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Section: Institutions

Community Colleges

Colleges Get Ready to GEAR-UP

Colleges and universities should prepare for a quick start of the new federal GEAR-UP for College program, says U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), one of the program’s chief architects.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fighting to Survive

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. This slowly decaying, city, once called “America’s Soweto,” is so impoverished that it lost its city hall six years ago in a court judgement to a creditor.

July 14, 2007

The Epitome of Inequality

Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity

July 14, 2007

Grants & Awards

Clark Atlanta University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to support the establishment of a Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Institute.

July 14, 2007

Black News Execs Question Florida University Classification Plan

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Editors and publishers of Black newspapers from across the state questioned University of Florida System Chancellor Adam Herbert about a proposal that would group Florida A&M University with the state’s three smallest campuses under the heading “Comprehensive Universities.”

July 14, 2007

HBCUs in America’s high-tech future – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

By the year 2010, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), this country will need to produce 11,000 Ph.D.s in engineering and science annually. Concurrently, the annual Ph.D. shortfall could be about 9,600 by the year 2000.

July 14, 2007

Filling technology’s massive talent gap

Technology partnership brings opportunities to students at Virginia HBCUs

July 14, 2007

Nike, HBCUs strike deal – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

WASHINGTON The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and sporting goods giant Nike announced last month, that they have signed a historic, three-year agreement that will not only provide footwear and apparel for conference teams, but also will include summer internships for students at Nike headquarters.

July 14, 2007

1998 Ad

ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.

July 14, 2007

Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.

July 14, 2007

Washington Update

HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress

July 14, 2007

A United Way

Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation

July 14, 2007

Grants & Awards

The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Donation Station

Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges

July 14, 2007

Chugging Toward Recovery

CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities

July 14, 2007

Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College

Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?

July 14, 2007