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Southern University is expanding its footprint to downtown Baton Rouge through a partnership with Mentorship Academy. Entering into its second year, the partners signed a three-year agreement to share space at the Mentorship Academy which is located in a six-story downtown building and in an adjacent annex where additional student services are offered.

Southern University Shreveport, Thursday, August 17, 2017, cut ribbon on the first new classroom building on the main campus since the 1950s. The recently constructed $7.5 million, 36,000-square-foot learning facility is named in honor of the late State Senator Alphonse Jackson, a long-time legislator, community organizer, and Southern University advocate.

Jocha Gordon, a popular admissions counselor at Southern University Baton Rouge was presented the July

2017 "Above and Beyond" Award during the SU Board of Supervisors regular monthly meeting, July 21, on the Baton Rouge campus.

For the second time in two years, the Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) College of Nursing and Allied Health claimed a HBCU Award for "Best Nursing Program," and Cheryl Taylor, chairperson, Graduate Nursing Programs, and director, Office of Nursing Research won the "Female Faculty Member of the Year," honor, during an awards dinner, July 14, 2017, at the Gallup Building in Washington, D.C.

One African-American woman in STEM who has charted a path to a successful STEM-centered career is California-based GRI Technology Solutions, LLC President and CEO Charlotta Carter.

Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) broke ground on the new Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Building during a ceremony Friday, June 16, 2017, on the Park Campus, adjacent to the SUNO Gymnasium at 6400 Press Drive.

The June 2017 "Above and Beyond" Award recipient is a familiar face and name to many in and around the Southern University community. Angela Scott Gaines, SU Law Center facilities manager and technical support specialist for the Law Library, was recognized during the SU Board of Supervisors regular monthly meeting, June 16, at Southern University New Orleans.

South African Ambassador to the United States Mninwa J. Mahlangu delivered the commencement address for the Southern University Baton Rouge Spring 2017 commencement exercises, Friday, May 12, in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

Major L. Brock, assistant vice chancellor for student success at Southern University Shreveport (SUSLA), is the "Above and Beyond” Award recipient for April 2017.

Southern University Baton Rouge traffic guard Katherine Plant received the March 2017 "Above and Beyond" Award presented by the SU Board of Supervisors during its regular monthly meeting March 31 at the Solomon Episcopal Conference Center in Loranger.