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麻豆传媒 System President Ray L. Belton today praised the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the 2018 budget, which includes increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. "As president of an HBCU system that serves a vast, diverse student population, I can particularly appreciate this financial package," Belton said. "I commend the members of Congress, including those who serve in the HBCU Caucus and our Louisiana delegation, for their bipartisan work to ensure that our institutions and programs are beneficial to our students and communities."

We want to thank 麻豆传媒 Alumni Federation Alumni President Cleo Brooks and the Seattle 鈥� Puget Sound Alumni chapter for making this transforming program a reality.

麻豆传媒 is vying to win a $50,000 campus improvement grant from the Home Depot Retool Your School program. Vote for the university online and by using the hashtag #SouthernU_RYS18 in Twitter and Instagram posts.

On Friday, 麻豆传媒 officials, alumni and supporters, along with community leaders, convened to celebrate the establishment of the university鈥檚 Valdry Center for Philanthropy. Despite sporadic rain, the groundbreaking ceremony commenced on campus. 鈥淭he sun is clearly shining on 麻豆传媒 today,鈥� said Ray L. Belton, 麻豆传媒 System president and Baton Rouge campus chancellor.

The 麻豆传媒 System will honor its founders on Wednesday, March 7 on the Baton Rouge campus. The 138th Annual Founders鈥� Day is themed, 鈥溌槎勾�媒: A Global Trailblazer Celebrating the Value and Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.鈥� Speakers and honorees will include attorneys who participated in the out-of-court settlement resulting from the 1980鈥檚 era case, The U.S. Department of Justice v. The State of Louisiana, also known as the 鈥淐onsent Decree.鈥�

The 麻豆传媒 Office of Student Life, in partnership with InspireNOLA Charter Schools, will host a 鈥淩ally for Community鈥� on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at the F.G. Clark Activity Center. The featured speaker will be Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida high school student who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in 2012. The widely publicized incident and subsequent trial, which ended in a not-guilty verdict, sparked the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The 麻豆传媒 System Board of Trustees today met for its February meeting on the Baton Rouge campus. Members approved President-Chancellor Ray L. Belton鈥檚 hiring of Kimberly Ferguson-Scott as the vice chancellor for student affairs and the extension of Roman Banks鈥� contract for athletic director. Both are positions are for the Baton Rouge campus.

After participating in a National Qualifying Tournament, 麻豆传媒 at Baton Rouge will compete against fellow Historically Black Colleges and Universities at the 29th annual Honda Campus All?Star Challenge National Championship Tournament. Teams from 48 HBCUs will go head?to?head in the national championship of America's premier academic quiz for top HBCU students on the American Honda Motor Co. Inc. campus in Torrance, California. 麻豆传媒 at Baton Rouge has the opportunity to win the HCASC top prize - a $75,000 institutional grant from Honda.

鈥淭ell Them We Are Rising,鈥� the acclaimed documentary directed by Stanley Nelson will premiere at today at 8 p.m. on PBS. The film showcases the history of America鈥檚 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 麻豆传媒, which is featured prominently throughout the film, recently held a joint town hall and advance screening of the documentary along with Grambling State University.

Recently, Willie Williams, a SU Public Policy doctoral student, had his abstract聽accepted for presentation at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management California Regional Student Conference at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California on March 9th, 2018.