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Tennessee State University president urges state to pony up $2.1 billion

Chatanooga Times Free Press 25 Sep 2023
Bill Lee last week to notify him data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows historically Black land grant institutions set up in 1890 were shorted dramatically compared to predominantly white land grant universities such as the University of Tennessee created in the 1860s.
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317 benefit from US-funded research project

The News International 25 Sep 2023
... the closing ceremony of the project ‘Globalising Research and Teaching of American Literature’ held under the US- Pakistan University Partnership Grants programme.
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The Flash Star Grant Gustin Once Rocked The Superman Curl, And Don’t Go Giving James Gunn Ideas

Cinema Blend 24 Sep 2023
However, since Grant Gustin is known for being The Flash, it seems highly unlikely he’ll ever step into the role of another iconic DC hero ... And while it’d be cool on a few levels to see Grant Gustin play Superman or even reprise his role as The Flash in the new DC universe, I think we should all focus on what we actually know is coming.
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ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Leather artist, solar scientist take the ‘stage’ this week

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 24 Sep 2023
Friday in the Owen Center theater at Arkansas State University-Beebe, 1102 W ... The talk is part of the university's Lecture-Concert Series ... Grant deadlines. These Arkansas Heritage Grants Program deadlines approach. ... 12 for Arkansas Heritage Grants, which help community-based and ...
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People on the Move 9/24/23

The Scranton Times-Tribune 24 Sep 2023
Misericordia University. The university recently welcomed nine new full-time faculty members to campus for the 2023-24 academic year ... University of Scranton ... University of Scranton ... University of Scranton ... The University of Scranton granted promotions and/or tenure to 14 faculty members effective at the start of the 2023-24 academic year.
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Bill Proctor: Congratulations, FAMU: Top 100 breakthrough is exhilarating and numbing

Tallahassee Democrat 24 Sep 2023
Ironically, on the same day as the announcement of FAMU's new ranking, the White House announced that land grant historically black colleges and universities were denied more than $13 billion, which they should have received over the last three decades ... for research grants."
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'Absurd' Bristol University students ban the British Army from attending its freshers' fair - as ...

The Daily Mail 24 Sep 2023
Left-wing students this week banned the Army from hosting a stall at a British university ... Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said bans on officer training corps and defence companies attending university events like freshers’ fairs or recruitment fairs were ‘absurd and indefensible’.
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$7.5M Grant: OSU to build zebrafish biomedical research facility

The News Guard 24 Sep 2023
Oregon State University has received a $7.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to modernize a lab focused on using zebrafish to address pressing human health challenges ... Sean Nealon is a news editor at Oregon State University's University Relations and Marketing Department.
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Nashua-Plainfield students earn national award for ‘Unsung Hero’ history documentary

Charles City Press 24 Sep 2023
Christine Grant was a pioneer for gender equity at the University of Iowa who helped bring about national implementation of Title IX, requiring equal opportunities for all in the fields of athletics and academics ... Christine Grant’s Pursuit of Gender Equality.” ... Grant helped fight court battles and testify for Title IX legal cases ... Grant died Dec.
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Professor praises SAT shortening exams to give students more time: Not ‘applying to join a ...

New York Post 24 Sep 2023
Adam Grant wrote in a New York Times opinion piece ... Grant, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, argued this is a good thing because time pressure rewards students for rushing instead of working at a more deliberate, careful pace ... Grant wrote.
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Grant distribution failures foil ‘financial inclusion’

Independent online (SA) 24 Sep 2023
The Postbank ‘glitch’ in early September was devastating to 600,000 social grant recipients, and although the problem was solved last week, according to the state-owned bank, advocacy NGO Black Sash reported ongoing crises ... unemployment relief (R350), child support (R510), and grants supporting retirement pensions and disabled people (R2,090).
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Proposal to eliminate Iowa commission could put at risk $14 million in AmeriCorps funding

The Gazette Cedar Rapids 24 Sep 2023
In May, the commission announced it was awarding 21 grants to AmeriCorps state programs in Iowa totaling $9.45 million in federal grants, including Habitat for Humanity of Iowa, Green Iowa AmeriCorps at the University of Northern Iowa, Disaster PrepWise at the University of Iowa and Iowa Afterschool STEM AmeriCorps.
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Florida’s far-right schools activist is a well-kept secret | Editorial

Sun Sentinel 24 Sep 2023
The Orlando Sentinel reported that Stoops’ salary was paid by a federal grant and administered through the University of South Florida. Salaries of state university system employees are not in the state employee database because the SUS has its own system, but Stoops isn’t listed there, either.
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Interest in regenerative ag drives new research

Longview News-Journal 24 Sep 2023
As a land-grant university, the University of Georgia, led by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is charged with providing readily available, research-based programs and educational resources to improve the lives of individuals, families and communities.
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New docuseries about NC A&T instructive, compelling

News & Record 24 Sep 2023
A&T State University's modern-day college of business, tells the story of catching the bus in segregated Montgomery, Ala ... That's what prompted the filmmakers to attempt to tell the complete story of the 133-year-old land grant institution, established initially as an annex to Shaw University.

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