Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 23

Community Colleges

Education Advocates Facing Up to Budget Deal, Anticipating 2012 Fiscal Debate

Next year’s House plan contains more than $700 billion in cuts from labor, education, health and human service programs.

May 24, 2011

Home

Report: Income Inequality Poses Obstacle for Obama College Completion Drive

The U.S. will not reach the Obama administration’s goal of becoming the most college-educated country in the world by 2020 unless the country eliminates the income-based inequalities that cause a gap in degree attainment between rich and poor.

May 19, 2011

Leadership & Policy

$60 Million Grant Expected to Boost Bard College’s Civic Engagement Efforts

Bard College’s commitment to civic engagement received a huge boost with the announcement of a $60 million challenge grant from George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Foundation.

May 17, 2011

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Guggenheim Fellow Sachiko Murata Translating Chinese Text on Islam

A professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1983, Murata is translating and analyzing the cosmology, metaphysics and theology of the first known text on Islam written in Chinese, Wang Daiyu’s The Real Commentary on the True Teaching, published in 1642.

May 15, 2011

MSIs

U.S. Higher Education Confronts Historic Financial Challenges

Diverse brings together an expert panel to dissect the situation of public and private institutions and offer solutions. This is a two-part series.

May 10, 2011

African-American

Vicksburg Seeks to Turn Pioneer Black Education Scholar’s Home Into Museum

The Vicksburg (Miss.) Board of Mayor and Aldermen accepted transfer of the home of the late Dr. Jane McAllister from its current owner to restore it through a grant focusing on the preservation of the Civil Rights Era.

May 4, 2011

Students

Recent Law School Graduates Face the Tightest Job Market in Years

But amid lingering industry wide uncertainties, officials at some law schools are scrambling to ensure that underrepresented minorities get jobs.

April 20, 2011

Health

Grant helps attract underprivileged students to nursing careers

High school students in Washington State’s poorest legislative district get introduced to nursing careers, thanks to a new diversity grant from the federal Health Resources Service Administration.

April 17, 2011

Home

Perspectives: Reducing Internship Inequity

Many college students cannot afford to hold unpaid internships, even as employers increasingly expect them to do so.

April 17, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Debate Over Relevance of HBCUs Opens 37th NAFEO Conference

The president of Morgan State University uses NAFEO luncheon discussion to announce the school has won a contract to help manage research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, signaling how one historically Black university competes at the highest levels in science.

April 5, 2011

Health

Aetna Announces Funding for Research Projects Aimed at Reducing Infant Mortality Among African-Americans

Aetna and the Aetna Foundation today announced funding in support of three research projects aimed at driving down rates of infant mortality among African-American newborns, who are more than twice as likely to die in their first year as white infants.

April 4, 2011

Latinx

Look Broadly for Funds, Fed Official Urges

Hispanic-serving institutions must think beyond programs targeted just at HSIs, or minority-serving colleges, and look toward broader competitive federal grants open to all of higher education, says an Obama administration official.

April 4, 2011