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COVID-19 Safety Week to extend until Sept. 8
Due to popular demand among students and tremendous participation, President M. Christopher Brown II is extending Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ COVID-19 Safety Week activities starting Wednesday, Sept. 2 to Tuesday, Sept. 8. To keep Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ as safe as possible, every single one of us must be wholly committed to the effort to limit the spread of the virus. We must look after one another and make choices that serve the public goo...
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ to resume in-person learning
Due to the overwhelming success of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s COVID-19 Safety Week, in-person learning will resume on campus beginning Aug. 31. Students met the moment, with nearly 600 students volunteering for COVID-19 testing during Thorobred Tuesday, doing their part to stop the spread. The remaining students and campus employees had access to voluntary testing during Thorobred Thursday. The campus community came together for...
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ joined in celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Morrill Act of 1890
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ joined other campuses of the nation’s 1890 land-grant universities in celebrating the Morrill Act of 1890. The Morrill Act of 1890 established a land-grant university system of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in states where African Americans were banned from accessing a public higher education. According to a news release from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APL...
Atwood Talks series at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ to begin Aug. 31
The first event in the Atwood Talks series is scheduled for Aug. 31 at 1:30 p.m. Atwood Talks, fashioned after the popular Ted Talks, will feature nationally renowned speakers from around the nation who will address a litany of COVID-19 pandemic related topics in an exciting and high-impact format. Dr. Howard Henderson, founding director of the Center for Justice Research and professor of justice administration at Texas Southern U...