WATCH: A Tribute to Our Founders
It took two founders and eight seeds to create a transformative experience for generations of excellence to come. This is Prairie View A&M University.
It took two founders and eight seeds to create a transformative experience for generations of excellence to come. This is Prairie View A&M University.
Prairie View A&M Universityās Foundersā Day and Honors Recognition Convocation celebrates the founding of the university and the extraordinary academic achievements of its students.
2023 Student Recipients PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 19, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University will celebrate its founding while honoring 5,560 students for their academic efforts at the 2024 Foundersā Day and Honors Recognition Convocation. The Whitlowe R. Green College of Education will host this yearās Convocation on Wednesday, March 20, at 10 [...]
Prairie View A&M University's Search Committee for the position of Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs is pleased to host three finalists for campus visits on April 2-3, 4-5, and 11-12, 2024. Besides meeting different groups during the day, each candidate has been asked to make a public presentation on his/her background, vision [...]
The Bench by the Road Project was launched by the Toni Morrison Society in honor of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. This Bench is placed to memorialize Matthew Gaines and William H. Holland, Reconstruction Era legislators whose initiatives led to the August 14, 1876, establishment of the Alta Vista Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas for [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 18, 2024) ā āPrairie View Produces Productive Peopleā is how the adage goes. Dina Tekle, a senior biology student at Prairie View A&M set to graduate this spring, is redefining it: being a woman in medical research and working to close gaps in knowledge in the understanding of diseases and illness. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 13, 2024) ā Prairie View A&M University will officially inaugurate its ninth president, Dr. Tomikia P. LeGrande, as the culmination of a weeklong celebration, March 19-23. The campus will come alive with activities designed for students, faculty/staff, alumni, and the wider community to engage with Dr. LeGrande and commemorate this significant [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 11, 2024) ā March is not just another month for Prairie View A&M University; it's a time to celebrate heritage, pride and the enduring legacy of HBCUs nationwide. As part of the national "I Love My HBCU" campaign established by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund in 2014, PVAMU joins the annual [...]
When Prairie View A&M University was founded in 1876 as the Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth, no one could have predicted that the University would one day become a top-producing source for African American engineers, nurses, teachers and community leaders. Nor could they imagine a woman standing at the [...]
Attica Locke is Prairie View A&M University's 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence for the Toni Morrison Writing Program. Locke is a distinguished American fiction author and acclaimed writer-producer for television and film. In this video, she discusses her passion for storytelling, writing styles, how to write, and her special connections to PVAMU.