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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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Judge Orders North Idaho to Reinstate President

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg,” State Judge Cynthia Meyer wrote in granting a preliminary injunction to Swayne. However, the court found that nothing in South’s contract demonstrates that NIC intended him be an interim placement.

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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. Secondly, the size of the Defense’s research and development budget is expected to reach $145 billion in 2024.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last month, it announced that it would move the 2024 meeting, scheduled for New Orleans, out of Louisiana because of the state’s laws restricting access to abortion and the participation of transgender people in sports. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P. million reported in revenue from membership dues.

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Department of Education Announces Steps to Make Better FAFSA® More Readily Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. In addition, new routine program reviews are being suspended through June 2024, except for issues of suspected fraud or severe breach of fiduciary duty. On Monday, the U.S. Since the form became available on Dec.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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