Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 48

Leadership & Policy

Fisk Battles Donor Fatigue as Art Sale Bogs Down in Courts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Despite two years of trying, Fisk University hasn’t been able to turn any of the valuable art donated by painter Georgia O’Keeffe into cash.

January 3, 2008

Students

Grants and Gifts

California State Polytechnic University has received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to aid the university in producing more graduates specializing in cyber security. Educators will be able to enhance their curricula with this grant and encourage students to get into the new field. California State University, Northridge has received a $23,500 […]

December 26, 2007

HBCUs

Fisk Receives $3M in Grants; $1M Up Front

NASHVILLE Tenn. Financially-strapped Fisk University took a big step in its fundraising efforts with the announcement that it will receive grants totaling $3 million. The school announced Wednesday that the funds will come from the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which awards grants to historically Black colleges and universities, among several other endeavors. Fisk […]

December 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Cuban-born Woman in Line to Head Texas A&M

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A Cuban-born woman is the only finalist recommended to the Board of Regents for the presidency of the formerly all-male Texas A&M University.

December 12, 2007

Health

Grants and Gifts

Meharry Medical College-Center for Women’s Health Research (Tenn.) has received a $1 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The funds will help advance work in diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. Michigan State University has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help seasonal and migrant worker youth […]

December 12, 2007

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Microsoft’s Gates Pledges Software to Campus Chapters of Black Engineering Society

REDMOND, WASH. Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Corp., last month announced that Microsoft will donate developer software to all National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) educational chapters in the United States. Gates made the announcement during a regional NSBE fall conference that was held in Redmond.

December 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Golden News Nuggets

With nearly 500 degree-granting institutions in the state of California, Diverse couldn’t cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots.

December 12, 2007

Community Colleges

Serving the Undocumented

California community colleges struggle to navigate “frustrating” financial aid process for undocumented students.

December 12, 2007

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Duke University Offers Full Ride For Low-income Students

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University on Saturday became the latest elite college to announce a major boost in financial aid. But like even some of its wealthiest peers, it isn’t going so far as to guarantee all its students will graduate debt-free.

December 9, 2007

Students

Stanford ‘Invests’ In Faculty Diversity

Stanford University has developed a $4.5 million program to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars on the academic profession to 36 doctoral candidates over the next four years as part of an effort to prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for a career in academia.

December 3, 2007

Health

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

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Education Funding Vetoed, Democrats Press on With Policy Proposal

President Bush has vetoed a 2008 education budget bill that many advocates had championed for its proposed increases in student financial aid and college-access programs.

November 28, 2007