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Visitation for Dr. Emmett W. Bashful, the first chancellor of Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO), will be held on Friday, March 4 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the University's gymnasium at 6400 Press Drive. Dr. Bashful died Saturday morning, February 27, in Baton Rouge at the age 93. He led SUNO from 1959 to 1987 and had served as chancellor emeritus since his retirement.

The SU Civil Rights Commemoration Project will kickoff during the 2011 SU Founders' Day with the first in a series of video recording sessions to collect civil rights stories from former students/faculty/administrators and the public. The sessions will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursday, March 10, in the SU Field House.

Southern University System today officially launched its advocacy campaign, "Support Our Southern, Preserving Our History....Protecting Our Future."

Southern University System to hold Board of Supervisors Meeting and Support Our Southern Press Conference The Southern University System Board of Supervisors will hold its February Meeting on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 9 a.m.in the Board Room, 2nd Floor, J.S. Clark Administration Building.

The official 2011 Spring enrollment for Southern University, New Orleans (SUNO) is 3,318, representing the University's highest enrollment since Hurricane Katrina. This figure also signifies a 91 percent return of SUNO's pre-Katrina enrollment of 3,647 students.

SU alumnus Brig. Gen.Craig C. Crenshaw was honored at Southern University, Baton Rouge on Monday, February 7.

Members of Southern University's world renowned, "Human Jukebox" marching band, will perform February 12 in Washington, D.C., at the Louisiana Delegation's Mardi Gras Ball hosted by Sen. Mary Landrieu.

High school seniors and Baton Rouge Community College students seeking scholarships and exciting opportunities are invited to a Southern University Open House, 6 p.m., February 10, in W.W. Stewart Hall Auditorium.

The Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University, Baton Rouge, will sponsor a statewide elected officials' conference in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union on Friday, February 25, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Southern University System (SUS) has contracted DHR, the fifth largest retained executive search firm in the nation, to assist in the search for its next chancellor of the Baton Rouge campus.