Tag: Minority Serving Institutions: Page 18

Students

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

January 19, 2010

Latinx

Minority-serving Institutions to Benefit from Education Department Budget Increase

Nearly three months into the federal fiscal year, Congress and President Barack Obama reached an agreement on a 2010 education spending bill that will increase funds for minority-serving institutions and student financial aid with the possibility of more gains ahead.

January 10, 2010

African-American

Congress Expected to Focus on Education in 2010

The U.S. Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher education in the new year.

January 7, 2010

Latinx

WASHINGTON UPDATE : 2010 CAPITOL HILL OUTLOOK: MORE ATTENTION TO EDUCATION

Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher ed in the new year.\r\n\r\nFor a year that began with great expectations, 2009 ended with many top higher education legislative goals unresolved as other pres

January 6, 2010

Latinx

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

December 23, 2009

Faculty & Staff

PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL CAREERS TO MINORITIES

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) is on a mission to promote careers in agricultural economics for minority college students. For the past two years the ERS has conducted a distance learning program that brings experts

December 23, 2009

Disabilties

WASHINGTON UPDATE

Federal Official Pushes for More Diversity in Government In an exclusive interview with Diverse, hiring leader talks about federal government plans to boost diversity hiring, especially among disabled individuals.

December 23, 2009

MSIs

Obama’s Higher Education Agenda May Lead to Expanded Federal Role

Scholars, academic administrators and higher education policy officials have interpreted the administration’s pronouncements and initiatives as markers of a significant shift in federal higher education policy.

December 20, 2009

African-American

Documentarian Develops Curricula to Dispel HIV/AIDS Myths in Black Community

When Claudia Pryor’s cousin was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, she was the only family member willing to visit him. As a gay Black man, his family ostracized him.

December 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement

U.S. Education Department under secretary is driving the Obama administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

December 1, 2009

African-American

HBCUs Step Up to the HIV Challenge

Impact of HIV on Blacks compels historically Black colleges and universities to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.

November 30, 2009

HBCUs

ACCELERATING AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Martha Kanter, the U. S. Education under secretary, is driving the administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

November 25, 2009