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Zeta Phi Beta aims to educate on history of D.C. school names

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The Women of the Dove Foundation are determined to provide the answers in a booklet, “What’s in a Name: Profiles of the Trailblazers.”
The group, a nonprofit branch of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, received a $2,500 grant from the District’s Humanities Council and Historic Preservation Officeto begin its work.
“So many people have been excited about it,” said Barbara Harvey, [...]

Delta Soror to become first black superintendent of Cahokia School District

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Pamela Manning was hired Monday night to be the new superintendent of Cahokia School District 187.
Manning, currently the principal of Cahokia High School, becomes the first black superintendent in the district. Her new duties begin July 1.
“We’re going to put Cahokia on the front pages of the newspaper in a positive way,” she said.

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AKA Soror Bettina Polite Tate named Teacher of the year

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There are a lot of great teachers in Savannah Chatham County Public Schools, but only one can claim the title as the district’s teacher of the year.  Friday Night at the Westin Savannah Harbor, Bettina Polite Tate of Johnson High School picked up the honor to represent SCCPSS as the 2011 Teacher of the year.  [...]

Ithaca educators earn African-American history month award

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If Abe and Denise Lee could share a lesson with Ithaca’s youth, it would be to work hard, value education, and understand that you are the masters of your own destiny.
Thankfully for Ithaca, the Lees have shared these lessons with thousands of children over their combined 60 years teaching in the Ithaca City School District, [...]

Alpha Frater, Charles Green, longtime Detroit educator dies at 82

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Charles Green was committed to ensuring the best educational tools for Detroit’s students.
Working for more than 20 years as a research associate for Detroit Public Schools’ Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment & Accountability, Mr. Green examined various projects and programs at schools throughout the district to determine if each met performance standards.
“That’s what we believed [...]

Delta Soror Betty Garrett retires as Assistant Dean of Louisiana Technical College

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After serving 33 years at the Louisiana Technical College, Bastrop campus, Assistant Dean Betty Garrett has retired. Garrett began her career at the college as a classroom teacher in 1977. She worked as a teacher, guidance counselor and lastly, assistant dean.
“It has been an honor to work closely with Betty,” said Noreen Smith, Regional Director [...]

Delta Soror Ceena Hall Awarded NASA Internship

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The New Year will bring Ceena Hall, a senior electrical engineering student from Houston, face to face with NASA scientists and top engineering students from across the country as part of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) — a highly competitive internship program that pairs university students with researchers at the space agency.
Beginning in [...]

Deltas, Sigmas GPAs lead BLGOs at Univ. of Tennessee- Martin

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UTM fraternities and sororities both saw improvement in their overall GPAs from fall 2008 to spring 2009. Both also widened the gap between Greek and non-Greek students.
The all-fraternity GPA increased from 2.72 to 2.73 while the all-sorority GPA increased from 3.02 to 3.05.
The largest increase in GPA among the fraternities was Phi Beta Sigma, up [...]

Sigma Frater Alfonso Smith named to SEC Community Service Team

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Every school in the SEC is represented. Alfonso Smith, the senior speedy backup tailback, and one of the fun players to interview, makes SEC Community Service Football Team
Alfonso Smith has been very active in the “Cats That Care” service program during his four years as a Wildcat. He has put in over 200 hours of [...]

Delta Soror, Atlanta Mayor Franklin to teach at Atlanta’s Spellman College

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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will take a one-year long professorship at Spellman College in Atlanta after her second term in office ends on January 3rd.
Franklin, who’s term limited, will join the all-female, historically black school under the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship Program.
“The Cosby Endowed Professorship Program is an inter- and intra-disciplinary initiative designed [...]