Students of Delaware State University can expect to pay $1,500 more for tuition next year, the HBCU announced Thursday. To ensure long-term financial stability, DSU is raising tuition $750 a semester, but students whose families earn less than $30,000 a year will actually get a decreased tuition, although the university has yet to announce what the discount will be. Ben …
Funding requests from three state colleges in General Assembly financial hearings Thursday drew questions about campus safety, fair pay and transparency. Collectively, Delaware Technical Community College, Delaware State University and University of Delaware asked the state Joint Finance Committee for $32,534,000 for Fiscal Year 2024, which starts July 1. The committee, made of members of both the state House and …
Delaware State University students, faculty and staff will have a chance to attend a three-day event in Cartagena that examines the role Afro-Colombians have had on the world. The goal is to create more education opportunities for DSU students to study abroad. The October event is being coordinated by DSUâs Global Institute for Equity, Inclusion, and Civil Rights. Dr. Sonel …
It was a historic day for the Hornets of Delaware State University Wednesday, as the school announced it has received the largest research grant in DSU history. The 5-year, $18.36 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health will help establish an Interdisciplinary Health Equity Research Center on campus. The center will investigate how certain populations, typically underserved communities, …
It was a two-fer day of celebration Thursday at Delaware State University, as officials broke ground for a new $10 million agriculture building and unveiled a $1 million grant that will pay full tuition for 21 STEM students. âWe want to produce agriculture professionals and agriculture scientists, and we believe the addition of this building will provide a greater environment …
Delaware State University rose one place to No. 2 in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings of the nationâs best public Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Dover-based school also rose to No. 8 from No. 10 among all HBCUs. The ranking reflects DSUâs journey of progress, said DSU President Tony Allen. âWe believe what weâre doing …
Delaware State University will use $1 million in federal funds to build an urban revitalization center. The money will come through a federal grant, announced Tuesday on campus by U.S. Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester. The Center for Urban Revitalization and Entrepreneurship will be located at 225 W. Division Street in downtown Dover, one block from the universityâs Dover Campus. DSU …
Delaware State University president Tony Allen has promised an investigation into an April 20 incident during which a bus carrying the schoolâs womenâs lacrosse team was pulled over and searched while returning from a tournament in Florida. DSU is a historically Black university in Dover. Approximately 70% of the student population is Black. According to The Hornet, DSUâs student newspaper, …
DSU was one of more than a dozen HBCUs to receive a bomb threat Monday Delaware State University President Tony Allen called a Monday bomb threat — one of more than a dozen at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country — “a clear effort to confuse, intimidate and bully our students, staff and faculty.” “We are safe, for …
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