Black Issues in Higher Education articles from February 2005

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from February 2005

Celebrating extraordinary contributions.(Editors Note)(Editorial)
February 10, 2005... The creation of a national museum of African-American history is one step closer to becoming a reality following the appointment of a 19-member advisory council in December. The council is charged with advising the Smithsonian Institution's...

President Bush calls for new federal effort to address Pell Grant shortfall.(Washington Update)
February 10, 2005... President Bush is proposing a $500 increase in the maximum Pell Grant during the next five years, part of a long-range plan to restore the struggling financial-aid program to a sounder financial base to serve needy students. Unveiling the...

Study urges adult, remedial-ed. programs to join forces.(Washington Update)
February 10, 2005... As key providers of adult and developmental education services, the nation's community colleges can improve programs for their students by collaborating in those areas where their work and their clients overlap, a culminating report from a...

Educators help students affected by tsunami.(Washington Update)
February 10, 2005... In response to the far-reaching effects of the Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Freeman Foundation are accepting applications for emergency grants to help students studying in the...

Under fire: Alabama A&M University president forced to resign amid string of controversies.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... NORMAL, ALA. Like previous school presidents before him, Dr. John T. Gibson's tenure at Alabama A&M University has been marked by turmoil and scandal. Gibson weathered the storm longer than some, but last month trustees forced him to...

Abruptly dismissed: Morehouse School of Medicine loses president as accreditation date draws near.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... ATLANTA The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has gone into a state of transition weeks before an important site visit by the board that will determine whether the school retains its accreditation. With the December dismissal of the...

Texas 10 percent plan has not improved minority representation, Republican leader says.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... AUSTIN, TEXAS Texas law requiring public colleges and universities to accept students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school classes has harmed schools and has not improved minority representation, Republican House Speaker...

Connerly leaves California regents with warning: don't reconsider affirmative action.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO Ward Connerly, the University of California regent best known for dismantling state programs that gave preferences to minorities, completed his term with a final plea to fellow board members: Don't bring back affirmative...

University of Georgia unveils exhibit honoring Charlayne Hunter-Gault.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... ATHENS, Ga. -- Recognizing the need to commemorate the importance of the dormitory in which Charlayne Hunter-Gault resided when she was one of two students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961, the university unveiled a permanent...

UCLA professor Kenny Burrell among seven to receive nation's highest jazz honor.(Noteworthy News)(University of California Los Angeles)
February 10, 2005... LOS ANGELES Kenny Burrell, the renowned jazz guitarist and the director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named a 2005 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)....

Web tool allows search of college graduation rates.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... WASHINGTON The Education Trust released an interactive Web tool last month and two reports that challenge the conventional wisdom about college graduation rates. The Web tool, College Results Online, points to glaring disparities in...

Arkansas college degrees up, but still lag behind national trend.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... LITTLE ROCK, ARK, Arkansas had the fastest growth in college graduates from 2000 to 2003, but it lagged so far behind to begin with that it is still well below the national average, according to new U.S. Census estimates. Also, the...

University of Oregon opens American Indian longhouse on campus.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... EUGENE, ORE. Nearly 20 years after it was proposed, the University of Oregon has opened an American Indian longhouse, a community center traditional to many Native American peoples in the Pacific Northwest and around the country. The...

Cosby urges parents to stand up against 'forces of evil'.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... DETROIT Entertainer Bill Cosby urged members of a primarily Black audience to protect their children from the crime and promiscuity attacking poor urban neighborhoods, and to use their collective voice to stand up to what he called "the...

Nevada's college funding formula under attack.
February 10, 2005... LAS VEGAS Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) President Richard Carpenter has criticized the state's college funding formula, saying it penalizes southern Nevada students--particularly minorities. Carpenter said he hopes...

JPMorgan apologizes for predecessor banks' acceptance of slaves as collateral.(Noteworthy News)
February 10, 2005... NEW YORK JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the first company to acknowledge that two of its predecessor banks had specific links to the slave trade. The filing was meant to comply with a Chicago ordinance requiring such disclosures. The bank,...

Benchmarks & barriers: for people of color in higher education.(Second Annual BIHE National Conference)(Advertisement)
February 10, 2005... May 19-21, 2005 Marriott Crystal Gateway Arlington, Va. (Washington, D.C., metropolitan area) The second annual Black Issues In Higher Education Benchmarks & Barriers conference will bring participants poignant and...

Teachable moments: when protests erupted following the publication of an anti-reparations ad in a campus newspaper, Brown University President Ruth Simmons decided her community could benefit from taking a closer look at the University's historical ties to slavery.(A Salute To Black History Month)(Cover Story)
February 10, 2005... It all started as a rather ran-of-the-mill campus controversy over race and slavery: an anti-reparations ad ran in The Brown Daily Herald; students cried foul, formed human chains and demanded "reparations" in the form of free advertising for...

One step closer: selection of Black history museum director and museum site expected in 2005.(A Salute To Black History Month)
February 10, 2005... The appointment in December of the high-profile 19-member advisory council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture marked the newest chapter in the long effort to establish a national African American history museum in...

Mississippi earnings: after a 30-year battle over the Ayers case, Attorney Alvin Chambliss fights for his own settlement.(A Salute To Black History Month)
February 10, 2005... The long-time lead attorney in a decades-old higher education desegregation battle that ended three months ago when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal wants to get paid for his services, but not with "blood money," he says....

Celebrating Black History: a look at how selected colleges and universities celebrate Black History Month.(A Salute To Black History Month)
February 10, 2005... * ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY Exhibit: "A Spirit People: One View of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage" * BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, OHIO Performance: Young People's Concert: Afro-Caribbean Ensemble * CALIFORNIA...

Incorporating the ideals of Black History Month--in our daily lives.(BI Forum)
February 10, 2005... I sat on the back porch of an old white clapboard house interviewing Montgomery, Ala., residents. A colleague had suggested retreating there because the outdoor music and entertainment were drowning out the voices of those I was trying to...

The Niagara Movement's powerful fruit--100 years of protest.(Speaking Of Education)
February 10, 2005... The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH) was founded 90 years ago on Sept. 9, 1915. It's founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, author of the scathing masterpiece, The Miseducation of the Negro (1933), was also the...

Africana.com Web site announces its closure.(tech briefs)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... STERLING, VA. Founded by Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Princeton University professor Dr. Anthony Appiah, the Africana.com news and feature Web site on African-American life and culture was to formally close at the end of...

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center launches patient Internet portal.(tech briefs)
February 10, 2005... PITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched an Internet-based program for diabetes patients that allows them to communicate more effectively with their doctors from any location and to better manage their...

Microsoft launches research center in India.(tech briefs)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... BANGALORE, INDIA The Microsoft Corp. opened a research lab in India last month, making it only the third Microsoft research facility outside the United States. Microsoft Research India, situated in Bangalore, will handle long-term basic...

Before His Time: the Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 10, 2005... Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr By Ben Green University Press of Florida, 2005 320 pp., $19.95 paperback ISBN: 081302837X Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached from his pulpit in...

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 10, 2005... Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom By Heather Andrea Williams University of North Carolina Press, (March) 2005 320 pp., $29.95 Cloth ISBN: 0-8078-2920-X In this previously untold story of African-American...

The Pearl: a Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 10, 2005... The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac By Josephine F. Pacheco University of North Carolina Press, 2005 320 pp., $29.95 Cloth ISBN: 08078-2918-8 In the spring of 1848, 76 slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner...

Get your site noticed without spamming.(Personal Computing)
February 10, 2005... If you have a Web site, you want people to find it. If it's a business site, used to promote or sell products or services, the life of your business may depend on whether your site shows up in the first screen or two when people conduct Web...

North Carolina Central University.(On The Move)(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... THE REV. ROBERT N. ANDREWS II has been appointed director of the Annual Fund for North Carolina Central University's Office of Institutional Advancement. He was formerly with Howard University's School of Divinity. Andrews earned a bachelor's...

San Francisco Art Institute.(On The Move)(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... OKWUI ENWEZOR has been appointed dean of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute effective in July. He has been a prolific writer, publisher and curator. He is co-editor of Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the...

Clemson University.(On The Move)(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... LEVON KIRKLAND has been named coordinator of minority recruitment initiatives at Clemson University in South Carolina. He was the Pittsburgh Steelers' second-round draft pick in 1992 and finished his NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles in...

Avila University.(On The Move)(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... DR. DWYANE SMITH has been named assistant vice president of academic affairs for retention at Avila University in Kansas City, Mo. Previously he served as the associate vice president for enrollment management at Park University. Smith earned a...

University of South Florida.(On The Move)(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... DR. TED WILLIAMS has been named associate vice president for diversity and equal opportunity at the University of South Florida. He earned a bachelor's from Edward Waters College; a master's from the University of Miami; a master's from Atlanta...

Capital Community College.(On The Move)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... DR. CALVIN WOODLAND has been named president of Capital Community College in Hartford, Conn. Most recently, he was the vice president for student services at Bergen Community College. Woodland earned a bachelor's from Morgan State University; a...

Bronx Community College.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... Bronx Community College (N.Y.) received a $399,828 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Engineering Technology Scholarship Program." The grant will provide scholarships...

City College of San Francisco.(Grants & awards)(California Pacific Medical Center)(Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... City College of San Francisco, California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital have received a grant of over $4.2 million from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. The grant is in support of the partnership's Betty Irene Moore Nursing...

University of Connecticut.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... University of Connecticut received $3.5 million from insurance giant Aetna and its chief executive. The Aetna Foundation's $2 million will be used to support the University of Connecticut Health Center's Health Professions Partnership...

John Carroll University.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... John Carroll University (Ohio) received a $105,000 grant from The Cleveland Foundation for school improvement collaborations with principals and teachers in the Cleveland Municipal School District and first-ring districts.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2005... North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been awarded a three-year $187,457 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project titled "implications of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Disciplines...

Events.(Calendar)
February 10, 2005... FEBRUARY Feb. 24-25 The 8th Annual Equity and Diversity Pre-Conference and Conference "Developing Others to Expand the Journey" University of North Texas Denton, Texas Web: www.unt.edu/edo/diversity_conference/2005.html ...

The education vs. incarceration debate.(Editor's Note)(prison education)
February 24, 2005... The letter shown on the cover of the magazine is authentic. It was written by a female inmate pleading for an education. Educating the incarcerated is one of those issues about which the battle lines are drawn. Prison-education advocates...

I poll.
February 24, 2005... Q: Upon whom or what do you mostly rely when it comes to getting advice on your personal diet and staying fit? Responses Other 10.71% Books, magazines and other published materials 21.43% Family...

Bush education budget includes cuts to college access programs: GEAR UP, Upward Bound among programs slated for elimination.(Washington Update)
February 24, 2005... President Bush wants to terminate a variety of politically popular college access initiatives as part of an austere 2006 education budget plan with increases for a few high priorities but cuts or level funding for dozens of other initiatives....

Student aid formula seriously flawed, report finds.(Washington Update)
February 24, 2005... Congressional Democrats, already steamed about cuts in federal student aid, are now bristling at a recent discovery that the U.S. Department of Education has been distributing billions of dollars of student aid under a misguided formula. ...

Report finds faculty pay up--barely.(Washington Update)
February 24, 2005... Despite record state budget deficits resulting from the recession of 2001 and 2002, faculty members at the nation's two- and four-year public colleges and universities enjoyed a marginal 2.5 percent increase in their salaries in 2003, according...

A voice for access and equity: after serving on the Georgia board of regents for 30 years, Elridge McMillan is honored with lifetime achievement award.(Noteworthy News)
February 24, 2005... ATLANTA When Elridge McMillan became the second Black trustee to serve on the University of Georgia System Board of Regents in 1975, his Afro and past advocacy made colleagues think he was a militant Black man. They didn't think he'd last....

Fighting for credibility: having enjoyed an illustrious reputation without accreditation, FAMU's School of Business and Industry has finally decided to go for it.(noteworthy news)(Florida A&M University's School of Business and Industry)
February 24, 2005... TALLAHASSEE, FLA. When Florida A&M University's School of Business and Industry (SBI) was established in 1974, founding dean Dr. Sybil Mobley believed the business world needed employees who received training different than what was...

Documenting violence in the 'hood': Claflin University student receives coveted Sundance award for short film.(noteworthy news)
February 24, 2005... ORANGEBURG, S.C. Eighteen-year-old Daniel Howard received the phone call of a lifetime in December. It was a delegate from the Sundance Film Festival. The representative told him that his film, "Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story,"...

'Still Black, at Yale': film documents how race, racism, play a role in the Black student experience at an Ivy League institution.(Noteworthy News)(Movie Review)
February 24, 2005... In 1974, Black students at Yale University took it upon themselves to chronicle the tenor of the times on their Ivy League campus with a documentary film. Among those students from the '70s, Warrington Hudlin, future filmmaker and founder of...

In memoriam: Ossie Davis (1917-2005).(Obituary)
February 24, 2005... The Broadway theaters dimmed their lights in honor of Ossie Davis on Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, at 8:00 p.m., prior to their evening curtains. All across America, the national and local media sought theatre and film specialists to comment on Mr....

Judge Awards Plaintiffs $672,000 in legal fees in Michigan admissions case.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... DETROIT A federal judge recently ordered the University of Michigan to pay $672,000 in legal fees and costs to attorneys for students who sued the school over its use of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions policies. The...

New Joint Center Partnership focuses on diversifying Health Care Work force.(Noteworthy News)
February 24, 2005... WASHINGTON The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has partnered with former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, to increase racial and ethnic diversity within the nation's...

Hampton University Center to focus on breast and prostate cancer research.(Relevant Research)
February 24, 2005... HAMPTON, VA. Hampton University is planning the construction of a 64,000-square-foot Biomedical Research Center on the university campus. Funded by HU and a federal government agency, the state-of-the-art facility will be an...

Edward Waters College President Jimmy Jenkins resigns following plagiarism scandal.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Dr. Jimmy Jenkins, who was credited with turning around Edward Waters College, increasing its enrollment and it standards, resigned earlier this month after a plagiarism scandal cost the school its accreditation (see...

North Carolina Central University only Black college in state to recruit National Achievement Scholars.(Noteworthy News)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... DURHAM, N.C. Information released by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. ranks North Carolina Central University No. I among North Carolina historically Black colleges and universities and third in the state in recruiting National...

Schomburg Center creates black migration project, Web site.(Noteworthy News)
February 24, 2005... NEW YORK The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is creating an education project focusing on Black migration over the past 400 years. The project, which includes a new Web site, will give the public access to articles,...

Delaware State University to collaborate with Egyptian University on research, faculty exchanges.(noteworthy notes)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... DOVER, DEL. Delaware State University (DSU) recently signed a new partnership agreement with the Ain Shams University of Cairo, Egypt, further expanding its linkages with institutions of higher education all over the world. The...

Dillard University professor recipient of National Poetry Prize.(noteworthy news)
February 24, 2005... NEW ORLEANS Dillard University associate professor of English and creative writing program director Mona Lisa Saloy has been named winner of the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her winning manuscript, "Red Beans and Ricely Yours," was...

Langston President to retire, search for new leader begins.(noteworthy news)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... WARNER, OKLA. The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma A&M Colleges has started its search for a new president of Langston University. Dr. Ernest Holloway is retiring this year after 25 years as president of the historically Black...

American Students launch 10-week study of Cuba under new U.S. regulations.(Noteworthy News)
February 24, 2005... HAVANA When Veronica Sanchez's parents found out she was going to Cuba for 10 weeks, they "freaked out" and worried she would become a communist, the 19-year-old Mexican-American student said. "My dad really has it in his head that I'm...

Harvard President outlines mission for two committees on women.(noteworthy news)(Lawrence Summers)
February 24, 2005... BOSTON Saying he hoped to turn heat into light after the recent controversy over his remarks on women in science, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers recently announced the appointment of two faculty task forces on women and...

Education behind bars: Marymount Manhattan College teams with volunteers to keep college hopes alive for incarcerated women.
February 24, 2005... BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. The first hint comes when you read the titles of the books on Aileen Baumgartner's desk: Reporting Vietnam, Democracy in America, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Baumgartner's eyes sparkle as she describes her...

Untapped potential: from whom life has taken a great deal, the women at Bedford Hills are getting much in return--in the form of education.
February 24, 2005... For Aileen Baumgartner, academic director of the college program at Bedford Hills, the click came when she learned one of her students was enjoying The Faerie Queene so much she was translating each canto into rap and performing each day's...

The promise of a better tommorow: due to lack of funding, the percentage of inmates participating in education programs is declining, while the prison population continues to surge.
February 24, 2005... BLYTHE, CALIF. Stretching across 1,700 acres in the middle of the desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ironwood State Prison may seem like a forbidding place, but for at least 10 percent of its 4,600 inmates, it has become an...

Returning home: scholars say more research is needed on the societal re-entry of the formerly incarcerated.
February 24, 2005... Since the late 1960s, politicians and policymakers have talked tough on crime and have passed tough laws to build prisons and to prescribe lengthy sentences for the criminally convicted. In the past five years, however, public attention has...

Committing to diversity in International Affairs.(The Global Forum)
February 24, 2005... Black History Month reminds us that the struggle for equality and economic justice has been long and difficult. The confirmation of Dr. Condoleezza Rice as U.S. Secretary of State demonstrates how far the descendents of slaves and the...

NASA partners with schools to work with International Space Station.(tech briefs)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... HOUSTON Students and faculty at seven universities will soon benefit from collaborations their respective schools have worked out as NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) partners working with the International Space...

Technologists sought for Stanford Fellowship Program.(tech briefs)
February 24, 2005... STANFORD, CALIF. TWO corporate and two foundation partners are joining the Reuters Foundation to support the Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University for 2005. Google Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the Grameen...

Toyota Foundation awards math, science grants for K-12 projects.(tech briefs)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... NEW YORK Earlier this month, the Toyota USA Foundation board of directors announced grants totaling $650,836 to fund four math and science education initiatives for K-12 grade students across the country. Award recipients included the...

Instant messaging for marketing?(Personal Computing)
February 24, 2005... Let's say you want to reach young people. Maybe you have a product or service to sell, an organization or cause to promote, or a celebrity or politician to publicize. You've probably heard about instant messaging, or IM, a way to...

Tennessee State University.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... SHERRE MILLER BISHOP has been named director of public relations at Tennessee State University. Previously she served as office manager of the NAACP-Nashville branch. Bishop received bachelor's and master's degrees from Tennessee State...

Salisbury University.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... KEVIN CARREATHERS is the new assistant to the vice president for academic affairs for institutional diversity at Salisbury University in Maryland. At Texas A&M University, he served as director of the department of multicultural services and...

North Carolina Central University.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... JULIUS L. CHAMBERS has been appointed the Charles Hamilton Houston Distinguished Professor of Law in constitutional and civil rights law at North Carolina Central University's School of Law for the spring semester. Chambers earned a bachelor's...

Saint Augustine's College.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... THE REV. DR. CLIFFORD C. COLES SR. has been named Episcopal Vicar and chapel rector for Saint Augustine's College in North Carolina. He received a bachelor's from Shaw University, a master's from Columbia University and a doctorate from North...

Lincoln University.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... TRACEY J. HUNTER HAYES has been appointed director of alumni relations at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He has served as a university trustee and as president of the university's Philadelphia alumni chapter. Hayes earned a bachelor's from...

Tuskegee University.(On The Move)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... ANTHONY L. HOLLOMAN has been appointed associate vice president for major gifts and planned giving in the Office of University Advancement at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Previously, he was assistant vice president for development at...

Baton Rouge Community College.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Baton Rouge Community College (La.) received a $1,050,000 grant from CampusEAI Consortium to implement Oracle portals. These portals will enhance the college's integrated teaching and learning interests, student services and other areas of...

Elizabeth City State University.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) received a planning and implementation grant for $325,000 in partnership with the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. The grant will aid in redesigning the H.L. Trigg Community School over a...

Hobart and William Smith Colleges.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Hobart and William Smith Colleges (N.Y.) received a gift of $500,000 from an anonymous source. The money will be used for the Admissions Renovation Fund to help combine the staff under one roof and improve a prospective student's visit to...

Howard University.(Grants & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Howard University (Washington, D.C.) Graduate School has been selected as one of the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) 21 Research University Partners to participate in a $2.6 million, three-year Ph.D. Completion Project. The project is...

Huston-Tillotson College.(Grant & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Huston-Tillotson College (Texas) received a $50,000 contribution from Dell Inc. chief executive officer Kevin Rollins. The contribution supported the establishment of the Kevin Rollins Science Chair. The gift, earmarked for an endowment fund to...

Nashville State Community College.(Grant & awards)(Brief Article)
February 24, 2005... Nashville State Community College (Tenn.) has received a grant of $140,000 from The Oprah Winfrey Foundation to help provide scholarships for part-time students.