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Howard Earns $90 Million DoD Contract, a First for an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

government took a major step towards remedying these disparities by awarding a five-year $90 million contract to create a university affiliated research center (UARC) to Howard University, one of the largest HBCUs in America. The Howard contract is the result of a conscious effort by the Department of Defense to address these disparities.

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CSU Hires New President, But Questions Linger About the Treatment of Former President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alex Johnson, President Emeritus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), who has been serving as interim president since July 2023, after Dr. Jack Thomas announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. Progress completely stopped, and chaos reigned,” he said. That’s why I left.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” Impact “As of 2020, students who live on campus, their [three-year] graduation rate is 4% higher than the students who do not live on campus,” says Andrew Morong, dean of enrollment management at CMCC. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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President moves: USC, Urbana-Champaign must now look for leaders

University Business

Retiring from the military in 2020, he has since served as the associate vice president and executive director of Texas A&M University and the Bush School of Government & Public Service. He also implemented an accessibility initiative granting four years of free tuition for state residents with family incomes less than $67,100.

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President moves: Announcing a surge of hires, including this state flagship

University Business

The moves have drawn strong reactions from the community, particularly from faculty. Wetstein attracted $14 million in federal grants and grew Cabrillo’s endowment by almost $30 million, Press Banner reports. The next leader of West Virginia’s state flagship arrives at a momentous time for the university.

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Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend

University Business

Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. billion in fiscal year 2020. billion in fiscal year 2020. However, there are other sources for HBCUs to explore.

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

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Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean. Following up on Pell Grants for the incarcerated. I continue to doubt whether Congress will renew the entire Higher Education Act before the 2020 election.