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Posts by: JCSU Charlotte Alumni Chapter

JCSU Track & Field Teams Earn USTFCCCA Academic Honors

 Scholar Team of the Year and individual All­-Academic honors for the 2014­-15 NCAA Division II Track & Field season were announced Friday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Both JCSU teams were named Scholar teams, with the JCSU women earning the designation by finishing with a 3.59 team GPA, which was the second-highest in all of Division II.  The JCSU men’s team completed the season with a cumulative 3.32 GPA, which was fifth-highest among all NCAA Division II teams.

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Magic Johnson’s ASPiRE Network, Tracy McGrady, 2Chainz Launch HBCU Tour

HBCU Direct, LLC (HD), a marketing collective specializing in HBCU relations, formed a multi-faceted partnership with ASPiRE, the television network from Magic Johnson Enterprises, former NBA superstar Tracy “T-Mac” McGrady, and hip-hop celebrity 2Chainz to build awareness of HBCUs and increase overall enrollment. The first effort of the strategic alliance is the September 2015 launch of a 20-campus Hoops-N-Hip Hop® Tour reaching 100,000 Black college students.

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Letter to the Editor: The Tea at HBCUs

​I walked into my HBCU’s dining hall yesterday (for the first time in 4 days) starving, but without a real appetite. I was just so sick and tired of dealing with the same crap, that I had already convinced myself that I would not like whatever was on the menu that day; but I went inside anyway. I held a short conversation with sweet Ms. Lillie and Ms. Dixon (aliases), but I had to eventually start walking away so that the conversation would end. As they knew, I was sick and tired and had no intentions on having a family reunion at that moment.

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This HBCU Alumna is the 1st Black Woman to Graduate from Yale with a PhD in Astrophysics

Now Isler is at SU as a Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow, her position supported by a number of sources, but primarily an SU ADVANCE grant and the Chancellor’s Office. Her position lasts for two years, with the goal that she transition into a tenure-track position in the Physics Department at the University.

Isler studies hyperactive supermassive black holes that reside at the centers of galaxies, called blazars. Some of these black holes have relativistically moving streams of charged particles that happen to be oriented toward the Earth line of sight.

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