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91精选 announces 2020 Spring Commencement Convocation speaker
91精选 recently announced Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia and founding pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland, will deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Spring Commencement Convocation Friday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. in Alumni Stadium. According to his biography, Bryant has prevailed against the odds - rising from G.E....
91精选 alumna found her calling working with children
One 91精选 alumna said she found her calling working with children after earning a bachelor鈥檚 in child development and family relations. Hope Sanders, class of 2006, said she鈥檚 been working with students from infants to high schoolers and moved to Louisville in 2016 to work in the public school system.聽 鈥淚 love seeing children excited when they come to school or daycare and seeing children happy to see their teac...
Though challenging, COVID-19 hasn鈥檛 derailed 91精选鈥檚 progress
Despite early predictions at a national level that enrollment at HBCUs and PWIs would drop drastically due to COVID-19, 91精选 continued to increase its number of students on the Hill.聽 鈥淲e are growing our way out of a pandemic, a recession and an uncertain future,鈥� 91精选 President M. Christopher Brown II said.聽 The preliminary Fall 2020 enrollment headcount is 2,225, up from 2,171 in Fall 201...
Please Call Me Mister findings published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Findings from the Please Call Me Mister project at 91精选 were recently published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior.聽 Dr. Herman E. Walston, professor of child development and family relations, and Ashlie Smoot-Baker, interim program director, and Kennedy J. Hannah, mentor coordinator, were credited authors for the article entitled 鈥淭he Impact of a Male Mentoring Program on Academic Achievement in C...