Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott made a big splash in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Tag: Clark Atlanta University
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Each CAU student to receive free laptop at start of Fall semester
Each of the 4,000 students expected to enroll next month at Clark Atlanta University is to receive a Dell laptop computer upon returning to campus in August. Dell Technologies is providing the computers as part of its 2030 Social Impact Plan to promote Inclusion.
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Invest Atlanta, Clark Atlanta end dispute; $4.14 million for damaged historic building
But it will cost much more than $4.14 million to fully restore Gaines Hall.
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Long silent bells at Clark Atlanta University to ring on Easter, recognize COVID-19
Clark Atlanta University will ring the long-silent bells at Harkness Hall on Easter Sunday morning in a celebration that honors the culmination of Holy Week and recognizes those touched by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tribute is to be broadcast via the school’s page on Facebook.
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Fire damages historic building owned by Clark Atlanta University
Fire has damaged Furber Cottage, a boarded-up 1899 building that started life as a dormitory at what was then Atlanta University.
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Invest Atlanta reaches legal settlement with CAU; fate of Gaines Hall still unclear
The city of Atlanta’s Invest Atlanta has settled a lawsuit with Clark Atlanta University over a property dispute involving land that used to belong to Morris Brown College – including the historic Gaines Hall.
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Clark Atlanta’s president wants university to be economic engine for Westside
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 20, 2018
For Clark Atlanta University President Ronald Johnson, July 1 will be a major milestone.
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Ron Johnson, president of Clark Atlanta University, to step down
Clark Atlanta University President Ronald A. Johnson submitted his resignation Friday after a meeting with his board of trustees.
Johnson was named president of Clark Atlanta on March 31, 2015. The historically black college celebrated its 30th anniversary as a stand-alone institution on July 1, the same day that Johnson marked his third year as CAU’s president. In 1988, Clark Atlanta was formed as a result of a merger between Atlanta University, founded in 1988, and Clark College, founded in 1869.
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The Power of “We” – The Atlanta University Consortium (AUC)
Note from John Ahmann: The Atlanta University Consortium (AUC) by definition demonstrate the power of We as the world’s largest consortia of African American private institutions of higher education. These constellations of institutions have long served as an anchor for the Westside and have had an incredible impact morally, economically, and politically on not only […]
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Historic Gaines Hall crumbles while Invest Atlanta seeks to stabilize it
Exactly three years ago, a fire damaged the historic Gaines Hall on the golden hill on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Then Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed pledged to save Gaines Hall.
Now three years later, little has been done to stabilize, much less restore, Gaines Hall, built in 1869.
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Georgia Supreme Court rules in favor of Clark Atlanta and against Invest Atlanta in Morris Brown land sale
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Clark Atlanta University over ownership of former Morris Brown College land – virtually exhausting Invest Atlanta’s legal options on the case.
The Georgia Supreme Court reaffirmed last year’s ruling by the Georgia Court of Appeals, which agreed that Clark Atlanta had legal right to the Morris Brown property.
