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Just the Stats: Educate or Incarcerate?

When it comes to young minorities, should we be feeding their minds or giving them “time?” If we look at state’s funding of schools versus prisons, we see the unfortunate answer to that question.

September 6, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Goizueta Foundation Boosts Hispanic

Since the 1990s, state officials across the South have pushed their higher education systems to reach out…

September 6, 2006

HBCUs

HBCUs, Other Colleges Still Reeling a Year After Katrina

WASHINGTON A year after Hurricane Katrina inflicted lethal damage along the Gulf Coast, the region’s colleges — including historically Black institutions — still face major challenges and need more federal funding, a report says.

August 27, 2006

HBCUs

Consortium to Award $5,000 Each to 15 HBCUs For Project Competition

NEW YORK Fifteen historically Black colleges and universities will receive a $5,000 grant each as part of a funding program from the National Black Programming Consortium. The grant will be used to create original media projects that explore civil rights issues, American history and local and national leadership.

August 27, 2006

Sports

Black College Baseball Programs Sliding in Popularity

Major League Baseball was all but dead in the water in the late 1990s. A strike in 1994…

August 23, 2006

Students

Senate Nixes Pell Increase

Plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant for needy students hit a snag in the U.S. Senate last month…

August 9, 2006

Students

Solving the Funding Riddle

When Leola Tsinnajinnie decided to pursue a major in educational thought and sociocultural studies at the University of New Mexico…

August 2, 2006

Students

Solving the Funding Riddle

When Leola Tsinnajinnie decided to pursue a major in educational thought and sociocultural studies at the…

July 26, 2006

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No Pell Grant Increase In Senate Budget

Plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant for needy students hit a snag in the U.S. Senate this week, as members of a powerful committee voted to freeze the top grant again in 2007.

July 18, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Leaving a Legacy

Shortly after Dr. Donald Wilson became dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1991…

July 12, 2006

Health

Funding cuts may hurt program that helped Indian med students

Summer programs that encourage American Indians to enter health professions are in full swing now, but they may come to an end after Sept. 1. That’s when funding ends for the Center for American Indian and Minority Health, one of three centers in U.S. medical schools that promotes health professions for American Indians.

July 5, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Officials to Decide Future of College Desegregation Funding

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is not ready to say if he wants to continue state funding for diversity programs in a settlement of the state’s college desegregation case, but a University of Tennessee official says the spending should be extended.

June 28, 2006