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Conference: Troubled Youth Need New Intervention Strategies

Issues facing troubled youth have become so severe that new and bold paradigms are needed to address them, presenters at Jackson State University’s Mississippi Child Welfare Institute conference told social work practitioners last week.

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Southern Louisiana University Receives $4.9M in TRIO Program Grants

Educational Talent Search programs for Tangipahoa and Washington parishes were awarded $3.04 million to cover operations through August 2016; the Educational Opportunity Center at SLU received a $1.87 million grant through 2016.

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FAMU President James Ammons Rebuked by School Trustees

In the latest of a series of moves days before the school’s winter break, a sharply divided Florida A & M University (FAMU) board of trustees has “agreed to publicly reprimand” FAMU President James Ammons over his “response” to the recent death of a school band drum major after a suspected hazing incident.

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Former Marshall University Player Recounts Impact of Plane Crash Tragedy in New Book

When Craig Greenlee went home from Marshall University to Jacksonville, Fla., for Thanksgiving break in 1970, some people thought they had seen a ghost. The hometown folks knew he had gone to MU to play football, so they assumed that he was on the plane that crashed barely two weeks before, killing 75 people, including 37 of his former teammates.

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Accreditation Decision Deals Fisk University New Setback

Fisk University, struggling financially, lost more ground Tuesday when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed Fisk on probation, a signal the agency is still worried about the school’s viability.

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Hampton University’s Proton Therapy Institute Uses Cutting-edge Cancer Therapy

The two-story, 98,000-square-foot facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and a professional staff of oncologists, nuclear physicists and engineers—some distinguished veterans and some ambitious rookies.

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FAMU Student Government Association Plans Forum and Vote on a Campus Pledge To Ban Hazing From Student Organizations

Clubs and organizations failing to have representation at the forum will be sanctioned, according to SGA President Breyon Love.

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Commentary: Reframing the FAMU Tragedy

It’s been disappointing how Florida A&M University and the national news media have handled the death of FAMU marching band member Robert Champion, a Washington-based communications expert and strategist writes.

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FAMU Dismisses 4 Students Connected to Band Member’s Death

Florida A&M University said that it’s dismissing four students for their role in the death of a marching band member last month.

Inspire Scholarships Help Boost Delaware State’s In-State Enrollment

This school year, Delaware State’s in-state freshman student enrollment is up 43 percent to 433 from 302, the first significant enrollment turnaround in six years, school officials say.

Southern University System’s Online Program To Expand

Southern System President Ronald Mason Jr. said the project — gotosouthernuniversityonline.com — will help Southern attract more out-of-state and older, nontraditional students.

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Fisk University Gets Green Light to Sell Half Ownership of the Stieglitz Collection

It could be as much as a year before any of the money is seen, as the appeals court sent Fisk’s latest plan for the sale back to a trial court in Nashville with orders to provide a long-term plan to maintain and care for the collection.

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