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Native Americans

United Tribes Technical College Left Out of Indian Affairs Budget Request for Fifth Straight Year

For the fifth consecutive fiscal year, the Bush administration has zeroed out funding for the United Tribes Technical College. In the previous four years, Congress restored funding for the Bismarck…

Office Depot Awards $4.5 Million

Office Depot is awarding $4.5 million to support the United Negro College Fund, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and…

Alliance Will Manage National Articulation and Transfer Network

The Alliance for Equity in Higher Education has assumed leadership and management of the National Articulation and Transfer Network, a major national initiative designed to increase enrollment…

African-American

A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

In his best-selling book The World Is Flat, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman examines the technological and social shifts that have leveled the economic world…

Congress Approves Cuts to Student Loan Programs

College students and their families will face higher student loan costs as the result of multiple recent congressional moves…

Leadership & Policy

College Officials Lobby Congress For Boost

Hispanic-serving colleges and universities are asking Congress to create a new $125 million program

Senate Approves Technology Bill For Minority-Serving Institutions

First, the Senate approved the Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act of 2005 Story:

Senate Approves Technology Bill For Minority-Serving Institutions

Institutions serving specific demographic populations got a few potential funding boosts from Congress recently. Story:

Faculty & Staff

Careers in the Classics

Dr. Patrice Rankine is accustomed to proving himself to his students. The associate professor from Purdue University has grown used to the irony Story:

Senate Rejects President’s Call to Cut Early College Awareness Programs

Advocates for minority-serving institutions and increased financial aid prevailed in one battle but lost another… Story:

Finding the Best Fit

Your coverage of Sen. George Allen’s introduction of the Minority Serving Institutions Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunities Act in Story:

Transformative Connections

Transformative ConnectionsCommunity-based K-12 computing program strives to strengthen academic and career aspirations of its participantsBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAs a relative newcomer to the Saturday afternoons spent working on computers in a community center in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, Avery Hillmon has his work cut out for him. A participant in the long-running Joint Educational Facilities Inc. […]

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