ByĀ Danielle Miller Dillard University has welcomed a new director of alumni relations, Amanda Winfield Buford ā08. She has infectious, upbeat energy that elevates the atmosphere in any room. I stopped by to chat with my fellow Dillard alumna to learn more about
By N’dia Webb The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center hosted The Mandela Washington Fellowship: Alumni Enrichment Institute in the ballroom of the Armour J. Blackburn Center on July 20. The event, which had over 100 people in attendance, featured guest speakers,
By Keisha Williams Deanne Cranford-Wesley, Ph.D., director of the CyberSecurity Lab in North Carolina Central Universityās School of Business, has received the 2022 Outstanding CAE Community of Practice in Cyber Defense (CAE COP-CD) Service RecognitionĀ Award from the National Centers of Academic Excellence.
By Cathy Hayden Hinds Community Collegeās Utica Campus has been awarded five Upward Bound program grants for $7.5 million, approximately $297,000.00 each for five 5 years, by the U.S. Department of Education. The Utica Campus is a designated HBCU, Historically Black Colleges
ByĀ Curtis Bunn At Florida Memorial University, a small historically Black university in Miami Gardens, Tremaine Johnson is training to become one of the countryās few Black pilots. Less than 2% of commercial airline pilots are Black, according toĀ one report,Ā making Johnsonās decision to
Ā By Philander Smith College Philander Smith College (PSC) is pleased to announce its participation in the U.S. Department of Education’s Second Chance Pell Experiment, an initiative first launched by the Obama-Biden Administration to expand access to Federal Pell Grants for incarcerated individuals
Courtesy of Saint Augustine’s University Saint Augustineās University (SAU) hosted its inaugural Legacy Building Summit to explore ways the university and its students can build on its history of addressing health disparities and launching new programs in their community. The summit is
By Jackie Torok Nine North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students are among 36 chosen from nine of North Carolinaās historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) selected to participate in theĀ North Carolina Governorās HBCU Internship ProgramĀ this summer. The summer internships are
By Kenneth Mullinax A senior marketing major at the University’s Percy J. Vaughn Jr. College of Business Administration just finished a summer internship at Cisco, a worldwide leader in tech software at the companyās headquarters in San Jose, Calif. “Working at Cisco
By Wil Hehemann Socially-disadvantaged farmers in Arkansas benefit from a decades-old partnership between the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), says Charley Williams, a UAPB alumnus and veteran NRCS soil
