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Scholarships Announced for Ark. Black Colleges
Students at Arkansas’ three historically Black colleges will benefit from $115,000 in scholarship money that is available for the coming school year, money that school leaders said Friday will enable some young people to stick with their education.
August 3, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Former S.C. State University President Suing School
The former president of South Carolina State University filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the school and its trustees last week, accusing board members of acting improperly in his firing last year.
August 3, 2008
Students
House Approves HEA Bill; Senate Vote Next
The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to renew the Higher Education Act and make changes in a variety of programs from Pell Grants and student loans to those for minority-serving institutions.
July 31, 2008
Native Americans
New Mexico First State To Adopt Navajo Textbook
In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go”; it’s more like a sentence.
July 31, 2008
Students
Best & Brightest: Through Persistence, Southern U. Student Is Chosen To Serve as a Delegate at Democratic Convention
Ashley Scott labored into the wee hours of the morning petitioning her case to Louisiana Democrats.
July 31, 2008
Students
Scholar Wants More American Indian Faculty in Business Colleges
Beau Barnes, recipient of a doctoral scholarship designed to increase faculty and student diversity in business colleges, says he wants to boost the number of American Indians teaching in Oklahoma business colleges.
July 30, 2008
Native Americans
American Indian Languages Dying
A decreasing number of American Indians can speak or understand their ancestral language, experts say.
July 30, 2008
Students
UA Students Form Second Chapter of Journalists’ Association
Students in the University of Arizona department of journalism have formed the second student chapter of the Native American Journalists Association.
July 30, 2008
Students
Wide-ranging bill aims to rein in college costs
Congress wants to blow the whistle on colleges that raise tuition sharply, while helping students pay less for textbooks and making Pell grants available year-round part of a wide-ranging bill designed to address concerns about rising college costs.
July 30, 2008
Community Colleges
Jackson Community College Targets Town’s Black Male Residents
Just two months after holding its first African-American Male Summit, Jackson (Mich.) Community College (JCC) is taking steps to get Black male students involved in the Michigan town. The college is also quickly becoming the nucleus of community involvement for many African-American residents.
July 30, 2008
Students
Struggling College Students Turn to Food Banks
Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.
July 30, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Phoenix Police: College Shooter Was Punched First
The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police say.
July 30, 2008
Home
Probe: Fed Employees May Have Bought Fake Degrees
Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.
July 30, 2008
Opinion
Should HBCUs take a Page from Obama’s Notebook on fundraising? Yes!
Liberals and conservatives alike have raved about Barack Obama’s innovative approach to fundraising.  In recent months, I have seen article after article lauding Obama’s campaign for using technology in new ways and paying attention to the small donor.  After careful review of the Obama campaign’s strategies, I’m convinced that Black colleges and universities should follow […]
July 29, 2008
Home
Best & Brightest: Math Whiz Has Sights Set on Making ‘Someone’s Life Better’
Watching the long-running legal drama “Matlock” as a kid, Talea Mayo developed a fascination for the inductive reasoning and problem solving that were common in the show’s episodes.
July 29, 2008
Latinx
Texas Education Agency to Appeal Bilingual Ruling
The state education agency said it plans to ask Attorney General Greg Abbott to appeal a federal judge’s ruling requiring the state of Texas to improve bilingual education programs for secondary school students, according to media reports.
July 29, 2008
Leadership & Policy
New Council at UK Works to Reach More Latino Students
The University of Kansas’s newly formed Latino Vision Council is working to find ways to assist Latinos in gaining access to college.
July 29, 2008
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Faculty & Staff
Delaware Professor Awarded Competitive Fellowship
Rosalie Rolon-Dow, assistant professor of education at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for next year.
July 29, 2008
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