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Gates Foundation gives Notre Dame $20 million to study malaria

SOUTH BEND Ind. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the University of Notre Dame a $20 million grant Thursday to support research aimed at evaluating and improving malaria control programs.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Board of Higher Ed gives tentative nod to president pay raises

MINOT N.D. Members of North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education are raising questions about new pay standards that would make the university system’s campus presidents eligible for hefty salary increases. One president compared the changes to being generous with a team’s coach while shortchanging its players.

September 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Perspectives: Birmingham News editorial on Alabama’s two-year college system

The discovery of a little-known foundation for Alabama’s two-year college system is further proof these kinds of private entities need more regulation.

September 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Grants and Gifts

Baltimore County Community College received a $25,000 grant from Civic Ventures, with support from the MetLife Foundation, to develop its “Prime 50+ Transition Program.” The program, an executive outplacement model, is designed to help African-American women over the age of 50 develop individual plans to transition into encore careers in public school education, health care […]

September 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Policy puts NDSU, UND presidents in line for steep pay rise

BISMARCK N.D. The presidents of North Dakota’s two largest universities would be paid at least $300,000 annually under new salary guidelines the Board of Higher Education is preparing to approve. The sum would represent a raise of at least 42 percent.

September 18, 2007

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Federal foundation give UH grant for conference

HONOLULU The National Science Foundation is giving the University of Hawaii $430,000 to hold a convention.

September 18, 2007

Students

North Dakota lawmaker: Be cautious with university presidents’ homes proposals

FARGO N.D. A proposal to build a new home for the North Dakota State University president might not sit well with the public, even though private money would fund the estimated $900,000 cost, a state lawmaker says.

September 18, 2007

Students

Nation’s largest school district wins top public education award

NEW YORK The nation’s largest school system has won the country’s top prize in public education that honors an urban district with the greatest student improvement and most success reducing achievement gaps among the poor and minorities.

September 17, 2007

Students

UH-Hilo offering financial aid to older students

HILO Hawaii Imagine going back to college in your late 20s or even your 30s or 40s to finish an undergraduate degree. There would be homework, tests and rubbing shoulders with much younger students.

September 16, 2007

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North Dakota higher education board committee looking at contracts of college and university presidents

BISMARCK N.D. North Dakota’s state Board of Higher Education is taking a look at the contracts of college and university presidents, with changes proposed in termination policies and foundation contributions.

September 16, 2007

Latinx

Accessing African-American Archives

The Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with Baltimore’s Afro-American Newspapers to open the 115-year-old newspaper company’s historic archives thanks to a $476,000 grant. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project will involve the university’s Center for Africana Studies and Center for Educational Resources at the Sheridan Libraries.

September 5, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007