PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Two-thousand and twenty-two – what a year for Prairie View A&M University! As 2023 begins, let’s look at the most notable items accomplished on “The Hill” over the last 365 days. 1. PVAMU achieved the prestigious Carnegie R2 Classification. PVAMU kicked off 2022 with a bang. The University attained
Photo Credit: Labor Community Strategy Center PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Prairie View A&M University welcomes Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson as its 2022-2023 Activist-in-Residence. Henderson, a long-time community organizer and the first Black woman to serve as co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center (a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in
Earlier this year, Prairie View A&M University was selected as one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, an initiative aimed at preserving and amplifying the invaluable visual history of HBCUs. This week, representatives from Getty Images were on “The Hill” to help start the
Melanye T. Price '95 PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 6, 2022) - Melanye Price ’95, Prairie View A&M University’s recently appointed special assistant to the president, will be featured in an upcoming documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, highlighting the portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. Price, also an
Dr. Melanye T. Price '95 I am pleased to announce that Dr. Melanye Price ‘95 will be joining Prairie View A&M University's Office of the President as Special Assistant to the President, starting September 1, 2022. In her new capacity, Price will help coordinate special projects and oversee ongoing initiatives in the President’s
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 13, 2022) - It’s a typically busy year for Marco Robinson, associate professor of history and assistant director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice at Prairie View A&M University. The Mellon Outstanding Faculty Award winner just finished co-directing a summer institute at the National Humanities Center in
On July 5, the National Humanities Center will welcome 24 educators for the first of a series of institutes on teaching African American studies. This weeklong, immersive experience, organized in partnership with Prairie View A&M University, is part of a pilot project designed to promote more effective teaching about the African American experience and elevate the scholarly
GALVESTON, Texas — June 19, 1865. A date that now rings loud across our nation, but specifically in Galveston, Texas. On that day, soldiers made their way to the small island and went to several locations to tell enslaved people they were free. This came two years after then-President Abraham Lincoln announced slavery had ended
Months before George Floyd’s murder — before he cried for his mother while taking his last breath — a feeling of mediocrity had settled into my gut, an ache that spread throughout my body. I had watched the nation’s truth unfold in videos of Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. I had bottled up words
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 13, 2022) - There’s not much senior chemical engineering student Taylon Owens can’t do. Of course, if you ask him, his modesty shines through. He credits his soon-to-be alma mater Prairie View A&M University with providing support and a launching place for what’s sure to be a stellar career for a