So you've got the diploma. You've had the party and opened the presents. You've put away the cap and gown for posterity. Now what? That's the number one question that graduates will ask themselves, says Ariane de Bonvoisin, author of "The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Life Change (and Loving Your Life More).
On May 1, 2008 in the Scott Dozier Dining Hall about 60 students, faculty, and staff of Norfolk State University, including President Meyers, came together to discuss issues and hot topics that are affecting the campus at the Town Hall meeting. Keisha Kirkland, the current Student Government Association President hosted the meeting, and all of the vice-presidents of each department on campus were in attendance.
Students, faculty, staff and concerned citizens and alumni gathered in the President's meeting room in the Wilson Administration building at Norfolk State University on Friday, May 2 at 3 p.m. The hot topic of discussion: the Hampton Roads Transit light rail system.
NEW YORK (AP) _ When Melissa Jenkins received her college diploma last year, she was ready to get on with life - and move in with her parents. The 23-year-old from North Reading, Mass., was saddled with student loans from her years at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and felt she had no solid career prospects.
Jaedda Armstrong, the editor-in-chief of Norfolk State University's Spartan Echo, is one of two winners of the 2008 Virginia Society of Professional Journalists scholarship award. She is the first NSU student to win this award. Armstrong, a junior mass communications major is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and she helped to implement the online edition of the Spartan Echo.
As the anticipation in the student union building lobby was high, both campaign supporters waited anxiously for the votes to be in. At around 6:30pm, screaming and yelling came from the lounge. Nathanial Chisholm, the newly appointed chief justice, full of excitement, ran out of the lounge and straight out of the student union building.
The sounds of smooth jazz wafted through the air as did the smell of delicious foods and the hum of pleasant conversations. Friends, family, and colleagues all gathered in celebration of man who served Norfolk State University and its student body. The celebration was held in the grand foyer of the L.
At Norfolk State's University's March 21 Board of Visitor's meeting, the open portion featured a presentation by Jayne Whitney, Hampton Roads Transit's senior vice president for Development, regarding the company's plan to build one of The Tide - Light Rail Transit's stations on the west side of Brambleton Ave.
The Norfolk State University Board of Visitors approved the proposed tuition and fees for the Fiscal Year 2009. It's a 4.47 percent increase for in-state undergrads, and a 3.48 percent increase for out-of-state students. Next school year, the full-time cost will rise to $5,560 a year for Virginia residents and $16,807 for out-of-state students.
There will be a 6.63 percent rise for in-state graduate students to $7,658.20 a year; out-of-state, 3.36 percent to $22,456.60.
