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Minutes before speaking to a Homecoming 2013 Ecumenical Service audience at Southern University, Bishop Joseph Walker, III, surprised officials Monday with a $10,000 donation to the school’s world famous “Human Jukebox” Marching Band.

TOPS is a program of state scholarships for Louisiana residents who attend either one of the Louisiana Public Colleges and Universities, schools that are a part of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, Louisiana approved Proprietary and Cosmetology Schools or institutions that are a part of the Louisiana Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Chancellor Dr. James L. Llorens and Dr. Barbara Carpenter, dean and professor for Center of International Affairs and University Outreach, were quoted in an article in the Sept. 26 edition of Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. The article, HBCU-Latino Connection, focuses on SUBR's effort to students from Brazil.

The Department of Behavioral Sciences will hold the 15th Annual Social and Behavioral Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union Cotillion Ballroom.

Southern University graduate, Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré will be one of a select group of people invited to participate in the “Hero Summit” being presented Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C., by the popular news website The Daily Beast.

It’s all good news from Southern University’s Army ROTC program. The SU AROTC is now top ranked among Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the AROTC’s 6th Brigade, topping units at schools including Grambling State, Florida A&M and Jackson State universities.

Welcome back for the 2013-14 academic year. We are well into the semester, but are still confirming our final enrollment numbers. We do know that this semester has been successful with the dramatic increase in First-Year Students.