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Naesoj Ware, president of the 65th Howard University Student Association (HUSA) announced earlier this month that she was resigning from her position. The next day she said it was all a hoax, but according to her, the announcement was never supposed to leave the room. 


On Tuesday, Nov. 4 HUSA held its monthly general body meeting and at the end, Ware informed the audience of department directors, sub department leads and HUSA staffers of her  unexpected decision. 


That night of the announc...

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For over 100 years, The Hilltop has written stories by Howard students, for Howard students. Our primary audience is the Howard community, the HBCU community and the Black community. As such, each story we choose to write is in the interest of these groups. When students were robbed at gunpoint on campus in January, we covered the incident. When a student died as a result of a car crash that occurred on April 11, 2024, we covered that. When a student won a scholarship fr...

The start of a new month brought a new leader to Howard University, as former president Wayne A.I. Frederick returned as interim while the Board of Trustees searches for a permanent successor.


Frederick served as the 17th president of Howard from 2014-2024. He holds three degrees from Howard, earning a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 1992, a Doctorate in Medicine in 1994 and a Master of Business Administration in 2011.


On the morning of his third day back, he met with student leaders to...

Howard University announced Friday that Ben Vinson, III, Ph.D., will depart from the University on Aug. 31, becoming the president with the shortest tenure at the school in approximately 150 years.


Vinson had the shortest tenure of any president since Edward Parmelee Smith, who served six months from Dec. 1875 to June 1876. A university spokesperson declined to comment “on personnel matters,” like the intended length of Vinson’s contract. 


According to the Howard University Board of Truste...