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Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access Bill

Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access BillBy Patricia Troumpoucis The debate over the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is deepening between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives as they focus on student aid — specifically student loans and Pell Grants. Democrats say the changes Republicans recently proposed in a new […]

June 16, 2004

Grants & Awards

Colorado State University College of Business professor of marketing Kathleen Kelly was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a study on the most effective ways to design tobacco-prevention advertisements for Latino youth. The study will focus on determining the most effective language — English, Spanish or “Spanglish” — and […]

June 2, 2004

Tennessee State, Wiley College Launch NASA Academies

Tennessee State, Wiley College Launch NASA AcademiesNASHVILLE, Tenn.Tennessee State University in Nashville and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, are the most recent historically Black campuses to launch sites of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA)/Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL) program. Last year, the NASA Glenn Research Center in […]

June 2, 2004

Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers

Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers NORTHAMPTON, Mass. Amid increasing calls to bolster the nation’s scientific literacy and enhance its high-tech work force, a pioneering and much watched engineering program has just produced its first graduates.Despite the program’s short history, the newly minted engineers — all women — are weighing significant career […]

June 2, 2004

New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based Aid

New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based AidWASHINGTONA new study is lauding the positive impact that a college education can have on what it calls “our shared economic, social and cultural well-being as a nation,” and calls for increased funding for Pell Grants.“While policy-makers and education leaders cite the fact that a bachelor’s degree has become […]

June 2, 2004

Educators Urge Focus on ‘Year-Round’ College

Educators Urge Focus on ‘Year-Round’ CollegeNew academic calendar would help low-income students, UNCF leader saysA year-round college calendar with flexible financial aid rules would help low-income students stay in school and allow colleges to expand enrollment without new facilities, a Black college leader and other educators tell Congress.The traditional fall-to-spring academic year, created two centuries […]

June 2, 2004

Grants & Awards

Delaware State University has received a three-year $250,180 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on how plant viruses could be used to help in the application of plant vaccines. The grant will enable DSU to establish a functional virus and molecular biology research and training laboratory and will also give DSU students […]

May 19, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsDelaware State University’s department of chemistry received a four-year $750,000 research contract from Bear, Del.-based manufacturer Ion Power to research ways in which certain materials can be recovered and recycled from end-of-life fuel cell systems. The McHenry County College (Ill.) Center for Commerce and Economic Development (CCED) received a $440,000 Employee Training Investment […]

May 5, 2004

Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public Colleges

Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesBy Garry BoulardA long-simmering, trans-regional dispute is pitting mostly Southern and Western Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives against their Republican and Democratic counterparts from the East over the way campus-based federal aid is distributed.Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on […]

May 5, 2004

Grants & Awards

Brown University (R.I.) received a $5.5 million gift from Brown alumnus and trustee emeritus Charles M. Royce to fund six professorships designed to honor Brown faculty for excellence in teaching. The Royce Family Professorships in Teaching Excellence will be awarded for terms of three years each.Edward Waters College (Fla.) is the recipient of $500,000 from […]

April 21, 2004

Morehouse College Earns National Academic Champion Title

Morehouse College Earns National Academic Champion TitleORLANDO, Fla.After a three-day competition last month among the best and brightest academic all-stars from historically Black colleges and universities, a team of students from Morehouse College in Atlanta earned the national champion title at the 15th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) in Orlando, Fla.Winning the best two-out-of-three […]

April 21, 2004

Pace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave Papers

Pace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave PapersNEW YORKHarriet Jacobs (1813-1897), the fugitive slave who wrote the landmark memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, is the only African American woman held in slavery whose papers are known to exist. Fifteen years ago, against the prevailing judgment, Dr. […]

April 21, 2004

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