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Senators Introduce a Bipartisan Plan to Renew HBCU Funding

After months of political wrangling, U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan plan to renew long-term funding for minority serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities. The original funding expired on Sept. 30 when the FUTURE Act stalled in the Senate. The revised version of the FUTURE Act will reauthorize $255 million in annual funding for […]

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Hampshire College Hopes to Raise $60 Million by 2024

Hampshire College recently kicked off its five-year “Change in the Making” campaign to raise $60 million by 2024, as part of its upcoming 50th anniversary in 2020. So far, Hampshire has raised $11.2 million in gifts and seeks to secure an additional $3 million by the end of 2019. “Our goal is to foster a […]

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Sweet Briar College Will Invest Recent $3 Million Gift in Curriculum

Sweet Briar College (SBC), an all-women’s school in Virginia, received donations totaling $3 million which it plans to put toward its “leadership core curriculum.” SBC’s leadership core curriculum consists of ten courses intended to help students develop the skills required for democratic and collaborative research. The program is designed to improve its students’ abilities in […]

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College Autism Network Partners with NASPA to Expand Reach

The College Autism Network (CAN), a nonprofit founded by a Florida State University associate professor, will soon partner with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), hoping to expand its reach and support more college students with autism. Associate professor of higher education Dr. Bradley Cox founded the nonprofit in 2016 to address the […]

Dr. Kimo Ah Yun Named First Minority Provost at Marquette University

Dr. Kimo Ah Yun will become the first person of color to serve as provost for Marquette University, a private Jesuit research school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ah Yun, who was chosen after a nine-month national search for the position, has been serving as acting provost for the university since Oct. 31, 2018. “Kimo has demonstrated […]

Montclair State University Discovers 112-Year-Old Letter

During a renovation project, Montclair State University in New Jersey found a 112-year-old letter from workers who built the original campus, CNN reported. The letter – dated July 3, 1907 – was stowed inside a beer bottle in an old brick wall. A demolition worker discovered it as he was taking down the wall of […]

UNC Agrees to Fund a $2.5M Trust for Care and Preservation of Confederate Statue Silent Sam

Last year, the Confederate statue Silent Sam fell after protests occurred on the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s campus. The statue was placed in storage and the location wasn’t revealed until recently. UNC announced last week that the statue would be given to the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders Proposes Plan to Support HBCUs

After his recent tour of historically Black colleges and universities, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate released a plan to cancel HBCUs’ public loan debt, make private and public HBCUs free and issue an executive order strengthening the HBCU White House Initiative, Essence reported. He also proposed a $5 billion fund to expand teacher-training […]

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University of South Florida Fires Head Football Coach Charlie Strong

The University of South Florida (USF) fired its head football coach, Charlie Strong, following three seasons in which the Bulls won fewer games each year. Strong joined USF in 2017 and began his tenure with a successful first season at 10-2, only to be followed by a six-game losing streak in 2018. The team recently […]

Stony Brook University Receives $957,000 to Support SUNY’s Diverse Faculty Initiative

Stony Brook University (SBU) will receive a $957,000 donation from the State University of New York (SUNY) to put toward increasing faculty diversity. Provided over a three-year period, the funding will support the salaries of six specific faculty members at the university. The donation is part of SUNY’s larger PRODIG (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion […]

President of the PhD Project Plans to Retire

Bernard J. Milano, president of the PhD project, a program to diversify business school faculty, will retire on January 15, 2020. He will also retire as president of KPMG U.S. Foundation, Inc. Milano has been with the PhD project since it was founded by KPMG and other organizations in 1994. Under Milano’s leadership, the PhD […]

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New Jersey Low-Income Students Tour University of Pennsylvania and Villanova

New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit for low-income students, took 30 alumni on private tours of University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University recently. Students visited the campuses and attended information sessions coordinated by the schools’ admissions offices to help them navigate the college application process. Students on the tours were graduates of New Jersey SEEDS’ Scholars […]

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