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Students

House Approves HEA Bill; Senate Vote Next

The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to renew the Higher Education Act and make changes in a variety of programs from Pell Grants and student loans to those for minority-serving institutions.

July 31, 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

Faculty & Staff

Making Strides

HBCUs seek progress on information technology resources.

March 4, 2008

Latinx

High-tech Help on the Way

Both chambers of Congress have passed a technology bill for MSIs. Now they need to bridge their differences to bridge the digital divide at MSIs.

October 16, 2007

Latinx

Closing the Digital Divide at Minority-serving Institutions

The U.S. Senate has approved a new $250 million federal program to address the digital divide at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving universities, as part of a far-reaching higher education reform bill that also simplifies the federal financial aid application.

July 23, 2007

Home

The Revolution Is Being Televised — on the Internet

The day the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Brown v. Board of Education — May 17, 1954 — has been called “the most important [day] of the 20th Century.”

July 14, 2007

Students

Home-grown scientists; national labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientists of color

National labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientist of color

July 14, 2007

Home

Word processing skills are not writing skills

Earlier this year, the steady drum beat of hysteria about “information haves and have-nots” hit a fever pitch when two University of Vanderbilt researchers released a study about the “the digital divide” between Black and White access to computers and the Internet.

July 13, 2007

Tribal Colleges

Connecting the Disconnected

The Internet to the Hogan project will provide Web access to residents of a Navajo reservation.

June 27, 2007

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Microsoft Awards $5 Million Digital Divide Software Grant To National Urban League

National Urban League officials say the $5 million software grant announced by the Microsoft Corp. will focus largely on education and tutoring assistance administered nationally by 102 local affiliates of the nation’s oldest and largest Black organization.

April 4, 2007

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Expanding Access

There’s no question that the United States lags behind most industrialized nations in consumer access to broadband Internet service…

March 7, 2007

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An Unpredictable Turn Of Events

When the news broke last spring that three members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team were accused…

March 7, 2007