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Hard-fought MSI Technology Plan Needs Jump Start

After much work to get MSIs more technology funding, advocates face tough budget climate.

March 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Fisk Discloses Major New Problems

Fisk University, beset with financial troubles before the nation’s economy began a free fall last year, has joined a growing list of prominent historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) signaling tougher times at hand.

February 24, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Economic Woes Test Historically Black Colleges

Historically Black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who can’t afford to go — or can’t imagine going — elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the nation’s economic meltdown.

February 15, 2009

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Colleges Cut Budgets as Market Erodes Endowments

When the markets were booming, billionaire colleges like Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University tapped their swelling endowments and launched spending binges on faculty, buildings and scholarships.

January 27, 2009

Students

College Financial Aid System Facing Stiff Test

Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam.

January 25, 2009

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NEA Reports Rise in Reading, Not All Voluntary

“Reading on the rise” declares a new government study, which reports a surprising and welcome increase in the number of adults who recently read a novel, short story, play or other work of literature.

January 25, 2009

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A 22-year Transformation

Dr. Modesto Maidique reflects on the evolution he has shepherded Florida International University through as he prepares to leave his post as president after 22 years.

January 21, 2009

International

Grants & Gifts

The UNIVERSITY OF DENVER’s Morgridge College of Education has received a $10 MILLION gift from James (Jim) Cox Kennedy to establish the James C. Kennedy Institute for Educational Success. The funds will endow three faculty chairs and program/research endowment in the college. The Kremen School of Education and Human Development at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, […]

January 21, 2009

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Creator of Pell Grants dies at 90

Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood who represented blue-collar Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate for 36 years and was the force behind a grant program that has helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, died Thursday after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

January 4, 2009

HBCUs

Hard Times in Higher Education

The nation’s worsening financial crisis is rippling through nearly every sector of the economy. Higher education, usually more immune than other sectors, is no exception this time.

December 10, 2008

Sports

DRASTIC MEASURES FOR DIFFICULT TIMES

Hit hard by the global financial crisis, colleges are cutting their budgets in ways that prompt fears about access and retention for minority students.

December 10, 2008

Students

Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES, has received a $5 million grant from the Office of Education at the National Aeronautics Space Administration to further research and educational activities at the university’s Structures, Propulsion, Aerospace and Control Engineering (SPACE) Center. Cal State L.A. is one of seven universities to receive NASA’s Minority University Research and Education […]

December 10, 2008