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Grants & Awards

An anonymous donor gave Cornell University $100 million to build new residence halls and student commons. The gift matches the largest single gift in the Ivy League school’s history. The pledge is expected to cover about half the cost of new housing planned on Cornell’s West Campus.Florida State University received a $7 million gift from […]

October 27, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Reflections of Faculty Pipeline Program Progeny

Reflections of Faculty Pipeline Program Progeny Undergraduate Research Fellowships Often Are the Catalytic Event That Excite Students About Careers in the ProfessoriateNEW YORK — Not until his undergraduate years at Carleton College did Dr. Matthew Clayton start getting a sense that life in the academy suited his sensibility and talents. Teaching fellow students at his college’s […]

October 27, 1999

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’s

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’sWASHINGTON — Amid predictions of a federal budget meltdown, historically Black colleges and universities and sponsors of college access programs got a little bit of good news from the U.S. Senate this month.In its most definitive statement yet on the year 2000 education budget, Senate leaders came […]

October 27, 1999

Grants & Awards

Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help increase the number of minority graduates in the science and technology fields. The money will be used to improve Bennett’s on-campus technology, to train faculty to make better use of technology and to review and modifying curriculum.Mississippi […]

October 13, 1999

Black Students Losing Hope

Black Students Losing HopeRecord Numbers of African American Students Forced From State-Funded Tuition Program Before They Can Reap Full BenefitsATLANTA — Georgia’s 6-year-old Hope scholarship program has brought thousands of African American students into the state’s higher education fold who otherwise would not have been able to afford a college education.But a disturbing analysis released […]

October 13, 1999

Washington Briefs

Howard Only HBCU Among HUD Community Outreach GranteesWASHINGTON — U.S. Sec. of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo last month announced $7.5 million in federal grants to help nearly two dozen colleges and universities revitalize run-down neighborhoods near their campuses.Howard Uni-versity here in the nation’s capital was the lone historically Black institution to receive a […]

October 13, 1999

House Unveils New Budget

House Unveils New BudgetCreative Accounting Could Provide Some Higher Education Programs With Increases Despite Budget Cap WASHINGTON — Some long-awaited predictions came true, late last month, as the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a controversial budget plan that relies heavily on innovative accounting to avoid deep cuts in education spending.Among other provisions, the bill would […]

October 13, 1999

Grants & Awards

The University of Illinois at Chicago received $1.25 million from the Archdiocese of Chicago to establish an endowed chair in Catholic studies to promote religious literacy. The archdiocese received the money from the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation.Earl G. Graves Sr., chairman and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, announced that he and several business associates and […]

September 29, 1999

UNCF Gray’s Way

UNCF Gray’s WayWith Billion-Dollar Bill Gates Coup, ‘Bottom-Line’ Bill Gray Affirms His Stature and His Leadership Style FAIRFAX, Va. — When software tycoon William H. Gates III made a $1 billion pledge earlier this month to fund scholarships for minority college and graduate students in science, engineering, math and education, he turned to the United […]

September 29, 1999

Washington Briefs

HBCUs to Get $2.1 Million from Human Services AgencyWASHINGTON — Black colleges and universities will get a share of more than $20 million in new federal funding to help improve the economic outlook of low-income neighborhoods nationwide, officials here say.At least $2.1 million in the Urban and Rural Community Economic Development program will go to […]

September 29, 1999

Budget Surplus, Tax Cuts Could Drain Education Funding

Budget Surplus, Tax Cuts Could Drain Education FundingWASHINGTON — Congress and President Clinton, with rhetoric and threats flying back and forth between them, have set the stage for a budget showdown again this year, one education advocates fear could hurt millions of college students if lawmakers fail to produce a bipartisan budget before Oct. 1.Several […]

September 29, 1999

Feds Hand Out $120M to Expand College Access

Feds Hand Out $120M to Expand College AccessWASHINGTON — With the new academic year just days away, the Clinton administration tagged 21 states and 164 local partnerships to serve as the first participants in the highly-touted “Gear Up for College” program to boost access to higher education.Approved last year, the program targets at-risk students early […]

September 15, 1999

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