By Donell Maxie, MVSU Communications Director
Athletics in the Totten Family is a way of life, so it was given when Trasity Totten decided to become a basketball coach. The twist in her story is that she has been named a new assistant coach with the 91¿ì²¥ Men's Basketball Team.
By: Michael Coleman, MVSU Communications Intern
The Black Collegiate Gaming Association (BCGA) is kicking off summer with education and gaming by teaming up with seven HBCUs for the Corners to Colleges HBCU program.
91¿ì²¥ (MVSU) has partnered with the BCGA to assemble a gaming laboratory on campus for students to learn the preliminaries of gaming.
By Michael Coleman, MVSU Communications Intern
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded 91¿ì²¥ over $3.9 million to continue funding the Upward Bound I Program for the next five years.
MVSU’s Upward Bound I Program serves low-income and first-generation students at Amanda Elzy High School, Gentry High School, Greenwood High School, Holmes County Central High School, Humphreys County High School, Leflore County High School, and Thomas Edwards Sr. High School.
91¿ì²¥ has turned to a familiar face to take the helm of the Delta Devils athletic program.
Dr. Jerryl Briggs, Sr., announced today that Hakim McClellan, a Valley alum, is the school's new athletic director. Briggs expressed his excitement to welcome McClellan and his family back to MVSU. McClellan is expected to start his new role on June 15th.
Courtesy of Molly Minta, Mississippi Today
Incarcerated people at two prisons in the Delta will be able to start earning four-year degrees from 91¿ì²¥ this fall for the first time in more than two decades.
Jasalyn Lucas, Communication Specialist
Itta Bena, Miss- This summer, students from the Mathematics, Computer, and Informational Sciences (MCIS) Department of 91¿ì²¥ have promising internship opportunities with some top companies. MCIS students will be working with companies such as Google, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Camp Cobbosee, Twitter, and Apple. These MVSU students from the MCIS department include:
After being postponed in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SWAC Alumni Association Legends Awards and Roast, presented by the Southwestern Athletic Conference, is now back on the schedule, and two 91¿ì²¥ staffers will be honored.
LeChondia Nelson, MVSU Athletics Business Operations Manager, and Willie Totten, assistant football coach at MVSU, will be honored during the SWAC Alumni Association Legends Awards and Roast on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Birmingham, Ala.
The four-year journey for many 91¿ì²¥ students culminated on Saturday, May 7, at the Rice-Totten Stadium for the school’s 70th Commencement exercise.
By Donell Maxie, MVSU Communications Director
The reality of life is that no one truly knows the internal battles that individuals fight daily or the struggles many have endured to get to a particular place.
By LaTunya Evans & Donell Maxie
When John and Gladys McCall were informed that their then three-year-old son Jamarkus had autism, they were uncertain of his future.
Fast forward 18 years later, and the young man who was initially told he would probably be a C-student is about to graduate from 91¿ì²¥ with a 3.94-grade-point-average and a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication and graphic design.