Langston University News

Austin Lane will officially begin his role as new president of Lone Star College-Montgomery July 20.

Nikki Walker Warren is not a size zero. "At least not anymore," she said, chuckling.

Langston University will be part of a large fundraising campaign this month for historically black colleges and universities.

A $55.6 million budget has been approved for East Central University for the 2009-10 academic year that begins July 1. Dr.

Langston University, a land grant historically Black institution of higher learning founded in 1897, serves about 2,750 students at three campus locations in Langston, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Okla.

Many Oklahoma college students will get a break on tuition this coming school year, but student loan debt continues to be a problem.

Langston University will sponsor new charter schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa that will open this coming school year.

Supporters of Families with Sickle Cell Disease and Oklahoma Blood Institute Tulsa Center are partnering in a community blood drive to save lives and to raise awareness of the need for donations from individuals of all ethnic origins during the first annual World Sickle Cell Disease Day Friday.

The regents who govern Oklahoma State University are set to vote on a proposed $964 million budget for the OSU system.

The Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents will vote on Oklahoma State University's fiscal year 2010 budget at a regular meeting Friday.

Ceremony: 6 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2009, at the San Joaquin Room, Clarion Inn & Suites, 4219 E. Waterloo Road, Stockton Number of graduates: eight Valedictorian: Eddie Sauvao Salutatorian: Jake Te'o Commencement speakers: Sauvao and Te'o. Members of the school's board of directors also spoke, giving their memories of the school's namesake, who died ...

Oklahoma State University-Tulsa's trustees approved a $23.6 million budget Thursday and discussed the university's goals for the new school year.

Students will be getting a bit of a financial break this fall. OSU President Burns Hargis is not calling for an increase in tuition or fees in the budget OSU will submit to the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents this month.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. a ' A biomedical research group based at the University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded $18.5 million.

Two more state colleges are announcing they will freeze tuition and fees for the coming school year.

A South Carolina middle school student who caught the ear of President Barack Obama will have the opportunity to attend Langston University on full scholarship.

Langston University President JoAnn Haysbert has offered a full scholarship to a South Carolina girl whose letter requesting stimulus funds for her school was mentioned by President Barack Obama in his February address to Congress.

Langston University's department of rehabilitation counseling and disability studies has created a vocational rehabilitation program designed specifically for migrant and seasonal farm workers with special needs.

Topic: Headline News College News : Former Resident Is Graduated Published Online May 14, 2009 - 02:01 PM Email this to a friend Brittany Swank, formerly of Trenton, graduated ***** laude with a bachelor's degree in health promotion during spring commencement exercises on May 9 at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

You may see more charter schools pop up after the Tulsa school district dropped its lawsuit challenging whether the schools are constitutional.