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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Has ‘Private’ Meeting With Florida HBCU And Community Leaders
FAMU Alumni Mic-Lo Releases Song Dedicated To School
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with leaders of several historically black colleges and universi- ties in Florida on Wednes- day.
The roundtable event was not listed on DeVos' public schedule, which did not in- clude any events for Wednesday. Her office told the Miami Herald the event was deemed "private."
According to the readout of the event, which was re- leased Wednesday afternoon following the event, those in- vited included a board mem- ber at Bethune-Cookman University, numerous offi- cials at Florida A&M Univer- sity, as well as a number of African-American church leaders and Rep. Al Law- son, D-Fla.
Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education met with leaders from FAMU and BCU and other political and community leaders in Florida.
The event was held at the Bethel Family Life Center in
Tallahassee, Fla., Rev. R. B. Holmes, pastor. DeVos' spokesperson did not con- firm to the Miami Herald who attended the round- table.
According to the release, the event consisted of two 45-minute sessions, the first titled "Saving, Sustaining and Strengthening Public Education and Schools of Choice" and the second ti- tled "Saving, Sustaining and Strengthening HBCUs and Higher Education."
On Tuesday, DeVos vis- ited a private school and a public charter school in Tal- lahassee.
In May, DeVos was no- tably "booed" while deliver- ing the commencement at Bethune-Cookman Univer- sity.
After graduating from a historically black college or university, it is very easy to miss the campus, living steps away from new lifelong friends, the entertaining events, and being in a purely progressive, youthful envi-
ronment.
One Florida Agricultural
and Mechanical University (FAMU) alum, Mic-Lo, reminisces on his college days, capturing his senti- ments in song “F.A.M.U.”
FAMU Rolls Over Texas Souther In Jake Gaither Classic
Univ. Of Arkansas Pine Bluff Receives $900,00 Grant From NCAA
Florida A&M Uni- versity beat Texas Southern University for the inaugural Jake Gaither Classic in Tal- lahassee, last Saturday. FAMU dominated Texas Southern from start to finish on national television, claiming a 29-7 win.
FAMU QB Ryan Stan- ley ran for a touchdown and threw for another score to help Florida A&M win in the season opener for both teams.
Stanley was 19-of-32 passing for 217 yards, Ricky Henrilus had 81 yards rushing and Brandon Norwood added three re-
Brandon Norwood scores.
ceptions for 63 yards, in- cluding a 35-yard touch-
down catch, for Florida A&M.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is celebrating a feat never be- fore accomplished by its athletics program – the winning of a major grant from the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) that will vastly im- prove the level of academic support that it will be able to extend to its student-ath- letes.
The grant, known as the Accelerating Academic Suc- cess Program (AASP), is a comprehensive (multi-year) grant dispersed over a pe-
riod of three years.
UAPB is one of just three
schools nationally which saw its application for the award approved and one of just two athletics programs that were awarded the max- imum amount of $900,000.
Southern University, like UAPB, is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Con- ference (SWAC) and was also awarded a $900,000 AASP grant. Morgan State University, a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Con- ference, (MEAC) was awarded $887,700.
Tuskegee Athletics Donates Shirts To Hurricane Harvey Victims
The Tuskegee University men’s and women’s bas- ketball teams have joined college basketball coaches across the country to help support victims from the devastating floods of Hur- ricane Harvey in Texas.
After a massive hurri- cane ripped through the city of Houston and left
much of the area sub- merged underwater, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reports that University of Houston men’s basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson has a challenge for his coaching counter- parts: Donate 10 pairs of shoes and 20 shirts to the victims who lost every-
thing. Wednesday morn- ing the Tuskegee Athletics department accepted that challenge.
Tuskegee’s coach, Coach Dunn has also asked his players to do- nate a pair of sneakers while he has committed to donating two pairs of his own.
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