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Advocates: Economic Stimulus Needed for Education Too

Education groups join chorus of industries asking for government help that will create school repair jobs and keep students enrolled in college.

December 10, 2008

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Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES, has received a $5 million grant from the Office of Education at the National Aeronautics Space Administration to further research and educational activities at the university’s Structures, Propulsion, Aerospace and Control Engineering (SPACE) Center. Cal State L.A. is one of seven universities to receive NASA’s Minority University Research and Education […]

December 10, 2008

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Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, POMONA, has received a $4.1 MILLION grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help the university address the national shortage of professionals ready to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The funding is intended to help Hispanic and low-income students enter the STEM fields. MONTGOMERY COLLEGE […]

November 26, 2008

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Adapting to the Era of Information

While some tribal colleges are working to give students access to the Internet, a digital divide persists.

November 26, 2008

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Advocates: Economic Stimulus Needed for Education Too

With the nation’s financial system in turmoil, many education leaders are calling for Congress and President-elect Barack Obama to earmark funding for schools and college students in a new economic stimulus package to help prop up the economy.

November 25, 2008

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Grants & Gifts

BENEDICT COLLEGE (S.C.) has been awarded a $937,480 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish and strengthen financial management, academic resources and endowment-building capacities as well as improve the school’s physical plants. EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION, an education think tank in Washington, D.C., has received a $1.49 MILLION grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation for […]

November 12, 2008

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Leading Higher Education Association Launches Veterans’ Initiative

As U.S. higher education prepares for the expansion of federal benefits for American service members effective Aug. 1, 2009, the Washington, D.C.-based American Council on Education is promoting educational opportunity awareness and helping institutions serve veterans on their campuses.

November 10, 2008

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Overcoming a Cultural Aversion to FINANCIAL AID

Reluctance to ask for financial aid forces many Asian students to make enrollment decisions based on college costs and affordability.

October 29, 2008

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Grants& Gifts

ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY has received $5 MILLION from the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for its Department of Biological Sciences. The funds will help build ASU’s new life sciences building, which will house the university’s new doctoral program in microbiology. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, has received a $750,000 grant from the […]

October 29, 2008

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Getting to Know Dr. Gregory Cajete

Dr. Gregory Cajete’s, current role as director of the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, presents an irresistible irony. Seated in the very same room in which this interview was conducted, he recalls a meeting there years ago with one of his former professors.

October 15, 2008

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Pell Grant Deficit: “The Mother of All Shortfalls

Pell Grant faces a shortfall as more people head back to school in uncertain economic times.

October 15, 2008

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MONEY AND MENTORSHIP

Benefactors of the University of South Florida Latino Scholarship Program support students in more ways than one.

October 15, 2008