Tag: Scholarships: Page 63

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Ohio Governor Signs Budget Plan Freezing College Tuition for Two Years

COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland took his first budget to the final day, signing the $52 billion spending plan just hours before the fiscal year ended Saturday, and after making good on his threat to veto a tax-funded voucher program to allow special-needs students to attend private schools.

July 1, 2007

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Cost Keeps College Out of Reach for Many Minority Students

CLEMSON, S.C. Cost is one of the top barriers cited as a reason South Carolina’s largest colleges and universities have trouble increasing their percentages of Black students.

July 1, 2007

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Morgan State University student crowned Miss Maryland

HAGERSTOWN Md. Shana Powell was crowned Miss Maryland 2007 Saturday and will compete in the Miss America pageant.

June 30, 2007

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AUSTIN

ARDMORE Okla. Oklahoma’s women’s basketball program has completed a fundraising campaign to endow all 15 of its scholarships, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

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OU regents approve tuition hike, $1.3 billion budget

ARDMORE Okla. University of Oklahoma regents on Wednesday approved tuition and mandatory fee hikes of nearly 10 percent for undergraduate students who will attend the university during the upcoming school year.

June 26, 2007

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Retired Army General takes control of D.C. public schools – Lt. Gen. Julius Becton’s appointment as CEO

As president of Prairie View A&M University, retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton earned respect as a starched-shirt leader who demanded accountability in academic and financial affairs and didn’t mind challenging the status quo to achieve his goals.

June 23, 2007

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Teaching our youth to fish – Dr. Marvalene Hughes, President, California State University-Stanislaus – Transcript

It was Benjamin Mays who best described what Tuskegee meant to me when he said, “A college must be judged not only be excellent teachers, but by the spirit and philosophy which permeate it from top to bottom.”

June 23, 2007

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Building a cadre of Ph.D.s – scholarship program

To increase the number of African-American men with doctorates in the sciences, the 100 Black Men of America and the National Consortium for Educational Access (NCEA) have begun a new fellowship program.

June 22, 2007

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Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College

A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.

June 22, 2007

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Is the NCAA playing a numbers game? – National Collegiate Athletics Association – appraisal of graduation rates

While the National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent all summer putting a happy face on its annual Division I Graduation-Rates Report, others caution that, to avoid being misleading, the rates need to be put into perspective.   Claiming that Division I student athletes who receive athletic scholarships continue to graduate at a higher rate than […]

June 22, 2007

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University of Michigan replaces scrapped scholarships

ANN ARBOR Mich. The University of Michigan has replaced scholarships eliminated in the wake of a voter-approved ban on preferential treatment based on race and gender at public universities.

June 21, 2007

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… 3,000 and counting – educational aid to underrepresented students

Several years ago, a number of educators, after deciding there were not enough Latinos enrolled in graduate schools around the country, created a program called “Helping 500 U.S. Hispanic Students into Graduate Schools.”

June 19, 2007