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Section: Institutions > HBCUs
Students
On-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & Retention
New Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.
June 15, 2007
Students
1996 Ad
Higher education programs got a partial reprieve recently when Congress and the Clinton administration declared a truce in their budget battle and provided important funding, along with student aid guidelines that will last through mid-March.
June 15, 2007
Latinx
Washington update
22 Black Colleges Risk Losing Student Loan Eligibility Status.
June 15, 2007
HBCUs
Shutdown blues: between budget debate and blizzard, colleges take a double-barreled blast
Washington — Higher education found itself trapped-recently between conflicting air masses — an icy blast from a howling winter and the hot air of a fractious Congress-White House debate.
June 15, 2007
Sports
Presidential transitions – the appointment of the president of Smith College
Higher education rode a roller coaster in 1995, a year of actions that provoked rage and hope, sorrow and joy.
June 15, 2007
Latinx
Efforts Underway To Thwart Controversial Upward Bound Changes
Tucked into a U.S. House of Representatives higher education bill this week is a plan to scuttle a controversial evaluation of the Upward Bound program that would require grantees to enroll twice as many students as necessary and then provide no services to some of the youth as part of a research experiment.
June 14, 2007
Latinx
House Committee Approves Increase in Pell Grant, New Funding For Black Colleges
The House education committee on Wednesday approved a higher education bill that would increase Pell Grants, cut lender subsidies and make wide-ranging changes to help low-income students and minority-serving colleges.
June 13, 2007
HBCUs
TMCF Report Shows Increase In Black Male Enrollment
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s latest annual demographics report shows that more and more Black men are hitting the books and attending its member public historically Black colleges and universities.
June 5, 2007
HBCUs
Congress Extends Tuition Assistance Program for D.C. Students
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to extend for five years a program that helps District of Columbia high school graduates better afford the cost of attending public universities and historically Black colleges.
May 31, 2007
HBCUs
Minorities Continue Growth in Degree Attainment But Attend TWIs for Advanced Degrees, Says Report
Minority students accounted for half of the growth in bachelor degree attainment over the last 20 years, and minorities with advanced degrees are more likely to have attended traditionally White institutions, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
May 31, 2007
HBCUs
Fisk Turns to Seasoned Fund-raiser to Reverse its Fortunes
University no longer pinning its financial future on sale of priceless art.
May 30, 2007
HBCUs
Post Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans HBCUs Invest in Better Communication Systems, Training
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters demolished much of New Orleans, officials at the city’s hard hit historically Black universities are busy updating their disaster plans in the face of another hurricane season.
May 23, 2007
HBCUs
A Prescription For Success
The Medical University of South Carolina says mentoring program is key to retaining minority medical students.
May 16, 2007
HBCUs
Study: HBCU Graduates Earn Less Than Black Graduates Of Traditionally White Institutions
A study by two economists gives more reasons for Blacks to attend traditionally White institutions over historically Black colleges and universities, further fueling the debate about the relevancy of the HBCUs.
May 16, 2007
Students
Grants & Gifts
Ball State University (Ind.) has received $200,000 from the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation to create the Telecommunications Merit Endowment Scholarship. The scholarship aims to benefit incoming freshmen and transfer students who are looking to major in telecommunications. Cheyney University (Pa.) has received a $350,000 donation from Ephren W. Taylor II, the youngest Black […]
May 16, 2007
Students
HBCUs Have A Responsibility To LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Students
Campus silence is read as lack of support.
May 16, 2007
Students
Perspectives: Boosting Criminal Justice Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
African Americans make up about 45 percent of the prison population, but fewer than 200 minorities hold doctorates in criminology. HBCUs provide the perfect environment for nurturing minority criminologists, but they need resources.
May 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Bettering the Black College Paradigm
As president of Huston-Tillotson University, Dr. Larry L. Earvin knows that a successful capital campaign will do wonders for his small, historically Black private school in Austin, Texas.
May 9, 2007
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