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African-American

Fisk University Gets Green Light to Sell Half Ownership of the Stieglitz Collection

It could be as much as a year before any of the money is seen, as the appeals court sent Fisk’s latest plan for the sale back to a trial court in Nashville with orders to provide a long-term plan to maintain and care for the collection.

November 30, 2011

Students

Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program

Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.

November 22, 2011

African-American

Dillard University Gets $25M from National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health is giving Dillard the money to invest, with endowment earnings used to improve labs, hire faculty members and recruit and support students for the research.

October 25, 2011

African-American

Duke Endowment Awards $35 Million to Johnson C. Smith University

The North Carolina-based Duke Endowment announced Wednesday that it is awarding $35 million to Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black school in Charlotte, N.C.

October 12, 2011

Home

Hundreds of Civil Rights Movement Era Love Letters To Be Donated in Houston

William and Audrey Lawson will donate their correspondence from nearly 60 years ago to the archives of the African American Library at the Gregory School and the Houston Metropolitan Research Center in Houston.

May 23, 2011

Native Americans

Oklahoma Gaming Proving Profitable for Tribal Higher Education

Legalizing American Indian gaming 10 years ago has brought about a cash windfall for Oklahoma’s tribal colleges, even if it is indirect.

April 28, 2011

Students

Californians Join Hands to Help Community Colleges

Community college supporters across California joined hands Sunday to raise awareness and scholarship money for students struggling to pay for college.

April 18, 2011

Faculty & Staff

WVU nursing gets $800K boost for research work

The West Virginia University School of Nursing is getting $800,0000 to hire a research professor and create endowments to support other faculty members’ projects.

February 23, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status

Fisk and Tennessee State Universities were placed on warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges.

December 7, 2010

Latinx

Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship

As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.

December 5, 2010

African-American

Fisk, Angry Over Judge’s Art Ruling, Says It Will Fight On

Financially strapped Fisk University says it will appeal a Tennessee judge’s decision to deny the school access to all the sale proceeds of a proposed ownership sharing agreement involving the school’s valuable Stieglitz art and photograph collection.

December 2, 2010

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UVa Preserves Civil Rights-era News Films

The University of Virginia Library is preserving Civil Rights-era television news footage that includes clips of civil rights leaders discussing plans for demonstrations and former Gov. Lindsay Almond vowing to fight racial integration.

November 30, 2010