Benedict College Career Development Services hosted our partner UCOR on February 22 and 23, 2023. UCOR conducts federal supersite cleanup activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the Y-12 National Security Complex and East Tennessee Technology Park. It acts as the Department of Energy’s prime contractor for environmental cleanup. UCOR has hired two Benedict […]
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Biden administration’s achievements on broadband internet access during a visit to South Carolina, recently minted as the site of Democrats’ first presidential votes of the 2024 campaign. In Monday’s trip, her fourth to the early-voting state since becoming vice president, Harris lauded more than $175 million being spent to help
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NORFOLK, Va. – Nine jazz ensembles from Historically Black Colleges and Universities competed in Norfolk, Saturday, for the chance to open for jazz great Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The competition inside Chrysler Hall was judged by Marsalis and other musicians from his group, including trombonist Vincent Gardner, a native of Hampton.
“Devoted to the Goal” by Sarah Windmueller As a college athlete, standout student, and one of the first Army ROTC Cadets from Benedict College to branch aviation in over 30 years, Corey Witter knows he wouldn’t be where he is today without family. After losing his mother to breast cancer at the age of 14,
COLUMBIA , S.C. (WACH) — On Tuesday afternoon, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz visited Columbia, South Carolina, to celebrate new funding from the National Park Service’s History of Equal Rights grant program. She was joined by local elected officials and community members including Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann. Estenoz announced a $130,000
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – The Benedict College football team was honored today at the South Carolina State House for their historic year. The Tigers went 11-1 this past season, winning the 2022 SIAC Division II Championship. The team was led by Coach Chennis Berry and was the program’s first-ever SIAC championship win. Senator Darrell Jackson,
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Thomas Grant Jr. | Coladaily.com “Fantabulous” is how Benedict College Director of Bands H. Wade Johnson has described the past year. Serving as the ’12th man’ during the football team’s undefeated regular season and NCAA Division II playoff game to performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York City, the adjective simplifies in one
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By Chris Trainor Passionate warrior. Bridge builder. Mentor. Those are just a few of the words and phrases community members are using following the death of former longtime Richland School District 1 board member and Columbia community leader Vince Ford, who died Tuesday night after a brief illness. From 1992 to 2016, Ford was an
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Harlem honored the HBCU Benedict College Marching Band of Distinction in the plaza at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Building. The 250-plus marching Tigers Band will represent the HBCUs in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Hon. Al Taylor, Kenneth Woods, the Hon. Robert Rodriguez, the Hon. Cordell Cleare, Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis, the
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Benedict College’s marching band will be performing in this years Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Benedict’s marching band is called “Tiger Band of Distinction” and they gave a preview in Harlem of their performance. They were selected by the Macy’s parade band committee to perform. New York City Mayor Eric Adams had some encouraging words for
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