By Quintessa Williams TheĀ U.S. Department of EnergyĀ (DOE) awarded seven competitive financial assistance grant awards to the minority-serving institutions (MSI) shown below, as a result of its Office of Environmental Management (EM) Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP)Ā Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002820. The awards
By Jahaura Michelle The Black Music Action Coalition has teamed with the Commercial Music Initiative atĀ Tennessee State University, Music Makes Us and the Recording Industry Association of America for the third consecutive year to launch the Maymester Music Business Accelerator. This initiative
By Sholnn Z. Freeman Howard University will featureĀ “Breathing While Black: A Town Hall and Screening on Environmental Justice”Ā as part of its Earth Day activities.Ā Attendees will be treated to a special screening of the new environmental justice documentary, “Underwater Projects.” The town hall
By Jane Nam As the class of 2024 enters the workforce, college students are speaking out about what they want and expect in a job. BestColleges surveyed 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 3 in 4 (76%) say work-life
By Chauncey Alcorn Hundreds of Atlanta University Center studentsĀ cheered with excitement when Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on stage inside the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in September. Seeing the Howard University graduate and first Black woman to
By Brooke Brinson Two Howard University students āĀ JadaĀ IngletonĀ andĀ JasperĀ SmithĀ ā have been named as fellows of the 2024 HBCU Media Collective, a program led by Dow Jones and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Ingleton and Smith are joining six other HBCU students
By Kyra Alessandrini Lincoln UniversityĀ announced that Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, will be the keynote speaker at the HBCUās 2024 Commencement Ceremony. This year will mark the institutionās 165th Commencement Ceremony. The event will take
By Jessica Washington It seemed like things couldnāt get any more shocking afterĀ Tennessee Republicans kicked two Black State Representatives out of the State Legislature last year. But the latest move affecting Tennesseeās only publicly-funded, Historically Black University still managed to send shock
By Quintessa Williams The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG)Ā voted Tuesday to approveĀ tuition rates for the 2024-25 academic year at USGās 26 public colleges and universities. Systemwide, in-state undergraduate tuition will increase by 2.5%, and out-of-state tuition will
By Andrew Skerritt Florida A&M University (FAMU) hosted a three-day Annual Technical Meeting of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) along with the Minority Serving Institution Partnership (MSIPP) and Tribal Education Partnership Program (TEPP). Themed, āEmpowering the Future Workforce,ā the meeting was
