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NAFEO Outlines New Policies to Congress

NAFEO Outlines New Policies to CongressAdvocacy group seeks $30 million program for predominantly Black collegesBy Charles DervaricsA leading advocacy group is asking Congress to create a $30 million program for “predominantly” Black colleges, or urban institutions that lack the history of HBCUs but face many of the same challenges.“Many of these schools are located in […]

April 21, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsArizona State University was awarded $43.7 million from the United States Army to fund a five-year cooperative agreement to establish the Army Flexible Display Center, where flexible, low-power computer displays will be developed that can be continually refreshed with new data and carried in the field — a device that will revolutionize combat […]

April 7, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe Morgan State University (Md.) Clarence Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering, in partnership with the University of Michigan, received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The partnership with the MSU Industrial Engineering Department and the ERC Reconfigurable Manufacturing System at Michigan will explore research initiatives in Web-enabled manufacturing labs, vision systems, […]

March 24, 2004

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS Fight

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS FightWASHINGTONAt a State Department press conference last month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Randall L. Tobias announced that the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa […]

March 24, 2004

Community Colleges

Educators Question Bush’s Plan to Change Pell

Educators Question Bush’s Plan to Change PellBy Patricia Troumpoucis A proposed rule change to the Pell Grant program in President Bush’s budget aims to guard against future budget shortfalls, according to officials at the U.S. Department of Education. But critics say it’s just a way to cap or slash the maximum Pell Grant award and […]

March 24, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsTwenty-four professors and four departments at California State University-Northridge received a total of $50,000 from the university’s Center for Community Service-Learning to fund new service-learning programs, including family development, service-learning scholar, gang prevention initiative, interdisciplinary project incentive and department incentive grants. The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) received a $250,000 grant […]

March 10, 2004

Sen. Clinton Unveils Plan to Help Nontraditional Students

Sen. Clinton Unveils Plan to Help Nontraditional StudentsNontraditional students trying to get their college degrees tend to get short shrift, according to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who recently proposed legislation to help improve graduation rates among these students and tear down some of the barriers they face.Clinton announced the measure, known as the Non-Traditional […]

March 10, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsCalifornia State University-Northridge received a state-of-the-art parts manufacturing system from Chatsworth-based Fadal Center Machining, Inc. valued at $106,000 for the manufacturing systems engineering and management department. The department intends to incorporate the machine into the curriculum of several courses, including senior design capstone course, manufacturing systems engineering senior design, fundamentals of computer-aided manufacturing, […]

February 25, 2004

Bush’s Budget Creates ‘Greater Hurdles’ for Students, Group Says

Bush’s Budget Creates ‘Greater Hurdles’ for Students, Group SaysBy freezing funding for federal student aid President Bush’s budget creates even “greater hurdles” for students, says Kate Rube, associate for the State PIRG’s Higher Education Project.“Students at colleges around the country need more help than President Bush has proposed to give them,” Rube said. “Thousands of […]

February 25, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsCalifornia State University, Northridge has received a $45,000 grant to develop a program to teach elderly immigrants English and prepare them for U.S. citizenship. The two-year grant from Temple University’s Center for Intergenerational Learning was awarded to Northridge health science professor Deborah Sheets and CSUN’s Center for Community Service Learning. Northridge was one […]

February 11, 2004

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsBergen Community College (N.J.) was awarded a $68,740 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education to build an online system of continuing professional development that enables faculty to strengthen instruction for English language minority students.Morehouse College and Spelman College (Ga.) are the recipients of a $1 million gift from DreamWorks SKG […]

January 28, 2004

A Question of Merit

A Question of Merit By Dee Anne FinkenATLANTATen years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled […]

January 28, 2004

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