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Lawmakers, Colleges Make Some Funding Gains

Lawmakers, Colleges Make Some Funding GainsWhile still working on the federal education budget, Congress is making headway on a few budget bills of importance to educators and minority-serving colleges specifically.President Clinton signed a U.S. Department of Agriculture budget bill for 2001 with funding for historically Black colleges and universities. Under the agreement, the agency would […]

December 6, 2000

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Election Delays Throw Budget Talks into Chaos

Election Delays Throw Budget Talks into Chaos  By Charles DervaricsThe presidency is not the only uncertainty in government today. The federal education budget for 2001 is still unresolved, and all signs point to a stalemate that will last into December.Republican congressional leaders in October backed away from a budget deal that would have increased federal […]

December 6, 2000

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Education Department, Congress Making ‘Retreat’ On Civil Rights

Education Department, Congress Making ‘Retreat’ On Civil Rights By Charles DervaricsThe nation’s elected leaders, Republican and Democrat alike, are continuing a “retreat from their obligation” to provide adequate funding for civil rights enforcement, the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights says in a new report that also singles out lack of progress at the U.S. Department […]

November 22, 2000

Students

Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student Laptops

Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student LaptopsBOSTON M assachusetts state colleges soon may join a handful of public campuses requiring that students buy and use their own laptops. The initial three-year plan, which would require state funding, includes $54 million that would go toward discounts and toward  full and partial […]

November 8, 2000

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear KKK Campus Radio Case

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear KKK Campus Radio CaseWASHINGTON A Ku Klux Klan chapter’s attempt to force a state university radio station in St. Louis to accept its financial support and acknowledge it on the air was denied Supreme Court review earlier this month. The court, without comment, let stand rulings that the station’s refusal […]

October 25, 2000

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College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO Programs

College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO ProgramsWith the Clinton administration in its final months, college outreach specialists meeting in Washington in September focused on the issue of continuity — seeking to build on gains made during the past eight years regardless of which party claims the White House in November.Those attending […]

October 11, 2000

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Legislature to Look at Education Budget Bill

Legislature to Look at Education Budget BillA major education-funding bill and plans to tinker with the Higher Education Act were awaiting Congress when it returned to work this month.An education budget bill was the top item on the agenda for most lawmakers and advocates. The House and Senate both approved an education-spending bill with a […]

September 27, 2000

HBCUs

House Republican-HBCU Summit Leaders Announce Task Force

House Republican-HBCU  Summit Leaders Announce Task ForceRep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., and some of his colleagues announced the formation of a task force to follow up on the first House Republican Historically Black Colleges Summit on Capitol Hill earlier this summer (see Black Issues, July 6).The task force, which Watts says will convene at least three […]

August 30, 2000

Students

GEAR UP Facing Criticism

GEAR UP Facing CriticismCongressional sponsors of the 2-year-old Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs have beaten back attempts to terminate the initiative, but prospects for future funding growth may be dimming.House and Senate negotiators in late July rejected White House recommendations to increase funding for the program from $200 million to $325 million. […]

August 30, 2000

Faculty & Staff

TECH briefs

TECH briefsMorris Brown College To Require Laptop Computers This FallATLANTA — Morris Brown College will require its students to buy laptop computers this fall, offering them at discount prices as part of school financial aid.School officials say they believe Morris Brown is the first historically Black college in the nation to make laptops available for […]

August 2, 2000

HBCUs

Washington Briefs

House OKs Record HBCU Spending BillWASHINGTON — Despite partisan bickering on other issues, the House of Representatives mustered enough support for a fiscal 2001 education budget bill with record spending for historically Black colleges and universities.The 217 to 214 vote puts the House on record favoring a $50 million increase above current federal funding for […]

July 19, 2000

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The Need for Closure

The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]

July 5, 2000