The University of Memphis
Inside this issue:
CSA Update
2
ASA Update
2
Student Spotlight: Tatevik Minasyan
3
Board Member Spotlight: Margaret Scott
4
New ACSS Student Lounge
5
Special Areas of Interest: • Adult Scholarship Info • ACSS February Workshop Info • Pinnacle Info • Valentine’s Day • Black History Month Events • February Calendar
Volume 5, ISSUE 5
Adult & Commuter Connection February 2008
BLACK STUDENT ASSOCIATION HONORS MARK STANSBURY The Black Student Association will host its annual Black History Month Opening Reception on February 1, 2008, at 7 p.m. During the reception, Mark L. Stansbury will be presented with the Arthur S. Holmon Lifetime Achievement Award. This ceremony is the official kick-off for the University’s Black History Month events.
tion regarding diversity issues, the representative for the President at community function, and affiliated with the Hooks institute for Social Change. He joined the University of Memphis staff in 1989 as assistant to president Dr. Thomas Carpenter.
Stansbury has been a part of many organizations, including the NAACP, Leadership Memphis, the National Conference of Community and Justice, and the Memphis Race Relations and Diversity Institute. He also was Mr. Mark Stansbury Mark Stansbury currently the first person to receive the serves as Assistant to the President of the Campus Unity award. University of Memphis. He acts as a commuFor more Black History Month Events, nity and public relations intermediary for the please see page 6. President. He is also the source for informa-
Significant Black History Month Dates February 12, 1809: Birth of Abraham Lincoln. February 14, 1817: Date that Frederick Douglass claimed as his birthday. February 23, 1868: Birth of W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights leader and NAACP founder. February 3, 1870: 15th Amendment passes, granting blacks the right to vote.
February 25, 1870: Hiram R. Revels, first black U.S. senator, takes his oath of office. February 12, 1909: Founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). February 1, 1960: Group of Greensboro, NC, college students begin a sit-in at segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter.