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The Southern University System Foundation's "Million Dollar March," fundraising campaign launched July 1, 2014, raised $1,106,333 in cash contributions.

Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. appeared on the September 25, 2014, Louisiana Business and Industry Show on Cox 4 Louisiana.

Longtime Southern University administrator and ardent University supporter Elton C. Harrison died September 20, 2014. He was 97 and a resident of Baton Rouge.

Harrison served as vice president of Academic Affairs and was a former member of the Southern University Board of Supervisors.

The Southern University System recently received a $42,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide technical business training in rural communities throughout the state. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $212,500 in grants to support workforce training in Louisiana.

The Southern University System, Tuesday, August 19, 2014, at 6 p.m. (CDT), will host the next online chat session with SU System President Ronald Mason Jr. for alumni, stakeholders, and the Jaguar Nation.

Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. will be a guest on the The Jim Engster Show, WRKF 89.3 FM, Monday, August 4, 2014, at 9 a.m. (CDT).

Lawrence Jackson, director of the world-renowned Southern University "Human Jukebox" Marching Band, is retiring. The Crowley native has been director of bands on the Baton Rouge campus since 2006.

A symposium on "Quality Education as a Constitutional Right and the Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)" will be hosted by the Southern University and A&M College System (SUS), the Southern University Law Center (SULC), and the SULC Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, in partnership with the Mississippi Freedom 50th Anniversary, Wednesday and Thursday, March 26-27, 2014.

Some campuses and offices of the Southern University System (SUS) in areas affected by Winter Storm Leon reopened Thursday, January 30, 2014.

The Southern University System is deeply saddened by the death of Mr. Nelson Mandela former president of South Africa. In 2000, Mandela was invited to Southern University and to Baton Rouge by then SU System President Leon R. Tarver II.