Tag: Financial Aid: Page 84

Students

Wisconsin Plan to Raise Tuition to Pay for Diversity Efforts Criticized

LA CROSSE, Wis. As a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Carmen Wilson likes the idea of sharply raising tuition to hire more professors and recruit more poor and minority students.

October 5, 2006

Students

The School of Spellings

Tough, passionate and perhaps “terrifying,” U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has been described…

October 4, 2006

HBCUs

Report Reveals Best and Worst Schools for Graduating Minorities

Top ten lists are increasingly common on issues across the United States…

October 4, 2006

Students

Black Enrollment Lags, Hispanic Enrollment

Black enrollment grew by only 1.6 percent in Florida’s state universities since last year compared to an overall increase of 2.6 percent…

October 4, 2006

Students

The School of Spellings

Tough, passionate and perhaps “terrifying,” U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has been described…

October 4, 2006

HBCUs

End In Sight For Alabama’s Decades-old College Desegregation Case

MONTGOMERY Ala. Alabama students will be able to receive financial aid from a needs-based program included in an impending settlement that would end the state’s decades-old college desegregation case, according to attorneys on the case.

October 3, 2006

Students

Spellings: More Financial Aid, Accountability In Store For Higher Ed

WASHINGTON U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday called for more need-based financial aid as part of wide-ranging higher education reforms that would include new accountability measures and data collection on student and college performance.

September 26, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Bishop State President: No Plans To Resign Amid Probe

MOBILE, Ala. Bishop State Community College President Yvonne Kennedy said last week she has no plans to resign during a financial aid probe at the two-year school.

September 25, 2006

Students

Perspectives: Harvard, Princeton Drop “Early Admissions” — Should Others Follow?

Through early admissions programs, students are under pressure to commit to a university before the financial aid application is even due. That knocks many high-achieving poor and minority students out of the running. Elite schools should follow up the elimination of early admissions with a policy to provide poor students with full financial aid. Those two necessary first steps in reframing admission and financial aid policies may improve diversity at America’s elite institutions.

September 20, 2006

Home

Education Department Plans to Move On Higher Ed Commission Advice

The National Commission on the Future of Higher Education has yet to issue a final report

September 20, 2006

Home

DREAM Act Becoming Major Mid-Term Battleground

A U.S. congressional hearing focusing on a controversial illegal immigrant education law drew…

September 20, 2006

African-American

Education for a Democracy: Money, Green Card Not Required

Last spring, the nation watched as unprecedented numbers of students walked out of their schools…

September 20, 2006