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Students

Florida Congresswoman Introduces Anti-hazing Legislation

Students who participate in hazing could forever lose their financial aid under proposed legislation announced Thursday by U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, D-Fla.

September 20, 2012

STEM

Heinz Award Honors UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is one of five winners of the Heinz Awards and is honored for exemplary work in the human condition category.

September 13, 2012

Students

Scholars, Lawmakers Call for Greater Focus on Recruiting, Preparing Engineers of Color

Engineering deans at many minority-serving institutions are among those calling for a new national initiative to help MSIs and urban public universities increase the number of engineers of color, whom they say are critical to the nation’s future economic growth.

September 12, 2012

Community Colleges

Commentary: Community Colleges – An ‘Unsung’ Source of America’s STEM Talent

Some 1,200 community colleges in the U.S. enroll more than 8 million students yearly, which is 43 percent of all undergraduates.

September 10, 2012

Leadership & Policy

Forum: College Degree to Remain Sound Investment in Growing Global Economy

A college degree continues to be a worthwhile investment, but institutions of higher learning must adapt to new realities to remain viable, said panelists at a forum on higher education’s role in the global economy.

September 6, 2012

Faculty & Staff

900 Jackson State Students Getting iPads

Nine hundred Jackson State University students are taking part in a program in which they will receive iPads for school work.

September 4, 2012

Opinion

Asian-Americans and Philanthropic Giving: Implications for Higher Education

This post is co-authored with Nelson Bowman III, the Executive Director of Development at Prairie View A&M University and is on based research for our forthcoming book Engaging Diverse College Alumni: The Essential Guide to Fundraising (Routledge, 2013). Asian-Americans are the second fastest growing minority population in the United States after Latinos.  Between 2000 and […]

August 20, 2012

Students

Experts: Streamlining Employee Benefits, Increasing Student Credit Loads Among Ways to Reduce College Costs

The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training heard expert testimony Wednesday on how colleges and universities can reduce institutional costs and lower student tuition.

November 30, 2011

Students

Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program

Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.

November 22, 2011

Home

Grant to Fund Pre-school Prep Project at Jackson State University

Jackson State University, a historically Black university based in Jackson, Miss., is launching a project to help parents get children ready for school.

November 16, 2011

Students

Lumina Foundation Launches Latino College Completion Initiative

The Lumina Foundation is giving organizations and colleges that are building a pipeline of Latino students and promoting college completion a boost with a four-year, $600,000 grant for each institution.

November 7, 2011

Faculty & Staff

College Prep Summer Programs Target Talented, Low-Income Students

Elite colleges team up to give talented yet impoverished youths the skills necessary to apply, gain admission and thrive at the nation’s most selective higher education institutions.

November 3, 2011