Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 70

Home

Just the Stats: Where Do Pell Grant Dollars Go?

The House Committee on Appropriations has proposed a $100 increase to the maximum Pell Grant to offset the rising costs of obtaining a college education. Advocates say the increase is needed, but doesn’t go far enough, as affordability is still a major issue in college access for minorities.

June 22, 2006

Home

Pitt to Implement Environmental Sustainability

Endorsing the concept that engineers should be trained to incorporate environmental sustainability practices in their work…

June 14, 2006

Students

Grants & Awards

Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) has received a four-year, $875,448 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support student international research internships. The Minority Health Institute Research Training Program will send 10 students each year to the University of Botswana and the University of Zululand in South Africa. Harvard University (Mass.) has received a […]

June 14, 2006

Latinx

Pell Grant Increase Considered

U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.

June 7, 2006

Students

Boosting Black Enrollment Aim of Florida’s First-Generation Grants

Florida students whose parents do not have four-year college degrees could get need-based financial aid under a $6.5 million scholarship program recently signed into law. Although students of any race can apply, lawmakers hope it will increase minority enrollment at Florida universities.

June 6, 2006

HBCUs

One on One With Charles Greene

In an era of declining state funding for higher education, the role federal appropriations play in maintaining and developing the…

May 31, 2006

Latinx

Education Department Issues Criteria for “Rigorous” Curriculum

Students at minority-serving colleges and universities are among the primary targets of a new $4.5-billion financial aid windfall…

May 31, 2006

Home

Grants & Awards

Gen. Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has donated $1 million to the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at the City College of New York. Powell, a graduate of CCNY, founded the center in 1997 as a student-focused policy center and serves as Distinguished Scholar […]

May 31, 2006

Students

Grants & Awards

Adelphi University (N.Y.) has received an $8.5 million gift from Carol A. Ammon, founder and chairman of Endo Pharmaceuticals and a 1979 graduate of the university. The gift will be used to establish a professorship in childhood education and endow scholarships for education students. California State University-Fullerton has received a $4.2 million donation from Dan […]

May 17, 2006

Home

Education Department Announces “Rigorous” Rules for College Aid

In a rare venture into curriculum, the Bush administration this week declared which high school programs are “rigorous” enough to qualify students for college aid. The designation is important because only college freshmen and sophomores who complete a rigorous high school course of study can receive certain new grants…

May 4, 2006

Latinx

House Votes to Reauthorize Higher Education Act

After years of partisan bickering, the House of Representatives has passed a measure reauthorizing the Higher Education Act for six years on a 221-199 near-party line vote…

May 3, 2006

HBCUs

Grants & Awards

Ashland University (Ohio) has received a $5 million gift from Dwight C. Schar, chairman and CEO of NVR, a home-building and mortgage-banking company. The gift will be used to fund the construction of a new College of Education building, which the university plans to name in Schar’s honor. The Association of African Universities (Accra, Ghana) […]

May 3, 2006