Tagged: Jarvis Christian College

The bipartisan coalition was formed to advance educational opportunities at Texas' HBCUs. The student group and Texas Representative Ron Reynolds have recently filed a bill with the state government that, if passed, would advance funding and educational opportunities at HBCUS in Texas.

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.

Students from Jarvis Christian College will be able to transfer to selected bachelor's degree programs at the University of Texas at Tyler. Also, University of Texas at Tyler students will be able to pursue majors at Jarvis Christian College that are not offered at the university.

Dr. Pender was hired in 1965 as director of guidance and teacher training at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He was a professor of education and later served as vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Jarvis Christian College, the historically Black educational institution in Hawkins, Texas, has announced that it will open an "instructional site" in Dallas, about 100 miles to the west of its main campus. Classes will begin at the new location this coming fall.

The appointees are Angela Blanton at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Vincent T. Harris at California State University, Fullerton, Sonja Feist-Price at the University of Kentucky, and Melvin Hamlett at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas.

The new museum will feature the Rodney Lamar Atkins Collection that includes items from Negro League baseball, figurines, rare photos, farming equipment, and kitchen utensils relating to African American life in the early twentieth century.

Jarvis Christian College, a historically Black educational institution in Hawkins, Texas, has announced that it is opening its first satellite campus at the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas.

The historically Black college, located east of Dallas in Hawkins, Texas, has extended the contract of President Lester C. Newman through June 2020. Dr. Newman became the 12th president of the college three years ago.

Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.