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Published April 25, 2008
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Southern University took a raw young man from Ville Platte and "turned him into who you see standing before you today," Kerney Laday Sr., the head of a business consulting firm, told Southern's Founders' Day audience today in the school's Felton G. Clark Activity Center. . |
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Southern University, Shreveport continued system-wide emphasis on drawing, keeping and conferring during its annual Founder's Day Celebration March 11, 2008. The Southern University System common theme for 2008 was "Southern University: Sustaining Its Commitment to Recruit, Retain and Graduate. |
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The Southwest
Center for Rural Initiatives in partnership with Agromen
Inc., hosted a presentation entitled “The Deep Roots
of our Land-Based Heritage” Feb. 25 at the St. Landry
Parish Sheriff’s Office. Other sponsors were the St.
Landry Parish Retired Educators' Association and the
St. Landry Parish Southern University Alumni. |
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In an effort to bring technology
and information to underserved communities in Louisiana,
the Southern University Ag Center and the Center for
Rural and Small Business Development has set up several
computer labs like the one located in Disciple Baptist
Church in Ville Platte. |
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Southern University's Academic All-Star
team finished second in the recent New Orleans Invitational
Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) Pre-National
Championship Tournament. |
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Several Southern University College
of Business (COB) students and faculty adventured
abroad as participants in the college's first Study
Abroad Program. |
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Fans and supports of Southern’s basketball
glory have been allowed to relive the moments in March
when ESPN televised “Black Magic,” a four-hour documentary
of black college basketball. |
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Southern University, Baton Rouge
awarded some 40 scholarships in early April at its
first ‘College Night on the Bluff’ event attended
by more than 200 high school seniors and their parents.
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Ken Hardy, nationally recognized family
therapist appeared at one of the three-campus sites
of the first system-wide health fair Wednesday in
New Orleans. Hardy was the featured speaker for the
Southern University, New Orleans event at on the Lake
Campus at 6801 Press Drive. All health fairs, including
Shreveport and Baton Rouge, were free and open to
the public. . |
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Fifty Honors College freshmen received
laptops through the college's "Mobile Computing
Initiative," funded by a $1 million HBCU Title
III grant. Fifty thousand dollars of the $1 million
award was allocated for a pilot program, which provides
laptops for Honors College freshmen with a 3.3 or
more grade point average, 23/1060 ACT/SAT score, and
a demonstrated need. |
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Louisiana families and child care
workers were given ammunition to meet growing public
health challenges during the annual Southern University
Ag Center Public Health Conference held in early April.
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New author Terri Whitley's struggle
to become a success while battling bipolar disorder
is captured in her book "The Madness Within (The
Journey of a Future Doctor, An Autobiography). |
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Southern University alumni Avery and
Cassandra Johnson in January hosted a scholarship
endowment benefit at the Petroleum Club in Dallas,
Texas. The event, attended by friends, SU alumni,
and supporters, raised more than $250,000 for the
Johnsons' Southern University endowment. |
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The state office
of facilities planning and disaster recovery officials
are making progress toward the restoration of SUNO
more than two years after flood waters from Hurricane
Katrina put most of the campus under as much as 7
feet of water. |
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While many students spent their spring
break sleeping late or frolicking on beaches, 11 Southern
University students helped repair a New Orleans home
damaged by Hurricane Katrina. |
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Senior design students from Southern
University's Mechanical Engineering Department finished
in 8th place at the 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
hosted by NASA on April 4-5, 2008 in Huntsville, Ala.,
at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Twenty-three
teams from around the global were represented including
students from India, Canada, and Puerto Rico. |
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SANKOFA, an African-American Museum
on wheels, rolled on to the SU campus February 11.
The exhibit consisted of art, collectibles and memorabilia
relative to the contributions of African Americans
to the United States and the world. |
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ExxonMobil retiree Melvin Sanders
and his wife Sylvia Sanders made a recent contribution
of 25,000 for scholarships at Southern Unviersity. |
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Work to expand and upgrade A.W. Mumford
Stadium is underway. The 18-month project is part
of the $60 million SU System Foundation bond project
that when finished will include a north end zone enclosure
that will add about $2,500 seats to the stadium and
a new football complex. |
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A $100,000 donation from Texas Instruments
(TI) to the College of Engineering will support scholarships
and recruitment efforts for internship opportunities.
SU System President Ralph Slaughter thanked the company
for the ongoing support of Southern University during
a reception in their honor. |
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The 2007 LSU and SU Agricultural Centers’
Annual Conference took place at Louisiana State University,
December 17-18. The event provided opportunities for
faculty and professional staff to exchange ideas,
meet newcomers, honor colleagues, identify program
priorities and enhance working relationships. |
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The CELP is a pre-collegiate program designed to encourage 8th grade students at Sophie B. Wright to complete high school and attend college. As an incentive, Chancellor Victor Ukpolo announced that "students who comply with various requirements will be awarded a full tuition scholarship to SUNO." . |
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The Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business (AACSB) has reaffirmed accreditation
of SU’s College of Business for six additional years
through 2012-2013. |
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Southern University, Shreveport held
its 4th Annual Economic Development Forum Friday,
March 14, 2008, at the Shreveport Convention Center.
This year's theme, "Southern University at Shreveport:
Empowering, Embracing, and Enhancing Small Business
Development," focused on small business and non-profit
organizational development. The mission of the forum
is to network with local and state leaders from business,
industry and government to improve the economic welfare
of Shreveport and Louisiana through collaborations
with higher education. |
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The Southern' University Police Department
employs seven of the 22 students who recently graduated
from the Louisiana State Police Basic Academy. SU
Police Chief Michael Morris was the keynote speaker
for the March 20 graduation ceremony. |
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Southern University's Department of
Sociology is hosting an after-school and summer youth
program entitled Empowering Youth Choices: Southern
University's Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.
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Southern University, Shreveport celebrated
Black History Month during its annual Spring Convocation
January 30, 2008, at the Health and Physical Education
Complex. The convocation featured motivational speaker
Keith L. Brown. |
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The Southern University Center for
International Educational held its Fourth Annual Jazz
Brunch and Silent Auction, Saturday March 29, in the
Royal Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial
Student Union Building. |
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The SUNO's indoor track and field
season culminated with a successful trip to the NAIA
Indoor Championships in Johnson City, Tennessee. The
Knights placed 11th out of 44 teams from the United
States and Canada. |
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SU System President Ralph Slaughter
is listed among "Ebony Power 150" in the
may issue of Ebony magazine. Slaughter is listed with
an elite group of organization leaders and chief executive
officers of national groups. Slaughter is Imperial
Potentate, AEAONMS (Shriners). |
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Kendrick Coleman, assistant professor of
English at Southern University has written his first
book, Webs of Masculinity: Power, Money and Sex(uality).. |
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Kamran K. Abdollahi, Urban Forestry
chairman, has been elected to serve as a National
Accreditation Committee Member of the Society of American
Foresters (www.safnet.org) responsible for granting
accreditation to all forestry and natural resources
educational programs in the United States. |
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Shayla Price, a Southern University
student who gained national attention after raising
more than $100,000 in scholarships from the Internet,
has been named the new national spokesperson for Progressive
U, a student-run social welfare organization. |
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The Southern University, New Orleans
(SUNO) Men's Track & Field program has suffered
the same post-Katrina setbacks as most local programs
yet this season they have roared back into the regional
collegiate track and field spotlight. |
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ValaRay Irvin, director, Southern
University Counseling Center, has been elected vice
chair of the International Association of Counseling
Services, Incorported’s (IACS) Board of Accreditation.
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The Today Show's Ann Curry conducted
an exclusive interview with Alia Sabur who just shy
of her 19th birthday was hired to become a professor
in Seoul, Korea. Sabur is preparing for her new role
while teaching math and physics at Southern University,
New Orleans. She said it's her way to aid the area
devastated two years ago by Hurrican Katina. |
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SU System President Ralph Slaughter
urged members of the Baton Rouge Black Chamber of
Commerce to put time and resources into networking
as a catalyst for business and professional growth.
Slaughter addressed the group Friday, March 7, at
Drusilla Seafood in Baton Rouge and outlined recent
fund raising efforts with prominent SU alumni like
Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson. |
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The National Constables Association
recently presented its Scholastic Partnership Award
to the Southern University, Baton Rouge campus in
recognition of its support of the local D.A.R.E. (Drug
Assistance Resistance Education) program. |
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Four Southern University engineering
alumni were recognized for their achievements in government,
industry, and education during the 2008 Black Engineer
of the Year Awards (BEYA) and Career Fair, February
14-17, in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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Southern University's softball player
Jasmone Williams was named co player the week in the
Southwestern Athletic conference during the first
week of April. |
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Southern Univeristy Timbuktu Academy
scholar and physics major Cacey Stevens, recently
won the 2008 national competition for the Willie Hobbs
Moore Scholarship, a prestigious graduate award of
the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). |
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Four Spring graduation ceremonies
are being plan across the Southern University System
in the month of May. |
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The Southern University Jaguars will
open their 2008 season in Houston in late August when
they play the University of Houston squad, according
to a release from the sports information office. |
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