Tag: Funding: Page 54

Latinx

WASHINGTON UPDATE: Minority-serving Institutions Seek Long-term Funding Increases

Advocates seek additional funding through a couple of bills under consideration in Congress.

September 2, 2009

Sports

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Retiring Morgan State President Earl Richardson says his school has accomplished a great deal, but could do more with equitable support from the state.

September 2, 2009

Latinx

Minority-Serving Institutions Seek Long-Term Funding Increases

Advocates seek additional funding through a couple of bills under consideration in Congress.

September 2, 2009

Sports

Unfinished Business

Retiring Morgan State President Earl Richardson says his school has accomplished a great deal but could do more with equitable support from the state.

September 2, 2009

HBCUs

Legal Battles Continue in Fight for Equity in Maryland Higher Education

In an ongoing struggle to right past wrongs, lawyers, community activists and students are awaiting their chance in court to make all Maryland universities equal and to reverse policies they say serve to weaken historically Black universities. At the heart of the case, The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education v. Maryland […]

September 2, 2009

Home

Funding, tuition income per student high at UH

As college students return to campuses this week, they’re concerned about paying for college.  At the University of Hawaii, state appropriations and tuition income per student grew 32.1 percent.  According to the Star Bulletin, the annual State Higher Education Finance report shows this is the highest percentage increase in the nation. Thereport also notes that […]

August 23, 2009

STEM

La. Higher Education Panel Begins Overhaul Study

A new commission charged with finding ways to overhaul Louisiana’s public college systems began its work Monday with recommendations from Gov. Bobby Jindal and a grim review of the state’s budget woes.

August 11, 2009

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges Seeking Stability in Federal Funding Cycles

For Leonard Dauphinais, one of the most challenging things about running a tribal college is not a lack of federal funding but trying to figure out when that funding will arrive at his school.

August 5, 2009

Students

California Budget Deal Cuts Higher Ed, Saves Financial Aid

After marathon sessions including all-nighters, the California Legislature has passed a budget deal that will bring new gloom to higher education by slashing funding for public colleges by $2.8 billion and school districts and community colleges by $5.7 billion.

July 26, 2009

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM:A POINEER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION

In 1978, Joe McDonald of the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribes dreamed of a decent building for the newly created Salish Kootenai College. At the time, classes were being held in an abandoned building on the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

July 8, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Kentucky State University May Open Boarding School for Black Males

Kentucky State University President Mary Sias says the school is trying to find funding to open a boarding school for Black males.

July 1, 2009

Latinx

Minority-serving Institutions Battle for Budget Consideration

Colleges disagree over what constitutes an agricultural program and therefore who qualifies for limited federal agricultural resources.

June 24, 2009