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Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft Award

Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft AwardNEW YORKThe Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) has announced that nine of its 45 member colleges and universities will be receiving new Microsoft software for technology upgrades, which is part of a $15 million software grant from the Microsoft Corp. The schools, which are public historically […]

Leadership & Policy

NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing Institute

NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing InstituteDURHAM, N.C.North Carolina Central University and the state’s biomanufacturing industry received a $19.1 million boost last month from a nonprofit corporation created as a result of the state’s tobacco litigation. The Golden LEAF Foundation, created in 1999 by court order, agreed to award the university the money to construct […]

Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications

Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications WASHINGTONHoward University’s Continuing Education department held the 20th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop for more than 25 participants from around the country. Faculty, students, government and private-sector experts attended the workshop for training in the use of GIS and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies. GIS […]

Securing the Homeland

Securing the Homeland Through research and development, HBCUs are confident about competing for homeland security fundsBy Ronald RoachAs a relative newcomer to the physics department at Florida A&M University, Dr. Lewis E. Johnson has managed to establish a laboratory for his research on laser remote sensing. While funding from the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department […]

Faculty & Staff

Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without Accreditation

Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without AccreditationBy Tracie Powell ATLANTAAtlanta’s Morris Brown College reopened its doors late last month to fewer than 150 students, without a marching band, football team or accreditation. They are, however, $1 million richer. The million-dollar donation from the Tom Joyner Foundation, headed by the syndicated radio personality the […]

U.S. Congressmen Urge More Federal Support for HBCUs

U.S. Congressmen Urge More Federal Support for HBCUs Building preservation, financial aid, main topics at town hall meetingBy Scott Dyer GRAMBLING, La.Historic preservation of buildings on historically Black college campuses and increased financial aid for students were the main topics at a recent town hall meeting on the future of HBCUs.The meeting, held on the […]

A Post-Sept. 11 Academic World

A Post-Sept. 11 Academic WorldSo much has changed since Sept. 11, 2001. What we talk about and what we worry about were forever changed after the terrorist attacks.We live with Sept. 11 every day — when we go through airports, there’s heightened security; the massive power outages that blacked out Cleveland to New York recently […]

Leadership & Policy

The Price of Education

The Price of EducationBy Julianne Malveaux I can’t explain my eclectic reading habits, or my innate curiosity about all kinds of things. The combination of the two explains, perhaps, why I snatched Andrew Ward’s book about the Fisk Jubilee Singers off a sale table at a small bookstore, and devoured it on a cross-country flight […]

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina Colleges

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina CollegesGREENSBORO, N.C.Researchers are alarmed by a recent outbreak of the HIV virus among college students in North Carolina in which 53 male students — most of them Black — have contracted the virus. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and state researchers say the […]

NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows

NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows SILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) has selected 13 outstanding faculty, from historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities, for its first class of Kellogg Leadership Fellows in the NAFEO National Leadership Institute. The institute is designed to train and develop the […]

Senate Designates HBCU Week

Teacher-Training Bill Offers Help for HBCUs, Others

Teacher-Training Bill Offers Help for HBCUs, OthersBy Charles Dervarics Minority-serving institutions may house Centers of Excellence devoted to teacher training under legislation the House of Representatives has approved this summer. The Ready to Teach Act would create high-quality teacher-training programs at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving colleges and tribal colleges. The act reserves about $10 million […]

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