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NASA Names University Space Science Education Partners

NASA Names University Space Science Education PartnersWASHINGTONSixteen universities have been named recipients of NASA’s 2003 Minority University College Education and Research Partnership Initiative in Space Science (MUCERPI) award. MUCERPI offers minority universities an opportunity to develop academic programs and/or faculty and student capabilities in space science through close partnerships with major space science research groups. […]

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. […]

Leadership & Policy

Changing Frequency

Changing Frequency Newly formatted Black college radio stations work to jazz up their image, while serving campus and community NASHVILLE, Tenn.Before Fisk University’s radio station recently began using the tagline “Smooth Side Up” to refer to its new smooth jazz format, the station’s broadcasting image was upside down. At best, it played a hodgepodge of […]

Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars

Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars CHAPEL HILL, N.C.The cost of repairing mold-infested buildings at North Carolina Central University could be millions of dollars more than expected and is draining NCCU resources, a state university committee learned last month.There are indications that fixing the problem could cost much more than the […]

HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher Education

HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher EducationBy Ben Hammer Historically Black colleges and universities will receive assistance in the form of a $4.5 million grant to prepare future teachers on how to teach reading based on scientifically proven instruction methods. U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige made the announcement last month at an event […]

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 […]

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