Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 41

Faculty & Staff

Diversity Champions

Diversity — probably one of the most elastic and debated terms around today.

August 20, 2008

Latinx

Approved HEA Bill Offers More Aid for Low-income Students

Reauthorized Higher Education Act includes new funding for graduate programs at minority-serving institutions.

August 20, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Public Roles, Private Lives

Universities have become cognizant of the independent lives of presidential spouses, but it’s still a role these “accidental ambassadors” must grow into.

August 20, 2008

HBCUs

Taking Full Advantage Of Funding Opportunities

Many Black colleges have secured dollars for a variety of important initiatives, but one of the hurdles is just knowing which funding streams to tap.

August 20, 2008

Students

Grants & Gifts

The CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has received $9.6 MILLION from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to develop an honors program in legal studies to provide students from diverse backgrounds the training and education necessary for law school admission. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’s Teachers College has received a $500,000 grant from the Lumina […]

August 20, 2008

HBCUs

Perspectives: Taking Full Advantage of Funding Opportunities

Many Black colleges have secured dollars for a variety of important initiatives, but one of the hurdles is just knowing which funding streams to tap.

August 13, 2008

International

Cornell Professor Receives Grant to Explore Entrepreneurship

The Johnson School at Cornell University announced that Wesley Sine, assistant professor of management and organizations, received a grant from the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute, an initiative of Cisco Systems, Inc. focused on fostering entrepreneurship.

August 12, 2008

Sports

NCAA To Provide Former Student-athletes With Benefits

The NCAA will provide former college football and basketball players with aid for future educational expenses, career development costs and other benefits as part of a lawsuit settlement it reached with ex-athletes.

August 7, 2008

Home

Congress Cuts Off College Aid for Sex Offenders

Some of the nation’s worst sex offenders will no longer be eligible to receive generous educational financial aid packages while they are confined in treatment centers under a bill approved by Congress.

August 6, 2008

Latinx

Pell Grant One of Few Winners in 2009 Budget

Despite work on education spending bill, Congress unlikely to complete work until after general election.

August 6, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Education Department Launches Effort to Simplify Aid Formula

The U.S. Department of Education is launching an effort to reform and simplify how college students apply for and receive financial aid.

August 6, 2008

Students

Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY, has received a $2.8 MILLION grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help students in need of academic support. The funds will be used to establish a Center for Student Success. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO, has received a $50,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to provide services […]

August 6, 2008