Two Texas Southern University students named as White House HBCU All-Stars

Posted By: Reginald Culpepper on August 23, 2016

Texas Southern University is proud to announce that Sekeia Wyatt, a third-year Thurgood Marshall School of Law student, and Kaleb Taylor, a Political Science major in his junior year, were recently selected as White House Initiative HBCU All-Stars for the 2016 – 2017 academic year.

Wyatt and Taylor will serve as ambassadors for the initiative developed by the U.S. Department of Education. LaRence Snowden, associate vice president of Development, along with Marsha Griggs, TMSL’s assistant dean of Academic Support and Bar Readiness, will serve as mentors for the Wyatt and Taylor.

TSU is one of only nine schools to have more than one All-Star for this academic year.
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