The Atlanta University Center Consortium Shooting Incident Statement
The Atlanta University Center Consortium is aware of the shooting incident that occurred the evening of Aug. 20, 2019, outside the AUC Library. Our hearts and prayers go out to the students, their families and loved ones, during this extremely difficult time. They...
Atlanta University Center And Data Science: The Right Place At The Right Time
Introduction by John Ahmann, president & CEO, Westside Future Fund Our guest columnist this week is Todd Greene, executive director of the Atlanta University Center Consortium Inc. (AUC), the world’s oldest and largest contiguous association of historically Black...
UnitedHealth Group Announces Atlanta HBCU Partnership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UnitedHealth Group Announces Atlanta HBCU Partnership, $8.25 Million Investment in the Education of Future Data Scientists Investment funds Atlanta University Center Consortium Data Science Initiative Program expands access to...
AUC Strategic Vision Plan
The vision for the Atlanta University Center is to provide a connected community that celebrates and amplifies our unique institutions, leverages Atlanta’s dynamic growth, and is the focus of black thought leadership in America. It is a true live, work, learn, play...
Fireside Chat with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella
The Atlanta University Center: Atlanta’s economic mobility machine
“He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.” These words penned in the last century by the great American preacher, educator, and former Morehouse College president, the late Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, are...
AUC 2019 Commencement Ceremonies
As May approaches, students, faculty, and staff prepare for the season's pomp and circumstance marches through the country. The Atlanta University Center is no different. Beginning Saturday, May 18, 2019, the four Atlanta University Center Consortium member schools...
Spelman College Wins 30th Annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge and Morehouse Places Fourth
Torrence, California, (April 17, 2019) In front of a packed studio audience consisting of top HBCU students, school presidents, HCASC alumni and Honda associates, Spelman College took home the championship title and a $75,000 institutional grant at the 30th annual...
The Atlanta University Center Consortium Celebrates 90 Years of Collaborative Learning
Founded in 1929 when the leaders of six historically Black colleges and universities in Atlanta decided to form a consortium that would collaborate on programs, resources, and services, the powerful learning and research epicenter would produce some of the world’s...
How Dozens of Pro Athletes Came to Study Activism on a College Campus
At first, David Wall Rice wasn't wild about working with the National Football League. It's a hierarchy topped by white billionaire owners who are "trading and making money off of the backs of black men," said Rice, an associate professor of psychology and an...
Vote to Retool AUC Institutions
RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL IS 10 YEARS STRONG! AND, CELEBRATING IN A BIG WAY! What does it mean to be 10 years strong? Since 2009, The Home Depot’s Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program has invested more than $2 million to update, upgrade, and uplift HBCU...
Face to Face Engagement Opportunities
Dear Community Leader, The Atlanta University Center Consortium has demonstrated for decades its capacity to produce resilient, relevant, and engaged students who provide leadership locally, nationally, and globally. Through the intellectual capacity of our faculty...
Staycation AUC Spring Break
Hey AUC! Are you not getting “flewed out” for Spring Break? That’s okay, we are here to ensure you enjoy your STAYCATION! Join us here @ Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing Monday, March 11 @ 6 p.m. We are taking students on an expense paid trip to Main Event...
AUC Communiversity Engagement Catalog
‘Gender, Race and Inclusion in the Sports Media: Who’s In, Who’s Out and Who’s Still Left Out.’
The panel's moderator and five members were themselves a highly diverse and accomplished group ― men, women, gay, straight, black, white and Latino ― with noteworthy careers primarily in the field of sports communications. Moderator Tareia Williams is the Turner...