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HBCU Boosts Aid to Limit Student Debt

Beginning this fall, academically gifted, low-income Virginia State University students will get enough financial aid to cover 100 percent of their college costs through a new program to limit the debt burden of students at the historically Black university.

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Conference: Faculty and Community Plan For Future Hurricanes

Within days after the current hurricane season began, a consortium of academics and community organizers gathered in Jackson, Miss., to confront the likely possibility that Hurricane Katrina was not their last deadly storm.

Pell Grant Increase Considered

U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.

Perspectives: Colleges Should Muster Courage To Fight Back

The attack on programs that recruit and retain Black students will have broad consequences on the economic well-being of Black America unless we fight back.

Black Coaches Association To Change Name to Diverse

The Black Coaches Association is changing its name to reflect inclusiveness of other minority groups. The name will be made official following the end of member voting July 1.

Leadership & Policy

Civil Rights Panel: Duplication Threatens Black Colleges

Predominately White institutions (PWIs) are duplicating programs offered at historically Black colleges and universities…

One on One With Charles Greene

In an era of declining state funding for higher education, the role federal appropriations play in maintaining and developing the…

HBCUs to Participate in North Carolina Research Campus

North Carolina officials believe the February groundbreaking of the North Carolina Research Campus…

HBCU First In North Carolina System To Join iTunes U Program

Education majors at North Carolina Central University will be using Apple iPod technology and iTunes software to download classroom materials via the Internet as early as fall 2006.

HBCU Alums Well Represented in 2006 NBA Playoffs

Historically Black colleges and universities are not the first places that come to mind when you think of professional sports factories. HBCUs rarely play a significant role in the multimillion-dollar college athletics industry and generally don’t send many players into the professional ranks. But those few alums that do make it to the pros seem […]

Leadership & Policy

University of California Struck $23M in Exit Agreements With Former Employees, Say Officials

The University of California paid $23 million to hundreds of employees who left the university in recent years, including those who were laid off, fired without cause or had filed formal grievances, officials said.

Financially Strapped HBCU Gets $500,000 in Scholarships

Financially strapped LeMoyne-Owen College, the lone historically Black college in Memphis, has been awarded $500,000 for scholarships by its founder, the United Church of Christ. But the school, $6 million in debt, cannot use the new scholarship money for debt relief.

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