Historically Black Colleges & Universities

October 13, 2015 Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Campus.

WSSU Rehabilitation Counseling Gets $1M Grant to Address Industry Shortage

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Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) researchers have received a five-year $1 million U.S. Department of Education grant to reduce a shortage of rehabilitation counseling professionals. WSSU’s Department of Rehabilitation Counseling received the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services grant to address the shortage in professionals in rehabilitation, as well as the specific shortage of rehabilitation […]

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Five Approaches to Increasing HBCU Sustainability

Five Approaches to Increasing HBCU Sustainability

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A recent Moody’s Investor Services report predicts that the closure rates of small colleges and universities will triple in the coming years—and mergers will double. Moody’s defines small colleges and universities as private colleges with operating revenue below $100 million and public colleges below $200 million. This means as many as 15 institutions a year

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NCAT School of Education Ranked Among Top 5 in State

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The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) ranked the School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University No. 4 in North Carolina as a “Best Value” college of education. The national, non-partisan research and policy organization on education ranked N.C. A&T No. 5 for the graduate program in secondary education. Colleges of education listed

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Kentucky State University students enjoy a meal together in the campus cafeteria.

Kentucky State University’s Retention Rate Climbs 38 Percent

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A study from Kentucky State University’s Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness has revealed a 38 percent increase in the University’s retention. The recently published 2014-2015 retention rate of 60.2 percent is KSU’s highest in 10 years. Retention rate is calculated as percent of first-time, full-time bachelor degree-seeking (Cohort) students who enrolled in previous fall

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Matt Sheptoski, faculty adviser of GSU’s Psychology and Sociology Club, and Jack Chandler, the club’s president, deliver 225 books to Louisiana Prison.

Grambling Issues HBCU Challenge to Collect Books for Prison Libraries

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Seeing a small prison library with a shortage of books during a tour of a correctional facility last year inspired Grambling State University’s Psychology and Sociology Club members to organize a book drive last spring that raised 225 books for the inmates at Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, LA. “We are trying to provide prisoners

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Tougaloo Professor Named Humanities Teacher of the Year

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October is National Arts and Humanities Month, proclaimed annually by the President and the Governor. The Mississippi Humanities Council will celebrate the occasion by presenting Humanities Teacher Awards to one humanities faculty member at each institution of higher learning in the state. Tougaloo College is proud to announce the selection of its 2015 Mississippi Humanities

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