International: Page 60

Cornell’s African Degree Program Creates New Model For International Educational Cooperation

Cornell University and Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia have signed an agreement that could create a new model for how U.S. colleges and universities can export their expertise to poor nations where it is needed most.

International Panel to Address Latino Education at Annual HACU Conference

An international panel of experts will discuss critical issues for Hispanics in higher education as part of the annual meeting of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) set for Oct. 20-22 in Chicago.

Grants and Gifts

The AMERICAN BAR ENDOWMENT, a nonprofit sponsor of group insurance and charitable giving programs for the more than 400,000 members of the American Bar Association, has donated $3.7 MILLION to improve the ABA Fund for Justice and Education. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the regents of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA have received $7.5 MILLION […]

Haslams donate $10M to UT-Knoxville for academics

KNOXVILLE Tenn. A $10 million gift to the University of Tennessee’s main campus announced Tuesday will be used to support its acclaimed forensic anthropology and Renaissance studies programs, endowed professorships and honors scholarships that include study abroad.

Cornell’s African Degree Program Creates New Model For International Educational Cooperation

Cornell University and Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia have signed an agreement that could create a new model for how U.S. colleges and universities can export their expertise to poor nations where it is needed most.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Best & Brightest: Community College Grad Competes with the Best

In an auditorium brimming with a sea of the country’s brightest young scholars attending prestigious universities like Georgetown and the University of California, Berkeley, Tiffany Dang recalls looking around, and asking herself, “What am I doing here? Am I really at their level?”

Cornell’s African Degree Program Creates New Model For International Educational Cooperation

Cornell University and Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia have signed an agreement that could create a new model for how U.S. colleges and universities can export their expertise to poor nations where it is needed most.

Lobbying for Inclusion

How history is recorded is usually dictated by who records it. Because like all writers, historians, whether writing a book or filming a documentary, approach it from their own point of view.

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Dr. Cedric Page has been named executive director of the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos. Most recently he served as dean of faculty at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Page holds a bachelor’s from Syracuse University and a master’s and doctorate from Rutgers University. Dr. Chellu S. Chetty has been named dean of graduate studies and […]

For international student, having two roomies no big deal

NEOSHO Mo. Living in a foreign land isn’t always easy.

Sudanese MSU student sets up project to educate country’s women

MURRAY Ky. Gabriel Akech Kwai was 7 years old when his father was murdered in Northern Sudan. His home country was then divided during a civil war that eventually forced him to travel with the 33,000 other Lost Boys of Sudan to Ethiopia and later to a Kenyan refugee camp.

Fall 2007 OSU system shows increases in Hispanic, Native American enrollment, but overall system enrollment declines

STILLWATER Okla. Lower high school graduation rates, increased admission standards and stiff competition from neighboring universities caused a slight decline in enrollment across Oklahoma State University’s five campuses.

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