PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 18, 2022) - About 300 degrees will be conferred during Prairie View A&M University’s 111th Summer Commencement Convocation. The ceremony will be held in the William “Billy” J. Nicks, Sr. Building (Baby Dome) on Saturday, August 13 at 9 a.m. for the University’s colleges and school. Roshunda Jones-Koumba ’03, ‘07 [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators will go to a drama teacher in Texas who argues that “musical theater has a unique way of bringing people together.” Roshunda Jones-Koumba, the theater director at G.W. Carver Magnet High School in Houston will receive the 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award on [...]
Caitlin Scott Caitlin Scott Hometown: Alexandria, Louisiana Degree: Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Social Studies 4-8 What internship(s) did you have while attending PVAMU? I worked with Mission Transformation, a nonprofit that focuses on providing educational opportunities to young men in inner-city Houston. Having this internship taught me [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 13, 2022) - As part of an effort across The Texas A&M University System to encourage students toward the teaching profession, chapters of the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE — pronounced “taffy”) have begun to spring up statewide. At Prairie View A&M University, the new TAFE chapter has both sprung [...]
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 [...]
Aldine ISD plans to open a leadership academy focused on closing the achievement gap for Black and Latino male students for the 2022-2023 school year, the district announced Tuesday. The Young Men’s Leadership Academy, a school of choice for grades one through eight, will seek to provide opportunities for boys of color to explore deeper [...]
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Blue lights will once again shine bright on Texas A&M University System campuses across the state Tuesday in recognition of World Teachers’ Day. The 11 universities in the A&M System, the RELLIS Campus in Bryan and the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) will illuminate a total of 30 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 5, 2021) - In recognition of World Teachers’ Day on October 5, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) celebrates the career and accomplishments of graduate degree alumna Sebrina Shields-Taylor ‘01, whose more than 25 years of experience has earned her recognition as a stellar student advocate. Sebrina Shields-Taylor ‘01 “The [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Summer 2021 Educational Administration Graduate Simone Jarmon traveled a long way from her hometown of Buffalo, New York, to pursue her Master of Education degree. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Canisius College in Buffalo, she decided to explore graduate programs at Historically Black Colleges and [...]
Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M universities will work together this fall to enhance graduate-level education through a five-year partnership. It launches with a teaching exchange program that will allow doctoral students of one college to teach at its partner institution to learn about their respective core undergraduate courses, according to a Friday release from [...]
