Renovation set for historic library at Jacksonville s Edward Waters U jacksonville.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jacksonville.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alesha Jones-Seabrooks remembers being a young girl growing up in Jacksonville. Along with her classmates at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, she d throw wads of crumpled paper out her school bus window on the drive past Edward Waters College on Kings Road to her mother s Washington Heights apartment.
One day, in an effort to keep the kids in line, a police officer spoke to the group of paper-throwers. Be careful, you may become the queen of that college one day, Jones-Seabrooks recalls the officer telling her. She wrote it off, convinced she d attend an arts college in Hollywood. By 1994, that prophecy came true.
James Weldon Johnson: Locals reflect on his 150th birthday jacksonville.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jacksonville.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Historically Black Delaware State University received a two-year, $1 million donation from JPMorgan Chase to expand the university’s Career Pathways office for students, ensuring that they begin portfolio building in the freshman year and can get access to real-world, experiential opportunities early in their college career, including internships. This award will also enhance faculty development. Faculty will complete a Quality Matters training to adapt educational tools to fit market trends across industries, which will help better position students as they transition into their professional careers.