Retired U.S.Air Force Maj.
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Mark Brown, president and CEO of Tuskegee University in Alabama, is bringing forward a "professional educational environment" to one of the nation's most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).Students will be required to bring a business suit and shoes to campus for business-like meetings and cannot dress unprofessionally in the classrooms or cafeterias.Head coverings will also be barred, with exceptions for those that serve religious or medical purposes."The university has developed a new policy for student attire on campus, classroom attendance, and cell phone use in classrooms," Brown wrote in a message to students.
"Tuskegee students now have a dress code for public and professional places.""The Student Handbook requires students to arrive on campus with a business suit and proper shoes for a business meeting," the message said."Students are prohibited from wearing revealing clothing in class, to the cafeteria or in official settings like Convocation.
They are also not able to wear bedroom shoes, bonnets, or du-rags to class or the cafeteria."MICHELLE OBAMA ACCUSES MEDIA OF WEAPONIZING FASHION TO 'DIMINISH' HER AS A CAMPAIGN THREATRetired Major General Mark Brown was commissioned through the ROTC program at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, and entered active duty in 1986.He has served in comptroller, command and staff positions at all levels of the Department of Defense, including two staff assignments working directly with the legislative branch of government.
His global experience includes serving in the Philippines, Spain, England, Turkey and Iraq.(U.S.
Air Force)The Alabama school is also restricting revealing and sexually explicit clothing as part of a broader push to prepare college students for the workforce."The goal here is not meant to restrict you from enjoying the Tuskegee Experience, but to prepare you with a solid foundation for the workforce you will enter once you leave Tus...