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HBCUs
Congressional Super Committee’s Inaction Means Potentially Devastating Cuts
With the collapse of a congressional “super committee” charged with cutting $1.2 trillion in federal spending, most education programs face the prospect of moderate to deep cuts beginning in January 2013 — including programs for minority-serving colleges and universities.
November 27, 2011
African-American
Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas
Built on more than a year of outreach and recruitment at minority-serving institutions, the federally funded PRIDE program has attracted 26 students to Frontier Nursing University who are training as either nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.
November 22, 2011
African-American
UNCF Conference Town Hall Meeting Focus on Creative Strategies for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Panelists offered up a wide array of solutions — from beefing up community and corporate partnerships to seeking diversified funding sources – as ways to tackle the problems that show no sign of subsiding.
November 13, 2011
African-American
Groups Mobilize To Stop Cuts for Minority-Serving Schools
Many of the nation’s leading higher education groups are urging Congress to reject a House of Representatives plan that would cut spending for Black, Hispanic-serving, tribal and other minority-serving colleges by more than 40 percent next year.
October 18, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report Provides Close Look at Diversity Among Asian American, Pacific Islander Students
College and university leaders should pay greater attention to the demographics of the growing number of their Asian-American and Pacific Islander students, a national commission urges.
October 11, 2011
African-American
New House Bill Cuts Funds for HBCUs, Others
Funding for the Title III Strengthening HBCUs program would drop from $236 million to $152 million; Hispanic-serving institutions would face the largest cutback, as funding would fall from the $104 million to just $17 million in 2012.
October 2, 2011
Students
Education Secretary Arne Duncan Unveils Proposal Giving Responsibility to States to Identify Weak Teacher-Preparation Programs
The proposal also calls for using a $185 million state teacher preparation grant to reform the $110 million TEACH grant program.
October 2, 2011
Students
Commentary: Remember Asian American and Pacific Islander Students
AAPIs have some of the largest disparities in education such as high secondary school dropout rates and low college attendance.
September 18, 2011
Neil Horikoshi
African-American
Virginia State University Drumline Performs at the White House
Less than a month after they performed with fellow band members in the Honda Battle of the Bands showcase, an eight-person drumline from the Virginia State University’s Trojan Explosion marching band entertained guests at the Feb. 26 executive order signing for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities by President Barack Obama.
September 3, 2011
HBCUs
For Public HBCUs, A New Type of Advocacy
Dr. Lorenzo Esters of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, rallies higher education stakeholders behind effort to boost funding for public historically Black college and universities.
August 30, 2011
Lorenzo Esters
Students
Thurgood Marshall College Fund President Johnny Taylor Seeks New Partnerships, Support for Public HBCUs
With just more than a year of leading the organization, Johnny Taylor has implemented changes at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund that have essentially overhauled the fund.
August 29, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Lincoln University Aims to Strengthen STEM Programs Through Teaching, Research
When Dr. Ivory Nelson became president of Lincoln University in 1999, the  trained chemist declared that he would make scientific research and education one of his greatest priorities.
August 24, 2011
Lincoln STEM
African-American
Models of Success at Minority-serving Institutions
University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania are identifying best practices for retention at nine minority-serving institutions.
July 24, 2011
Marybeth Gasman
Latinx
Kellogg Foundation Pursues College Access Agenda
Tribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions are among beneficiaries of the foundation’s diversity-related efforts in U.S. higher education.
June 29, 2011
Richard B. Williams
Students
Scholarship Fund Group Seeks Increased Support for Asian American-focused Minority-Serving Schools
Forthcoming report urges that resources should be targeted to Minority-Serving Institutions with high concentration of low-income students from the often “overlooked and underserved” groups of Asian and Pacific Islander students.
June 27, 2011
New York University
African-American
UNCF Green Building Institute Focuses on Helping Schools Find Funds, Save on Costs
Obama administration officials and environmental and finance experts advised at the UNCF Building Green Learning Institute on how UNCF campuses can enhance sustainability measures within buildings while saving on costs.
June 19, 2011
Majora Carter
Leadership & Policy
NCORE Conference: College Presidents Share Impact of International Programs
Remarks by Howard University president Sidney Ribeau and other college presidents came Thursday in a symposium examining the internationalization of their institutions during the annual meeting of the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education.
June 2, 2011
Sidney Ribeau
African-American
MSIs Seek To Defy Budget Trend By Lobbying for New Teacher Education Program
Under the proposal to Congress, a minority-serving college or university could obtain $500,000 a year for five years for enhancements to teacher education programs.
June 2, 2011
Augustus Hawkins
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