Tag: Funding: Page 51

Community Colleges

Adult Learners Key To U.S. Reclaiming College Completion Lead, Education Dept. Official Says

President Barack Obama’s goal to increase the number of two- or four-year degree holding Americans by 2020 will require significant investments in educating nontraditional-aged college students, a U.S. Education Department assistant secretary told TRIO program administrators Wednesday at the Council for Opportunity in Education’s annual seminar with Education Department officials.

March 24, 2010

Home

TRIO Leader Says Freeze Puts Programs at Risk

Advocates for federal TRIO college access and support programs are disappointed that, in actions from the $787 billion stimulus package to a multibillion-dollar college aid package, there was little or no discussion of TRIO.

March 23, 2010

MSIs

Dems Unveil Scaled-back SAFRA Provisions, Attach It to Health Care Reform Legislation

Within the Healthcare and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, the higher education provisions contain many elements of the $87 billion Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) that cleared the House last year. The “new” SAFRA has less funding, as lawmakers reduced the scope of the bill to meet budget targets.

March 18, 2010

African-American

Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.

March 18, 2010

Latinx

Opinion: The Proposed NSF Broadening Participation Budget—A Lingering Odor

In congressional testimony, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden Bement voiced support for the Obama administration’s 8-percent increase in the NSF FY 2011 budget to $7.42 billion. The words were earnest, but, for communities supported by the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, the increase smells of a skunk.

March 17, 2010

Community Colleges

Dire Financial Future Projected for U.S. Community Colleges

Hundreds of community college trustees and officials, meeting in Washington this week, are girding themselves for projected state funding shortfalls in 2012 when stimulus funds will dry up and recessionary budget gaps are expected to swell.

March 11, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Rowdy Students Block Campus Amid Funding Rally

Rowdy protesters blocked the main gates of a California university Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding.

March 4, 2010

Students

Angry UC-San Diego Students Protest Over Noose Found In Library

Anger boiled over on the University of California-San Diego campus Friday, where students took over the chancellor’s office for several hours to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library.

February 28, 2010

Students

La. College Commission Suggests Restructuring

The final list of recommendations from a higher education restructuring panel would shift the way dollars are divvied up among Louisiana’s public college campuses and reshuffle governance of the schools.

February 7, 2010

HBCUs

Activists Mobilize, Students Organize Town To Preserve Mississippi HBCUs

Alumni And Students Organize Town Hall Meetings And A Protest Rally To Pressure Mississippi Lawmakers Into Nixing College-Merger Proposal.

February 3, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’

Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.

February 1, 2010

Latinx

Obama Budget Plans More for Education

Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.

February 1, 2010