Trei Oliver Named Southern Defensive Coordinator

Southern University head coach Dawson Odums formally announced the hiring of former North Carolina A&T assistant coach Trei Oliver as the Jaguars new defensive coordinator Thursday.

Southern Pledges New Controls For Supervisors' Scholarship Program

In response to a new audit urging the Southern University System to tighten its oversight of a board member scholarship program, system president Ray Belton says he will recommend the supervisory body create more specific criteria for the awards and review current practices.

Louisiana Gov. Elect to Keynote Southern Commencement

Only weeks before he officially takes office as the fifty-sixth Governor of the State of Louisiana, Governor-Elect John Bel Edwards will address the Fall 2015 graduating class of Southern University Baton Rouge, Friday, December 11, 2015, in the University’s F.G. Clark Activity Center, at 10:30 a.m. 

Yesterday's HBCU Pride is Today's HBCU Irrelevance

Hall of fame pro football talent from the 1960s through the early 1990’s has not landed one HBCU a top-25 recruit in the last 20 years. And over that same period, hundreds of iconic graduates of HBCUs in a variety of industries have not helped HBCUs to remain as the premier destination for the nation’s top-achieving African-American students.