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Latinx

Amid Bitter Health Care Debate, House Clears Student Loan Changes

After months of delays as education took a back seat to the health care debate, the House of Representatives Sunday night approved a mammoth bill that ties both issues together in a package that includes more support for Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions.

March 21, 2010

African-American

HBCU Leaders Consider Partnerships Key to Remaining Competitive in Online Era

Creating partnerships to link students across campuses and offering online academic programs to students were two of the solutions presidents of some of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities say will help keep their institution competitive as more options for higher education emerge.

March 21, 2010

MSIs

Dems Unveil Scaled-back SAFRA Provisions, Attach It to Health Care Reform Legislation

Within the Healthcare and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, the higher education provisions contain many elements of the $87 billion Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) that cleared the House last year. The “new” SAFRA has less funding, as lawmakers reduced the scope of the bill to meet budget targets.

March 18, 2010

African-American

Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.

March 18, 2010

African-American

The Black College and Globalization

America’s Black colleges want to internationalize their campuses and send their students abroad, but inadequate access to resources keeps many of these institutions restricted to U.S. shores, according to a 2005 study by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) organization. On Thursday, NAFEO sponsored an International Day during its annual national conference in Washington to match international organizations and their programs with Black colleges and universities.

March 18, 2010

Latinx

Opinion: The Proposed NSF Broadening Participation Budget—A Lingering Odor

In congressional testimony, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden Bement voiced support for the Obama administration’s 8-percent increase in the NSF FY 2011 budget to $7.42 billion. The words were earnest, but, for communities supported by the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, the increase smells of a skunk.

March 17, 2010

African-American

Obama Proposal Seeks to Consolidate Minority Undergraduate STEM Programs

Weighing a new approach for assisting minority college students in the sciences, the Obama administration has proposed the National Science Foundation consolidate major initiatives that target specific racial and ethnic groups for participation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines into a single program.

March 10, 2010

MSIs

Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements

For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.

February 9, 2010

Latinx

Obama Budget Plans More for Education

Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.

February 1, 2010

HBCUs

World Bank Seeks Diverse U.S. Employees

This past fall the World Bank launched a new chapter in its long-running diversity and inclusion efforts by inaugurating the US Minorities Working Group.

January 25, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Banking On Diversity

Boasting a racially and culturally diverse work force, the World Bank aims to spread awareness about its mission to increase employment of under-represented U.S. minorities.

January 20, 2010

HBCUs

Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases

Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.

January 20, 2010