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Opal Lee to Receive Honorary Degree

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Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University (SMU). A retired teacher and lifelong activist, Lee was 89 in 2016 when she conducted a symbolic walk from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., Gerald Turner.

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Descendants of Enslaved Offered Need-Based Scholarships through Partnership

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Williams The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation owners in Louisiana to save Georgetown College from financial ruin. Dr. Harry L.

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NBC's Lester Holt to Serve as Commencement Speaker for Villanova University’s Class of 2023.

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Holt will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. In 2016, he was also on TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list and was named “Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists. NBC News anchor and journalist Lester Holt will be the commencement speaker for Villanova University’s Class of 2023.

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Six-Year Completion Rates Stall Across the Nation, Report Finds

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of those who began their first year of college in 2016 reached graduation within six years, a.1 Students who began in 2016 and finished in four years were likely unaffected by the pandemic, said Dr. Doug Shapiro, vice president of research at the National Student Clearinghouse. The report found that 62.3%

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

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He honored human beings. CASL, an initiative of the Marie Fielder Center, was created in 2016 as a joint enterprise with funding from the National Science Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). Many might say that there will never be another person like Orlando.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

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Xavier and Ochsner, who first collaborated in the 1980s at Xavier’s College of Pharmacy, began serious planning for the creation of a medical school as early as 2016, but the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on pause. Morgan State University has plans to open an osteopathic medical school in 2025. Reynold Verret. “I

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Seed Investments Fund 15 Research Collaborations Between Virginia Tech and Minority-Serving Institutions

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The research projects cover topics such as energy storage, nutrition, food insecurity, liquid fuels, education, artificial intelligence (AI), the humanities, robotics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).