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Duke University granted final approval for its new campus in China Mary Brown Bullock, executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, said the approval allowed the university, a joint venture between Duke University and Wuhan University, formally to start recruiting faculty and students for enrollment for the fall semester of 2014. Source: Duke Kunshan University […]

10 States are shortchanging Historically-Black Land Grant Universities, report says APLU releases new policy brief: Land-Grant But Unequal: State One-To-One Match Funding for 1890 Land-Grant Universities Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) September 5, 2013—Concerned that states are failing to provide the nation’s 1890 black land-grant universities the same level of one-to-one matching dollars […]

President Barack Obama’s plan to tie student aid to college ratings By Kelly Field The Chronicle of Higher Education President Obama continues his three-campus “college cost” bus tour on Friday, promoting his plans to make college more affordable through a mix of carrots and sticks. The heart of the proposals is a controversial plan to […]

Georgia Board of Regents adopt bold strategic plan for its public university system Public agenda will reshape university system in an era of change Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Atlanta — August 14, 2013 The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia adopted today a bold Strategic Plan for […]

‘White Student Union’ started at Georgia State University  By Laura Diamond The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fall semester won’t start for several weeks, but Georgia State University has already received a handful of complaints about a new student club — the White Student Union. Freshman Patrick Sharp said he started the club so that students of European […]

Uganda: Government to expand universities By Anne Mugisa New Vision -Uganda Leading Daily The Government has embarked on the expansion of its six universities and two other degree-awarding institutions in a bid to increase enrollment in science and technology disciplines viewed as development shots. The expansion targets enrollment of an additional 35,000 students in science […]

Top U.S universities for federal R&D grants  By Monica Vendituoli OpenSecrets.org Federal research and development funds benefit a disproportionately small number of universities which in turn spend disproportionately on lobbying and campaign contributions. A study by the National Science Foundation found that about 20 percent of the more than $40 billion in federal funds given […]

Chinese astronaut Yaping delivers space lecture   PTI BEIJING- China’s second woman astronaut Wang Yaping, who is currently orbiting the Earth in an experimental spacelab, has become the country’s first space teacher as she delivered a lecture to over 60 million Chinese students about various aspects life in space. In a 45 minutes lecture, Wang, […]

HBCUs trying to undo damage resulting from federal parent PLUS loans revisions By Reginald Stuart Diverse: Issues In Higher Education When Florida A&M University lost nearly 1,000 students at the start of last fall’s school year, it found a significant number of the students were casualties of the federal government’s new and tighter rules governing […]

Tuskegee University to regain property from VA Department of Veterans Affairs to return 65 acres donated by school 90 years ago Mary Orndorff Troyan Montgomery Advertiser June 12, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will donate 65 unused acres and about 20 buildings to dramatically expand Tuskegee University under a property transfer that […]