AcademicsAdmissionsAlumniAthleticsCommunityDiversity CommitteeFaculty/StaffFoundationGeneralPresidentPress ReleasesQEPStudent AffairsStudent LifeStudentsWinning the Race Former Delta State University Student Confesses to Creating Racist Social Media Post about Herself Earlier today, a former Delta State University student confessed to DSU police to creating…June 11, 2020
AcademicsAdmissionsAlumniAthleticsCommunityDiversity CommitteeFaculty/StaffFoundationGeneralPresidentPress ReleasesQEPStudent AffairsStudent LifeStudentsWinning the Race Racist Social Media Posting Is a Hoax A recent social media posting with racist comments overlaying Delta State University’s name and…June 10, 2020
College of Education and Human SciencesCommunityDiversity CommitteeFaculty/StaffGeneralPress ReleasesQEPStudent LifeStudents Delta State University Receives $3,500 Grant from LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi for Safe Space Program Delta State University received a $3,500 grant from the LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi to…April 22, 2020
AcademicsAdmissionsAlumniArchives and MuseumCollege of Arts and SciencesCommunityDiversity CommitteeFaculty/StaffGeneralMississippi Delta National Heritage AreaPress ReleasesQEPStudentsWinning the Race Delta State University to Receive 2020 Elbert R. Hilliard Oral History Award from Mississippi Historical Society for Documentary on 1969 Campus Sit-In about Race Relations Delta State University will receive the 2020 Elbert R. Hilliard Oral History Award from…February 21, 2020
CommunityGraduate and Continuing StudiesQEP Mississippi Writer Ellen Ann Fentress to Lead Feb. 18 Discussion about Academy Stories, Her Online Project about Private Schools Established in South after U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on Desegregation On Feb. 18, 2020, at Delta State University, writer and journalist Ellen Ann Fentress…staffreportFebruary 10, 2020
College of Arts and SciencesDiversity CommitteeGraduate and Continuing StudiesPress ReleasesQEPWinning the Race Leading Authority on Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy to Speak at Delta State on Sept. 26 On Sept. 26, 2019, Delta State University will host Dr. Rhae Lynn Barnes for a…staffreportSeptember 10, 2019
Diversity CommitteeMississippi Economic CouncilPresidentPress ReleasesQEPWinning the Race Sixth Annual Winning the Race Returns March 24-26, 2019, Themed “Millennials in Motion: Channeling the Winner Within” Delta State University’s award-winning race relations conference, Winning the Race, returns to campus for a sixth year, March…March 15, 2019
Delta CenterDiversity CommitteeGraduate and Continuing StudiesMississippi Delta National Heritage AreaPress ReleasesQEPWinning the Race Julian Rankin, Author of Book about Mississippi Delta’s Ed Scott, the First Nonwhite Owner and Operator of a Catfish Plant in the U.S., and Scott’s Daughter, Delta State University Alumna Willena Scott-White, to Speak on Campus on Feb. 6 Julian Rankin, author of Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial…January 31, 2019
College of Arts and SciencesPresidentPress ReleasesQEP Delta State University to Host “Child Safety Summit” on Jan. 31 National, regional, and state experts in the prevention of child human trafficking will convene at…January 18, 2019
QEP Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. Recalls His Cousin Emmett Till Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. will speak about his cousin, Emmett Till, on Monday, Oct. 22…October 12, 2018