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Sex Offenders Collect Financial Aid
Prison inmates are ineligible for Pell Grants under a 1994 law, but some sex offenders are exploiting a loophole to pay for correspondence courses upon transferring to treatment facilities. Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla, is outraged by this use of limited college resources “while hardworking young people from lower-class families are flipping hamburgers to pay for college.”
March 17, 2008
Students
Lawmakers Seek to Safeguard Access to Student Loans
With urban, low-income students most likely to face the fallout from the student loan credit crunch, House lawmakers say the Department of Education should prepare a contingency ‘lender of last resort’ program to assure continued access to loan capital.
March 16, 2008
Latinx
Congress To Give More, Demand More
A Pell Grant increase is in the HEA bill, but so are provisions for colleges to explain large endowments and tuition increases.
March 4, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Making Strides
HBCUs seek progress on information technology resources.
March 4, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
HBCUs
UNCF Partners with Public Policy Organization to Recruit HBCU Students for Fellowship Program
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation is helping the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program recruit more students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
February 28, 2008
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2 Ex-officials Charged in Federal Education Grant Scam
TALLAHASSEE Fla. Two former officials with Florida A&M University and Franklin County’s literacy program were arrested Thursday on charges of scamming a federal grant program. A 21-count federal indictment charged Patricia Walker McGill, 60, of Tallahassee, and Bonnie Segree, 68, of Eastpoint, with conspiracy, theft and mail fraud. Both were released on bond after making […]
February 21, 2008
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Grants & Gifts
The College of Engineering and Computer Science at CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE, has received a $10,000 donation from alumnus Peter M. Leonhardt to be used for scholarships for working students. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY’S NANCE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION has been awarded $150,000 from the Key Foundation to create the KeyBank Student Managed Investment Fund. The […]
February 19, 2008
HBCUs
Audit: NC Central Administrator Stole Thousands in Grant Money
RALEIGH, N.C. A high-ranking administrator at North Carolina Central University stole thousands of dollars in federal research grant money, possibly to pay off personal items bought with his university credit card, according to a state audit released Tuesday. State Auditor Les Merritt said the assistant provost, who was not identified in the audit, also hid […]
February 12, 2008
Latinx
Hispanic Seniors Encouraged to Apply for Heritage Awards by March 14
High school seniors across the nation are being urged to apply for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s (HHF) Youth Awards, which honor academically successful students. The deadline is March 14.
February 12, 2008
Students
Higher Ed Institutions Contribute to Country’s Widening Social Divide, Educators Say
It is difficult to find a college or university that does not have diversifying its student body on the top of its long list of goals and objectives, but one educator at the American Council on Education’s annual meeting said that many higher ed institutions are largely to blame for society’s widening social, racial and economic divide as many colleges’ own admissions policies keep out the very the populations they say they’re trying to admit.
February 12, 2008
Latinx
HEA Bill Passes, Despite White House Objection Over MSI Funding
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a Higher Education Act bill even as the White House criticized some of its provisions, including two to boost support for minority-serving institutions.
February 7, 2008
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