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News Roundup

President Trump Appoints College Presidents to Board of Advisors on HBCUs

The White House has announced the appointments of several college presidents and business leaders to be members of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Among the appointees is Bennett College president Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins. “I am honored to represent Bennett College by serving on the HBCU Advisory Board […]

September 26, 2018

HBCUs

National Park Service Awards $8.6M to HBCUs for Preservation Projects

The National Park Service (NPS) recently awarded grants to 18 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) totaling $8.6 million for projects to preserve historic structures on the institutions’ campuses.

September 10, 2018

HBCUs

Court Ruling Bad News for Struggling Morris Brown

Financially struggling Morris Brown College this month was dealt another blow when the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that a land sale rooted in property sold by Morris Brown was illegal.

April 22, 2018

African-American

Pioneering Historian Mines Black Women’s History

As a young professor at Purdue University in the early 1970s, Dr. Darlene Clark Hine was confronted with a challenge that would ultimately change her career trajectory and position her as one of the nation’s most prominent historians.

March 6, 2018

Leadership & Policy

Cynthia Warrick Becomes Permanent Stillman College President

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Stillman College board of trustees has selected interim president Cynthia Warrick as permanent president of the private college in Alabama. The Tuscaloosa News reports that Warrick, who succeeded Peter Millet in January, becomes the seventh president of the institution at a time when the college faces financial challenges. Warrick had been […]

April 25, 2017

Students

Venerable Basketball Coach, Mentor Ben Jobe Dies

Ben Jobe, the college basketball coach who won more than 500 games in more than five decades of coaching around the nation, died Friday night in Montgomery, Alabama, the city to which he moved after retiring in 2003.

March 12, 2017

Students

Enrollment Growing Slowly at South Carolina State University

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Enrollment is rising slowly at South Carolina State University as the Orangeburg school recovers from financial problems. School President James Clark told state lawmakers Tuesday the spring enrollment is 2,634. That’s up from 2,610 students last year at the state’s only public historically Black school. Enrollment usually drops in the spring as […]

February 1, 2017

African-American

South Carolina State Names James E. Clark President

South Carolina State University looked within its ranks and named Board of Trustees member James E. Clark the 12th president of the historically Black institution on Wednesday.

June 29, 2016

Students

South Carolina State University Off Accreditation Probation

South Carolina State won a significant vote of confidence Thursday when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges removed the institution from probation, ending nearly a decade of troubles with the college peer accrediting group.

June 16, 2016

Students

Magic Johnson Helping S.C. State Raise $2.5M

ORANGEBURG, S.C. ― NBA great Earvin “Magic” Johnson will work with South Carolina State University to raise $2.5 million for scholarships that bear his name. The university announced in a release Monday that the Earvin “Magic” Johnson Endowed Scholarship Fund will help students seeking business degrees at the state-supported, historically Black university in Orangeburg. Johnson […]

June 7, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Former South Carolina State President to be Paid Lost Wages

Former South Carolina State University President Thomas Elzey will receive $312,000 from the university, according to a statement released by current board Chairman Charles S. Way Jr.

August 27, 2015

African-American

South Carolina State’s Probation Extended

Commission cited fewer shortcomings than it did a year ago when it first placed the institution at the edge of losing accreditation.

June 11, 2015