The family of Jack "Cy" McClairen has announced memorial plans for the Bethune-Cookman University athletic legend, including an opportunity for well-wishers to pay tribute to the former Wildcat star athlete, coach and athletic director who passed away last week at the age of 89.
Read MoreWESH 2 News covers the celebratory press conference held this past Tuesday, September 8, 2020 announcing Bethune-Cookman University officially lifted off of probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Read MoreToday, Bethune-Cookman University joins The Collective, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting causes that impact the Black community politically and through civic engagement efforts and HBCU leadership organization Xceleader for the #VoteHBCU voter registration competition.
Read MoreBethune-Cookman University, the beloved historical black college founded by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, will remain an accredited university, ensuring access to higher education for thousands of Black students, B-CU President E. LaBrent Chrite announced today.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), which is the regional accrediting organization for degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states, notified B-CU leadership late Thursday. The decision comes after the university was placed on probation in 2018 for concerns regarding governance and financial sustainability.
Read MoreOn August 17, 2020, a very rare occurrence of conjoined dwarf seahorses were born in the Aquatic Research Laboratory at Bethune-Cookman University. The seahorses are 14 days old and doing well. The twins are joined at the mid abdomen and Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Sarah E. Krejci, Ph.D. believes the seahorses may only be joined at the bony plates under their skin and do not share any organs.
Read MoreOn Thursday, August 13, 2020, Dr. Arletha McSwain, HR Senior Trainer Specialist-Education Technology and Title IX Coordinator, served on a panel of online leaders to share lessons learned from spring semester 2020 and strategies for the fall 2020 semester.
Read MoreDr. Eugene Pringle, Jr., Interim Director of the School of Education and B-CU alumnus, has been selected as a member of Leadership Florida's 2020-2021 Connect Class. Leadership Florida's Connect Program is the state’s only leadership program that spans industry boundaries and focuses solely on developing Florida’s existing and emerging leaders.
Read MoreB-CU and the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) have partnered to provide internship and employment opportunities to qualified B-CU students (undergraduate and graduate) in the fields of Criminal Justice, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Political Science, and Health Science. The MOU will afford B-CU faculty and students the opportunity to work collaboratively with the DJJ Research & Data Integrity staff to identify and conduct cutting-edge juvenile justice research to improve the effectiveness of juvenile services across the department’s service delivery continuum.
Read MoreThe long history of racial biases and tensions that have become part of the social fabric and organization of American society has periodically been brought into high relief by seemingly unconnected incidents involving police violence against Black peoples. Each of these extremely unfortunate individual incidents forms part of a larger pattern of institutionalized racism in the U.S.
Read More“Fighting for Justice” is a new Black history documentary that covers the killings of African American men and women in Florida, from Trayvon Martin in Sanford in 2012 to Marquis McGlockton in Clearwater in 2018. The 45-minute film includes footage from Dr. Daniel Hollar’s Professional Seminar class at Bethune-Cookman University where Psychology and Sociology students related their personal experiences and thoughts about Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, Black Lives Matter, and the continuing mistreatment of Blacks through systemic racism in America. Hollar is the Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Science Studies.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, July 28, 2020, The Bob Billingslea School of Hospitality Management (BBSHM) in collaboration with the American Chef Federation’s (ACF) local Mid-Florida East Coast Chapter, conducted a healthy foods drive for the Daytona Beach community. The parking lot of the Wendell P. Holmes Business building on campus was the distribution site for fresh fruits and vegetables to approximately 1,400 families.
Read MoreDr. Sarah Krejci presented at the 2020 “Going Global With Digital and Distance Learning" USDLA International Conference. The virtual event was held July 21st through July 24th with Opening Keynote Speaker Dr. Gerry Hanley – Executive Director, Merlot and Luncheon Keynote Speaker Sae Schatz, Ph.D., Director – Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative.
Read MoreRecently, Kenuantae Storey, former Student Government Vice President and rising senior Public Relations student attended the “Won’t Back Down” Virtual Leadership Conference this weekend hosted by UNITE, Inc. The virtual conference was designed for student leaders currently enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country, according to unitementoring.com.
Read MoreIn March 2020, Brionna Alexander was one of the selected students to join the Kennedy Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program as an intern with the ARES Corporation. The ARES Corporation won the KLXS III contract that includes support for ground systems and spaceflight systems planning and design; project management and integration; operations integration and analysis; technical requirements development, management, and compliance; cost, risk, information and configuration management; and schedule integration and analysis.
Read MoreIn appreciation of the innovative and cutting-edge work in the area of police-community engagement, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office (VCSO) and Volusia County Commission donated a law enforcement training virtual simulator to the Bethune-Cookman University Center for Law & Social Justice (CLSJ).
Read MoreFor the fifth year, Bethune Cookman University has hosted the Exploring Gifts and Graces (EGG) Summer Adventure and Theology and Leadership program powered by the Youth Theology Institute. The summer youth program for current high school juniors and seniors occurred July 12th through 24th, 2020 with students across several states to include: Iowa, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida.
Read MoreThe Bethune-Cookman University Board of Trustees has unanimously voted in support of a comprehensive overhaul of the University’s academic structure. The Trustees approved the consolidation of the University’s eleven colleges and schools into three colleges. This transition comes upon the recommendation of President E. LaBrent Chrite, following a thorough analysis by a faculty committee under the leadership of Dr. Herbert Thompson, Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Mathematics. The move reflects the University’s commitment to consolidate critical resources, and more vitally, to articulate through the new structure, an academic enterprise that is more intuitively aligned with B-CU’s academic history and mission.
Read More$17 million in recurring funding for Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), securing the historic college’s future and access to higher education for African American students.
Read MoreOn June 15, 2020, B-CU hosted a 24-hour day of giving to raise $100,000 in a single day to assist students with need-based scholarships. The day was filled with interviews and special guests from across the Country showing their support and sharing stories of their B-CU experiences. The celebratory day raised over $175,000 towards the overall fiscal year goal of $7 million.
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