HU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Receives $1 Million Endowment

HU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Receives $1 Million Endowment

Hampton University has been awarded a $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation in support of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at HU (OLLI at HU), which offers continuing educational opportunities to mature adults.

OLLI at HU offers educational and cultural learning opportunities for Hampton Roads citizens, ages 50 and older. The institute offers non-credit, six-week courses aimed at improving skills, exploring new ideas and interacting with active people who share similar interests. An array of courses taught by retired professors and professionals including computers, equestrian, music and theater, photography, psychology, and swimming is offered.

Membership cost is $35; registration is $50 and covers three courses. For more information or to join, call (757) 727-5434.

Learn how OLLI at HU has influenced one Hampton resident in this Daily Press article:

HU Senior Institute Gets $1M Boost

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HU Launches New Online Degrees, Virtual Campus

HU Launches New Online Degrees, Virtual Campus

Hampton University has launched its web-based, virtual campus HamptonU Online, offering an ever-expanding range of degree programs entirely online. HamptonU Online offers students located anywhere in the world the freedom to study online anytime to earn certificate, undergraduate and graduate degrees from HU. Courses begin August 2.

Read more about it in the Daily Press:

HU Launches Virtual Campus

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HU Named Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges

Hampton, VA- Hampton University is proud to be recognized by the Parent & Colleges website, www.parentsandcolleges.com. HU has been named one of the Top 10 Best Value Private schools for 2010. It was ranked number five out of the 10 schools. According to the website in a time of rampant tuition inflation, these schools represent the best value a private education has to offer. Institutions included on this list offer a diversity of degrees, have affordable tuitions and offer generous financial aid.

HU was also recognized for its excellent academics and outstanding research, particularly in health, physics and engineering. HU has a low 16-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio that provides personalized instruction and advisement. Out of HU’s 5,700 students 49 states and 35 territories and countries are represented. About 80 percent of our students receive financial aid.

Parents and Colleges offer objective, expert-written advice for parents looking at college options. Parents & Colleges is a unique new resource to help college-bound students' most trusted advisors, their parents and guardians, navigate the college consideration process. With the combined expertise of prominent college admissions officials, they are one of the nation's leading educational services providers.

HU is Proud to Honor 2010 Retirees

Dr. William R. Harvey honors Dr. Esther H. Condon

Dr. William R. Harvey and Dr. Lois Benjamin

Dr. Robert A. Jordan

HU is Proud to Honor 2010 Retirees

Hampton, VA- Hampton University honored eight retirees with a luncheon held in McGrew Towers June 23, 2010. These dedicated individuals served the University for between 20-30 years each. HU President Dr. William R. Harvey gave remarks and presented the retirees with gifts.

The retirees included five professors, one dean, and two police officers. The honorees include: Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, professor of political science and history; Dr. Lois Benjamin, professor emerita of sociology; Dr. Esther H. Condon, professor of nursing; Dr. Robert A. Jordan, associate professor of biological sciences/marine science; Dr. Steven J. Rosenthal, professor of sociology; Mary Davis, University Police; Burl Bowens, Office of the Dean of Men; the late Mary Carrington, University Police.

U.S. Education Secretary Duncan to Address HU Ministers' Conference

U.S. Education Secretary Duncan to Address HU Ministers' Conference

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give a special address to attendees of the Hampton University Ministers' Conference on June 9 at 11 a.m. in the HU Convocation Center.

Recognizing the important role that ministers and other faith-based leaders play in their communities, HU President Dr. William R. Harvey invited Secretary Arne Duncan to discuss school reform and the need, value and goal of increasing the number of American citizens who become college graduates.

The 96th Annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference and 76th Annual Choir Directors' and Organists' Guild Workshop will be held on June 6-11 at Hampton University. The HU Ministers' Conference is the oldest and largest gathering of interdenominational African-American clergy in the world. Past attendees have included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of Children's Defense Fund Marion Wright Edelman, and former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

HU students return from Cannes Film Festival

Hampton University students return from Cannes Film Festival

Two HU students share their experiences at the Cannes Film Festival in France with the Daily Press. Kacie Willis and Jennifer Ibe returned this week after participating in the highly competitive Creative Minds in Cannes program.

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HU Midshipman Selected as Female Officer on Navy Sub

HU Midshipman Selected as Female Officer on Navy Sub

Midshipman Lisa Brodsky

Lisa Brodsky, a recent Hampton University graduate and Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipman, has been named as one of only 19 female officers in the nation to be selected as the first females to serve aboard a U.S. Navy submarine. She will be commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy on May 17.

Brodsky graduated May 9 magna cum laude from HU with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. Following her commissioning, Brodsky will attend Nuclear Power School in Charleston, S.C., before being assigned aboard her first submarine.

On April 29, the Department of the Navy announced a policy change that allows women to serve on submarines. Brodsky joins eight other NROTC graduates from other universities and 11 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen as the first U.S. Navy female officers to be selected to serve as a submarine crew member. All the midshipmen selected had to go through an extensive interview process with the director of naval nuclear propulsion and the top Navy officer in the submarine force in Washington, D.C., Adm. Kirkland Donald.

“We are extremely proud of Midshipman Brodsky’s recent accomplishment, being accepted as part of the first female class in the submarine community,” said Capt. Mike Barea, the Hampton Roads NROTC commanding officer and HU professor of naval science. “There are many uncertainties that lay ahead but there's steadfastness, a willingness to serve within our Naval ROTC student body as our nation’s next generation of defenders.”

The Hampton Roads Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps is one of the largest officer training battalions in the nation, consisting of over 250 sailors, Marines, and midshipmen. It is comprised of a three school consortium that includes HU, Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University. Founded in July 1982, HU’s NROTC program, known as the “Charlie Company,” this year totaled 41 midshipmen.

The NROTC program, overseen by NSTC at Naval Station Great Lakes, Ill., was established to develop midshipmen mentally, morally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, loyalty and Navy core values. NROTC graduates become naval officers who possess a basic professional background, are motivated toward careers in the naval service and have a potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.

Lisa Brodsky (fifth from left) stands with other female NROTC midshipmen selected to serve aboard submarines.