StaffLeadership & PolicyMeharry President to Assume PresidencyDr. John E. Maupin Jr., president of Meharry Medical College, and the first Meharry alumnus to hold the top office in the college…March 22, 2006HomeProfessional AppointmentsJamar Banks has been named director of the Office of Academic Support and Intercultural Services, as well as head of the Culture Center at the University of Nebraska. He had been serving in an interim capacity. Banks earned a bachelor’s from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a master’s from the University of […]March 22, 2006StudentsGrants & AwardsBucknell University (Pa.) will receive $416,640 to establish a wireless Internet network as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Cameron University (Okla.) received $4 million from the McMahon Foundation as part of the university’s Changing Lives campaign. The grant, the largest in Cameron’s history, will go towards […]March 22, 2006StudentsUniversity of Arizona Millennial Project Begins Longitudinal Study on DiversityThe University of Arizona has launched a four-year longitudinal study centered on collecting attitudes about diversity from the Millennial Generation…March 21, 2006HomeTrinity College Hosts First Islam Awareness WeekThe Trinity College Muslim Students Association will hold their first annual Islam Awareness Week beginning April 3, entitled…March 21, 2006StudentsHBCU Students Work to Lift Spirits in the Gulf CoastA number of students from Morgan State University are traveling to New Orleans in a humanitarian effort to help improve the lives of citizens in the area who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina…March 21, 2006HomeStanford University Cuts Tuition for Students From Low-Income FamiliesFamilies with annual incomes of less than $45,000 will not be expected to contribute to the cost of tuition at Stanford University, and the requirements for middle-income families will be cut in half…March 19, 2006Leadership & PolicyCase Western Reserve University President Resigns After No-Confidence VoteDr. Edward M. Hundert, president of Case Western Reserve University, submitted his resignation Wednesday night to the University’s Board of Trustees. Hundert’s resignation will be effective Sept. 1, 2006, allowing the Board to take the necessary time to select a president…March 19, 2006StudentsStudy Finds Massachusetts Merit Scholarship Program Not Likely to Promote College AccessA new study, by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University’s Center for the Study of Higher Education finds that the newly-created…March 16, 2006Asian American Pacific IslanderColumbia University Honors Outstanding Coverage of Race and EthnicitySeventeen news organizations were recognized as “best practice” award winners on the coverage of race and ethnicity in the eighth annual Columbia Graduate…March 16, 2006Previous PagePage 15 of 46Next Page
