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Senate Spending Bill Calls for $100 Pell Increase

Senate Spending Bill Calls for $100 Pell IncreaseThe maximum Pell Grant for needy students would increase by $100 next year under a new Senate proposal that is drawing both praise and criticism among advocates.If enacted into law, the bill would fund a Pell Grant of $4,100 next year, another new record for the program. While […]

August 14, 2002

Black, Hispanic Leaders Stress Need for More Financial Aid

Black, Hispanic Leaders Stress Need for More Financial AidMany high-achieving students still unable to afford a college educationLow-income, high-achieving students face tremendous barriers to success in college, largely due to limited financial aid funds, representatives of Black and Hispanic colleges told Congress last month.“Let me be very clear — adequate student financial assistance is fundamentally […]

August 14, 2002

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe American Indian College Fund received a $5,000 grant from the ConAgra Foods Foundation, which will assist in providing child nutrition education programs at the nation’s tribal colleges.The College of New Rochelle Graduate School has been awarded $20,000 from the state of New York. The money will be used to expand the school’s […]

July 17, 2002

Fighting Tobacco Use Among Blacks

Fighting Tobacco Use Among BlacksPilot projects at NCCU, Morgan State train students to be better informed on tobacco issuesBy Eleanor Lee YatesSignificant pilot projects at two historically Black colleges and universities will train students to gather more data and address the problems facing African American smokers. The programs may well provide policy models for other […]

July 17, 2002

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsCalifornia State University-Northridge has received $25,000 from Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization, to start a new program in which university students will work with at-risk pre-schoolers to improve their school readiness.The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association has received two grants from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for $120,000. The grants will be used to enhance […]

July 3, 2002

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsAlbany State University (Ga.) has received $2 million from performing artist Ray Charles. The money will be used for scholarships and to help build a theater in the name of Charles’ mother Aretha Robinson.The Louisiana Board of Regents has funded a five-year $2,917,303 grant from Louisiana’s Millennium Health Excellence Fund to establish the […]

June 19, 2002

House Approves Pell Grant Remedy

House Approves Pell Grant RemedyThe House of Representatives has cleared legislation that will address most of the $1.3 billion shortfall in the Pell Grant program that has threatened to limit access to the government’s main student aid grant program.A bill approved by the House late last month would provide $1 billion in emergency spending. The […]

June 19, 2002

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsBall State University (Ind.) received a $1 million gift from retired history professor Phyllis Yuhas to help students study abroad and to help bring international students to campus.California State University-Northridge received $300,000 from Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. for the creation of the university’s first endowed professorship in the department of finance, real estate […]

June 5, 2002

Pennsylvania Awards Technology Grants to Colleges

Pennsylvania Awards Technology Grants to CollegesHARRISBURG, Pa.Pennsylvania’s education secretary Charles B. Zogby has announced $4.1 million in grants for 23 Pennsylvania colleges and universities to improve campus information technology for students. Historically Black Lincoln University, located outside of Philadelphia, was among the schools receiving an Improving Technology at Colleges and Universities (ITCU) grant from the […]

June 5, 2002

Campaigning for Access

Campaigning for AccessActivists and lawmakers launch effort to save federal initiatives on digital technology With limited private and campus funds, officials at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., tried to establish an Internet and computer-based tutoring system in some of Durham’s poorest public schools. Limited funding enabled the purchase of five computers, each of […]

June 5, 2002

Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant Shortfall

Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant ShortfallCongress may find a way out of the Pell Grant shortfall yet, based on recent action in the House of Representatives. A declining economy has sent more young adults back to school and created a $1.3 billion shortfall in the nation’s primary student aid grant program. After […]

June 5, 2002

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe Bethune-Cookman College (Fla.) Booster Club received $10,000 from the Daytona International Auto Mall Association to provide scholarships for student-athletes who qualify for the Jack “Cy” McClairen Scholarship fund.Elizabeth City State University received $200,000 from James H. and Connie Maynard to provide administrative and student support to the new Maynard Outreach Project. The […]

May 22, 2002

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