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Last December, Cheyney University announced that it would suspend football as a varsity sport, citing cost-cutting needs. In February, the school announced plans to launch rugby as a club sport […]

Cheyney University, the embattled HBCU which recently preserved its accreditation through an extension of its show-cause status, this week announced that it would discontinue football as a varsity sport.

Cheyney University will live for at least another year, after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education yesterday announced its extension of ‘show cause’ status for the embattled institution.

Show cause status is extended for the embattled, historic HBCU through 2018.

There is no coincidence that the Philadelphia Inquirer today published an exhaustive requiem on Cheyney University, one of the nation’s oldest historically black colleges and the campus most likely to […]

Days ahead of a critical accreditation vote by officials at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education which could determine the survival of one of the nation’s oldest historically black […]

Executives at Cheyney University say Interim President Aaron Walton is the ideal fit to lead the university out of massive debt and into the future.

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has alerted Cheyney University that it will forgive more than $30 million in state and system loans to the school, if the nation’s […]