UNIVERSITIES HAVE SEEN HISTORIC JUMPS IN INTEREST HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. WESH 2’S VOLUSIA COUNTY REPORTER PAMELA COMBS CHECKED IN WITH BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY, WHICH IS SEEING SOME OF ITS BEST ...

Bethune-Cookman is a private historically Black university in Daytona Beach. Several HBCUs across the U.S. received threats ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida, with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls.” Eventually, that school, then called the Daytona ...

It was Shannon Walker's voice that got him in the door at Bethune-Cookman University in 2003. As a high-school choir singer, he visited what was then known as Bethune-Cookman College and met the ...