Less than a year after its formal launch, the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) Healthy Houston Initiative (HHI) has unveiled its new mobile kitchen unit that will soon travel around the Houston area serving various communities.
Through its University Partnership Program, Chevron has committed $1 million to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) to establish the Chevron Leadership Academy. Fostering diversity, the new program will encourage student participation from business, engineering and science disciplines while promoting leadership ideals.
For those seeking to take their careers to the next level, Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) Executive MBA (EMBA) Program within the College of Business (COB) unlocks unlimited potential and opportunities for ambitious and experienced professionals, with or without a business background. A unique business leadership program offered in the Northwest Houston Center, PVAMU’s EMBA is the only self-supporting program [...]
Kishwar Joonas, Ph.D., an associate professor of marketing in Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) College of Business (COB), has won the prestigious Outstanding Woman Management Researcher Award. This is an award presented by the Association of Indian Management Scholars, or AIMS International, to foster excellence in education and encourage research in management.
This summer, Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business (PVAMU COB) launched the PV Summer Banking Academy (PVSBA) with a group of well-known partners from the banking industry. Partners include the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Texas Bankers Association, JPMorgan Chase, and Union Savings Bank of Cincinnati. The Summer Banking Academy provides four weeks of information [...]
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is spearheading a new multidisciplinary effort to help improve food security, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and social welfare in Africa. Led by Camille Gibson, interim dean of the College of Juvenile Justice, with the assistance of Godlove Fonjweng, executive director of the Office of International Programs, the Pacesetters Initiative will gradually link [...]
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Diversity Fund Houston (DFH), a micro venture capital (VC) fund created to invest in minority tech founders and provide opportunities for them to learn, scale and solve the challenges impacting their communities. Through this partnership, the university hopes to establish a program that introduces [...]
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) senior finance major Caleb Broach wants to retire at a young age. “I desire to have over 100 doors creating monthly cash flow for me,” he said. “Being financially free means that I’m able to be time-free and not on someone else’s time. I’ll be able to spend my time doing what [...]
Fifteen years ago, Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business (PVAMU COB) first attained accreditation by the prestigious Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International. This globally recognized accreditation program is considered the highest standard in business education, achieved by only 890 institutions around the world since it was founded in 1916. [...]
Newark, New Jersey graduate student Harun A. Jones’ ultimate career goal is to open up his own accounting firm to help small business owners. Armed with a bachelor’s in business administration and, come this spring, a master’s in accounting, both from Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), these degrees will help this first-generation college student get there in no [...]
