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The Interim President of Shaw University, Dorothy Cowser Yancy, PhD and Lee Monroe EDd, Vice President Institutional Advancement and Sponsored Pro-grams, along with the Chairman: John I. Kester, PhD; Michael Umeadi, DBA, and Mr. Tom Poitier, MBA have announced plans that will expand Shaw University’s global relations and interactions. A Shaw University Information Center will be established in Africa’s most populous nation - Nigeria.

At this time, the information center is charged with the responsibility of dis-seminating information about Shaw University around West Africa, and recruiting international students. Shaw University offers an outstanding, unique opportunity for African stu-dents. Other such Information centers will be established in Qatar, the Repub-lic of Congo (Brazzaville) and Gambia.

Inside this issue:

Changes in the Social Sciences Department; Ella Baker Honored; Business Department in the Spotlight

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Shaw Creates SIMCP; Student Social Work Association Active

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Public Administration Students Get Net-

working Opportunity; Faculty on the Road; Students Make Pres-entations

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Honors College Goes Green; Mass Comm Students Travel to Event; SU Alum Shirley Caesar Starts Tour

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Shaw Sports News 6

December 1, 2009 Volume 1, Issue 1

Published by Shaw University’s Student Integrated Marketing & Communications Team Publisher/Advisor: Tanya Wiley Senior Editor: Rachel Weathers Assistant Editor: Brittney Hicks Sports Editor: Javar Gerald Business Reporter: Darius Swift Graphic Designer: Angelique Colen Advertising: Alicia Hill Photographers: Sherri Fillingham Angelique Colen Javar Gerald Social Media: Javar Gerald Kristen Brown Researchers: Brittney Hicks Angela Wilson Alicia Hill Tamika Johnson Anthony Turner

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(Raleigh, NC) The Institute for Health, Social, and Community Research (IHSCR) at Shaw University has been awarded a five-year research grant for $4,116,437 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). The grant will be used to implement The Shaw NCMHD Research Infrastructure in Minority In-stitutions (RIMI) Project.

The RIMI Program is designed to establish a research capacity-building in-frastructure program, with benchmarks for training students, and develop-ing a cadre of clinical, biomedical and behavioral research scientists who possess the skills, knowledge and abilities to engage in leading, cutting-edge and innovative research and training that will ultimately contribute to reducing and eliminating health disparities in the United States. The RIMI Program encourages the facilitation and integration of teaching and re-search at predominantly minority-serving academic institutions, with the aim of developing sustainable research programs, and enhancing the overall quality of the educational experience for students in the life sciences and related areas.

By: Rachel Weathers

The Social Sciences Department is under-going a few changes that will improve its overall function and operation. Faculty are creating a new inter-communications system so information will be easily transferred from one professor to another. With this new system more committees will be established to assist in creating ideas for the Social Sciences department.

Students need to be aware that the department wants all Shaw Bears to succeed, and so it recommends that students should go to class regularly and be on time; get involved on campus and in the community; and study with a purpose! By completing these three tasks, students will be victorious in all their future endeavors.

The primary purpose of the Social Sci-ences Department is to provide stu-

dents with a liberal arts education that enables them to initiate employment ca-reers or to pursue their education in gradu-ate or professional schools.

Students of the Department will attain fundamental knowledge of the basic con-cepts, principles, theories, research meth-ods, and skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Students will also de-velop awareness about the value of life and commitment to human principles.

Changes in the Social Sciences DepartmentChanges in the Social Sciences DepartmentChanges in the Social Sciences DepartmentChanges in the Social Sciences Department

Spotlight on Shaw University’s Business DepartmentSpotlight on Shaw University’s Business DepartmentSpotlight on Shaw University’s Business DepartmentSpotlight on Shaw University’s Business Department

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Darius Swift, a Junior Business major interviewed the head of Shaw University’s Business Department, Dr. Mma Kalu. Q: What are the new events occur-ring in the Business Department? A: The first Wednesday of every month we host a guest speaker from Morgan Stanley. He provides practi-cal insight and relates it to the real world.

Q: What’s new about the business de-partment? A: Tupper has been renovated with new lights, tile, windows, blinds, and etc. Q: What are the future plans for the business department? A: We are now working with Raleigh Tech Center, which is an “incubator” - a place where small business owners work to develop their businesses until they are big enough to be out on their own. This will allow Shaw Students to work with

small businesses and see what it takes to build from the ground up. Q: Is there any information that the busi-ness department wants to share with stu-dents? A: The business department wants the stu-dents to know that we are accredited. There was speculation that we are not accredited and this is not true. We also want students to know that we are revising the curriculum to better accommodate their desires and needs.

By: Brittney Hicks

Shaw U Theater Department performed a Tribute to Ella Baker (Shaw Alumnus) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T Uni-versity refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of sit-ins in college towns across the South. SNCC was created on the campus of Shaw University two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. Shaw’s theater department will also be presenting a play entitled "Home Girls" by. Karen L.B. Evans. The play is a fictional depiction of the creation of the SNCC. There will be a 50th Anniversary Conference to commemorate the April, 1960 founding of the SNCC at Shaw University.

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Shaw Creates Innovative Learning OpportunityShaw Creates Innovative Learning OpportunityShaw Creates Innovative Learning OpportunityShaw Creates Innovative Learning Opportunity

by: Rachel Weathers

Shaw University Students are now exploring a new way of learning through the newly formed Student Integrated Marketing and Communications Program (SIMCP). The Marketing and Pub-lic Relations area, under the direction of Tanya Wiley, is charting new ground by training and developing students (all students are referred to as Associates) to become business leaders and entrepreneurs. Associates learn beyond the classroom through internship opportunities, but more importantly, they receive real world training in this two semester program.

“Our student Associates learn to balance classroom instruction with work, day-to-day student activities, and the other things that come with being a college student,” says Wiley. “This is a new and exciting program not only for Shaw University, but for HBCUs in general. We hope to make this a model for other colleges and universities to follow.”

Shaw University students are receiving practical training in marketing, advertising, public rela-tions, consumer behavior, writing, creative design, and general business planning, that prepares them for careers in the integrated fields of advertising, public relations, brand communication, direct/database marketing, social marketing, and e-communication. Students from all depart-

ments are invited to apply for the program.

“This program is enabling students to think critically about the world by opening their minds to different opportunities,” said Britt-ney Hicks, a junior student and Associate with the SIMCP. “A student can be a chemistry major but they will come to understand how to perform research, and use their major to assist with further developing programs from a marketing and communications point of view.”

The new SIMCP has taken Shaw University’s teaching methods and incorporated them into this program. Marketing and good public relations is critical to the growth of any business or organization. Proper marketing helps to create value because now the audience understands the needs of its customers and is able to provide them with innovative products and services. By allowing students with varying majors to join this program, the Marketing and Public Relations department will be better equipped to cater to the needs of the students, faculty, alumni, staff and ultimately the community.

“We are opening up opportunities for these Associates that they otherwise may not have been exposed to,” said Yolanda Reseigne, who serves as an Executive Marketing and Sales Associate for WCP Communications. “These young people are managing strategic campaigns, learning basic business principles and ultimately utilizing these skills to further the marketing and public relations ef-forts of the university.”

The Associates are developing their own teams outside of SIMCP which will provide them with valuable management experience.

“If other HBCUs were to follow the lead of Shaw University the benefits would be endless,” said Javar Gerald, who is also an Asso-ciate in the SIMCP. By using the SIMCP model, Shaw University will attract more students, encourage higher alumni giving rates and garner the support of the corporate community.

Shaw University is charting new ground with this program. There are very few institutions of higher learning that have Student Integrated Marketing and Communications Programs. Harvard University only has a Marketing and Consumer Product and Ser-vices Club, and other schools have their own schools of business which focus on marketing and public relations. For Shaw Univer-sity to be able to say that it has created something that Harvard does not have is not only exciting, but it is also innovative.

Photo by Sherri Fillingham

The Shaw Student Social Work As-sociation (SSSWA) is working hard to make the Wake County area bet-ter for those who have less. Members of the SSSWA collected 354 cans of food for the homeless and hungry in

Wake County.

They are also planning a so-cial for December 4 where each person attending will bring a toy to donate to the Salvation Army in order to make Christ-mas happier for children in the area.

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and Community Research department were given the opportunity to pre-sent their summer research at a national conference.

The Jamaica Mon interns, Akeem Banks, Natieka Green, Kalada Kienka, and Aliya Massey, all presented in the Tenth Minority Access National Role Model Conference.

Minority Access, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization which provides support to individuals, colleges and universities, Federal, State and local governments, private agencies and corporations, to diversify their campuses and work sites by improving the recruitment, retention and enhancement of minorities.

This year, Minority Access gave away cash rewards to the top presenters in different categories. Two of Shaw University’s Honors College students, Natieka Green and Kalada Kienka, were awarded $1,000 each for placing first in PowerPoint presentations and Poster presentations.

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By: Dominique Johnson During the month of September twelve student research-ers from Shaw University’s Institute for Health, Service

Public Administration Students Receive Networking OpportunityPublic Administration Students Receive Networking OpportunityPublic Administration Students Receive Networking OpportunityPublic Administration Students Receive Networking Opportunity

Approximately 75 students matricu-lating in Public Administration classes took advantage of the oppor-tunity to meet with representatives of WEB-D.

WEB-D founders and representatives are minorities employed at the ex-ecutive/manager level throughout

corporate America.

Their mission is to inform, develop and recruit outstanding students in HBCU’s.

This is the second consecutive year that they have visited Shaw University. Domi-nique Broadnax, a Shaw grad (Class of ‘08) interned, received and accepted a

permanent job with Bank of America as a re-sult of the WEB-D program.

This year’s WEB-D representatives were Lynn Fairbanks, CPA, VP Loans and Collections Business Support Mgr., Bank Of America; Steve Clincy, Income Tax Mgr., CAN, Inc.; Jermaine Simmons, a Bank of America VP and a Shaw Graduate.

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When not in the classroom, a number of Shaw faculty members spend their time sharing insight, wisdom and ex-pertise with groups throughout Wake County and the nation.

Dr. Derek Greenfield, Assistant Pro-fessor of Sociology, has crossed the country a few times to make a variety of presentations, speeches and panel appearances.

He has spoken on such diverse topics

as leadership, diversity, hip hop, motiva-tion, and grad school.

Locally, he has spoken before the NC State First-Year Programs, the NC Teach Pro-gram, Saint Mary’s School, NC Principal Fellows Program, Radio-One Media and Entertainment Conference, Capital Area Workforce Development Board Summer Youth Employment Recognition Event, and the NC Students Against Destructive Decisions Conference.

Nationally, he has spoken at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, LaSalle Univer-sity, Penn State University-Behrend College, California State University-Chico, and the Min-nesota Association of Alternative Programs Youth Conference.

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Monique Hosley-Hyman, Assistant Professor in Social Work, served as the graduation speaker for the Hope-Believe Recovery Program for Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD).

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The project, headed by Rachel Weathers, has made valiant ef-forts. However, it will take a while to get the entire campus on board.

Weathers and her team maneuvered around a few setbacks by recycling cardboard boxes, labeling them, and using the boxes to collect recyclables. Starting small, the project began by collecting plastic, glass, aluminum, and paper recyclables in the Honors House Villa and on the second floor of TOS Women’s residence hall.

Many students aided in the project by sorting their recyclables accordingly. After two weeks, it was time to deliver the recycla-bles and hopefully turn them in to collect cash, which would help finance other Honors College projects.

Despite visiting two recycling plants, HC was unable to receive compensation for the recyclable goods, but the materials were delivered. Honors College can now testify that it has taken steps toward helping to save our Earth!

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By: Elisa Wiah

Honors College has accepted the task of helping our Shaw community go green.

On Thursday, November 5, 2009, students majoring in Mass Communications

visited the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to attend a lecture series

for Mass Communications students throughout the area. The visit gave them an

opportunity to network with other students in their fields, and to hear a lecture

from Ms. Farai Chideya of NPR news.

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After six decades of singing gospel music, multi-award-winning music icon Shirley Cae-sar is still going strong.

Considered a pioneer and trendsetter in the world of music, she has not only changed the masses with her prolific music, but made a distinctive mark in the celebrity domain.

The legendary singer is expected to land in South Africa this week for a series of perform-ances in Johannesburg, Mpumalanga and Dur-ban. Despite the fact that she is celebrated as a

recording artist, Caesar also has a very strong academic background.

She is a graduate of Shaw University with a degree in business administration. For the full article visit http://news.za.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=150981884

She also received an honorary doctorate from Shaw University and another from South East-ern University for her sterling work as a pastor and role model.

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Phone: (919) 546-8269 Fax: (919) 546-8850 E-mail: twiley@shawu.edu Distributed as a Courtesy of Shaw University

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The two volleyball seniors were honored at the Senior Day game versus Saint Aug’s.

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Johnson finished seventh at the CIAA Cross Country Championship, earning her All-CIAA honors.

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The Shaw University Lady Bears have gotten off to a fast start this season - opening against three CIAA opponents and going 2-1 over that stretch.

The Lady Bears opened their season with a 70-55 win over Virginia Union. Saundra Proctor led Shaw with 20 points in that game.

The Lady Bears suffered their only loss on the season against a very strong Virginia State

team - picked to finish second in the CIAA Eastern Division - by a score of 70-58. Tani-sha McGaughey led the Lady Bears with 14 points against the Lady Trojans.

Shaw returned to its winning ways, easily handling Saint Paul’s with a 58-33 win. Jan’el Baxter had 17 rebounds for the Lady Bears, while McGaughey had 22 points in that vic-tory.

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The Shaw men’s basketball team has gotten off to one of its best starts in years - running off three straight wins against CIAA confer-ence opponents.

The Bears started the season with a statement win over Virginia Union - picked to finish first in the CIAA Eastern Division - with a come from behind 61-58 win. Rodney Cal-wood led the Bears with 21 points in that

game.

Calwood had a double-double (23 points and 11 rebounds) to help Shaw earn a convincing win over Virginia Union 80-62.

The Bears started the second half against Saint Paul’s with a 17-2 run and won easily, 85-67. Calwood again led the Bears in scoring with 28 points.

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Nine Shaw Bears were named to the All-CIAA football team, in-cluding five on the prestigious first team and Quintez Smith was named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year.

Bears named to the first team were Raymond Williams, RB; Smith, CB; Vincent Pacifico, P; Fred Sparkman, DL; and Edawn Coughman, OL.

Shaw players on the second team were James Duplessis, LB; Isaiah Thomas, DL; DeMarcus Roberson DL; and Markus McElveen, OL.

Smith and Thomas were also named to the South Team for the East Coast Bowl, an All-Star

(l to r) James Duplessis, Fred Sparkman, Raymond Wil-liams, DeMarcus Roberson, Quintez Smith, Edawn Coughman, Vincent Pacifico and Isaiah Thomas.

Lewis finished tenth at the CIAA Cross Country Champi-onship, earning him All-CIAA honors.

game played November 28.

Smith, along with De’Andre Okonji, WR; and Dwayne Moss, DL, were named to the HBCU Bowl which will be played December 19 in M<ontgomery, AL.