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Grants & Awards
Dillard University (La.) and the University of Colorado at Boulder received a $350,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to fund the second year of a unique partnership between the two universities that merges the institutions’ respective strengths in the humanities, mathematics, literature and information technology.  North Carolina Central University received a $658,000 grant from […]
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From Opening Doors to Opening Minds
From Opening Doors to Opening MindsBy Dr. George L. Daniels It was 40 years ago this past June that the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium trying to prevent the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. His defiant stance against integration won him […]
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A Rich, Disappearing Legacy Remembering Black boarding schools: A tradition obscured by desegregation’s impact.
A Rich, Disappearing Legacy Remembering Black boarding schools: A tradition obscured by desegregation’s impact. By Ronald Roach There’s no doubt that the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board school desegregation case next year will generate much-needed discussion about the ongoing struggle over providing quality education for American children, especially for […]
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HBCU Leaders Meet to Plan Financial Futures
HBCU Leaders Meet to Plan Financial FuturesDALLAS Chief financial officers from 50 historically Black colleges and universities gathered in Dallas last month to assess the financial challenges facing their institutions and to work toward solutions. The purpose of the meeting, a three-day summer institute sponsored by Nissan and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), was to […]
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House Moves Ahead on Digital Divide Help
House Moves Ahead on Digital Divide HelpPlan would provide as much as $2.5 million per college By Charles Dervarics A bill to help Black colleges with the digital divide is finally making progress in the House of Representatives after sponsors sidestepped some potential obstacles. The House Science Committee approved the bill in July, paving the way […]
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Aiming for the Top
Aiming for the TopFoundation backing puts school’s journalism and communications program on new footingBy Ronald RoachHAMPTON, Va. When Erin Hill read a magazine article her senior year in high school about Hampton University’s plans for a new journalism and communications building, she saw the project validating her desire to attend the historically Black school in […]
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Program to Help HBCUs Assess Good Financial Practices
Program to Help HBCUs Assess Good Financial PracticesWASHINGTON The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) announced a pilot partnership this month to provide peer reviews for historically Black colleges and universities under NASFAA’s Standards of Excellence Review Program. The Standards of Excellence (SOE) Review Program, […]
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House Turns Back Pell Proposal
House Turns Back Pell ProposalBy Charles Dervarics The full House of Representatives took a major step toward approving a 2004 education budget in early July after defeating Democrat-led efforts to increase the top Pell Grant for needy students. Democratic leaders had sought to increase the Pell maximum from $4,050 to $4,200 next year. To pay […]
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Grants & Awards
Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]
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Million-Dollar Black College Donors Honored
Million-Dollar Black College Donors Honored ATLANTA Four prominent African American alumni of historically Black colleges and universities were honored for their generous gifts to their alma maters last month during a ceremony at the Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta. Dr. Wendell Cox of Detroit, James E. Silcott of Los Angeles, Dr. Velma Speight-Buford of Greensboro, […]
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Babson College, HBCU Consortium to Develop Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Babson College, HBCU Consortium to Develop Entrepreneurship Curriculum WELLESLEY, Mass. Babson College and four historically Black colleges and universities have formed a partnership to support entrepreneurship initiatives. Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, North Carolina A&T and Southern University will work with Babson to create curricular materials focusing on African American entrepreneurs and minority-owned businesses, and […]
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Southern Law Center’s Increasing White Enrollment Concerns Lawmaker
Southern Law Center’s Increasing White Enrollment Concerns LawmakerBy Scott Dyer BATON ROUGE, La. One of the most powerful African Americans in the Louisiana Legislature is warning that historically Black Southern University Law Center may be turning too White. Caucasian students accounted for 33 percent of the Baton Rouge law school’s total enrollment for the 2002-2003 […]
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