cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupXavier University Center Gets $500,000 Kellogg GrantXavier University has received a $500,000 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to fund the Center for Equity, Justice, and the Human Spirit at the Louisiana HBCU. The grant will fund initiatives aimed at building leaders, improving child well-being and advancing community engagement and racial equity through a focus on building stronger ties between […]June 9, 2019News RoundupKentucky State Cuts Non-Resident Tuition for Eight StatesKentucky State University is drastically reducing non-resident tuition for students from its seven bordering states and Michigan. The HBCU’s board of regents has approved a memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education to lower per-semester tuition from $9,500 to $5,775. The reduced rate will take effect starting with the fall 2019 semester […]June 9, 2019Leadership & PolicyGMU’s Cabrera Sole Finalist for Georgia Tech PresidencyDr. Angel Cabrera, the first president of an American university who was born in Spain, is one step closer to leaving the presidency of George Mason University to lead Georgia Tech.June 6, 2019News RoundupCentral Park Five Prosecutor Resigns Vassar Trustee BoardAmidst a swarm of controversy over a Netflix series about a wrongful conviction in a high-profile New York City rape case, author and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned as a trustee of her alma mater, Vassar College. Fairstein, who graduated in 1969, was a prosecutor in the 1989 case commonly known as the “Central […]June 6, 2019LGBTQ+Lavender Graduations Set to Celebrate 25th Anniversary Next YearLavender Graduations have now become commonplace on many colleges campuses in the United States and abroad. But it wasn’t always that way.June 6, 2019News RoundupDeceased Amherst Alum’s $25M Gift Benefits Dickinson MuseumWilliam Vickery, who died Feb. 4, has given Amherst College a $25-million gift, with about $22 million of the amount designated for use by the Emily Dickinson Museum. It’s the largest donation the museum, which was founded in 2003, has ever received and will be known as the William McCall Vickery ’57 Emily Dickinson Fund. […]June 6, 2019News RoundupMichigan Eases Voting Restrictions, Helps College StudentsThe state of Michigan has agreed to help college students vote while away at school, a victory for Democrats who sued last year to overturn a law that made it harder for students to vote, according to a report in the The Washington Post. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, said Wednesday that her office […]June 6, 2019News RoundupLondon Literature Scholar Receives Norway’s Holberg PrizeDr. Paul Gilroy of King’s College London has been presented the Holberg Prize by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Gilroy, professor of American and English literature, was feted at an award ceremony Thursday at the University Aula in Bergen in Norway. The honor, for outstanding international research, is a cash prize of approximately $700,000. “I […]June 6, 2019LGBTQ+Leadership Must Possess SoulDuring the 1970s, the concept of “soul” was on full display. Perhaps at the most basic level, “soul” pertained to a gracefully elegant, even rhythmic way of life that exhibited a confident cultural swagger manifested in various ways by Blacks.June 6, 2019Latest NewsGeorgia Universities, Family Services Agency Partner on Child WelfareThe schools of social work at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University and the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services are teaming up for the next four years in an initiative aimed at boosting the state’s capacity to provide high-quality child welfare services.June 5, 2019Previous PagePage 226 of 3225Next Page
