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Two HBCUs eye region for satellite campus
Northern Virginia economic development officials are working with Virginia’s two public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to establish a joint satellite campus in the region that officials say would
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Counting on change
Accounting industry works to diversify talent pipeline
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Royce Burnett remembers how challenging it felt in 1981 as a freshly graduated audit associate starting work at a Big Eight accounting firm in Texas. Of about 250 new employees
White House taps Va. HBCU presidents for advisory board
VSU and NSU leaders among board appointees
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The presidents of Virginia State University and Norfolk State University are on the list of intended appointees to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the
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STEM-ming the tide
VSU researchers aim to grow STEM students, graduates
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Mariah Simmons arrived at Virginia State University in 2016 with a dream of becoming the first computer scientist in her family. The week before school started, she enrolled in an
Two Va. projects are finalists for $100M U.S. EDA grants
Proposals are two of 60
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Two Virginia projects — one to make Central Virginia an advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing hub and one to support the transportation and logistics cluster in Southern and Southwest Virginia — are
Va. allocates $116M CARES funding for higher ed
Funding to be used for distance learning, PPE, testing
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As public universities and medical centers have depleted previously allocated federal dollars, Gov. Ralph Northam is directing more than $116 million in federal CARES Act funding to higher education institutions
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MAKOLA M. ABDULLAH PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY, PETERSBURG One of the state’s two land-grant universities, Virginia State was originally chartered in 1882 as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. From
Four Virginia HBCUs to receive support from Dominion
Universities among 11 institutions receiving $25 million "HBCU Promise" funding from utility
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Hampton University, Norfolk State University, Virginia State University and Virginia Union University are among 11 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that will share $25 million in support from Dominion