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Grants & Awards

Baton Rouge Community College (La.) received a $1,050,000 grant from CampusEAI Consortium to implement Oracle portals. These portals will enhance the college’s integrated teaching and learning interests, student services and other areas of campus activity. Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) received a planning and implementation grant for $325,000 in partnership with the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public […]

February 23, 2005

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Eastern Connecticut State University Honored

Eastern Connecticut State University Honored For College Awareness Program WASHINGTONFirst Lady Laura Bush presented Eastern Connecticut State University with the 2004 Coming Up Taller Awards in honor of its ConnCAP program, designed to increase college awareness among urban youth. The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and […]

January 12, 2005

Health

Meeting the Challenges Of Change

Meeting the Challenges Of ChangeTIAA-CREF’s BeRtram L. Scott discusses how the legendary financial institution responds to new environments in its quest to continue to help higher education professionals By Frank L. MatthewsIn an era in which change is very much the norm, some would argue that a no-nonsense financial institution like TIAA-CREF changes at its […]

August 25, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Gathering at the River: What Black Colleges Should Do Now

Gathering at the River: What Black Colleges Should Do Now Dr. M. Christopher Brown IIAnother verdict has come in from the now infamous Southern Association of Colleges and Schools — the accreditation of Barber-Scotia College has been rescinded. The language of the letter and the media reports are eerily reminiscent of both Morris Brown and […]

August 25, 2004

Leadership & Policy

A Battle of Wills

A Battle of WillsPhiladelphiaAlong Philadelphia’s City Avenue, between the St. Joseph’s University campus and the Bala Station metro stop, an ominous black billboard has risen. “A man’s will should not be broken,” reads the legend. But though that phrasing might seem cryptic, be assured its meaning is clear as glass to any Philadelphian who cares […]

July 16, 2004

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Clark Atlanta University Faces Financial Problems

Clark Atlanta University Faces Financial ProblemsATLANTAAnother of the historically Black schools in the Atlanta University Center is facing financial problems, according to reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.Clark Atlanta University, one of six schools in the AUC, plans to slash spending by 20 percent, forcing layoffs and possible cuts to academic programs, school officials say. […]

July 16, 2004

Health

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical JournalismATHENS, Ga. The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication won a major endowment grant to create an innovative Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism.The grant will allow the Grady College to develop and teach undergraduate and master’s courses in health and medical […]

July 14, 2004

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In Memoriam

Walter H. Annenberg — businessman; statesman; publisher; philanthropist, The Annenberg FoundationArthur Ashe — tennis legend; educator; social activist; organizer, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett — educator; political scientist; administrator; first woman and first African American president, University of Houston Dr. Ernest Boyer Sr. — educator; scholar; president, Carnegie Foundation for the […]

June 16, 2004

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Something to Brag About

Something to Brag AboutIn 1993, as her nomination to a federal post faced a barrage of conservative criticism and mischaracterizations, Lani Guinier, both self-assured and certain, stood before a national audience with a simple request — to have a fair hearing and defend her views. Throughout that controversy, under the media’s close watch, Guinier held […]

March 24, 2004

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Boeing to Donate $1 Million to Science Education Center

Boeing to Donate $1 Million to Science Education CenterWASHINGTONThe Challenger Center for Space Science Education announced earlier this month that the Boeing Company will contribute $1 million to support professional development programs for the nation’s math and science teachers.“The entire network of current and future Challenger Learning Centers will be the grateful beneficiaries of Boeing’s […]

February 25, 2004

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Court Hears Arguments in Mississippi College Desegregation Appeal

Court Hears Arguments in Mississippi College Desegregation AppealNEW ORLEANSThe $503 million settlement reached in the Mississippi college desegregation case is “unconstitutional, unreasonable and unfair” to the state’s three historically Black universities, a lawyer for plaintiffs opposed to the deal told a federal appeals court early last month.Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., representing alumni and faculty of […]

December 3, 2003

HBCUs

Education Department, Corporate Sponsors Offer Financial Advice to HBCUs

Education Department, Corporate Sponsors Offer Financial Advice to HBCUsThe Education Department and two blue chip companies held the first of three annual seminars last month to advise presidents of historically Black colleges and universities on how to better manage their institution’s finances.JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management, Coca-Cola and the U.S. Education Department co-sponsored the Financial […]

December 3, 2003