by Pamela Maize Harris | 28 March 2025 | Oakwood University’s Board of Trustees has announced Gina Spivey-Brown as the new president of Oakwood University. The Board of Trustees of Oakwood University TODAY is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gina Spivey-Brown, Ph.D., RN, MSA, FAAN, FNAP, FADLN as the 12th president of Oakwood […]
by Pamela Maize Harris | 27 March 2025 | Oakwood University’s Board of Trustees is expected to announce its choice for president at any minute. According to sources familiar with the situation, three candidates have already interviewed and a vote has been taken by the Board, who has kept everything as secret as possible, skipping […]
1 May 2024 | Oakwood University claimed victory at the 35th Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) on April 12, 2024, earning the national championship and a $100,000 grant for their institution, according to NAD News. The event, celebrated as the foremost academic competition for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S., saw Oakwood […]
1 February 2024 | WAU Honors College Takes Students to The Hague International Model UN Conference “The Washington Adventist University (WAU) Honors College will lead a delegation of 18 high school students to The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) conference in The Hague, Netherlands. The students are all from Columbia Union academies and will […]
8 January 2024 | In recent months, a group of Oakwood University’s alumni and former faculty have been calling for increased transparency and accountability from their alma mater. The group, identifying themselves as the Concerned Oakwoodites (CO), has recently intensified their demands, calling for the resignation of the university’s president, Dr. Leslie Pollard. The group, […]
6 July 2023 | Local Church Hosts Forum on Gun Violence in Apopka, Florida “Amid the rising tide of gun violence in Orange County (OC), Florida, United States, nearly 60 public citizens, neighborhood activists, police officers, pastors, and civic leaders gathered at Patmos Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church in Apopka on April 19 to seek ways […]
From ANN, May 18, 2016: “And here I am,” said Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. at the Oakwood University Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. “I used to be a point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, had those little shorts on, and I was doing my thing. I was happy, but I wasn’t fulfilled, […]