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Paige Davis ’23 is no stranger to scholastic excellence. The rising JCSU senior from New Jersey has a rich background in educational achievement. 

This summer is much more than “business as usual” for two JCSU computer science majors. 

Hannah Anderson ’23 and Paige Davis ’23 are spending a week of their summer at Harvard Business School participating in the university’s Summer Venture Management Program in Boston. This distinguished program accepts only 180 students each year and is aimed at increasing diversity and opportunity in business education and global commerce. 

A team of students from JCSU wowed the judges so thoroughly at this year’s HBCU Battle of the Brains last month they were selected as the NFL Favorite and were chosen to participate in this year’s NFL Draft.

Keiona Marshall ’22 was awarded a $5,000 scholarship by the Philadelphia Foundation, the organization which oversees the Luther and Mary Ida Vandross Scholarship. It is the highest amount awarded for the scholarship.

Johnson C. Smith University and Gaston College officially joined forces today to help their students achieve their goal of a Bachelor’s degree. In a signing ceremony held this morning at the Johnson C. Smith University campus in Charlotte, both college presidents, Clarence Armbrister of JCSU and Dr. John Hauser of Gaston College, signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding outlining a new relationship which will enable qualified Gaston College graduates to have direct-entry admission to Johnson C. Smith University to pursue their degree.

Two years after its conception, the Red Ventures Road to Hire partnership with Johnson C. Smith University is preparing for its third cohort of students. In 2019, the University partnered with the Rock Hill, South Carolina, based company for a three-credit, two-semester digital marketing course in Metropolitan College of Professional Studies.

Today, leadership for Johnson C. Smith University and Central Piedmont Community College announced “JCSU Connect”– a new bachelor’s degree pathway that will expand college access to more students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond. This new collaboration is part of JCSU President Clarence D. Armbrister’s mission to help address the lack of economic upward mobility in Charlotte by providing local students a guided pathway to earn bachelor’s degrees from JCSU.

PsychologyDegreeGuide.org, a leading higher education research and resource provider in the psychology space, has announced its 2021 rankings for the top undergraduate psychology programs offered by the nation's best HBCUs. The company researched programs from around the nation to highlight the very best in this important field.

A new course gaining national attention is now being taught at Johnson C. Smith University. Rapsody’s “Eve” and Hip-Hop Feminist Literature is taught by visiting professor Dr. Tyler Bunzey, a UNC-Chapel Hill African American literature and hip-hop teacher.

This semester, McNair Scholar Aria Springfield ’19 presented her research at two different conferences, most recently at Rice University’s National Student Leadership Conference in Houston, Texas. Her research deals with the Lost Cause Narrative and it’s perpetuation through historical tourism in Charleston, South Carolina.