PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 4, 2022) - On Oct. 19, the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University will host a screening of “Notes from the Field,” a dramatization of an award-winning play by Anna Deavere Smith that depicts the school-to-prison pipeline. A moderated discussion with Smith and members of the University [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 26, 2022) - The Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University announced the launch of a new Texas Child and Family Study site in Tyler, Texas. The site, which opened on July 26, 2022, is the first site of the study; the next will be Dallas. “After several delays [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 13, 2022) - Prairie View A&M University’s College of Juvenile Justice, in collaboration with the university’s College of Business and SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, announced it would host a multi-day workshop July 14-15 for faculty members at Texas colleges and universities. The training workshop, free to attendees, will focus on [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 28, 2022) – The Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University announced today it will host “Beyond Rage: Raising Healthy Kids in Hostile Climates” on July 12. The virtual discussion will feature sociologist Janice Johnson Dias. “Children’s lives have been impacted in a number of ways over the [...]
I am reluctantly writing this commentary because I and others have made all these points before. Last Tuesday's shooting in Uvalde was regrettably predictable and very likely preventable. And yes, without change, the next one is coming. We simply do not know where, who, or how many? Clearly, like other mass shooters before him, this [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 16, 2022) - Nine-hundred and sixty-four. Prairie View A&M University’s second-largest graduating class of all time. Here is a look back at PVAMU’s monumental 140th Spring Commencement Convocation, held on Saturday, May 14, 2022. The entire ceremony can be viewed on PVAMU's official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/pvamu. Visit this link to read [...]
Hello, everyone. My name is Alexis Sparks, and I'm a criminal justice major with a minor in psychology. I'm from Houston, Texas, and I lived in The Woodlands, Texas, for most of my life.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 12, 2022) - Today, just two days before he graduates from Prairie View A&M University, Chandler Bienek will be commissioned into the United States Marine Corps as a second lieutenant. Both going to college and entering the military are firsts in the Bienek family, and both are things for which Chandler [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 11, 2022; Updated May 14, 2022) - Prairie View A&M University awarded nearly 1,000 degrees to its spring graduates Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Panther Stadium. “As an ‘institution of the first class,’ Prairie View A&M University has a rich history in carrying out our mission of teaching, research, and service, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW and BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas (April 7, 2022) - Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University are continuing their mission of increasing research collaborations between the two institutions. PVAMU and Texas A&M are awarding $400,000 in grants to support ten PVAMU-Texas A&M teams of faculty investigators to support research projects under the 2022 [...]
