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Malveaux Names George Mason U Administrator to Bennett Provost Post
Dr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley, the associate provost for educational programs at George Mason University, has been appointed provost at historically Black Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C
June 26, 2007
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MSU to join UW-Madison in bioenergy research
WASHINGTON Michigan State University will receive $50 million in federal grants over five years to conduct basic research on biofuels, officials said Monday.
June 25, 2007
Sports
College World Series: Thousands welcome home repeat national champion Beavers
CORVALLIS Ore. A fan hoisted a sign that said it all: Sweet Repeat.
June 25, 2007
Native Americans
Tribal members receiving an education thanks to gambling
MESA Ariz. One of the payoffs of gambling on the Gila River Indian Community is education paid for by the tribe.
June 25, 2007
Sports
UW-Madison athletic administrator dead at 46
MADISON Wis. Services have been scheduled Wednesday for Douglas Beard, a Maine native who became one of the senior administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department.
June 25, 2007
STEM
Hopkins gets $48 million for intelligence collection research
BALTIMORE Johns Hopkins University has received a grant from the Department of Defense to develop computer systems to assist military and intelligence agencies process the huge amounts of data they collect.
June 25, 2007
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Coushatta woman, others sentenced in college loan fraud scheme
COUSHATTA La. A Coushatta woman who got student aid and loans for which she wasn’t qualified and filled in forms so others could, too, must spend nearly 3 years in prison and repay $30,500, and two relatives will serve lesser sentences.
June 25, 2007
Students
Virginia Tech Inundated With Gifts
BLACKSBURG Va. One supportive message came engraved on a 150-pound rock from the Mississippi River. Another was a lime-green hood from a race car bearing Virginia Tech’s logo. A large painting of a tree arrived on a semitrailer from a New York university.
June 25, 2007
Community Colleges
Tuition hike at community colleges eyed
FAIRFIELD Maine Trustees of the Maine Community College System are expected to consider a tuition rate increase of about 2.5 percent when they meet Wednesday.
June 25, 2007
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Black College Enrollment in the South Equals Population for First Time
A 52 percent increase in Black enrollment in Southern colleges between 1995 and 2005 means that, for the first time, Black representation in college is equal to their population in the South, according to the Southern Regional Education Board’s annual fact book.
June 25, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Request For American Indian Presence In UND Search Denied
GRAND FORKS, N.D. The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.
June 25, 2007
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African-American
Number of Blacks Joining Military Down
WASHINGTON The number of Blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began. Other job prospects are soaring and relatives of potential recruits increasingly are discouraging them from joining the armed services.
June 25, 2007
Disabilties
State: Students with disabilities improving slowly
ALBANY N.Y. Students with disabilities continue to post higher graduation rates and better test scores but still at unsatisfactory rates, state education officials said Monday.
June 24, 2007
Sports
Hard Road to Draft for USC Star Young
LOS ANGELES By all rights, Nick Young wasn’t supposed to be a college basketball star. He flunked out of two high schools. His oldest brother died in a drive-by shooting. Now, the Southern California player is set to be chosen in this week’s NBA draft and earn millions of dollars.
June 24, 2007
Sports
Nebraska volleyballer is female college athlete of year
OMAHA Neb. Nebraska’s Sarah Pavan on Monday won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation’s female college athlete of the year. The award came six months after she and the Cornhuskers won the national volleyball championship.
June 24, 2007
Disabilties
State: Students with disabilities improving slowly
ALBANY N.Y. Students with disabilities continue to post higher graduation rates and better test scores but still at unsatisfactory rates, state education officials said Monday.
June 24, 2007
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Tuition to rise nearly 19 percent at Lincoln University
JEFFERSON CITY Mo. Tuition is rising nearly 19 percent for students at Lincoln University.
June 24, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Faculty hears explanation on probation
TALLAHASSEE Fla. The interim head of Florida A&M University told hundreds of faculty and staff Monday that he was stunned to learn in a telephone call last week that the school was being put on probation, largely for chronic financial mismanagement.
June 24, 2007
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