Tag: Endowments: Page 12

Home

Fisk Clears Major Stopgap Fundraising Hurdle

Fisk University, struggling to right its financial ship, cleared a major hurdle toward that goal last week with news that it has raised $4 million in unrestricted cash since December, allowing it to collect $2 million more in a challenge grant, pay past due bills and finish its fiscal year with a small surplus.

June 29, 2008

Native Americans

Students from 12 Tribes Attend Summer Institute

Eighteen high school students from 12 Native American western tribes are attending the 13th annual Na-ha-shnee Native American Summer Institute to learn about the health sciences professions and health-care issues, Washington State University announced.

June 25, 2008

HBCUs

Andrew Carnegie and Race

A financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.

June 16, 2008

HBCUs

Grants & Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, has received $1 MILLION from the CSU system, which received funds from the Bernard Osher Foundation to be distributed. The monies will go to support a scholarship endowment fund at CSU Bakersfield. Twelve faculty members at OHIO UNIVERSITY have been awarded a $124,000 grant by the Ohio University Research Committee and […]

May 28, 2008

Home

Perspectives: True Access to American Colleges & Universities

The federal government has a huge role to play in making college accessible and affordable. How about providing financial incentives to those institutions that are aggressively enrolling low-income students – the kind of students ever more present in the educational pipeline? What they should not do is impose spending rates on college endowments, as was proposed recently.

May 11, 2008

Students

A FUNDRAISING BLUEPRINT

Howard University sets the bar high for its largest ever capital campaign, and now plans to share the secrets of its success with fellow HBCUs.

April 30, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Golden State Responds to Shortage of Health Care Professionals

With the lowest number of registered nurses in the nation, a California program aims to fill gap through a number of diversity initiatives.

March 19, 2008

Students

HBCU Presidents Take Their Case For Funding To Congress

A panel of HBCU presidents and administrators stressed the need for greater federal financial support during a congressional hearing Wednesday intended to address the many obstacles facing America’s private and public historically Black colleges and universities.

March 12, 2008

Home

Letters

‘A CHURCH IS A CHURCH’ “College of William & Mary Head Resigns, Raises Diversity Issues in Resignation Letter,” Feb. 13, 2008  Some educators are being politically correct to the point of having no common sense. Why would you remove a cross from a church? I am a Christian and if I were to attend a […]

March 4, 2008

Latinx

Congress To Give More, Demand More

A Pell Grant increase is in the HEA bill, but so are provisions for colleges to explain large endowments and tuition increases.

March 4, 2008

Home

Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement

Growing up, it was no secret in Clay Westfall Mering’s house that his great-great grandfather had been a wealthy slave owner.In fact, James S. Rollins, who is known today as the “founding father” of the University of Missouri, had as many as 36 slaves on his sprawling plantation.

February 25, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund

Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.

February 19, 2008