Tag: Tuition and Fees: Page 99

STEM

New Liberian President Seeks to Rehabilitate Country’s Education System

Finding teachers still country’s main hurdle.

June 13, 2007

Students

Report: First-generation Black Freshmen Drop in Four-Year Colleges

The number of first-generation Black students entering four-year colleges dropped by almost two-thirds between 1971 and 2005, according to new data collected by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

June 7, 2007

HBCUs

Congress Extends Tuition Assistance Program for D.C. Students

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to extend for five years a program that helps District of Columbia high school graduates better afford the cost of attending public universities and historically Black colleges.

May 31, 2007

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Hanging in the Balance

Federal legislation may chart new course for states considering whether to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students.

May 30, 2007

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Hanging in the Balance

Federal legislation may chart new course for states considering whether to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students.

May 29, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Clark Atlanta Faculty, Students Call for President Broadnax’s Ouster

ATLANTA A group of Clark Atlanta University faculty, students and alums said Tuesday the school’s financial and morale problems have reached a crisis point and it’s time for university president Walter Broadnax to step down or be fired.

May 21, 2007

Students

Tackling The Problem of Foster Children Missing Out On College

A Michigan task force, charged with recommending ways to help teenagers who age out of the foster care system, is focusing on higher education. One proposal would waive tuition for former foster children enrolled in Michigan’s public universities and community colleges.

April 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

April 22, 2007

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New Congress More Amenable to the DREAM Act

A bill to eliminate many higher education barriers for undocumented students may get new life in the now Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress, say advocates who hope to break a six-year stalemate on the issue.

April 18, 2007

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Maryland Lawmaker Says In-state Tuition For Immigrants Would Take Seats From Black Students

BALTIMORE A veteran member of Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus said Saturday that he opposed a bill that would provide in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants because it would take seats away from Black students.

April 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Closed For Business

While Community College of Philadelphia administrators and faculty engage in negotiating gamesmanship in week two of a faculty strike, CCP’s 37,000 students — most of whom are Black — continue to be denied access to the only community college serving the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County.

March 21, 2007

Students

The ‘Whipping Boys’ of California Higher Education, CSU Faculty Say Strike Vote is About Getting Respect For Their Work, Protecting Students

As they enter the final day of voting to authorize a work stoppage, California State University faculty say they’re tired of being “devalued,” and they demand competitive salaries, improved student services and better leadership of the nation’s largest university system.

March 14, 2007