Posts Tagged ‘John Silvanus Wilson Jr.’
Morehouse College president issues statement on Trump’s meeting with HBCUs
This week at least 80 current presidents of HBCUs gathered in the Oval Office to meet with President Trump. The meeting was really a photo-op for Trump’s new executive order on HBCUs titled “White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” The order, however, was almost entirely a cut…
Read MorePresident Barack Obama delivers commencement address to Morehouse College’s 2013 graduates: Transcript
Despite the Flash Flood warnings and the incessant rain, thousands cheered and sat patiently when President Barack Obama gave the commencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college in Atlanta, on Sunday, May 19. With his former White House aide on one side, John Silvanus Wilson, Morehouse College’s 11th president and Robert C. Davidson, chairman of…
Read MoreObama to speak at Atlanta college commencement in May
President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring, the college’s president said Saturday. The historically black men’s liberal arts college has just over 2,400 students enrolled and will graduate the class of 2013 on May 19. College President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. made the announcement Saturday at the…
Read MoreWhite House’s John Silvanus Wilson Shares Obama’s Vision, Support for HBCUs
“It is very important to recognize that this president stood by the Pell grant.”
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