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Grambling MSN Program Graduates Maintain 100 Percent Licensing Exam Pass Rate

Due to its perfect pass rate on national exams for 14 straight years, an astounding achievement for any professional program, Grambling’s graduate nursing program has gained a reputation for excellence in Louisiana.

September 6, 2012

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Fort Valley State Seeks Title IX Compliance, Sports Funding Fixes

Fort Valley State University (FVSU) says its recent decision to reinstate its women’s volleyball program may be only a temporary fix to a larger challenge facing the school.

September 5, 2012

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Football Classics Bring the HBCU Experience — and Their Marching Bands — to Big-time Arenas

There’s more to HBCU football classics than just the action on the field. They are weekend-long events, much like a school’s homecoming, only on a grander scale.

September 4, 2012

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Inspire Scholarships Help Boost Delaware State’s In-State Enrollment

This school year, Delaware State’s in-state freshman student enrollment is up 43 percent to 433 from 302, the first significant enrollment turnaround in six years, school officials say.

December 1, 2011

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Review Shows Scholarships Awarded to Students Attending For-profit Colleges

A review of public records by the Lexington Herald-Leader found that nearly 8 percent of need-based student aid goes to for-profit colleges.

November 29, 2011

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Tribal College ‘Beats the Odds’ to Find Academic Success

In 2011, the college awarded 204 diplomas and certificates, 155 in 2010 and 133 in 2009.

November 29, 2011

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Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program

Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.

November 22, 2011

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Tuskegee University Launching Ambitious Capital Campaign

Tuskegee University, a historically Black private university in Tuskegee, Alabama, has announced that it is launching the largest capital campaigns in its 130-year history.

November 8, 2011

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Congressman Bobby Rush Compares NCAA to Mafia

The Democratic congressman from Chicago compared the NCAA to the Mafia over how it controls the lives of student athletes.

November 2, 2011

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NCAA Board Approves Tougher Academic Standards, Scholarship Funds for Student-Athlete Spending

The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I board announced sweeping changes to athlete eligibility requirements and scholarship aid during a news conference call on Thursday.

October 27, 2011

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Latino Education Summit Convened, 2011 Obama Scholars Named by Hispanic Scholarship Fund

The Obama Scholars program was created after President Barack Obama donated $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund from his Nobel Peace Prize award in 2009.

October 26, 2011

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Commentary: Derrick Bell’s ‘Working Faith’ for Academic Justice

When Derrick Bell passed away last week, the academy and the world did not merely lose a prodigious scholar, an exquisite legal mind and a magnetic personality.

October 12, 2011