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Faculty & Staff

Delaware Professor Awarded Competitive Fellowship

Rosalie Rolon-Dow, assistant professor of education at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for next year.

July 29, 2008

Students

Report: Large School Districts Fail at Graduating Black Males

States with a small number of African American students tend to have higher high school graduation rates for Black males than those with large African American student enrollment, according to a report recently released by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

July 29, 2008

Students

Scholar Pushes Faculty Diversity at Oklahoma Business Schools

But a diverse faculty is important to helping students broaden their perspectives, he said. “It better prepares them to work with any kind of person anywhere in the world.”

July 24, 2008

Students

Foundation Unveils Bilingual Scholarship Program for Social Work

A bilingual scholarship program that will offer up to $1 million to Spanish-speaking students at accredited graduate social work programs in Texas in the next three years has been approved by the he Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

July 15, 2008

Students

Awards and Scholarships for Latinos

Following are some recent awards and scholarships given to Latinos by various organizations in recent weeks.

July 15, 2008

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TOP 100 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREE PRODUCERS – INTERPRETING THE DATA

Two of three U.S. citizens or permanent residents are not people of color; that is, they are non-Hispanic Caucasians.

July 9, 2008

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Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS’ OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE has received a $1 MILLION endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation. EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY has received a $5,000 gift from Xcel Energy, an electricity and natural gas company, for the university’s Alliance for Minority Participation program. The AMP program provides students of color with scholarships […]

July 9, 2008

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Scholars Selected to Receive 2008 Fletcher Fellowships

The annual fellowship program established by financial executive Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, has named four scholars as 2008 Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellows, Fletcher announced Tuesday.

July 2, 2008

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Fisk Clears Major Stopgap Fundraising Hurdle

Fisk University, struggling to right its financial ship, cleared a major hurdle toward that goal last week with news that it has raised $4 million in unrestricted cash since December, allowing it to collect $2 million more in a challenge grant, pay past due bills and finish its fiscal year with a small surplus.

June 29, 2008

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Online Archive of Public Policy Research Launched

Scholars and researchers interested in gaining a wide audience, including mayors, state legislators, and other policymakers, for their public policy scholarship can turn to the PolicyArchive (www.PolicyArchive.org), a free comprehensive, online archive of public policy research.

June 29, 2008

Latinx

University Business School Programs Tap Into Hispanics’ Entrepreneurial Spirit

While corporate America translates advertising messages into Spanish and crafts culture-specific ad campaigns, Hispanics have continued to follow the path of past waves of immigrants and start their own businesses.

June 26, 2008

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Getting an Early Start

Outreach into Hispanic and underserved communities in middle and high schools is one way to get students thinking in a business-minded way at an early age. The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) developed its own entrepreneurial curriculum for high school students, and the curriculum has been translated into Spanish as well. “Our mission is […]

June 26, 2008