Honors College freshmen receive laptops through HBCU Title III Grant

Southern University Honors College freshmen receive Dell laptop computers. (left - right) Beverly Wade, dean, SU Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes Honors College, and Honors College freshmen, Angel Askew and Aviana Plair.

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.

Each laptop was accompanied by a notebook contract requiring the recipient to maintain the laptop, participate in a teaching-learning workshop, and provide documentation of weekly use. The notebooks must be returned at the end of each semester and will be re-issued when the freshmen return in the fall.