Tag: Research: Page 37

HBCUs

HBCUs Gather in Silicon Valley for Innovation, Entrepreneurship Symposium

Nearly 100 HBCU stakeholders are meeting at a symposium this week seeking to leverage the intellectual capital and top-tier research activity at HBCUs into dollars needed to ensure institutional viability in the years to come.

March 20, 2014

Students

American Council on Education Wary of Obama Administration’s Plan to Rank Schools

ACE issued a brief Wednesday that addressed the potentially damaging impact ranking systems may have on higher education.

March 19, 2014

Home

Marijuana Study for Veterans with PTSD Wins Federal Backing

The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

March 17, 2014

Students

Study: College Bound Scholarship Program Sending Low-Income Kids to College

Low-income kids who participate in Washington’s College Bound scholarship program are going to college at nearly the same rate as their richer classmates and well ahead of other poor children who did not sign up, according to a new report released Monday.

March 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Rutgers Stands by Invitation to Condoleezza Rice

Rutgers University officials are standing by their decision to invite Condoleezza Rice to speak at the school’s commencement in May.

March 9, 2014

Students

Southern University Board Member Quits, Changes Mind

BATON ROUGE, La. ― Southern University’s Board of Supervisors member Calvin Braxton has apparently flip-flopped. On Wednesday, Braxton sent the Southern Board a letter of resignation that read: “Accept my recognition from the Southern University Board of Supervisors.” Less than a day later, Braxton says he has reconsidered and intends to remain a board member. […]

March 2, 2014

Opinion

What Really Will Happen if the Minimum Wage Increases?

The Congressional Budget Office’s conclusions are curious because the research they cite points to opposite outcomes.

February 25, 2014

Home

Grambling Researchers Get Air Force Grants

Two grants totaling $1.8 million have been awarded by the Air Force to two Grambling State University professors.

February 17, 2014

Home

Research Money Small but Vital Part of Farm Bill

A group of scientists at Michigan State University huddled around a computer screen earlier this week — not poring over scientific data but watching a webcast of the U.S. Senate.

February 6, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Report: Part-time Professors Represented Among the Working Poor

House Democratic education committee staffers release congressional study that documents difficult working conditions under which many part-time and adjunct faculty members endure.

February 6, 2014

Sports

$400M Project Underway for Notre Dame’s Football Stadium

The University of Notre Dame announced a $400 million plan Wednesday to expand the school’s 84-year-old football stadium, adding thousands of premium seats plus new buildings at the “House that Rockne Built.”

January 29, 2014

Students

Samford Law’s Wendy Greene Uses Lessons of Civil Rights Movement to Fight Current Day Racial Inequality

This Diverse 2014 Emerging Scholar, inspired by the work of Thurgood Marshall and student-led sit-ins during the civil rights movement, is a sought-after speaker on racial and gender inequality in the workplace.

January 27, 2014