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Students
A FUNDRAISING BLUEPRINT
Howard University sets the bar high for its largest ever capital campaign, and now plans to share the secrets of its success with fellow HBCUs.
April 30, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Grants & Gifts
CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF NURSING (Ga.) has been awarded the Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant of $335,299 for three years from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Spencer and Teagle Foundations’ initiative for Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education […]
April 30, 2008
Leadership & Policy
SC State Plans to Display James Brown Memorabilia
An exhibit of James Brown memorabilia is being organized at South Carolina State University.
April 28, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Challenged D.C. Schools Chief Bringing Reform Story to Academia, National Media
One of the biggest education stories in the United States in 2007 was the unexpected appointment of education reform leader Michelle Rhee as the chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.
April 28, 2008
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Students
In Changing Economy, Graduate School Becoming a Necessity
Access to graduate education is an invaluable resource for this generation of Americans. For the “public good” of the nation, the U.S. government must allocate more in the way of financial support and public policy to ensure that students have access to and experience success in some form of graduate studies, a new study reports.
April 24, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Panel: WVU Improperly Granted Degree to Governor’s Daughter
An independent panel has chastised West Virginia University for retroactively awarding the governor’s daughter a master’s degree she did not earn.
April 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Orangeburg Massacre Survivor Named College President
Cleveland Sellers, a survivor of the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, was named president of Voorhees College on Tuesday by the school’s board of trustees.
April 22, 2008
Leadership & Policy
UMES First HBCU To Receive the PGA Professional Golf Management Program
University of Maryland Eastern Shore officials announced this week at a press conference that the institution has become the 20th university to attain the highly sought after Professional Golf Association’s Professional Golf Management University Program.
April 17, 2008
Leadership & Policy
UMES First HBCU To Recieve The PGA Professional Golf Management Program
University of Maryland Eastern Shore officials announced this week at a press conference that the institution has become the 20th university to attain the highly sought after Professional Golf Association’s Professional Golf Management University Program.
April 17, 2008
Students
Industry Experts Urge College Boards to Exert More Oversight
With so many campus controversies of late, from the alleged misappropriation of college funds by some leaders to the alleged kickbacks from student loan providers to some financial aid officials, the role of board of trustee members comes into question.
April 16, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Texas Southern University President Plans New Direction for University
Texas Southern University has spent the last two years in the headlines because of financial mismanagement and the firing of previous president Priscilla Slade. Dr. John Rudley, the newly appointed president of TSU, discusses the new vision for the Houston historically Black university.
April 16, 2008
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Students
A Time To Grieve and Heal
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the most deadly and violent school shooting in American history.
April 15, 2008
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Faculty & Staff
AAUP Report on Faculty Salaries Asks “Where Are the Priorities?”
Faculty members’ salaries nationwide are not keeping up with inflation, while head football coaches, college presidents and other high level universities official are seeing a significant rise in pay, says a report by the American Association of University Professors.
April 13, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit
Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.
April 8, 2008
Leadership & Policy
College Leaders Say Ohio’s New Education Plan a Good Start
College administrators generally support Ohio’s new goals of making higher education more affordable through lower tuition and more accountable by setting up a system of benchmarks.
April 7, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Poor Race Relations May Force St. Mary’s College to Lose Accreditation
St. Mary’s College may face sanctions by its accreditors for officials’ inaction amid racial tensions on campus, according to an article in the Contra Costra Times.
April 6, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Tennessee Higher Education Officials Deny Honor For `Freedom Riders’
The rejection by Tennessee higher education officials of a proposal to award honorary degrees to 13 former Tennessee State University students expelled from the college in 1961 because of the students’ participation in the historic freedom rides has stirred criticism of the action from the college’s president, alumni and some state lawmakers.
April 3, 2008
Students
Illinois News Nuggets
With nearly 200 degree-granting institutions in the “Land of Lincoln,” Diverse couldn’t cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots.
April 2, 2008
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