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(Talladega, AL) The Talladega College Board of Trustees authorized Talladega College President Dr. Billy C. Hawkins to employ a consultant to determine the feasibility of reviving the institution’s football program. Trustees voted in favor of conducting a feasibility study during the institution’s spring board meeting on April 30, 2021. Talladega seized the Black College Football National Championship in both 1920 and 1921. While the institution’s illustrious football program was canceled 80…

(Talladega, AL) Talladega College’s Class of 2021 valedictorian Amber Ellington completed her senior year online after COVID-19 struck her entire household. The determined biology major, who will graduate summa cum laude on Saturday morning, lives in a multigenerational home that includes her grandmother and her great-grandmother. “My entire family contracted Covid-19 in September. Fortunately, I was able to take my classes online, but I was so tired that it was difficult to focus,” said Ambe…

(Talladega, AL) Talladega College will confer three honorary degrees during its 146th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 1, 2021, at 9 a.m. Honorary degree recipients for the Class of 2021 include Executive Business Management (EBM) President/CEO Essye B. Miller, who previously served as principal deputy, Department of Defense chief information officer (CIO); acclaimed poet and social justice advocate Nikky Finney; and UNCF (United Negro College Fund) Senior Vice President Lodriguez Murray…

(Talladega, AL) Acclaimed scholar Dr. Karla FC Holloway ’71 delivered a poetic and inspiring message at Talladega College’s 2021 Alpha Chi Honor Society Initiation Ceremony and Honors Convocation. Her presentation, “When We Emerge,” charged students to make themselves ready for the path that will emerge when the pandemic ends. “As rooted as we might feel in this moment — bound to a pandemic — rootedness happens only because roots burrow and stretch. They slip downwards. They thicken. It may b…

(Talladega, AL) A study by Talladega College’s Dean of the Division of Business Administration, Dr. Jonathan U. Elimimian, and Tracey E. Elimimian, a graduate of Talladega’s Master of Science in Computer Information Systems program, has been accepted for publication in Management and Economics Research Journal. The father-daughter research team titled their paper “Analysis of Cybersecurity Functions: Issues of Integrity, Targeting Walmart as a Global Supply Chains Organization.” While nume…