Winston-Salem State Launches $3 Million Economic Mobility Research Center

Winston-Salem State University will examine challenges and possibilities for economic development in the eastern part of its city and throughout Forsyth County, thanks in part to a $3 million grant […]

NC Passes Connect NC Bond; HBCUs to Receive $190 Million in New Facilities, Renovations

North Carolina’s public HBCUs will receive more than $190 million in construction funding, thanks to state residents passing a $2 billion referendum on higher education and public works funding.

That Time Someone Called in a Bomb Threat to the CIAA Tournament

HBCU Gameday brings us a vintage CIAA moment; the time when someone called in a bomb threat to the Greensboro Coliseum to help their chances of watching Winston-Salem State’s Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe play.

Bennett, Winston-Salem State Sign Health Sciences Articulation Agreement

A new agreement between Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and Bennett College – both historically black institutions – is designed to help improve diversity in health care fields in North Carolina.

Black Colleges Join National Initiative to Re-Imagine the First Year Experience

Several public historically black colleges have been named to a national pilot program which seeks to redefine the first-year experience for college students.  Fayetteville State University, Harris-Stowe State University, North […]

WSSU Receives $351,000 Heart Disease Research Grant

A Winston-Salem State University research team will use a mobile app as one of the tools in a three-year $351,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the risk factors of Cardiovascular disease (CVD) among African-American college students.

New Initiative Guarantees Admission to WSSU Masters, Doctoral Therapy Programs

A new “assurance agreement” – the first of its kind offered at a historically black university – guarantees admission into the university’s DPT program for WSSU exercise physiology students who maintain at least a 3.4 GPA and meet the other normal admissions requirements.