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The new degree program, titled “Leadership, Innovation, Sports Management, Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Networking (LISTEN),” will introduce participating students to different aspects of the sports industry through a curriculum featuring real-world business scenarios.

“Being named Paul Quinn’s first Fulbright Scholar is an incredible honor that reflects not just a personal milestone but the power and promise of a supportive Paul Quinn community,” said Dr. Moore, who will spend the upcoming academic year teaching business development and entrepreneurship to students at Bethlehem Moravian College in Jamaica.

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.

In 1946, Davis applied to the University of Arkansas School of Law, making him the school's first-ever Black applicant. Although he was denied, his application inspired the law school's leadership to develop a plan to integrate the university. The institution enrolled its first Black student two years later.

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.

The City Year members enrolled in the Corporate Work Program at Paul Quinn College in Dallas can receive up to four years of corporate work experience with up to $18,000 in scholarships per year.

Paul Quinn College has announced that it will establish a second educational program in Plano, Texas. Students will be housed in apartments and the college will seek classroom space at corporations that partner with the college in its urban work program.

African Americans are about 13 percent of all undergraduate students but only 5.6 percent of the students who study abroad. A new partnership aims to increase study abroad opportunities for students at all minority serving educational institutions.

H. James Williams has resigned as president of the university after less than three years on the job. Frank L. Sims, a member of the board of trustees who was an executive at Cargill Inc., has been named interim president.

Beginning this fall, all students at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas, will be given jobs either on campus or with local business that will offset most of their tuition and living expenses.

The Urban Environmental Justice and Social Entrepreneurship program will involve eight undergraduates from each institution. Duke students will spend three weeks at Paul Quinn College and will work to restore an urban stream.

Paul Quinn College, the historically Black educational institution in Dallas, has entered into an agreement to develop an online bachelor's degree program in business administration. The program is expected to be offered during the spring 2014 semester.

The new appointees are Kathey Porter at Virginia Tech, Aleczander Whitfield at Johnson C. Smith University, Karen Weddle-West at the University of Memphis, and Halima Leak at Paul Quinn College.

The college's president believes that a college education should include information on a healthy lifestyle.

The historically Black college has now put its accreditation problems in the rear-view mirror.