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Events

EventsJULYJuly 25-30Noel-Levitz 15th National Conference on Student RetentionNew OrleansContact: Linda RobertsonPhone: (800) 876-1117Fax: (319) 337-4700E-mail: linda-robertson@noellevitz.com Web: www.noellevitz.comJuly 27-29The Leadership Alliance’s 6th Annual National SymposiumEvergreen Conference CenterStone Mountain, Ga.Contact: Lydia GarnerPhone: (212) 854-2968E-mail: log2@columbia.edu July 28-31National Association of College and University Business OfficersHilton TowersNew YorkContact: Maureen McCarthyPhone: (202) 861-2523Fax: (202) 296-1592E-mail: mmccartju@nacubo.org Web: www.nacubo.org AUGUSTAugust […]

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Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsCarol Moseley Braun will join the Morris Brown College faculty as a visiting distinguished professor and scholar in residence. She recently served as ambassador to New Zealand and as a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois from 1992-1998. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctorate from the […]

Community Colleges

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher Education

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher EducationCommunity colleges have a tremendous opportunity to serve thousands of new students. A tragic mistake of the early 1990s ended hundreds of excellent associate’s degree programs for incarcerated students throughout the United States. Now is the time to correct that error and begin again to serve a […]

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What types of programs can be implemented to educate and motivate Black alumni to increase giving at their HBCU alma mater and HBCUs in general?Trisa Long Paschal Vice President for Institutional AdvancementSpelman CollegeAtlantaSpelman College and other HBCUs have wrestled with this issue of increasing alumni giving for several years. There is a […]

Capital Campaigns

Capital CampaignsAs competition grows for philanthropic dollars, and federal and state funding decreases, colleges and universities are launching record-breaking capital campaigns. But do HBCUs face different fund-raising challenges than their White counterparts?By Eleanor Lee YatesHampton University recently set a record among historically Black colleges and universities by raising $200 million in a capital campaign that […]

Leadership & Policy

Ole Miss, MSU Could Help Jackson State in Fund-Raising Efforts

Ole Miss, MSU Could Help Jackson State in Fund-Raising Efforts JACKSON, Miss. A Jackson State University fund drive that the school hopes will be the largest ever may be receiving help from two of Mississippi’s majority White universities. Next year, Jackson State plans to announce what would be the school’s largest national capital campaign ever, […]

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Legislation Would Flatten Barriers for Undocumented Students

Legislation Would Flatten Barriers for Undocumented StudentsBy Kristina LaneWASHINGTON Under bills recently introduced by state and federal lawmakers, it would be significantly easier for some illegal immigrants to afford a college education — and for the colleges to afford the students.Two bills, one passed by the Texas state legislature and another introduced in the U.S. […]

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Academic Rigor Is Key to Academic Success, Says Education Department Study

Academic Rigor Is Key to Academic Success, Says Education Department StudyWhen it comes to success in college, an academically rigorous high school curriculum may make all the difference, the U.S. Education Department says.In its new report, The Condition of Education, 2001, the department finds encouraging progress on college access. Yet academic rigor is often the […]

It’s All About the Benjamins

It’s All About the BenjaminsColleges and universities, to their credit, are raising more money than ever. I must receive a few press releases a week from schools announcing either their record-breaking fund-raising results or that they are about to launch a capital campaign. For the average person, it is difficult to conceive that schools are […]

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsMontgomery College (Maryland) received a $173,442 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help strengthen and expand the international content of the school’s curriculum.New Mexico State University received $1.3 million; Santa Fe Community College received $1.3 million and the University of New Mexico received $2.3 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for […]

Native Americans

Tribal College Art Students to Replicate Artifacts

Tribal College Art Students to Replicate Artifacts Found by Lewis and ClarkBISMARCK, N.D.The United Tribes Technical College’s Art and Art Marketing program has been contracted by a Virginia foundation to replicate artifacts collected by Lewis and Clark and given to President Thomas Jefferson. Six students enrolled in the college program will use a mix of […]

UNCF Launches New Jersey Law Scholars Program

UNCF Launches New Jersey Law Scholars ProgramNEWARK, N.J.Over the next three years, nine students from historically Black colleges will get full scholarships to New Jersey law schools through a donation from a Lucent corporate executive and his wife. The United Negro College Fund’s New Jersey Law Scholars Program is the first of its kind in […]

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