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Hard Times for Poor Students

Hard Times for Poor StudentsRemember the good old days in student financial aid? Those who needed help with tuition, room and board were pretty much guaranteed it in packages where grants exceeded loans. Need tended to be the way financial aid money was allocated, and while parents with means had to step up to the […]

May 22, 2002

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Welfare, Pell Grant Issues Spark Partisan Battles

Welfare, Pell Grant Issues Spark Partisan BattlesBush administration turning ‘blind eye’ to college affordability, critics sayBy Charles DervaricsWith fall congressional elections less than six months away, partisan bickering is back in full force on Capitol Hill on issues ranging from Pell Grants to education for welfare recipients.“The Bush administration has turned a blind eye to […]

May 22, 2002

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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsAuburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering received a $1 million pledge from William F. “Hank” and Brenda Hayes with a portion of the gift designated for an existing Endowment for Diversity. The endowment, originally established by the Hayes family, supports the college’s BellSouth Minority Engineering Program. Callaloo, the premier journal of African […]

May 8, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]

May 8, 2002

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Adding International Flavor to your Résumé

Adding International Flavor to your RésuméBack in the 1980s, Anthony Pinder was trading futures for a living in Chicago. When the Chernobyl nuclear accident devastated the stock market, he decided the timing was right to do something he had thought about for years. He joined the Peace Corps. Pinder’s 2 ½ years in Ecuador changed […]

May 8, 2002

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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsBrown University received $15 million from the Starr Foundation to endow undergraduate scholarships. This is the largest gift in support of financial aid in the university’s history.California State University-Northridge’s Minority Biomedical Research Support program has received two grants totaling more than $6 million to develop biomedical research and enhance research education. The grants […]

April 24, 2002

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The Current Toast of the Poetry World

The Current Toast of the Poetry WorldCarl Phillips honored with Kingsley Tufts Award   Charlottesville, Va.Carl Phillips has become only the second African American poet to win the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a highly coveted prize that carries with it a career’s worth of prestige — and a $100,000 check.Phillips says the reality of following in […]

April 24, 2002

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Connecting The Classroom and the Community

Connecting The Classroom and the CommunityService-learning programs allow students to apply real-world experience with classroom studyBy Phaedra Brotherton The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningful and give back to their communities. But for the past decade, a growing number of institutions of higher education […]

April 24, 2002

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Morehouse Hangs On to Top Title

Morehouse Hangs On to Top Title At Annual Academic ChallengeORLANDO, Fla.For the second consecutive year, Atlanta’s Morehouse College emerged as the National Champion at the 2002 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition among the best and brightest students at the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities held earlier this month in Orlando, Fla. […]

April 24, 2002

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Grants & AwardsThe Central State University College of Education received $12,000 to establish a scholarship fund in honor of the late Donald W. Perry of Yellow Springs, Ohio.Creighton University has received a three-year $575,624 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Service Administration to help alleviate the shortage of qualified […]

April 10, 2002

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House Approves 2003 Budget Plan

House Approves 2003 Budget PlanDemocrats deem budget insufficient to meet educational needsThe full House of Representatives approved a 2003 budget plan with a small increase for minority-serving colleges after brushing back efforts to add more money for Pell Grants to the plan.The 221-209 vote was largely along party lines, as Republicans endorsed the budget blueprint […]

April 10, 2002

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Grants & AwardsCalifornia State University-Northridge received $742,515 from the U.S. Department of Education to train bilingual teachers in the Los Angeles area.City College of San Francisco received $50,000 from Genentech Inc., for the college’s Bio-Link program. The gift will establish a national equipment registry for biotechnology education.DePaul University’s Space Science Center for Outreach and Education […]

March 27, 2002