Education

COMMENTARY: DeVos Hands For-Profit Colleges $11.1 Billion Over 10 Years

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Over the next decade, the Education Department projects an $11 billion cost-savings from denying loan forgiveness. But for student loan borrowers, denying $11 billion in loan forgiveness…

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Dr. George T. French Jr. Leaves Miles College On Top

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Miles College President George T. French Jr., PhD, is forever a teacher and a motivator.

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WMU-Cooley Law School To Reduce Its Tuition

FLORIDA COURIER — Western Michigan University-Cooley Law School’s board of directors approved a bold plan on Aug. 28 to sustain and strengthen the law school’s access mission. The plan will significantly…

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Tech Big Draw for Kids

PRECINCT REPORTER NEWS GROUP — Kids from Riverside and San Bernardino schools will converge on Bourns Inc. headquarters in Riverside for a conference sure to spark their young inventive minds…

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Clark Atlanta Alumni in Birmingham Area Welcome Dr. French

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — One thing Miles College President George T. French Jr., PhD, has learned since announcing his resignation from Miles and new position at Clark Atlanta University (CAU): the…

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Loyola Marymount University’s TLC Program Strives for Black Excellence

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — While the month of June often brings feelings of joy and fulfillment associated with high school graduations, the month of August can bring with it anxiety and…

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Spelman College Receives Funding to Help Fuel the Field of Black Women Economists

ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — The Department of Economics at Spelman College will develop curriculum and programming to address the scarcity of Black women Ph.D.s in economics. thanks to funding from…

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Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its…

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Court-Ordered Mediation in Maryland HBCU Case Ends without Agreement

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2013, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, found the state in violation of the 14th Amendment rights of its HBCU students and…

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Summer Bee winners

THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER — Annually, the Friends of James Weldon Johnson Branch Library, Inc. sponsor Summer Bees in the month of July, and this year was no exception. Participants in…

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