Tag: Tuition and Fees: Page 115

Students

Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, Richer

Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, RicherGo-it-alone strategy puts more than a little sugar in Grambling’s and Southern’s bowlsBy Scott DyerNEW ORLEANS — The annual Bayou Classic football game between Louisiana’s two major historically Black universities has built a reputation over the past 26 years as the biggest Black happening in America.Each year on the weekend after […]

December 22, 1999

Students

Washington Briefs

High Court Hears Controversial Fees CaseWASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month heard arguments in a case that may have major implications for campus-based organizations that represent students of color.The case focuses on the University of Wisconsin and its policy of collecting mandatory fees from students — money the university ultimately uses to […]

November 24, 1999

Students

BI What’s New

The University of Missouri-Columbia has instituted a new Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative designed to recruit and train underrepresented minority graduate students as researchers. The initiative is being funded by a four-year, $1.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.The program will provide fellowships for 20 non-degree graduate students, 20 graduate research assistants and […]

November 10, 1999

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Internet Service Offers College Tuition Bidding Service

Internet Service Offers College Tuition Bidding ServiceBOSTON — Savvy internet shoppers have been bidding of late for airplane tickets, hotel fares, used cars. Now, they can bid for college tuition.A newly launched Internet service wants to treat college tuition like an auction, matching students’ financial “bids” to colleges willing to offer discounted tuition rates.The founders […]

October 27, 1999

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Tuition & Financial Aid:Reports Depict Mixed Trend

Tuition & Financial Aid:Reports Depict Mixed Trend WASHINGTON — To hear The College Board tell it, there is good news and then there is good news about tuition and financial aid. But that’s only half right — on both counts. More accurately: There is almost-good news and there is not-so-bad news — generously speaking, on […]

October 27, 1999

Students

Black Students Losing Hope

Black Students Losing HopeRecord Numbers of African American Students Forced From State-Funded Tuition Program Before They Can Reap Full BenefitsATLANTA — Georgia’s 6-year-old Hope scholarship program has brought thousands of African American students into the state’s higher education fold who otherwise would not have been able to afford a college education.But a disturbing analysis released […]

October 13, 1999

Students

Higher Education’s Money Man

Higher Education’s Money Man An Interview With United Negro College Fund President Bill GrayWhen William H. Gray, at the age of 50, announced in 1991 that he was leaving his Majority Whip post in the U.S. House of Representatives to head the United Negro College Fund, many believed his brightest days were behind him. Two […]

September 29, 1999

Leadership & Policy

BI Nes Briefs

Regents Reprimand Tennessee State University President Over Mishandled Student Honors Program NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The state Board of Regents reprimanded the president of Tennessee State University earlier this month and stripped control of a student honors program from him after revelations the program has been mishandled.The university first  landed in trouble when state officials discovered […]

September 29, 1999

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The Life After Death of Proposition 187

The Life After Death of Proposition 187 By Sandra HernandezFor nearly four years Carlos Montes has lived in fear, wondering what would happen if Proposition 187 were allowed to take effect. “I just kept wondering why this happened. It’s all very complicated, but I knew that suddenly a pregnant women might get turned away at […]

September 1, 1999

Leadership & Policy

GOP Tax Bill Draws Bitter Criticism

GOP Tax Bill Draws Bitter CriticismThe White House and Congress are on a collision course as both sides try to build public support for tax cuts and future spending plans that will affect education.The House and Senate, in largely party-line votes, approved a massive $800 billion tax cut in early August that critics say would […]

September 1, 1999

African-American

Capturing the spirit of 15 years

Capturing the spirit of 15 yearsWhen Black Issues In Higher Education started in 1984, Nelson Mandela was enduring a life sentence in a South African prison.  Today, he is not only the former president of South Africa, but he holds an honorary doctorate from Harvard University.  In the United States, back in 1984, “PC” was […]

August 18, 1999

HBCUs

Sallie Mae to the Rescue

Sallie Mae to the RescueLender Offers HBCUs Help With Loan Default RatesHistorically Black colleges and universities’ decade-long protection from federal loan default sanctions ended July 1. But more financial and management assistance for HBCUs should be made available, according to a report by Sallie Mae.SLM Holding Corp., better known as Sallie Mae, is recommending new […]

August 4, 1999