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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Many of us have seen “Akeelah and the Bee,” the movie about an African-American girl from Los Angeles who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. How many know that Saint Augustine’s University has its own version of that movie? We can call it, “Bettie and the Bee.” Bettie Closs […]
Students at Saint Augustine’s University often study about faraway places. But in one course this spring, students will actually go far away. HON 220, a course taught by Assistant Professor Moses T. Alexander Greene, ends with a trip to London and Paris. There are six students enrolled in the three-credit […]
Akera McPhaul has provided more than her share of athletic talent to Saint Augustine’s University. The sophomore from Greensboro has played three different sports this year. In the fall, she was an outside hitter for the volleyball team; during the winter she was a guard for the basketball team; and […]
Today is “double vote day” in the competition to win funds from Home Depot for school projects. Saint Augustine’s University is competing with other historically black colleges and universities to win a $50,000 campus improvement grant as part of The Home Depot’s Retool Your School program. The funds would be used to […]
The long-awaited food kiosk opened this morning in the Prezell R. Robinson Library. The kiosk sells coffee, drinks, muffins and other assorted snacks and convenience foods and will function as “grab and go” facility. Despite the limited menu, the kiosk was eagerly awaited especially because the Grill — the only […]
To honor Women’s History Month in March, we present a profile of a famous SAU alumna. Ready to play the Saint Aug’s version of Trivial Pursuit? Who is the graduate who helped designed something almost every American above the age of 5 has owned? It is something that many people […]
Austin Keith’s says he has trouble completing assignments that require internet access because Saint Augustine’s WI-Fi is often more crawling than lightning fast. “The internet is so slow sometimes I have to go somewhere off campus to finish my work.” Keith said. It may sound like an excuse, but Keith’s […]
Saint Augustine’s University has never has a lot of food options, so students and staff were excited in December to hear news of two new upgrades: An expanded and renovated Grill on the second floor of the MLK Center with more and better offerings, and a kiosk offering sandwiches, snacks, […]
A company co-owned by former tennis great Andre Agassi made a heavy donation to the Saint Augustine’s University athletic department on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. A truckload full of weight equipment from BILT by Agassi & Reyes was unloaded on campus Monday afternoon. The items, worth approximately $100,000, featured quad […]
