital Library and Learning Commons is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to adopt Skilltype for talent management. The Skilltype partnership is a part of a broader institutional investment into digitizing all campus operations. In

Howard University Student Tamia Thompson Awarded White House Presidential Service Award

Written by Guest Contributor: Aisiriuwa Archield Howard University College of Arts and Sciences sophomoreĀ Tamia ThompsonĀ has been awarded the 2021 White House Presidential Service Award. This award honors Thompson for contributing 176.98 service hours to several nonprofit organizations, including Whatsoever Is Good, Inc. and the Zero Debt College Project. Thompson provides one-on-one mentoring, scholarship essay writing assistance and scholarship strategy advice to 10-year-old through college-aged students. ā€œShe writes curriculum for the Whatsoever Is Good, Inc. weekly virtual activities and pitches in wherever necessary to ensure the programā€™s success,ā€ saidĀ Monique Thompson, Ph.D., founder of Whatsoever Is Good, Inc. and the Zero Debt

DSU students benefit from HBCU Partners Alliance internships

Courtesy of Delaware State University Newsroom A Delaware State University graduate and a current student have benefited from a new corporate partnership between the institution and Cognosante, a government contractor based in Falls Church, Va. that provides technology solutions to improve the health and safety ofĀ Americans. Summer Glover, a Management major from Hartly, Del., who graduated in May 2021, moved immediately into a 10-week Summer College Analyst Program with Cognosante as an intern in its Marketing and Communications Department. She performed so well in her short time, the company hired her to fill a full-timeĀ position. Nygia Williams, a senior Mass

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