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Grants & Gifts

Ball State University (Ind.) has received $200,000 from the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation to create the Telecommunications Merit Endowment Scholarship. The scholarship aims to benefit incoming freshmen and transfer students who are looking to major in telecommunications. Cheyney University (Pa.) has received a $350,000 donation from Ephren W. Taylor II, the youngest Black […]

May 16, 2007

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Healing Gallaudet

Dr. Robert R. Davila became interim president of Gallaudet University on Jan. 1, after a prolonged campus protest resulted…

February 21, 2007

Community Colleges

Dreams Deferred?

Wrongly imprisoned, Alan Newton advises students in CUNY’s Black Male Initiative. So why is a civil rights group trying to stop him?

February 21, 2007

Women

Scholars Debate Effectiveness of Single-Sex Classes

Leah Hasty was looking to provide a male role model for Black boys enrolled in the Baltimore public elementary school where she was principal…

November 29, 2006

Students

A Chance to Prove Themselves

Sean Garballey, a senior at a state university in New England, recently won a highly competitive…

October 18, 2006

Students

Program Prepares Disabled For College

The college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes, others napping. Evelyn Scruggs, a student sitting near the front, is among the more attentive, filling an entire page with notes. But, by the time she leaves, she likely won’t remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote.

July 18, 2006

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Professional Appointments

Warren R. Anderson has been appointed director of the R. Benjamin Wiley Partnership Program for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Most recently, he served as director of student activities at Chestnut Hill College. Anderson holds a bachelor’s from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jeffrey L. Brudney has been named the Albert A. Levin […]

May 3, 2006

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No Child-Loophole: Nearly Two Million Scores Uncounted

Laquanya Agnew and Victoria Duncan share a desk, a love of reading and a passion for learning. But because of a loophole in the No Child Left Behind Act…

April 18, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Former Southern Illinois University President James Walker Dies

Dr. James Walker, the first Black to serve as president of the two-campus, 35,000-student Southern Illinois University system, has died after a long bout with prostate cancer. He was 64…

February 8, 2006

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University of Alaska Gender Gap Ranks Second

The University of Alaska’s gender gap ranks second in the nation, according to findings prepared by…

January 11, 2006

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University of Alaska Gender Gap Ranks Second in Nation; More Women Seek Degrees

The University of Alaska’s gender gap ranks second in the nation, according to findings prepared by…

December 20, 2005

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Bush’s Post-Katrina Funding Plan Inadequate, Says School Administrators Group

The American Association of School Administrators expressed strong disappointment with President Bush’s proposals

October 5, 2005