PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - 2021 has been a remarkable one for Prairie View A&M University, despite the continuous fight against COVID-19. PVAMU has continued to stick to its core values of achieving excellence, teaching, research and service. The university had many outstanding moments, from launches, historic donations, new initiatives, faces, buildings and championships. As we
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 2, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University is set to receive a boost that will make more historical documents available to researchers, students and the public. A team consisting of University Archivist Phyllis Earles, Special Collections Librarian Lisa Stafford and History Professor DeWayne Moore, Ph.D., has been awarded two highly competitive
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — In-person learning resumed at Prairie View A&M University at the end of August, and the campus was soon buzzing with familiar sounds and sights: freshmen laughing in the dining hall, students walking across the sprawling yard in between classes. There were also inescapable nods to our current era, like signs on
After George Floyd’s murder, Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University in Texas, made a commitment to students to advance their understanding of discrimination in the United States. That pledge included the creation of a Center for Race and Justice – which opened in March – and a new post for an activist-in-residence,
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 6, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has announced that scholar and co-founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of Black Lives Matter, Melina Abdullah, will be the university’s inaugural Activist-In-Residence for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Activist-in-Residence will be charged with teaching students more about their power as change agents
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 27, 2021) - “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” These are powerful words spoken by the late Toni Morrison, a prolific essayist, novelist, book editor, college professor, and the first African-American woman to win the Nobel
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 2, 2021) – A $4 million gift from The Brown Foundation, Inc. to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) will support President Ruth J. Simmons’ Strategic Initiatives, including the work of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. “The Foundation holds a steadfast belief in forging pathways to opportunity through education, and
A mural and memorial in Minneapolis near where George Floyd was murdered. The mural lists the names of other Black lives lost to police brutality and reiterates the importance of “saying our names.” One year ago, the nation turned its gaze from the rising pandemic and the subsequent financial fallout to witnessing a
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 26, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) formally launched its Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice this week. Melanye T. Price '95, Ph.D., Director Nearly one year ago, through an impassioned letter to the PVAMU community following the death of Houston native George Floyd, President Simmons
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 25, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) formally launched the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice on Thursday. The 2 p.m. program featured Columbia University Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ph.D., chair of African-American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, and Poet, Writer, and Endowed Professor of Creative