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Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing

Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing But there are perils in ignoring developments in the rising field, scholars sayBy Ronald RoachNot long after her appointment as Hampton University’s first chief information officer in 1999, Debra S. White, a former IBM executive, found that in addition to managing a campus IT network upgrade she had to […]

March 12, 2003

Congress, Bush Finally Agree on 2003 Budget

Congress, Bush Finally Agree on 2003 BudgetMinority-serving institutions, TRIO, GEAR UP receive slight increasesBy Charles Dervarics After months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress and the White House finished work on a 2003 budget bill with a 5 percent increase for Black colleges and slightly higher Pell grants for needy students. Approval of the package ends […]

March 12, 2003

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek Change

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek ChangeBy Charles Dervarics In an effort to promote mutual goals, leaders of Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges are endorsing an ambitious agenda that includes a doubling of the maximum Pell grant and new incentives to promote student enrollment in math, science, teaching and other high-demand specialties. With […]

March 12, 2003

Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few Gains

Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few GainsMany student aid programs face funding freezeBy Charles Dervarics The Bush administration is proposing a funding freeze for many student aid programs next year while cutting a variety of K-12 initiatives, including several projects to promote school reform. The top Pell grant for needy students would remain unchanged at […]

February 26, 2003

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway Computers

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]

February 12, 2003

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway Computers

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]

February 12, 2003

Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts

Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts By Charles Dervarics The four-month stalemate on a 2003 federal education budget could leave many higher education programs at risk of across-the-board budget cuts. Many programs would face an immediate 2.9 percent across-the-board spending cut if a plan from Senate Republican leaders becomes law. That’s because of […]

February 12, 2003

HBCUs, HSIs on House Agenda

HBCUs, HSIs on House AgendaBy Charles Dervarics House Republicans say increased support for minority-serving colleges and universities will be one of their 10 major education goals for the new Congress. Leaders of the House Education and the Workforce Committee listed aid to Black colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions among three priorities specifically focused on higher education. […]

January 29, 2003

African-American

Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents

Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents By Charles Dervarics Civil rights organizations and groups representing Hispanics and African Americans are turning up the heat on opponents of the University of Michigan affirmative action case even before the case gets before the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates went on the offensive in early […]

January 29, 2003

Government Seeks Public Input on Higher Education Act

Government Seeks Public Input on Higher Education ActBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. Department of Education is seeking public input on the Higher Education Act and beginning to share some of its ideas about how to improve the law. The department on Dec. 20 requested public comments on issues such as Pell Grants, college work/study, TRIO […]

January 15, 2003

State Postsecondary Education Research

Leadership & Policy

More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows

More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows WASHINGTONThe rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as college presidents slowed during the past three years according to The American College President: 2002 Edition, the results of a new survey of college presidents released last month by the American Council […]

January 1, 2003

The Republican Sweep And Higher Education

The Republican Sweep And Higher Education By Julianne Malveaux A full month after the November debacle, political pundits are still deconstructing the Democrat’s embarrassing loss at the polls. While the Republican “sweep” could hardly be called a mandate (some Senate races were decided by fractions of a percentage point), the outcome is that the Republicans […]

December 18, 2002

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