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NSF Gives Grant to Boost Minority Graduate Degree Production

NSF Gives Grant to Boost Minority Graduate Degree ProductionALBUQUERQUE, N.M.A New Mexico alliance is getting a $2.5 million federal grant to increase the number of minority students pursuing advanced degrees in the next five years. The National Science Foundation grant went to the New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, which wants to […]

December 20, 2000

Native Americans

Education Department Offers New Funds to HSIs, Tribal Colleges

Education Department Offers New Funds to HSIs, Tribal CollegesThe U.S. Dept. of Education is offering new grants to support improvements at Hispanic-serving colleges and universities and tribal institutions.The Education Department made applications available Nov. 30 for new grants under the Title V HSI grant program and the Title III Higher Education Act program for tribal […]

December 20, 2000

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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsAuburn University in Auburn, Ala., received a federal grant of $382,267 to help boost the economic and educational development of the impoverished West Alabama Black community of Uniontown. The Center for the Advancement of Health has received a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The money will be used to […]

December 6, 2000

Students

Purdue President Challenges Universities to Increase Fellowships for Minority Graduate Students

Purdue President Challenges Universities to Increase Fellowships for Minority Graduate StudentsSan Antonio, TexasDr. Martin C. Jischke, president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., last month challenged America’s universities to establish fellowships to increase the numbers of minority graduate students preparing to be the faculty of the future.Speaking at the annual meeting of the National […]

December 6, 2000

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Jacqueline Woods to Join AAUW as Executive Director

Jacqueline Woods to Join AAUW as Executive DirectorWashingtonJacqueline Woods, community college liaison for the U.S. Department of Education, has been named executive director of the American Association of University Women, a national organization with approximately 150,000 members, that promotes education and equity for women. Woods, will be executive director of the three corporations that comprise […]

December 6, 2000

Latinx

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

Latinx

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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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsNorth Carolina A&T State University received $3 million to be allocated over the next four years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs and matching funds to implement a program initiative to help local students finish high school and encourage them to pursue a college education. […]

November 22, 2000

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University of Arkansas Shares in Grant For Computer Research

University of Arkansas Shares in Grant For Computer ResearchFAYETTEVILLE, Ark.  The University of Arkansas was awarded a grant with the University of Oklahoma to create a research center devoted to studying materials that can make computers run faster. The $4.5 million grant comes as part of a push by the federal government to fuel such […]

November 22, 2000

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Grants & AwardsArizona State University’s colleges of Business and Engineering and Applied Sciences will receive a five-year $3 million grant from the Ford Motor Co. The money will help pay for faculty salaries, scholarships, undergraduate and graduate fellowships, research, curriculum development, technology upgrades, building renovations and career management services. California State University-Northridge’s Center for Community […]

November 8, 2000

Health

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…For 10 years, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin volunteered her services at a rural health clinic she founded in southern Alabama, moonlighting in emergency rooms to support herself and the clinic.Her efforts went largely unheralded until Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg featured her in a 1995 New York Times story, “Angel in […]

November 8, 2000

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Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board

Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]

November 8, 2000