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Media production students gain experience in recording studio.

Disney Scholarship: Apply for Careers in Entertainment

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The Walt Disney Company recently announced its partnership with United Negro College Fund (UNCF) through a $1 million commitment to provide scholarships to outstanding African American students and give them the required tools to realize their professional goals. This Disney scholarship program administered by UNCF will offer financial aid to high achieving African American students

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(Left to Right) Dejanay White, Miss UNCF; Omari Peterson, National Program Manager of Operation HOPE's Banking On Our Future College Edition; Keshari Millings, EWC Homecoming Queen; Ryan Andrews, Mr. Senior

EWC Announces Major Financial Services, Literacy Initiative

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Edward Waters College (EWC) will partner with Operation HOPE to launch the Banking On Our Future College Edition (BOOF CE). This program equips college students with tools to understand the language of money, cultivate a spirit of giving, and live a dignified life as they define. Mr. Omari Peterson, the National Program Manager of Operation

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AUC students compete in Hackathon at Hypepotamus in Atlanta, GA.

HBCUHacks Tour Comes to Grambling State University

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On March 20-22, Black Founders will bring their HBCUHacks program to Grambling State University. HBCUHacks is a series of weekend hackathons that introduce students at historically black colleges and universities to technology careers and entrepreneurship. Black Founders has made Grambling State University the next stop on their HBCUHacks hackathon tour. Black Founders’ HBCUHacks program visits

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Oakwood University students and faculty celebrate winning one of the 2014 Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grants.

Retool Your School: Help Your HBCU Win Campus Upgrades

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The Home Depot – world’s biggest home improvement retailer recently announced that applications are now being accepted for its Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program 2015. Established in 2010, the program aims to help historically black colleges and universities across the country make enduring, eco-friendly, sustaining improvements to their campus and facilities by proving

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Wilberforce University circa 1885.

The First Black Owned and Operated HBCU

HBCU Colleges, About HBCUs /

Founded in 1856, Wilberforce University was established near Xenia, Ohio as a joint venture between the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Named after the 18th century abolitionist William Wilberforce, it was the first black owned and operated historically black university in the United States. Built to support the abolitionist cause

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FindTheBest.com Wrongly Added to "Dangerous" List, A&M Extended Apology

FindTheBest.com Wrongly Added AAMU to “Dangerous” List

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Alabama A&M University is NOT the second most dangerous campus in the nation. In response to the University’s questions regarding the rankings and the methodology of the study on crime statistics, FINDTHEBEST.com acknowledged their error and thanked the University for reaching out. In their communication to the University, FINDTHEBEST.com indicated, “We’ve identified an error in

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