Southern University Alumni Chicago Chapter "Windy City Jags"

10/21/2021

Windy City Jags Check out our Scholarship Recipient Bennie Lloyd. We are proud of you SON! Keep doing great things on the yard. www.windycityjags.com/Scholarships

10/19/2021

Windy City Jaguars, Family, and Friends the SUAF Chicago Chapter will be participating in the HBCU College Fair at Chatham Academy on Tuesday October 26th from 12-3pm. Please join us. Geaux Windy City Jaguars.

10/15/2021

Meeting Notice! SUAF Chicago Chapter "Windy City Jaguars" will be resume our regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 4pm. Check your email for Zoom information.

10/13/2021

Good news for Southern University System.

We understood the assignment... for the fifth consecutive year! Enrollment has increased 7 percent overall, with a nearly 17 percent increase in first-time freshmen. This class represents more 40 states in the U.S., including Louisiana, with 63 parishes represented. Nearly 30 countries around 🌍 are represented.

For more, go to subr.edu.

10/06/2021

This is so awesome, the Southern University Agricultural and Extension Center does great work.

Southern University and A&M College animal science assistant professor Jodi Morton and LSU AgCenter social media strategist Anna Ribbeck harvested their first alligators this past weekend with the help of Swamp People’s Daniel Edgar.

The alligator hides will be tanned and the ladies will get to take home delicious alligator meat for consumption. Ribbeck says she will use some of the meat in an alligator sauce piquante for the LSU vs University of Florida football tailgate!

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) implemented an alligator management program in 1972 that has been recognized internationally as a wildlife conservation success story.

The goals of LDWF’s alligator management program are to manage and conserve Louisiana’s alligators as part of the state’s wetland ecosystem and provide benefits to the species, its habitat, and the other species of fish and wildlife associated with alligators. Management includes both wild harvest and alligator farming.

Licensed alligator farmers collect alligator eggs on private lands and incubate and hatch those eggs under ideal growing conditions. Those hatchlings are transferred to secure facilities and raised until they reach 3-5 feet in length.

Alligator farmers are required to return roughly 10% of their alligators to the wild to ensure a healthy and sustainable alligator population.

Since the inception of LDWF’s alligator management program in 1972, more than 1.1 million wild alligators have been harvested, more than 11 million alligator eggs have been collected, and roughly 7.3 million farm-raised alligators have been sold.

Consumptive (meats and hides) and non-consumptive (wildlife watching) use of the alligator resource in Louisiana brings hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to the state each year. A portion of that revenue is invested in the management of wetland habitats across the state.

Learn more about LDWF's alligator management program: https://bit.ly/AlligatorManagement

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09/24/2021

Geaux Windy City Jaguars!!!

Congrats to alumna Dorothy Brown Cook on her induction into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc.! The induction is today at 5:30 p.m. CT and can be viewed at https://bit.ly/3ATx9nv. For more about Cook and her fellow inductees, go to subr.edu.