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HBCUs Can Help Reverse the Black College Enrollment Recession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, Black college and university enrollment has been dropping at alarming rates, declining 22% from 2010 and 2020. A federal government report documented how HBCUs continue to face challenges securing funding to maintain and improve campus infrastructure, “potentially jeopardizing their long-term sustainability.”

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government.

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Hunter College and Former Professor Settle Fraud Lawsuit

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The federal government has settled a lawsuit with Hunter College and a former Hunter professor alleging fraudulent use of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health between 2010 and 2018, according to a statement the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York released Monday.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Not only has enrollment declined 37 percent since 2010, but the figures would be much worse were it not for high school students who now make up a fifth of all community college students. Which university receives more taxpayer dollars from the federal government per student?”

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Among Dr. Kirwan’s many honors is the 2010 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. So he sues the Federal government about the law. 00:17:42] Drumm McNaughton: There’s a question that I have is, how can governments go against the First Amendment where, you shall not legislate any law that prohibits freedom of speech?

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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. Since 2010, the federal government has funded model demonstration programs known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability, or TPSID, sites.

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“However, the federal government has a track record of using secret-shopper investigations to malign politically unfavored institutions with distorted findings that later result in the need for public correction,” Kent said.