Edward Waters announces it will build first on-campus dorm since 1982

Florida’s oldest historically Black university will build its first dormitory in four decades because of financing secured through the Rice Financial Products Co. Edward Waters University announced Thursday that $25 million in financing from the Rice Capital Access Program will fund portions of the $33 million in capital improvements that will be made at the New Town-based campus. The city of Jacksonville allocated $2 million in its 2026 budget to help the university erect a track and fiel