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New Choice Requirement On Student Loans May Break Near-monopoly Lenders Have at 55 Schools

Colleges and universities, including minority-serving institutions, will have to include at least three different funding sources on any “preferred lender list” they give to prospective student borrowers, the Department of Education says.

October 30, 2007

High-tech Help on the Way

Both chambers of Congress have passed a technology bill for MSIs. Now they need to bridge their differences to bridge the digital divide at MSIs.

October 16, 2007

Improving Outcomes of Latino Students Focus of Forum

Latino college students who have the support of their families, start college planning by the eighth grade, take three or more years of mathematics, and start at a four-year institution are more likely to finish college, according to a new report that suggests these attributes form a strategy for closing the college-completion gap between Latino and Whites.

October 10, 2007

Perspectives: Empty Promises in the STEM Fields

Are efforts to broaden diversity leading to empty promises of increased employment opportunities in science and engineering? The U.S. Government has been promoting and funding programs since the 1980s to increase the number of American women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities in the nation’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce.

October 2, 2007

New Web Site Aims to Ease the College Credit Transfer Process

The Institute for Higher Education Policy on Monday announced the launch of an enhanced Web site for the National Articulation and Transfer Network (NATN), www.natn.org, which leaders hope will become a one-stop resource for addressing the complex issues associated with the transfer process.

September 10, 2007

How MSIs Fared in the Budget Agreement

House and Senate negotiators have finalized a higher education investment package with a significant Pell grant increase along with an additional $500 million for minority-serving institutions such as Black colleges and Hispanic-serving universities.

September 6, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007

Black History AP Course Faces Obstacles by College Board

Some K-12 school district officials have proposed a remedy to the lack of Black student enrollment in Advanced Placement classes: an AP course in African-American History.

August 12, 2007

Closing the Digital Divide at Minority-serving Institutions

The U.S. Senate has approved a new $250 million federal program to address the digital divide at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving universities, as part of a far-reaching higher education reform bill that also simplifies the federal financial aid application.

July 23, 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

A United Way

Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation

July 14, 2007

Counting on accuracy – Census Bureau looks to minority higher education community for help

Now that the court has ruled against the use of statistical sampling, the U.S. Census Bureau looks to the minority higher education community for assistance

July 14, 2007

2000 Ad

New partnerships with minority-serving institutions are designed to improve the count while training young scientists

July 12, 2007

Politics as it is played – lobbying activities of historically Black colleges

In a move that surprised alumni and other observers, Tuskegee University officials recently decided to close its long established Washington office and hire lobbyists instead.

June 23, 2007

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.

June 20, 2007

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”

June 20, 2007

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

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