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Community Colleges

Barack Obama Visits Prince George’s Community College

LARGO, Md. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was in Maryland Wednesday for a campaign rally in Prince George’s County.

October 10, 2007

Sports

Grants and Gifts

The AMERICAN BAR ENDOWMENT, a nonprofit sponsor of group insurance and charitable giving programs for the more than 400,000 members of the American Bar Association, has donated $3.7 MILLION to improve the ABA Fund for Justice and Education. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the regents of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA have received $7.5 MILLION […]

October 2, 2007

Students

Haslams donate $10M to UT-Knoxville for academics

KNOXVILLE Tenn. A $10 million gift to the University of Tennessee’s main campus announced Tuesday will be used to support its acclaimed forensic anthropology and Renaissance studies programs, endowed professorships and honors scholarships that include study abroad.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Virginia high court to hear disputes over Randolph coed move

RICHMOND Va. The Virginia Supreme Court will hear the appeals of students and alumni challenging the end of 115 years of single-sex education at the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

September 22, 2007

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Wayne State gets $408 million software, technology gift

DETROIT General Motors Corp. is one of several corporations combining to donate nearly $408 million in software and technology to Wayne State University.

September 18, 2007

Health

U.S. university donating medical supplies to Uganda

DURHAM North Carolina A neurosurgeon at an elite U.S. university has gathered several tons of medical equipment, some of which sat unused at the school’s medical facility, and is planning on donating it to a Ugandan hospital.

August 12, 2007

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Robertson’s Regent banking on tuition to stop deficits

VIRGINIA BEACH Va. Regent University plans to more than double its undergraduate enrollment this year as a first step toward balancing its budget.

August 12, 2007

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SIUE exploring text-messaging method of warning campus of threats

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. In line on her college campus to donate blood, Angela Negron was unsure which was more surprising: That the school’s police happened upon a fellow student’s cryptic note allegedly threatening mayhem rivaling April’s massacre at Virginia Tech, or that she had to learn of the threat from a reporter not the school five days after it surfaced.

July 26, 2007

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Spurred by big deal, civil rights era documents now up for grabs

ATLANTA When Barry Tulloss heard an interview between Martin Luther King Jr. and his father, former radioman Jerry Tucker, he said the hair stood up on his neck.

July 22, 2007

Students

Grants & Awards

Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Alabama’s Decree Of Difficulty

Despite a court order, achieving racial parity still appears a long way off

July 14, 2007

Students

News Briefs

WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.

July 14, 2007