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Jackson State Wins International Competition
Brett Farve Wanted Welfare
Money To Recruit Jackson
State QB Sheduer Sanders
Brett Favre lobbied for funding for University of Southern Mississippi athletic programs to help recruit cur- rent Jackson State quarter- back Sheduer Sanders to the school, according to pub- lished reports.
In addition to asking then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant to allocate $5 mil- lion in Temporary Assistance for Needy Family dollars to- ward a volleyball court, Favre also pushed for an ad- ditional $1.5 million to build an indoor football facility that could attract Sanders, the son of Jackson State Uni- versity head coach Deion Sanders, Front Office Sports reported.
“I picked up Deion Sanders and his son who is going to be a junior in high
Deion Sanders (center) and his sons, star quarterback, Sheduer (l) and star safety, Shilo.
The Division of University Communications at Jackson State University (JSU) is the recipient of four 2022 dot- COMM Awards, an interna- tional competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication. The competition spotlights the role of creatives in the dy- namic, constantly evolving web.
JSU received a Platinum Award, the competition’s top honor, for the 2021 JSU Day of Giving video in the event category; a Gold Award in the inspirational category for the “JSU Strong” video; a
Gold Award in the event cate- gory for the “Virtual High School Day” video; and an honorable mention for “Play ‘The Show’” video in the en- tertainment category.
“This recognition is special to us because submissions for this competition come from all around the world – more than 130 countries,” said Spencer McClenty, di- rector of communications and digital media. “The fact that we won a Platinum award shows that we have one of the top digital commu- nications teams in the indus- try.”
school and plays QB,” Favre wrote in a text to Bryant in 2019. “He has at least 30 of- fers thus far including us. Deion and I have been great friends since 91’ and have great respect for each other.
Sanders, who was a four-star quarterback at
Trinity Christian High School where his father served as the offensive coor- dinator, had previously com- mitted to Florida Atlantic before signing with Jackson State University after Deion Sanders was named coach in 2020.
FAMU Students Sue State’s
Morgan State Team Wins Zillow’s
Funding And Discrimination
HBCU Housing Hackathon
Tallahassee, FL
(AP) — A group of
Florida A&M Uni-
versity students
sued the state’s uni-
versity system last Thursday claiming
the historically
Black university is underfunded and
subject of discrimi-
natory practices compared to other state institutions.
The federal lawsuit filed in Tallahassee’s U. S. District Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Florida, claims the state is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by engag- ing “in a pattern and practice of intentional discrimination ... by maintaining a segregated system of higher education.”
The lawsuit said the state takes years longer to complete infrastructure improvements at FAMU than at non-histori- cally Black schools, duplicates programs at nearby Florida State University that discour- age attendance at FAMU, doesn’t provide enough re- sources for student recruit- ment and retention and doesn’t do enough to recruit and retain a diverse faculty and staff.
FAMU said it is not in- volved in the lawsuit and de- clined to comment on the
This
Zillow HBCU Housing Hackathon winner is Morgan State University. The annual contest brought together 65 teams with only six of them moving on to compete in the final round.
This is Zillow’s second Hackathon, with over 200 HBCU students competing to develop innovative methods to assist renters and first- time home buyers. Hoping to receive cash prizes, student teams displayed their cre- ations for Zillow and tech-in- dustry leaders.
In collaboration with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Amplify 4 Good, three teams were se- lected to take home prizes for their impactful housing solu- tions through technology. Each judge felt the selected teams could elevate Zillow’s mission to help buyers over- come hurdles on the path to becoming homeowners.
After participating in the competition with her peers, Nanfwang Dawurang, a member of ZillowBears and a senior computer science stu-
year’s
University System Over
Morgan State winners: Saad Nadeem, Nanfwang Dawu- rang, Oluwadeara Dina and Godsheritage Adeoye.
case. The Board of Governors for the State University Sys- tem of Florida, a named de- fendant, also declined to comment on pending litiga- tion.
The lawsuit names six FAMU students as plaintiffs and Florida’s higher educa- tion system, including Chan- cellor Marshall Criser III, as defendants.
FayeRachel Peterson, a graduate student in chem- istry, said she was motivated to file the lawsuit after realiz- ing early last month that she was paid really poorly as a re- search assistant at FAMU while her friend at Florida State University doesn’t have to worry about working while studying for a master’s de- gree. Peterson said she be- lieves her graduate stipend is so low because FAMU isn’t re- ceiving the same amount of funding as the other Florida public universities.
dent at Morgan State Univer- sity, told PRN she now be- lieves progress can always be made when people band to- gether.
“I wanted to participate in the hackathon to learn more about the real estate in- dustry and explore on a deeper level how technology can help solve the most prominent issues people face every day when trying to se- cure a home,” Dawurang said.
Dawurang, Oluwa-
dara Dina, Saad Nadeem and Godsheritage Adeoye were the members of the first place team for their inven- tion, the “Z-Save” applica- tion.
According to PRN, the application was curated to highlight disproportionate mortgage denial rates for Black and Latinx borrowers. With the application, buyers can work on building a con- sistent payment history and can receive a “Z-score” as a means of credit.
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