Tag: Funding: Page 68

HBCUs

Supreme Court ruling on VMI not a legal burden to HBCUs – Virginia Military Institute, historically Black colleges and universities

Historically Black colleges and universities probably won’t face another legal barrage now that the Supreme Court has eradicated single-gender education at Virginia Military Institute, discrimination law experts say.

June 18, 2007

Latinx

Washington update – 1996 budget agreements for minority students

Final ’96 Budget Pact Preserves Some Education Programs A final 1996 budget agreement hammered out by the White House and Congress provides for a Pell Grant increase and protects a number of high-priority programs for disadvantaged students.

June 17, 2007

Students

Clinton makes education a priority for second term

Saying that the first two years of college should be as much of a birthright as twelve years of primary and secondary school, President Bill Clinton has asked the Congress to increase federal spending on education by $51 billion.

June 16, 2007

Students

An era endangered: graduate fellowships for minorities in jeopardy

Budget cuts are drying up the flow of Department of Education funding for graduate student fellowships.

June 16, 2007

Students

1996 Ad

Higher education programs got a partial reprieve recently when Congress and the Clinton administration declared a truce in their budget battle and provided important funding, along with student aid guidelines that will last through mid-March.

June 15, 2007

Community Colleges

Seamless system – financial problem of public higher education in the US

WASHINGTON As funding problems persist, state legislators are looking to increase tuition and raise admissions standards at public four-year colleges, making community colleges the primary access to higher education, according to a new survey of state legislators released here this month.

June 15, 2007

Home

Shutdown leaves ED program adrift – United States Education Department – includes related article on how the shutdown will effect higher education

The U.S. Education Department (ED) and other agencies continued to operate with only a skeleton staff through the December holidays after the second federal shutdown in as many months took effect Dec. 16.

June 15, 2007

Latinx

House Committee Approves Increase in Pell Grant, New Funding For Black Colleges

The House education committee on Wednesday approved a higher education bill that would increase Pell Grants, cut lender subsidies and make wide-ranging changes to help low-income students and minority-serving colleges.

June 13, 2007

Latinx

MSIs, College Access Programs Gain in House Bill

Advocates for low-income students are hailing a new U.S. House of Representatives agreement that would increase funding for college access programs and minority-serving institutions in 2008.

June 10, 2007

Latinx

Minority-Serving Institutions Scrambling For Quick Funds

HSIs look for increased federal funding through NSF and farm bills.

May 30, 2007

Students

Maine Students, Lawmakers Plead for More Community College Funding

AUGUSTA, Maine With a balanced state budget still beyond lawmakers’ grasp, a community college student, an administrator, a business leader and legislators pleaded last week for more funding for the seven-campus system, saying the state is failing to address surging demand by prospective students.

May 20, 2007

Students

In Fairness

Tribal college leaders criticize proposal to fund nontribal institutions with 10 percent American Indian student enrollment.

May 16, 2007