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Faculty & Staff
Florida A&M Delegation Travels to Ghana to Establish Economic, Educational Collaborations
As part of Florida A&M University’s expanded international focus, designed to prepare students to compete in a global society, officials at the historically Black university are looking to establish economic and development collaborations with African leaders as well as foster relationships to higher education institutions in Africa.
June 3, 2008
HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, has received $1 MILLION from the CSU system, which received funds from the Bernard Osher Foundation to be distributed. The monies will go to support a scholarship endowment fund at CSU Bakersfield. Twelve faculty members at OHIO UNIVERSITY have been awarded a $124,000 grant by the Ohio University Research Committee and […]
May 28, 2008
Health
Film Scholar at the Forefront of a Women’s Sexual Health Issue
Giovanna Chesler, a film professor, couldn’t have scripted a screenplay more provocative than the drama that recently unfolded in her own life.
May 20, 2008
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Health
Best & Brightest: A Global Responsibility
Fatima Hassan wasn’t raised in Somalia, since her parents fled during the civil war before she was born, but the Stanford University junior feels duty-bound to improve the plight of African women.
May 18, 2008
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Health
Nebraska Experiencing Graying of Health Care Professionals
Nebraska will soon be faced with widespread retirements among its health care workers, a profession already in short supply.
May 18, 2008
Students
Experts Say Suicide, Not Homicide Is a Larger Threat to Nation’s College Campuses
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Northern Illinois University shootings have garnered much media attention, but suicide is a larger threat to the nation’s college students, said a panel at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington.
May 5, 2008
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
Latinx
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Win Grants To Spur Economic Growth
Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps.
April 16, 2008
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Native Americans
DIVERSIFYING PEDAGOGY
Indigenous Ways of Knowing has been making its way out of tribal colleges into mainstream universities, but this method of teaching has its critics.
April 16, 2008
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HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACC’s Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACC’s Center for Workforce Development. BRYN MAWR (PA.) and SPELMAN COLLEGES (GA.) have received a four-year, $1.1 MILLION grant from the National Science Foundation […]
April 16, 2008
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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Health
Senate Plans Hearing on Sludge, NAACP Wants Investigation
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will investigate the government’s funding of research in poor, Black neighborhoods on whether sewage sludge might combat lead poisoning in children, its chairman said Monday.
April 14, 2008
Health
Virginia Tech Families Reach $11M Settlement
Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors’ medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman was to blame.
April 10, 2008
Students
Colleges in Washington State Launch Student Mental Health Programs
High-profile campus killings spur the creation of mental health teams at colleges across Washington state. The goal is to watch troubled students.
April 9, 2008
Latinx
Minority Doctors Underrepresented in California, Study Finds
A new report finds a “vast ethnic disparity in the state’s physician workforce, particularly for Latinos and African Americans,” when compared to the distribution of minority groups in the state’s population.
April 8, 2008
Health
Virginia Tech to Hold “Lie-In” on Anniversary of Tragedy
Family members of the victims of the shooting last April at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the tragedy with other gun violence victims, college students and community members by hosting a “lie-in” on the school’s campus.
April 8, 2008
Health
Wake Forest University Hosts Conference on Student Mental Health Issues
“Students are much more active and busy than they used to be,” Schubert says.
April 6, 2008
Health
Higher Education in the Land of Lincoln
Northeastern Illinois University’s ENLACE program works to increase the number of Hispanics in graduate schools in hopes that today’s students will be future faculty.
April 2, 2008
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