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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
HU Nursing School Awarded $3.2 Million
The Hampton University School of Nursing was recently awarded approximately $3.2 million in grants. The three grants will serve several purposes in the department, including the preparing nurses for the workforce, retaining students and enhancing the doctoral program. The grants were awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
HU Summit to Release U.S. Marriage Index
Dr. Linda Malone-Colon
Hampton, Va. – An index on the state of marriage in the U.S. will be released at the upcoming Hampton University National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families on Sept. 29-30. The U.S. Marriage Index uses specific measurement indicators to track the health of American marriages through the past forty years and assess areas of improvement for the future. This index is a product of a partnership between HU and the Institute for American Values.
More than 100 of the nation’s most diverse, influential leaders will be present for the unveiling at the HU National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families. The summit is a groundbreaking public conversation about marriage and families aimed at increasing the national conversation on the declining status of today’s marriages and the importance of healthy, effective parenting. The Summit will streamline live on the web at www.hamptonu.edu for the public.
“We’re really focused on raising awareness about the crisis of marriage in the U.S. But we’re also solutions focused, identifying what it is we can do to address this issue,” explained Dr. Linda Malone-Colon, chair of the Summit and director of the HU National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting (NCAAMP), to be launched at the Summit.
The statistics also support the need to take further efforts within the African-American community. Although all racial groups are showing increases in out-of-wedlock births, the percentage of unwed mothers differs from race to race. For example, while 29 percent of Caucasian women gave birth out-of-wedlock in 2007, more than 51 percent of Latinas and nearly 72 percent of black women did.
NCAAMP aims to strengthen African-American families by helping them gain essential knowledge, skills and other resources required for building and sustaining healthy marriages and practicing effective parenting.
“A U.S. marriage index that measures the health of marriage will help our society to determine what we are doing well and what we need to improve, so that more Americans might have the opportunity to grow up in a healthy marriage,” said Malone-Colon.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
HU J-School's Caldwell Honored by NABJ Hall of Fame
Earl Caldwell
Hampton, VA -Earl Caldwell, a visiting professor at Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, will be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame at the organization’s 2009 Annual Convention held Aug. 5-9 in Tampa, Fla. Caldwell will be recognized on Aug. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Tampa Convention Center.
“In our honorees, NABJ gives kudos to the industry leaders who have broken new ground without forgetting from where they came,” said Barbara Ciara, NABJ President.
Caldwell is a nationally renowned journalist who has witnessed and chronicled some of the most important civil rights events of the past 40 years. He was the only reporter present when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Caldwell rose to fame while a reporter at The New York Times when he refused to disclose information to the FBI and the Nixon Administration involving his sources in the Black Panther party. The case, United States v. Caldwell, reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972 when the court ruled against him. The “Caldwell Case” led to the enactment of shield laws in many states that allow reporters to protect sources and information.
“It’s a high honor. I consider it recognition not just of my work, which I’m proud of, but also for my generation of black journalists who came to the top in the 1960s in a difficult, tumultuous time in America,” said Caldwell. At HU, Caldwell is writing “The Caldwell Journals,” a serialized account of the black journalist movement spawned by the 1960s civil rights movement.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Three Hamptonians are Winners in Miss Black VA USA
Hampton, VA -Two Hampton University students and one alumna were winners in the district level of the Miss Black Virginia USA Scholarship Pageant in Chesapeake, Va. this month.As a result of the district competition, Jocelyn Watkins was named Miss Black Hampton, Va., Whytnee Foriest was named Miss Black Portsmouth, Va., and Regina Hewlett was named Miss Black Richmond, Va.
Watkins and Foriest were crowned winners and Hewlett was a first runner up. The competition operated using a double tier structure. Eight contestants participated in the pageant, producing two winners and two first runners up. All contestants were judged by the following categories: a private interview, on-stage question and answer, personal fitness, talent and evening gown.
All three Hamptonians will participate in the state competition Nov 24-29 in Danville, Va. Watkins and Foriest won a $550 waiver to the state competition and Hewlett was given $350 toward the competition.
Hewlett, 26, graduated in 2005 from HU with a psychology degree, and in 2006 with a master’s degree in teaching. She currently works as a second grade teacher in Richmond, Va.
“Placing in my very first pageant was so surreal! I never imagined I would place at all. In the state competition, I am looking forward to stepping my game up,” she said “I am almost at the max age for competing so I have to give it all I've got this time around. It's all or nothing for me!”
Watkins, 19, is a psychology major at HU. Her goal is to become a practicing criminal justice prosecuting attorney. Foriest, 19, is a Sociology major from Bowie, Md.
This pageant has been around for 21 years, said Christopher Medley, its executive director and owner of House of L, the events production company that produces the event. The pageant’s motto is "Crown For One, Experience For All.”
“It is my goal that each contestant will see beyond the crown and realize their full potential as a woman of color to make change in their community and across the Commonwealth,” Medley said. “The three women from Hampton University definitely shared a common bond together, but they also worked toward reaching out to their fellow pageant sisters and sharing their experiences with pageants.”
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