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Maine Infants Receive $500 College Nest Egg

If you give birth in the state of Maine, your infant will get $500 in a tax-advantaged college savings account, announced the Harold Alfond College Challenge in December.

January 9, 2008

HBCUs

Grants and Gifts

Clark College’s Corporate Education (Wash.) unit has been awarded a $31,000 Job Skills Program (JSP) grant to provide training for Southwest Washington Medical Center. The grant will provide training for 25 SWMC directors, managers and supervisors on the topics of lean health care, training the trainer and leading change. The Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative has […]

January 9, 2008

Community Colleges

University of Arizona Checks Legal Status of Students Under Proposition 300

TUCSON, Ariz. The University of Arizona has reviewed the legal status of 877 students identified as potentially ineligible for in-state tuition under a state law aimed at illegal immigrants, but cleared most of them.

January 1, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Reveling in Retirement

After two college presidencies, Dr. James Hefner is taking time to pursue his avocations, while still in demand within academia.

December 26, 2007

International

Report: Minority Doctoral Recipients Gaining Momentum

Twenty percent of the U.S. citizens awarded research doctorates from American universities in 2006 were ethnic minorities, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center and an assortment of government agencies.

December 26, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Reveling in Retirement

After two college presidencies, Dr. James Hefner is taking time to pursue his avocations, while still in demand within academia.

December 26, 2007

Students

Grants and Gifts

California State Polytechnic University has received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to aid the university in producing more graduates specializing in cyber security. Educators will be able to enhance their curricula with this grant and encourage students to get into the new field. California State University, Northridge has received a $23,500 […]

December 26, 2007

HBCUs

Fisk Receives $3M in Grants; $1M Up Front

NASHVILLE Tenn. Financially-strapped Fisk University took a big step in its fundraising efforts with the announcement that it will receive grants totaling $3 million. The school announced Wednesday that the funds will come from the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which awards grants to historically Black colleges and universities, among several other endeavors. Fisk […]

December 12, 2007

Health

Grants and Gifts

Meharry Medical College-Center for Women’s Health Research (Tenn.) has received a $1 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The funds will help advance work in diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. Michigan State University has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help seasonal and migrant worker youth […]

December 12, 2007

Students

Tom Joyner Foundation to Launch Full Ride Scholarship Program for HBCU Students

For one lucky student planning to attend a historically Black college or university next fall, the Tom Joyner Foundation is willing to pick up the entire tab.

December 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Golden News Nuggets

With nearly 500 degree-granting institutions in the state of California, Diverse couldn’t cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots.

December 12, 2007

Health

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007