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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsCreighton University has received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine whether calcium and vitamin D supplementation can prevent fractures caused by osteoporosis.Prairie View A&M University has been awarded a $1.63 million grant from the Texas Instruments Foundation to fund laboratory enhancements, scholarships and faculty salaries in […]

August 2, 2000

Washington Briefs

Washington BriefsHBCU Wins Commerce FundsWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration’s new initiative to improve communities in the Mississippi Delta region continues to provide benefits for colleges in that area.Mississippi Valley State University has received a $90,000 university center grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Goals for the program are to help improve the Delta economy, […]

August 2, 2000

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in Technology

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in TechnologyWASHINGTON — The federal government must “significantly expand” initiatives to recruit minorities and women for science and technology careers through larger Pell grants, increased support for Black colleges and other services, a bipartisan congressional panel says.“The problem has been studied enough. Now we need action,” says Rep. Eddie […]

August 2, 2000

Putting Davis House in Order

Putting Davis House in Order CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The two-story Queen Anne-style dwelling, once the home of the first Black professor at Johnson C. Smith University here, was the most impressive house on the block in its day. But 105 years of wear has stolen the grandeur from the structure known as the Davis House. […]

July 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Fighting to Preserve Black History

Fighting to Preserve Black History Years after congressional appropriations were made and public awareness has faded, Black college officials still are struggling to restore historic propertiesTALLADEGA, Ala. — Ask Talladega College President Dr. Marguerite Archie-Hudson about historic-building renovations needed on her campus set here amidst the hills and valleys of this suburban Southern town and she […]

July 19, 2000

Six Minorities Among MacArthur ‘Geniuses’

Six Minorities Among MacArthur ‘Geniuses’CHICAGO — Officials at the John D. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation have announced their 2000 Fellowships — also known as the “genius” awards. The fellowship is a five-year grant to individuals of all ages and from all fields and offers recipients flexibility to pursue their work without reporting requirements.Individuals cannot apply […]

July 5, 2000

Washington Briefs

Pell Grant Debate Sours House Budget TalksWASHINGTON — Debate on a fiscal 2001 education funding bill has taken an increasingly bitter turn as House leaders recently rejected Democratic attempts to add more money for Pell grants, among other programs for needy students.Republican leaders labeled out of order an amendment that would have increased the maximum […]

July 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Unlikely Alliances: HBCU Officials Meet with GOP Leaders

Unlikely Alliances: HBCU Officials Meet with GOP LeadersWASHINGTON — To most outsiders, they seemed like strange bedfellows. Nonetheless, leaders from the GOP and historically Black colleges met here last month to hash out legislative funding and other concerns.The brainchild of Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., the first-ever Congressional House Majority HBCU Summit drew a who’s who […]

July 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]

July 5, 2000

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsChicago State University has received a $10 million grant from the Illinois General Assembly for the construction of a new convocation center.The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a Center for the Study of Mind-Body Interactions and […]

July 5, 2000

Washington Briefs

Black Colleges Get More Time to Work on DefaultsWASHINGTON — Legislation likely to gain approval in Congress would allow historically Black colleges an extra two years to work on their loan default problems without penalty.The bill would give HBCUs until July 1, 2004, to straighten this out or else face sanctions that could include loss […]

June 21, 2000

Challenge Grant Program Clears House Committee Hurdle

Challenge Grant Program Clears House Committee HurdleWASHINGTON — A new multimillion-dollar program that Congres-sional Black Caucus members have deemed a priority has moved a step closer to reality.The college completion challenge grant program, proposed by President Clinton and U.S. Reps. William Clay, D-Mo., and Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., cleared a critical hurdle late last month with […]

June 21, 2000

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