Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 30

Students

Private Institutions Seek Role in Obama College Completion Drive

In joining President Obama’s ambitious college completion initiative, a leading U.S. association of private colleges and universities has devoted part of its annual meeting to exploring the role private institutions can play in the quest to expand access and graduate more students.

February 2, 2010

Students

Private Institutions Seek Role in Obama College Completion Drive

In joining President Obama’s ambitious college completion initiative, a leading U.S. association of private colleges and universities has devoted part of its annual meeting to exploring the role private institutions can play in the quest to expand access and graduate more students.

February 2, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Struggling Through the Cuts

California students and faculty grapple with the effects of draconian state cuts to postsecondary education that have topped more than $1 billion in the last year.

February 2, 2010

Latinx

Obama Budget Plans More for Education

Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.

February 1, 2010

HBCUs

Grants And Gifts

The Danforth Foundation has awarded WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST. LOUIS) $30 MILLION to establish the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. The center will convene public conferences and lectures to address local, state and national issues related to religion and politics. NASA has granted FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY $1 MILLION to establish the Minority Innovation […]

January 20, 2010

HBCUs

Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases

Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.

January 20, 2010

Students

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

January 19, 2010

Home

Public Colleges Do Poor Job with Minority, Low-Income Students, Study Says

Many of the nation’s top flagship public colleges are “turning their backs” on qualified low-income and minority students, report says.

January 13, 2010

Students

GRANTS & GIFTS

The American Council on Education has given ALBRIGHT COLLEGE $200,000 for winning one of its 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility. The award will allow Albright to expand and enhance flexible career paths for faculty. The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND received $40,000 from the Kalliopeia Foundation for scholarships. The award will provide […]

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

NEUROBIOLOGY : Free To Express And Contribute

For Dr. Gonzalo E. Torres, scientific research — and academia in general — is about the freedom to break away from the herd.

January 6, 2010

Students

ENGLISH : Matters Of Culture And Community

Title: Associate professor of English, University of Minnesota Education: Ph.D. and M.A., anthropology, University of Michigan; B. A. Princeton University Age: 39 Career mentor: Toni Morrison Have you always wanted to be a writer? “If I wasn’t allowed to be me, I would be the musician Prince.” “Be unafraid! Strike out in new directions for […]

January 6, 2010

Latinx

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

December 23, 2009