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HBCU students work on tech concepts during Hackathon lead by the Black Founders.

HBCU Hackathons: Black Founders Highlight Tech Industry

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Founded in 2011, Black Founders is an organization dedicated to promote diversity in the technology industry and is focused on increasing black tech entrepreneurship. By the means of hackathons entitled HBCUHacks, they provide African-American college students interested in technology, design, and engineering an opportunity to take their ideas to the next level. At Hackathons, students

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Dr. Ronald L. Carter, president of Johnson C. Smith University poses with a Bank of America grant representatives in front of the Dr. George E. Davis House.

Johnson C Smith Awarded a $500k Bank of America Grant

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support student-centered initiatives at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). The Bank of America grant will fund the university’s Career-to-Career Program, as well as help fund the renovation of the historic Dr. George E. Davis House. Each year nearly 85 percent of the entering

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Charlie Nelms after graduating from his alma mater Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (AM&N).

Why I Still Love My Alma Mater 45 Years Later

HBCU Colleges /

Forty-five years ago my college classmates and I became the largest class to ever graduate from Arkansas Agricultural Mechanical and Normal College, now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB). Like countless numbers of UAPB graduates before us, we have had successful careers in education, social services, government, business and Industry and the military,

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College Rankings 2015: Top 25 HBCUs from US News and World Report.

HBCU Rankings 2015: The Top 25 List from US News

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U.S. News has recently announced its annual rankings of nation’s best colleges and universities. Like always, among other ranking list, the magazine has included a list of best Historically Black Colleges and Universities. To qualify for the U.S. News HBCU rankings 2015, an HBCU must be an undergraduate baccalaureate-granting institution that primarily gives admission to

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Stacey Franklin Jones has been elected Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University. She will assume her new duties October 1, 2014.

Stacey Franklin Jones Elected Chancellor of ECSU

HBCU Colleges /

Stacey Franklin Jones, a management and technology partnerships consultant with extensive higher education leadership experience, has been elected Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Tom Ross placed Jones’ name in nomination on September 4th, 2014 during a special meeting of the

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High school students speak to U-CAN's founder Alan Rowe at the 15th Annual U-CAN HBCU College Recruitment Fair.

U-CAN Launches 10 City HBCU Recruiting Tour on West Coast

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Thousands of students from Sacramento, the East Bay and San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley and the Inland Empire will gather at churches schools, and community centers, to explore the possibilities of attending college at one of the United College Action Network’s (U-CAN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) partners. High school students will

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