The D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign is a program started by D.J's Music Site to recognize and honor all HBCU's in the United States by including an writing about their achievements, goals, and programs along with a Bio of the school's history. Every month D.J's Music Site will recognize an HBCU for their success in educating students for the future in higher learning by randomly pick from students who vote for their school thru poll or by tweeting #DJMSHBCUCampaign to @djmusicsite on Twitter.

November 2012 HBCU: Philander Smith College

Philander Smith College is a private funded, historically black college, four -year liberal arts career oriented institution supported by the General Board of Higher Education and a ministry of the United Methodist Church. Philander Smith student body current enrolls 750 students.

Philander Smith College was founded in 1877 under the name of Walden Seminary as a means of providing education opportunities for freed slaves west of the Mississippi River. The school was renamed Philander Smith College in 1882 to recognize the financial contributions of Adeline Smith, the widow of Philander Smith. The college was chartered as a four-year college in 1883 and conferred its first bachelors degree in 1888. In 1993, it merged to asserts of the George R. Smith College in Sedalia, Missouri, which burned down in 1925. In 1943, Philander Smith was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough became the 12th president at the age of 37 in 2004. At that time, he was dubbed the first college president of the hip-hop generation, and was the youngest HBCU president and one of the youngest college presidents in the nation. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough left Philander after the spring academic semester to become president of Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Johnny M. Moore is now the 13th president of Philander Smith.

Philander Smith is home of the green and white Panthers. The athletic department is apart of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC). Mens sports includes; basketball and Track & Field, and woman's sports include; basketball, cheer leading, track & field & volleyball. On February 12, 1989, Philander Smith ended the longest home-court winning streak in NCAA Division 111 woman's baseball history with a 92-89 victory over Rust College of Holy Springs, Mississippi

Other notables are: Philander Smith is known for their "Bless The Mic" Lecture Series. The Bless The Mic Lecture Series is a comtempory spin on the traditional presidents Lecture Series. These events, held on hundreds of campuses across the country, have been a way to stimulate the intellectual discourse on the campus. Even today, these series seek to bring in noted scholars, authors, political, and pubic intellectuals to expose not only the campus community to their ideas and concepts, but the broader community in which the institution resides

You can learn more about Philander Smith College by going to their website at www.philander.edu.