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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation awarded a total of $25 million in grants to eight U.S. universities that pledged to make entrepreneurship education available across campus. The selected universities receiving multi-million dollar grants are: Florida International University, $3 million; Howard University, $3.1 million; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, $4.5 million; University of North […]

January 14, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Scholars of Note: History

HistorySetting the Record StraightDaina Ramey BerryTitle: Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Michigan State University Education: Ph.D., U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., History, University of California, Los AngelesAge: 34On a 19th-century auction block, an enslaved Black man and woman negotiate prices with potential […]

January 14, 2004

Students

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship Program

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship ProgramATLANTAEmory University has received a $247,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner in a new fellowship program that will place some of the university’s top graduate students in the classrooms of six colleges and universities in Atlanta and New Orleans. The program expands and enhances […]

December 31, 2003

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Grants & Awards

Bethune-Cookman College (Fla.) will receive $497,040 from the federal government to enable an expansion of its community outreach service programs. The funds will go toward the college’s efforts to develop a Community Services Center and a new Student Union Center. Hampton University School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Va.) has been awarded a $716,557 […]

December 31, 2003

Health

Colleges Receive Joint Grant to Battle Obesity in Minorities

Colleges Receive Joint Grant to Battle Obesity in Minorities  CLEMSON, S.C.  Clemson University and Voorhees College have received a $5.26 million grant to develop a joint program to battle obesity among rural South Carolina minorities. The program will train future health care educators and workers to reduce and eliminate the disproportionate amount of disease and […]

December 31, 2003

Latinx

Education Funding Up in the Air

Education Funding Up in the AirBipartisan efforts still under way to increase spending package      Republicans have pushed a tardy $373 billion spending package through the U.S. House of Representatives that would increase overall funding for the U.S. Department of Education by $2.9 billion, despite conservative objections that the measure had too many hometown projects and […]

December 31, 2003

HBCUs

Top HBCU Bands Selected for Honda Showcase

Top HBCU Bands Selected for Honda ShowcaseATLANTAFrom a field of 43 historically Black college and university (HBCU) marching bands, 10 have been selected to perform at the second annual Honda Battle of the Bands Invitational Showcase, Jan. 24 at the Georgia Dome. With all the votes tallied, the schools set to march in the only […]

December 17, 2003

HBCUs

Federally Funded Grants, Loans Send More D.C. Residents to College

Federally Funded Grants, Loans Send More D.C. Residents to CollegeMore residents from the District of Columbia are attending colleges far from home, taking advantage of a federally funded grant program that pays for up to $10,000 of out-of-state tuition, and an expanded feature this year that offers $2,500 for students who attend any historically Black […]

December 17, 2003

Students

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant Program

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant ProgramHouse Republicans introduced a bill last month to reduce fraud in the Pell Grant program, a move they say could free up as much as $340 million for the higher education program.The lawmakers say they would use the additional funds to provide the grants to more […]

December 17, 2003

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Democrats’ Bill Would Penalize States That Slash Higher Education

Democrats’ Bill Would Penalize States That Slash Higher EducationThe best way to keep tuition costs from climbing is to lean on states that cut college budgets. At least that is the thinking behind a new bill proposed by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats say their initiative makes more sense than the competing […]

December 17, 2003

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Grants & Awards

Atlantic Cape Community College (N.J.) received $569,755 from the New Jersey Department of Labor to upgrade the skills of workers in the casino industry.Benedict College (S.C.) will receive $4.3 million in the next five years from the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research in collaboration with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. […]

December 17, 2003

Community Colleges

Efforts to Improve Transfer Agreements Between Schools Gain $2.5 Million Boost

Efforts to Improve Transfer Agreements Between Schools Gain $2.5 Million BoostWASHINGTONA $2.5 million grant will help a national coalition make postsecondary education more accessible to interested students by changing transfer policies in higher education and improving shared technology for planning, financial aid and enrollment.The National Articulation and Transfer Network (NATN) will use the grant money […]

December 3, 2003