Tag: Funding: Page 32

Leadership & Policy

Iowa State AIDS Research Team Loses $1.38M Grant

An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get a final payment of $1.38 million it had been awarded from the National Institutes of Health after a team member admitted last year to faking research results.

July 8, 2014

African-American

HistoryMakers Collection Finds Home at Library of Congress

Kenneth E. Reeves, facing front, discusses his trailblazing role as a student at Harvard College and later as the first African-American mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo Courtesy of The HistoryMakers Collection at the Library of Congress)

July 8, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Source: University of Texas President Powers’ Resignation Demanded

University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa told University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers that he must resign or he will be fired, a person with direct knowledge of the conversation told The Associated Press on Friday.

July 6, 2014

Students

Student Loan Interest Rates Increasing

Interest rates go up today for students taking out new federal loans. This hike is relatively minimal but could foreshadow more increases to come.

June 30, 2014

African-American

Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Highlights Tougaloo College’s Civil Rights Role

The Freedom 50 conference on the Tougaloo campus commemorates the 50th anniversary of the bloody 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

June 25, 2014

Students

Financial Help Not Likely on Horizon for Tribal Colleges

At an address earlier this month at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, President Obama promised a renewed commitment to American Indian interests, with a particular focus on education.

June 22, 2014

Home

Migration Policy Institute Details Impact of Funding Cuts on Immigrant Youth in California

New report shows how immigrant youth were impacted by state budget cuts to the school system and how their educational outcomes can be improved.

June 18, 2014

African-American

Higher Ed Advocate, Philanthropist Jim Rogers Dies

Jim Rogers, a philanthropist and education advocate who served as chancellor of Nevada’s higher education system from 2005 to 2009 without pay, died Saturday evening at his Las Vegas home after a bout with cancer.

June 16, 2014

Asian American Pacific Islander

Intervention Programs Having Positive Impact on AAPI Educational Achievement

AAPI community college students who participate in federally funded intervention programs are likelier than nonparticipating peers to earn associate’s degrees.

June 16, 2014

Students

Educators Applaud President Obama’s Order Capping Monthly Student Loan Repayments

Nearly five million borrowers of federal student loans will soon have their monthly repayments capped at 10 percent of their income, thanks to an executive order signed by President Obama at the White House yesterday.

June 9, 2014

Students

Moving North Carolina’s HBCUs From the Back of the Bus to the Front

Given the important role that HBCUs are playing, why would you suggest eliminating one of them?

June 3, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Israeli, Chinese Universities to Collaborate

Two top universities from Israel and China announced Monday that they are starting a $300 million research project focused on nanotechnologies.

May 19, 2014