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Friday
January 2013
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Pennsylvania, Students
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Monday
September 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Lincoln University (Pa.), Pennsylvania, Sports
In a mistake-filled game that clearly was the first of season for both teams, Cheyney University can lay claim to being the first and best HBCU of Pennsylvania for the second year in a row.
Led by a swarming defense and 207 yards of rushing on offense, the Wolverines spoiled Lincoln University’s first game at its new campus stadium with a 34-21 win Saturday afternoon in the annual “Battle of the first.”
“We were confident in what the coaches were going to do to get us in position,” said senior linebacker Thomas Stewart who recorded 6 solo tackles, 1 assisted tackle, a sack and an interception on a busy afternoon. “They put us in the position to make plays and that’s what we did.”
Tuesday
July 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Pennsylvania, Sports
Cheyney University last week announced a self-imposed postseason ban on all sports. University president Michelle Howard-Vital said the ban, along with the vacation of wins in affected programs, was in response to an internal investigation that revealed a number of athletes competed for CU in 2011 without eligibility clearance from the NCAA. From the university’s statement:
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Monday
July 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Funding, Grambling State University
The Department of Education recently released its updated College Affordability and Transparency lists. Publication of the lists is mandated by the Higher Education Act, and is part of the federal government’s attempts at helping students and families better compare costs of different higher education providers.
A secondary purpose of the lists is to, in effect, praise (and promote) schools with low costs and low rates of inflation and shame schools with high costs and high inflation rates. Not only are the names of these schools publicized widely, but schools with the highest costs and inflation must submit a report to the Secretary of Education detailing the reasons for the increases and any cost-containment measures they plan to take. But in looking at the public schools on the lists, it is clear that the real shame should be directed at statehouses across the country.
Thursday
June 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Pennsylvania, Students
A Cheyney University student who sent Twitter messages threatening a “Virginia Tech/Columbine-like” incident on campus has been released on $250,000 bail.
Sean Kennedy Kirk, 26, is barred from the campus without approval from university officials, and faces a preliminary hearing on June 21. A condition of his bail has also blocked him from accessing Twitter.
Thursday
June 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Pennsylvania, Students
Cheyney University today confirmed contact with a student who threatened ‘Columbine and Virginia Tech’ like violence, and officials say that the campus is under no threat.
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Tuesday
April 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Headlines, Pennsylvania, Sports, Students
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Cheyney University last week honored its student athletes with a ‘mock tail’ at the home of university president Michelle Howard-Vital. The event was held to recognize national student athlete day.
Those students that were recognized included the 42 student-athletes that had a cumulative grade point average above a 3.0, 28 student athletes that were on the Dean’s List (3.5 of higher) for the Fall 2011 semester plus an additional 18 student athletes that earned above a 3.25 last semester.
Traditionally celebrated on April 6 every year, the Cheyney University celebration was pushed back a week due to the holiday.[/mpoverlay]
Friday
March 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Headlines
Cheyney University last night hosted legendary poet, activist and scholar Dr. Maya Angelou to its campus last night, who shared anecdotes and wisdom with a capacity audience in the school’s Marian Anderson Music Center auditorium.
Thursday
March 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Alumni, Cheyney University, Features, Headlines
Cedric Perry is an alumnus of Cheyney University and executive producer of the popular web series, “We’re Just Talking.” The latest and perhaps best series to focus on life an culture at historically black colleges and universities since ‘A Different World,’ Perry recently shared his motivations to create WJT, his own HBCU experiences and designs on the future.
Tuesday
February 2012
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Headlines, Sports
Cheyney University yesterday announced Ken Lockard as its new head football coach. Lockard last year served as interim head coach for the Wolves, and has been with the school since 2008 as defensive coordinator.
Lockard served on a number of important roles in the Department to assist in the University’s reinstatement of the NCAA rights and privileges. He was the researcher on the President’s Task Force that completed the NCAA mandated Institutional Self Study Guide; he served on the Compliance and Academic Committee and completed his first year as Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) Co-Advisor. To date, the group has raised the most money in the Department for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Monday
November 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Sports
The Cheyney University men’s basketball team showed a little rust in their season opening contest against arch rival Lincoln University inside Temple University’s Liacouras Center in Philadelphia Friday night.
With virtually an entirely new team, the Wolves fell to the Lions, 65-56, in the 21st annual “Battle of the Firsts” rivalry between the nation’s two oldest historically black universities. All-PSAC East selection Sharif Bray, along with David Burton, Bruce Kennedy and Rob Townsend, graduated, leaving few experienced players on the Wolves roster.
Wednesday
November 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Sports
Cheyney University senior Tim Hume was named PSAC East Defensive Player of the Year by the conference coaches.
Hume, a Susquehanna Twp. High School graduate, led the conference in tackles for loss with 21.5 and led the Wolves with 6.5 sacks.
The senior defensive end was also credited with 62 tackles. A captain of the 2011 Wolves, Hume ranks sixth in the country in tackles for loss at 1.95 per game.
via Cheyney’s Tim Hume PSAC East Defensive Player of the Year | PennLive.com.
Tuesday
October 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, HBCU Grants
A Cheyney University professor received a $1.75 million grant to help recruit, retain, train and graduate underrepresented minority students recently.
Professor Adedoyin M. Adeyiga of the university’s Natural and Applied Sciences department was awarded by the grant through the National Science Foundation Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program Implementation competition.
Titled “Building Excellence and Access through Research,” the grant award’s project goal seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minority students entering and graduating from science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, a university press release stated.
Wednesday
October 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Health
Equipment seized from a Philadelphia-area marijuana operation is going to be used to grow a different kind of herb — and vegetables, too.
Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green tells The Philadelphia Inquirer the equipment taken in May from a sophisticated marijuana growing operation will go to Cheyney University and a Philadelphia community development corporation’s Urban Food Lab.
Authorities say the raid at a former Chester drugstore yielded industrial generators, grow lights and hydroponic plant containers.
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Seized Pot Growing Equipment Given To Pennsylvania Food Lab | Fox News
Monday
September 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Sports
Courtesy Cheyney Sports Information
It was the first collegiate coaching victory for interim head coach Ken Lockard. It was the first victory in the season opener for the Wolves since 2000 (32-22 over Glenville State). It was the first victory over Lincoln in ten tries as Cheyney claimed the Battle of the Firsts 21-19.
“I was proud of all the guys today,” stated Lockard. “We were pumped up right from the opening whistle which probably accounted for a bunch of penalties. However, no one let it get them down. We just kept on playing the specials really delivered as did the defense when the game was on the line.”
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Cheyney Earns Firsts………
Monday
June 2011
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Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Cheyney University, Funding
Tucked away on Page 593, midway through Gov. Corbett’s budget proposal, are two lines that would mean little to most readers, but that could spell trouble for hundreds of students and graduates of Cheyney University.
The spending plan would eliminate all funding for the Cheyney Keystone Honors Academy and the Bond-Hill Scholarships, two student-aid programs that last year together received about $2.4 million.
Both were established as part of agreements in the 1980s and ’90s between the state and the federal Office for Civil Rights, in an effort to erase the vestiges of segregation by enhancing programs and educational opportunities at the university.
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2 Cheyney University scholarship programs face loss of state funds | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/13/2011
