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HBCUs

Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases

Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.

January 20, 2010

Community Colleges

Obama’s Higher Ed Goals At Odds With States’ Budget Realities

LOS ANGELES  – States’ higher education systems must dramatically overhaul themselves if they intend to fulfill President Obama’s goal of remaking America home to the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, experts said during a conference held by the University of Southern California.

January 14, 2010

Latinx

Minority-serving Institutions to Benefit from Education Department Budget Increase

Nearly three months into the federal fiscal year, Congress and President Barack Obama reached an agreement on a 2010 education spending bill that will increase funds for minority-serving institutions and student financial aid with the possibility of more gains ahead.

January 10, 2010

African-American

Congress Expected to Focus on Education in 2010

The U.S. Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher education in the new year.

January 7, 2010

Latinx

WASHINGTON UPDATE : 2010 CAPITOL HILL OUTLOOK: MORE ATTENTION TO EDUCATION

Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher ed in the new year.\r\n\r\nFor a year that began with great expectations, 2009 ended with many top higher education legislative goals unresolved as other pres

January 6, 2010

MSIs

Obama’s Higher Education Agenda May Lead to Expanded Federal Role

Scholars, academic administrators and higher education policy officials have interpreted the administration’s pronouncements and initiatives as markers of a significant shift in federal higher education policy.

December 20, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Governor proposes study of Colo. higher education

Warning that higher education is facing a funding crisis next year, Gov. Bill Ritter named businessman Dick Monfort and attorney Jim Lyons on Thursday to chair a new committee and come up with a roadmap for the future of Colorado’s 27 public colleges and universities.

December 17, 2009

Leadership & Policy

N.J. Governor-elect Renews Pledge for More Higher Education Funding

New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie has delivered mostly welcome news to the state’s college and university presidents, pledging to increase funding to higher education over the next four years while warning that aid cuts are possible in the dire budget year ahead.

December 15, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Texas Colleges Count Economic Blessings—For Now

Denise Trauth, president of Texas State University, tries not to gloat. But when she meets with counterparts from across the nation, as she did at the annual gathering of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities recently, she feels fortunate to be in Texas.

December 13, 2009

Leadership & Policy

KEYSTONE STATE OF CONFUSION

Students and parents may require a road map to navigate Pennsylvania’s diverse and often complex higher education landscape.

December 9, 2009

Students

NOTEWORTHYNEWS: A NEGLECTED NATIONAL TREASURE

When Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital became president of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black universities (HBCU) in 2007, she knew she “inherited a national treasure that has produced some extraordinary leaders.”

December 9, 2009

Students

Reviving A Neglected National Treasure

Cheyney University appoints advisory panel to revitalize academics and operations at the struggling historically Black institution.

December 6, 2009