Tag: Educational Finance: Page 128

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Juggle Record Enrollments, Budget Cuts

Sociology professor Lorraine Cohen worries more and more students will get shut out of New York City’s LaGuardia Community College if the governor’s proposed budget cut of 10 percent goes through.

January 22, 2009

Students

Minority and Low-Income Students Suffer the Most as College Wealth Gap Widens

Report Shows a Shift Away From Public Funding.

January 14, 2009

Latinx

Oklahoma Task Force Considers Its Future

A task force created by the Legislature to advance the cause of educating Hispanic students is struggling with its identity and its future.

December 9, 2008

HBCUs

Black College Advocates Praise Report Calling for More Equitable Funding of Maryland HBCUs

The formula to bringing Maryland’s historically Black universities on par with the state’s traditionally White institutions will require increased funding for critical improvements, according to an expert panel established by Maryland state officials.

October 29, 2008

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W.Va. crafting long-term higher ed funding plan

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia officials are putting the final touches on a plan that aims to end the state’s piecemeal approach to funding growth and upkeep at its public colleges and universities. “We need to move-away from this one-time funding,” Dennis Taylor, vice chancellor for administration at the Higher Education Policy Commission, told […]

October 23, 2008

Students

Brownsville Wins $1Million Prize for Academic Gains

One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won the coveted $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education last week in recognition of its academic advances.

October 21, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Leading Education Organizations Push for New Federal Role in Public Schools

A partnership of 18 leading national education associations are calling for a new federal role in the public school system, according to a statement released Tuesday.

October 14, 2008

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Spanish-language Media Market In a Growth Phase

While the circulation of traditional English-language daily newspapers decreases, Spanish-language media are reaping the benefits of a growing Hispanic community.

July 23, 2008

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Spending Scandal at Texas Southern Ends Quietly

Students at Texas Southern University often have to work their way through college, and most of them need financial aid to follow in the footsteps of alumni Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland at the historically Black, open-enrollment university.

July 10, 2008

Students

Univ. of NC A&T Audit Shows $10K Misused

An annual audit of North Carolina A&T State University found 27 percent of the scholarships reserved for the Bookstore Scholarship Fund for needy students were awarded to relatives of university employees.

June 1, 2008

Community Colleges

Highest Level of Accounting Graduates in More Than 30 Years

Over 64,000 students graduated with a bachelor’s or master’s in accounting in the 2006-07 academic year, adding up to the largest number of graduates in this discipline since the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) started tracking the data 36 years ago. Female graduates slightly outpaced male graduates in accounting at 52 percent to […]

May 28, 2008

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Lessons for Educators

Explaining the funding crisis and instructing the instructors.

April 30, 2008