Delaware State students soon will have access to financial training throughout their college years and beyond. A four-year grant from Charles Schwab will allow Delaware State University to launch a Financial Literacy Institute that will work with thousands of students a year from high schoolers, to DSU students, to graduates. The goals are to help minorities learn more about how …
DSU students: Check your email. School is using $2.9 million to pay debt
For the second time in 2021, DSU will use COVID-19 cash to help pay off student debt. Delaware State University will spend $2.9 million of its federal COVID-19 funds to help students avoid piling up more debt to attend college. About 1,100 students will qualify for payments. Those who are Pell Grant-eligible, meaning they have exceptional financial need, will …
Capital One donates $4.7 million Wilmington riverfront building to DSU
Capital One donated this Wilmington Riverfront building to Delaware State University. Capital One, the company famous for asking credit card owners what’s in their wallets, just slipped a $4.7 million Wilmington riverfront building into Delaware State University’s back pocket. The finance company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, announced Thursday that it’s giving Delaware’s only Historically Black College and University its …
DSU’s Inspire scholarship helps daughter of firefighter killed in Canby Park blaze
Ardavia Lee is one of the Inspire Scholarship recipients. A bill on its way to Gov. John Carney will extend an scholarship program for qualified in-state students at Delaware State University by doubling what it now pays to cover tuition for a year. One of the scholars it will help is the daughter of a Wilmington firefighter killed …
DSU cancels $750,000 in debt for 200 graduating seniors
The Historically Black College and University will use federal COVID-19 money to pay for move.