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Students

PSU Receives Grant to Help Low-Income Students

Portland State University (PSU) received a $277,000 grant from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Training and Education Program to provide housing, food and financial assistance for low-income students. Through this grant, PSU will offer a full-time case manager to work with students on finding resources and an administrative assistant to help with enrollment and […]

October 15, 2019

Students

Our Lady of the Lake University Receives $3M to Improve Postgraduate Programs for Hispanic Students

The United States Department of Education gifted $3 million to Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) to establish a postgraduate program aimed to help Hispanic students. Post-baccalaureate Opportunities Dedicated to Equity and Retention (PODER) project will focus on improving graduate student facilities and services on OLLU’s three campuses of San Antonio, Houston and the […]

October 2, 2019

Faculty & Staff

WSU Receives $100,000 to Launch Diversity Initiative

The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) has donated $100,000 to Worcester State University (WSU) to help launch an initiative to increase diversity on campus. WSU is one of six institutions to receive funding from HEIF after submitting a grant proposal earlier this year. The university will use the money to build an Equity and Engagement […]

September 27, 2019

Students

CIEE Fellowship Program Promotes Study Abroad Equity

Only 10.9 percent of all United States study abroad students from 2016 to 2017 were from minority-serving institutions (MSIs), according to the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). CIEE, a nonprofit study abroad organization, wants to level the playing field and increase student accessibility to international travel.

August 28, 2019

News Roundup

Community College Gets Grant for Campus River Protection

Alamance Community College (ACC) in North Carolina received a $97,500 grant from Duke Energy that will go toward maintaining and cleaning the Haw River, which is local to campus. Nearby parking lots have caused gas and oil to leak into the river, Fox 8 News reported. Some of the donation will go toward creating an […]

August 27, 2019

News Roundup

Lilly Endowment Inc. Donates $900K Grant to Spelman College

As part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Thriving in Ministry Initiative, the foundation has donated a $900,000 grant to Spelman College to help establish or strengthen programs that help female pastors network with other clergy and lead them through leadership challenges in congregational ministry to prepare them for their future career. Spelman College’s Women in Spiritual […]

January 14, 2019

HBCUs

Mellon Foundation Donates $600,000 Grant to Winston-Salem to Support Humanities Programs

Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) was recently given a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its humanities programs. The university is one of only five University of North Carolina System schools, and one of the few public historically Black colleges and universities in the country to receive a grant during the foundation’s 50-year […]

January 10, 2019

News Roundup

Lily Endowment Inc. Donates $9.9M Grant to Support NetVUE Programs

Lilly Endowment Inc., a private philanthropic foundation established by three members of the Lilly family, has donated a $9,912,800 grant to the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to support the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) at independent colleges and universities. “NetVUE member colleges and universities are responding to a hunger among college students […]

January 8, 2019

Students

Grant Will Provide Low-Income Central Piedmont Students With Laptops

With a $875,000 grant from the Gambrell Foundation of Charlotte, as many as 700 first-year, full-time students at Central Piedmont Community College will receive laptop computers, and approximately 3,500 students will receive laptops throughout the grant’s five-year period. Central Piedmont and the Gambrell Foundation have partnered in order to tackle the divide that makes it […]

December 7, 2018

News Roundup

UAB Institute Launches $500,000 Innovation Fund to Support University Start-Ups

The Bill K. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has created a $500,000 Innovation Fund for the development of new university businesses and early-stage findings. The Innovation Fund, which will begin January 1, will support two phases of commercialization: the bridge funding phase of applications development inside […]

October 29, 2018

HBCUs

Alabama A&M’s Transportation Director Pushes Environmental Sustainability

Marshall Chimwedzi is helping increase Alabama A&M University’s status as an environmentally sustainable historically Black institution through his grant writing capacity and service as the university’s director of transportation.

October 19, 2018

STEM

Ohio State’s LSAMP Alliance Receives $4.5M Grant From NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently renewed a grant, which will help The Ohio State University and its partner institutions expand the percentage of underrepresented and minority students majoring in STEM fields. The other Ohio-based institutions that benefit from the grant are Central State University, Columbus State Community College, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, […]

September 7, 2018