Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 43

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges-Grants — North Dakota Tribal Colleges Getting Grants

Three tribal colleges in North Dakota are getting federal grants totaling nearly $6 million to improve academic quality, the state’s congressional delegation says.

July 16, 2008

Students

Awards and Scholarships for Latinos

Following are some recent awards and scholarships given to Latinos by various organizations in recent weeks.

July 15, 2008

Community Colleges

Virginia Community Colleges Get $1.9 Million Grant

The Virginia Community College System is receiving a $1.9 million grant to help workers who have lost their jobs start their own businesses.

July 14, 2008

Students

States Boost Merit-based Aid At Expense of Need-based Aid

Despite a turbulent economy and an increased demand for state-funded aid, state financial aid agencies awarded $9.3 billion in funds to students during the 2006-07 academic year — a 10 percent increase from last year’s $8.5 billion, according to recently released data in the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs’ (NASSGAP) 38th annual survey.

July 14, 2008

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Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS’ OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE has received a $1 MILLION endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation. EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY has received a $5,000 gift from Xcel Energy, an electricity and natural gas company, for the university’s Alliance for Minority Participation program. The AMP program provides students of color with scholarships […]

July 9, 2008

Faculty & Staff

ASU Professor Will Pursue Studies on School Choice

David Garcia, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, has been selected as a 2008-2009 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow to research the convergence of school choice and school accountability with the diversification of the Latino population in the United States.

July 8, 2008

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Scholars Selected to Receive 2008 Fletcher Fellowships

The annual fellowship program established by financial executive Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, has named four scholars as 2008 Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellows, Fletcher announced Tuesday.

July 2, 2008

Native Americans

$1 Million Grant Will Help Meet Need for American Indian and Hispanic Librarians

A program to increase the number of American Indian and Hispanic librarians has received a grant of nearly $1 million, the University of Arizona announced.

June 25, 2008

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Bringing Diversity to the World of Classical Music

The Sphinx Organization provides opportunities for young musicians of color to showcase their talents.

June 25, 2008

Students

Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, has received a $250,000 gift from State Farm Insurance for an advanced computer lab. The lab will be located in the university’s new science building. FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY (Calif.) has received $1.75 MILLION in grants from Rehabilitation Administration Services in the U.S. Department of Education. Specifically, the funds will go to […]

June 25, 2008

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EPA Fellowship Seeks to Build a Pipeline of Minority Scientists in Environmental Studies

When Dr. William H. Sanders joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than 30 years ago, he found something problematic — there simply weren’t enough minorities or women represented in the federal agency.

June 22, 2008

HBCUs

Andrew Carnegie and Race

A financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.

June 16, 2008