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African-American

Minority-focused STEM Funding Plan Raises Equity Concerns

A debate has emerged over science programs at minority-serving institutions and how best to prepare more students of color for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Loss of guaranteed funding and potential increased competition for NSF grants jeopardizes MSI programs, advocates say.

April 1, 2010

Students

Students Should Know Grad School Options Well, McNair Advisers Told

Advisers in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program learned last week they will need to impress upon their students the necessity for increased understanding of graduate school options.

March 29, 2010

African-American

Tech Savvy HBCUs Keeping Pace With Innovation, Others Lag

Closing the so-called digital divide is becoming less of a possibility for many HBCUs.

March 25, 2010

Home

TRIO Leader Says Freeze Puts Programs at Risk

Advocates for federal TRIO college access and support programs are disappointed that, in actions from the $787 billion stimulus package to a multibillion-dollar college aid package, there was little or no discussion of TRIO.

March 23, 2010

Students

Student Loan Reform Changes Necessary To Avert Pell Grant Crisis, Advocates Say

House approval of a student loan reform plan will help alleviate a potential crisis in the Pell Grant program as growing numbers of low-income students seek to access the program during this recession, higher education advocates say.

March 22, 2010

Latinx

Amid Bitter Health Care Debate, House Clears Student Loan Changes

After months of delays as education took a back seat to the health care debate, the House of Representatives Sunday night approved a mammoth bill that ties both issues together in a package that includes more support for Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions.

March 21, 2010

MSIs

Dems Unveil Scaled-back SAFRA Provisions, Attach It to Health Care Reform Legislation

Within the Healthcare and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, the higher education provisions contain many elements of the $87 billion Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) that cleared the House last year. The “new” SAFRA has less funding, as lawmakers reduced the scope of the bill to meet budget targets.

March 18, 2010

African-American

Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.

March 18, 2010

African-American

The Black College and Globalization

America’s Black colleges want to internationalize their campuses and send their students abroad, but inadequate access to resources keeps many of these institutions restricted to U.S. shores, according to a 2005 study by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) organization. On Thursday, NAFEO sponsored an International Day during its annual national conference in Washington to match international organizations and their programs with Black colleges and universities.

March 18, 2010

Leadership & Policy

College President in Akron Leads University and City Transformation

Dr. Luis Proenza is credited with revitalizing the University of Akron and bringing economic development to the university’s home city.

March 11, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Virginia HBCUs Struggle With Legal Opinion That Bars Protection for Gays

Virginia’s historically Black colleges and universities are reeling after a controversial legal opinion by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that would invalidate any policy erected by public colleges that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians.

March 9, 2010

Health

Grants And Gifts – Feb 4, 2010 Issue

The CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND professors Dr. Maria Knikou and Dr. Zaghloul Ahmed received grants totaling $1.7 MILLION for spinal cord injury research from the New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center for Spinal Injury Research Board. Knikou was awarded $1.4 million for research on the neural mechanisms underlying […]

February 3, 2010