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Grants & Awards

Ashland University (Ohio) has received a $5 million gift from Dwight C. Schar, chairman and CEO of NVR, a home-building and mortgage-banking company. The gift will be used to fund the construction of a new College of Education building, which the university plans to name in Schar’s honor. The Association of African Universities (Accra, Ghana) […]

May 3, 2006

Grants & Awards

The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University (Ind.) has received a $400,000 grant from the Edmund F. Ball and the Virginia B. Ball Foundation that will allow the center to continue its semester-long immersive interdisciplinary programs. The university also recently received a $186,000 estate gift from the late J.D. Wickersham […]

April 19, 2006

Access to College for Low-Income, Minority Students Could Get Worse, Says Report

A new report warns that a number of factors at the federal, state and institutional levels are likely to converge in the coming decade…

April 13, 2006

Grants & Awards

Bronx Community College’s (N.Y.) National Center for Educational Alliances has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand upon its educational initiative in South Africa, which was begun under a previous Ford Foundation grant. New Linkages: Phase II will expand the projects’ scope from KwaZulu-Natal Province into the neighboring Eastern Cape Province. The […]

April 5, 2006

Study: Child Well-being Improving, But Education Still Lags

Children have shown few gains in educational achievement over the past three decades, a sour note in a broad social report card that also cites declines in drug use, pregnancy rates and crime…

March 30, 2006

Grants & Awards

Bucknell University (Pa.) will receive $416,640 to establish a wireless Internet network as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Cameron University (Okla.) received $4 million from the McMahon Foundation as part of the university’s Changing Lives campaign. The grant, the largest in Cameron’s history, will go towards […]

March 22, 2006

Asian American Pacific Islander

Columbia University Honors Outstanding Coverage of Race and Ethnicity

Seventeen news organizations were recognized as “best practice” award winners on the coverage of race and ethnicity in the eighth annual Columbia Graduate…

March 16, 2006

Univ. of South Carolina Earns ‘Very High’ Research Designation

The University of South Carolina continues to raise its academic profile with a $6 million federal grant for HIV prevention, and a designation by a leading education…

March 13, 2006

Community Colleges

Seven Colleges Receive Grants to Aid Transfer of High-Achieving Community College Students

Cornell University and seven other colleges and universities have received grants totaling $6.78 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to launch programs designed to help high-achieving…

March 9, 2006

Study: Strategic Matters Key Component

Intellectual capital and university collaboration, rather than just reduced costs, represent the key factors determining why U.S. and European companies locate research…

March 8, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Grants & Awards

California State University, Northridge’s College of Arts, Media and Communication received a $52,000 endowment from real estate investor Robert Barbera to support performances by music students. The endowment will be used to underwrite performances by the college’s major music ensembles, including the symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, Jazz A Band and the Northridge Singers. The College […]

March 8, 2006

Report: Americans and Venezuelans Lead the World in National Pride

When it comes to being proud about their country, people in the United States and Venezuela lead the world, according to a new report produced by the National Opinion Research Center…

March 2, 2006

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