Tag: Funding: Page 73

Latinx

Congress Considers Pell Grant Increase

For years, education advocates looked to a more moderate U.S. Senate to push for funding increases…

June 27, 2006

Students

NCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to Duke

In its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months has contrasted the elite, privileged world of Duke with the struggling-to-get-by image of the historically Black North Carolina Central University, where the alleged rape victim is a student.

June 26, 2006

African-American

Bite Size Briefs

Bar Association’s Affirmative Action policy; Arkansas Black Studies funding; Michigan diversity grading system; Federal panel to question law school affirmative action policy.

June 13, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors

Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.

June 12, 2006

Latinx

Pell Grant Increase Considered

U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.

June 7, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Civil Rights Panel: Duplication Threatens Black Colleges

Predominately White institutions (PWIs) are duplicating programs offered at historically Black colleges and universities…

May 31, 2006

HBCUs

One on One With Charles Greene

In an era of declining state funding for higher education, the role federal appropriations play in maintaining and developing the…

May 31, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Study: Most Community Colleges

A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population…

May 17, 2006

Latinx

House Votes to Reauthorize Higher Education Act

After years of partisan bickering, the House of Representatives has passed a measure reauthorizing the Higher Education Act for six years on a 221-199 near-party line vote…

May 3, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Study: Most Community Colleges Not Fully Prepared for Demographic Shift

A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population, according to survey results released at the 86th American Association of Community Colleges convention last week.

May 2, 2006

Faculty & Staff

The Rebirth of D-Q University

The Phoenix is a traditional symbol of rebirth, but for D-Q University, a bolt cutter may be a more appropriate image. After more than 30 years as California’s only two-year tribal college…

April 19, 2006

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High School Reform Plan May Cripple College Programs

The Bush administration is drawing the ire of leaders across the higher education spectrum by promoting a proposal that funds a new high…

March 22, 2006