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Homecoming will be here before you know it! Join us on campus on Saturday, October 14, 2023 as we celebrate homecoming!  

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Discover your future at JCSU's Fall Open House! Join us on October 28, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., to experience our vibrant culture, rich HBCU heritage, and your perfect academic haven. Your Future Shines Here! Register now!

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1,093
Students
#1 Private
HBCU
in North Carolina
15 NCAA
Division II
teams
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1,093
Students
#1 Private
HBCU
in North Carolina
15 NCAA
Division II
teams
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Counseling Services Receives Nearly $300,000 to Address Suicide Prevention Awareness

The Department of Counseling Services at Johnson C. Smith University was recently awarded the Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Awareness Grant to address mental health concerns on campus.

Tierra Parsons, director of Counseling Services at JCSU, says the nearly $300,000 grant will help the campus take a proactive approach to mental health. The grant announcement came just one day before the start of National Suicide Prevention Month, which began Sept. 1.  
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JCSU to Host Panel on the Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis

While most teenagers headed off to high school excited to see their friends and learn something new, Obaida Mohammad and his siblings were stopped daily at Israeli checkpoint crossings in Israel-Palestine. Mohammad and his fellow Palestinians experienced and continue to experience much more traumatic inconveniences than checkpoints. Through his lived experience of midnight raids of villages and homes, arrests without cause and extreme military presence and oversight, Mohammad decided it was time to start discussing the humanitarian crisis that is the continual displacement of the Palestinian people.
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Freshman Class Encouraged to Transform Silence into Language and Action at 2023 Convocation

Hundreds of new Golden Bulls joined together Thursday morning in the Jane M. Smith Memorial Church for Freshman Convocation.

The convocation, which is a rite of passage for all new Smithites entering the storied University, featured the bestowing of cords and pins as new students recited the honor code and received official greetings from their elected student leaders, administration and Dr. Valerie Kinloch, 15th president of JCSU.
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