Tag: International Studies: Page 3

Grants and Gifts

The AMERICAN BAR ENDOWMENT, a nonprofit sponsor of group insurance and charitable giving programs for the more than 400,000 members of the American Bar Association, has donated $3.7 MILLION to improve the ABA Fund for Justice and Education. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the regents of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA have received $7.5 MILLION […]

October 2, 2007

Professional Appointments

Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital has been appointed president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She had previously been interim chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. Howard-Vital earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has been named university professor at Georgetown […]

August 8, 2007

Experts say internal locks on classroom doors could save lives against Va. Tech-like rampages

BLACKSBURG Va. After a student gunman killed four of his classmates and his German teacher and then left, Derek O’Dell had to wedge one of his sneakers under the classroom door to keep the attacker from returning to kill even more.

July 28, 2007

Miles College Has Raised $19 Million for Expansion

BIRMINGHAM Ala. Historically black Miles College has raised $19 million for an expansion that would double the size of its Fairfield campus.

July 22, 2007

Bi News Briefs

At Central State: Prosecutors Resume Investigation; Fund-Raising Drive Benefits Needy Students

July 14, 2007

Preparing students of color for global opportunities – minority students – Forum – Column

Whenever I am asked how a campus should begin to internationalize, I recommend a short, inexpensive report titled Educating Americans for a World in Flux, published by the American Council on Education (ACE). This report focuses on the task of educating all U.S. students to be global citizens.

July 11, 2007

African-American

Over there: exchange programs and colleges seek to send minority students abroad – US education programs

In some communities, foreign travel is viewed as a rite of passage to round out the college experience. But far too few African Americans are taking advantage of the opportunity to Broaden their horizons in the world classroom for reasons that include lack of access to information about opportunities, limited funds, language restrictions and concentration in fields that are not targeted for foreign exchange programs.

June 16, 2007

Boosting Minority Ranks in the U.S. Foreign Service

Several years ago, while enrolled at Howard University, Dionandrea Shorts was well on her way to…

November 29, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Dr. Charles M. Lyons has been named president of York County Community College (Maine). He was most recently president of the University of Maine at Augusta. Lyons holds a bachelor’s from St. Francis Xavier University, a master’s from the University of Hartford and a doctorate from Boston University. Carol Lynnett Bennett has been appointed director […]

November 1, 2006

Legislation Seeks To Expand Study Abroad For American College Students

WASHINGTON, D.C. In an effort to impart American college students with a better outlook on world events, two U.S. Senators are proposing a partnership with higher education that would dramatically expand the study abroad program.

July 30, 2006

Mississippi Valley State Partners to Form MLK Conflict Resolution Center in Italy

Mississippi Valley State University is partnering with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to develop…

July 12, 2006

MIT Report: Army Recruiting Fewer Blacks

U.S. Army recruiters are signing up far fewer Blacks for hitches as soldiers…

December 14, 2005

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