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Faculty & Staff

USDA Pledges to Continue to Give 1890 Schools a Hand

The Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, outlined a series of initiatives that the USDA will undertake to help the 1890 land grant institutions.

July 16, 2015

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Amid Celebration, Land Grant Schools Say Money Would Be Great Gift

This week marks the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Second Morrill Act that set aside land to create agricultural colleges and universities in former Confederate states.

July 15, 2015

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ANDRE FORTUNE

ANDRE FORTUNE has been appointed assistant vice president forstudent affairs at The University of Texas at Arlington. He currently serves as assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Fortune earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of Kansas, and a doctorate from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

July 13, 2015

Sports

BCCC in Good Standing; Sojourner-Douglass Loses Accreditation

Two Baltimore schools recently received good and bad news respectively with regard to their accreditation status.

July 5, 2015

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HBCUs, HSIs Equipped to Aid Incarcerated Youth

A 2013 study by RAND concluded that prisoners were 43 percent less likely to be imprisoned after release because of educational programs.

June 24, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Tuskegee University Secures $500K Grant

Tuskegee University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bolster its Bachelor of Arts degree program.

June 22, 2015

Sports

Vermont State College Seeks to Increase Completion Rate

WATERBURY, Vt. ― Fewer than half of Vermont’s high school graduates go on to get college degrees, and the Vermont State College system is trying to find ways to change that and make sure those who do go on to college complete it.

June 22, 2015

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Law Schools Fund Firms to Train Recent Graduates

Baseball has the minor leagues. Medicine offers residency programs. But recent law school graduates have no equivalent training opportunities to hone their skills—at least until now.

June 14, 2015

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Fortenberry Engineers Change Through ASEE

Dr. Norman Fortenberry, executive director of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), promotes engineering education.

June 14, 2015

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Ohio Attorney General Pledges $3M to Combat College Sexual Assaults

A cultural mindset that leads to sexual assaults must be changed, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Wednesday as he announced a $3 million competitive grant program to help colleges and universities improve services for campus sexual assault victims.

June 10, 2015

Students

Exchange Program Expands Horizons of African-American Males

14 members of three fraternities at The Ohio State University (OSU) traveled to China last month, where they choreographed a step show for Chinese students as part of a cross-cultural awareness program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State.

June 10, 2015

Students

Ohio State to Offer New Grants to 12,400 In-state Undergrads

COLUMBUS, Ohio ― Ohio State University says 12,400 students will qualify for new need-based grants next year as part of the school’s effort to make it more affordable to low- and middle-income families.

June 8, 2015