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Students

Report: Half of All Undergraduates Fail To Apply for Financial Aid

Report: Half of All Undergraduates Fail To Apply for Financial AidWASHINGTONA  new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don’t get it for a simple reason — they don’t apply.The study, “Missed Opportunities: Students Who Do Not Apply for Financial Aid,” released by the American Council […]

November 3, 2004

Students

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid Process

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid ProcessBy M.H. MillerNora Diaz almost didn’t make it to college because her student-aid application form was too long and complicated. Diaz told a congressional panel that she couldn’t have filled out the form without help from counselors. And without student aid, college wouldn’t have been an option for Diaz, whose father […]

November 3, 2004

Latinx

Senate Endorses More Science, Education Funds for HBCUs

Senate Endorses More Science, Education Funds for HBCUsBy Charles Dervarics Calling current funding inadequate, the U.S. Senate is proposing moderate increases next year for both well-known and smaller federal programs serving Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions.While one plan would increase funds for the traditional Higher Education Act (HEA) Title III programs for HBCUs, another […]

November 3, 2004

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Grants & Awards

Campbellsville University (Ky.) received a $150,000 grant from Toyota USA Foundation to expand the Science Connections Initiative, a science partnership project. The Connecticut Community College System’s College of Technology will receive a four-year $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an Advanced Technology Education Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing. El Camino […]

October 20, 2004

Community Colleges

Senate Bill to Fund Bush Community College Plan

Senate Bill to Fund Bush Community College PlanSeven months after President Bush proposed a new $250 million initiative for job training at community colleges, a Senate panel is stepping forward to try to fund it.The Senate committee responsible for education spending has included funds for the initiative in its 2005 budget bill, approved in mid-September. […]

October 20, 2004

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Grants & Awards

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has been awarded a three-year $400,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help establish a new center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity. The Center will provide consulting services to individual universities and colleges seeking to increase the participation of U.S. students, especially women and […]

October 6, 2004

Students

Presidential Proposals

Presidential  ProposalsCandidates Envision Ways to Promote Postsecondary EducationBy Crystal L. KeelsQuestions of military service and non-service, missing weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, the threat of further terrorist attacks and the unprecedented suggestion that U.S. elections may be postponed are topics that have characterized the 2004 presidential election campaign thus far. […]

October 6, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT Recruitment

Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT RecruitmentBLACKSBURG, Va.A  research team led by faculty members from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business has received a National Science Foundation grant of $617,000 to study the recruitment and retention of African Americans in information technology-related graduate studies and jobs.Wanda Smith, associate professor of management, will direct […]

October 6, 2004

Community Colleges

Congress Returns to a Full Plate With Little Time

Congress Returns to a Full Plate With Little TimePerkins Act, HEA renewal to dominate sessionsBy Charles DervaricsDespite the few days left on the legislative calendar, Congress came back in September for a fall session that has education experts cautiously optimistic about the prospect of action on subjects ranging from technical education to the 2005 budget. […]

October 6, 2004

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Grants & Awrads

Bennett College (N.C.) has received a $102,735 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund learning communities for the purpose of improving the performance of first-year students requiring remedial help.  The California State University, Dominguez Hills Orthotics and Prosthetics (O&P) program received a $575,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to expand the […]

September 22, 2004

Community Colleges

Bush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education Agenda

Bush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education AgendaBy Charles DervaricsPresident Bush in early September outlined a second-term education agenda that includes more Pell Grant support for low-income students, new funds for community colleges and a collection of other proposals designed to spur K-12 reform and college access.“In this time of change, most new jobs are […]

September 22, 2004

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Grants & Awards

Bowie State University (Md.) was recently awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation as part of the university’s initiative to increase the percentage of underrepresented minority science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors. San Francisco State University recently received a five-year $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health-funded Research in Training […]

September 8, 2004