Yasha Washington - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:44:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Yasha Washington - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 RECAP: Howard University Responds to COVID-19 Outbreak https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/04/09/recap-howard-university-responds-to-covid-19-outbreak/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recap-howard-university-responds-to-covid-19-outbreak Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:12:49 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12703 By Yasha Washington, Staff Reporter The Howard University Department of Public Safety released a public health alert regarding the coronavirus on Jan. 24, 2020, informing the campus of the then fairly new respiratory disease originating from Wuhan, Hubei province of China. It had been four days since the first U.S. case of the coronavirus was […]

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]]> 12703 Trustee Leslie Hale Calls Howard’s Charter a ‘Revolutionary Document’ https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2020/03/12/trustee-leslie-hale-calls-howards-charter-a-revolutionary-document/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trustee-leslie-hale-calls-howards-charter-a-revolutionary-document Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:00:35 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12613 By Yasha Washington, Staff Reporter While looking back through 153 years of groundbreaking and world-shifting history, convocation speaker Leslie D. Hale considered Howard University’s founders and their thoughts when signing the charter. Highlighting and emphasizing Howard’s legacy, Hale questioned whether the signers ever anticipated such prominence and greatness from the institution that they helped to […]

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]]> 12613 The Hilltop Struggles with Changes in News Industry https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2019/10/10/the-hilltop-struggles-with-changes-in-news-industry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hilltop-struggles-with-changes-in-news-industry Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:59:45 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12217 By Jaylin Paschal, Editor-in-Chief, Donovan Thomas, Campus News Editor and Yasha Washington, Staff Reporter The Hilltop, Howard University’s student newspaper, was effectively shut down for the first half of the fall 2019 semester after a nearly $280,000 budget deficit was reported at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. The financial problems and resulting publication […]

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]]> 12217 State of the University: Students Assess University’s Strategic Plan https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2019/10/10/students-assess-universitys-strategic-plan-howard-forward-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=students-assess-universitys-strategic-plan-howard-forward-2024 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:00:37 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=12168 By Yasha Washington, Staff Reporter President Wayne Frederick unveiled Howard Forward 2024, the university’s five-year strategic plan to strengthen Howard’s academic model and improve the institution overall at the start of the year on Jan. 25, 2019. The plan consists of five pillars or strategic priorities to achieve five separate goals: Enhance Academic Excellence, Inspire […]

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