ajc.com | Atlanta/South Metro | CAU cuts programs: "The Clark Atlanta University board of trustees voted today to eliminate five academic programs.
The programs being eliminated are: Library and Information Studies, International Affairs and Development, Allied Health Professions, the Department of Engineering, and the Systems Science Ph.D. program."

Collegiate Times: "The underlying problem is the dismal school systems and societal de-emphasis on educational merit. "

The Daily Northwestern - UNC first to give needy students full scholarships: "The program, believed to be the first of its kind in U.S. public universities, would apply to students at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level. In return for the scholarship, students must work 10 to 12 hours a week at a work-study job."

Stevens Point Journal - Students on scholarship still struggle: " Ivrekia Stanley thought her prospects were bright when she graduated from Forest Park High School in suburban Atlanta in 1999. Her 3.6 grade-point average earned her a Hope Scholarship and a ticket to college. But when she entered Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year community college, she had to take remedial classes in reading and math.

'You get very discouraged. You don't want to tell anybody you're in these classes,' Stanley recalled. She said she kept telling herself, 'I have a Hope Scholarship. I'm smarter than this.'
But she said the classes taught her some lessons she hadn't learned in high school, like stopping to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary and quickly determining the main point of a written passage.

This fall, the 22-year-old transferred to Georgia State, where she majors in criminal justice. She has a 3.8 grade-point average and has retained the Hope Scholarship.

But about 40 percent of Hope Scholars who entered Georgia schools as freshmen in fall 2000 failed to maintain the minimum 3.0 GPA in their first 30 credit hours of college work and lost the scholarships.
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TheSanDiegoChannel.com - Money - Mortgage Companies Offer Minorities Opportunities: "SAN DIEGO -- If you are a minority and want the kind of job that allows you to help people get into a home, then mortgage companies want you.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has set up a program that connects minorities with internships and scholarships at companies such as Bank of America and Chase Manhattan.

By bringing more diversity to mortgage companies, the association hopes to give more minorities families a chance at owning a home.


Dan Thoms, from Mortgage Bankers Association, said, 'What we're trying to do is get people in the communities linked up with lenders and so the lenders are looking for people that really represent what the community is.'

For more information, visit www.campusmba.com.

News -- Balancing Out the SAT: "Parental involvement also plays a large role, Williams says. Parents who did not themselves go to college %u2014 while not less involved in the lives of their children %u2014 are less likely to understand the college admissions process. Educated parents are in a position to help their children more, says Williams. "

The Towerlight Online - Towson reaches out for diversity: "Despite its proximity to Baltimore City, which is 65 percent African- American, Towson University is comprised of only 10 percent African- American students. All other minority students make up only an additional 5 percent."

BRIAN DICKERSON: Politics of paranoia rule on charters : "But a big-city mayor's duty is to quell such suspicions, not fan them. Thompson may not be savvy in the ways of Detroit politics, but surely he's not the enemy. Would it have been so difficult or demeaning for Kilpatrick, who is a gifted politician, to offer some private guidance instead of the public scolding he dished out? "

MyInKy: Me: "According to a 2001 study by College Funding Solutions Inc., scholarships make up less than 2 percent of student aid. Grants make up nearly 40 percent, and student educational loans fill in the last 58 percent. "

Where athletic scholarships fall short : "Big-time college sports has a dirty little secret, though: The athletic scholarship doesn%u2019t cover the full cost of attending college. Under National Collegiate Athletic Assn. rules, scholarship recipients may get only tuition, fees, room, board, and books. As any parent with college-age children knows, the cost of everyday campus life goes beyond these major expenditures.
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Sioux City Journal: USD receives $1 million for female journalist scholarships: "VERMILLION, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota has received a $1.02 million bequest from the estate of Norma Lewis Brown that will provide scholarships to students in the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism, with preference being given to women.
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Wisconsin Ag Connection - Apply for Agribusiness/Forestry Scholarships: "Each year, $700 scholarships are awarded to ten students based on a competitive basis. A committee consisting of professional agricultural leaders chooses scholarship recipients. To be eligible for this scholarship program, applicants must be graduating from high school in the current academic year, meet the admission requirements of the selected university or technical college, and be a son or daughter of a customer with a voting residence in Wisconsin Public Service Corporation or Upper Peninsula Power Company territory. "

Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/11/2003 | Financial pressures cause scramble for college cash: "To qualify for the most scholarships, students should study hard from the get-go, concentrating not only on grades, but on taking courses that prepare them for college and impress admissions and financial-aid officers, experts say."

DesMoinesRegister.com | News: "The scholarship fund provides financial assistance to minority students who attend Iowa colleges or universities. The students can come from out of state but must attend Iowa schools"

The Badger Herald Online - Race may not affect college admissions, survey shows: "Roughly one-third of American colleges consider race or ethnicity as an ingredient in college admissions decisions. Such results suggest that despite the recent Supreme Court rulings on admission procedures at the University of Michigan's law school, race might still play a small part among numerous factors in admission decisions"

Higher Education Is Still Affordable, With Planning (washingtonpost.com): "The study found that parents of elementary- and secondary-school students, as well as the students themselves, substantially overestimate the price of attending a public college -- so much so that the study worries that some families may give up on the idea of college , assuming that they cannot manage it."

The Gateway - UNO, MCC tackle lack of diversity in the scientific community: "'Lots of people have that ability,' Heidel said, 'but they may not be aware of it.'"

STLtoday - News - Story: "ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - Minority and women computer science and math majors will be able to apply for one of the largest scholarship grants ever given to Missouri Western State College.

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CNN.com - Higher costs for higher education - Sep. 30, 2003: "A survey by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges reports tuition hikes at state colleges and universities in at least 37 states -- almost all as a result of state budget cuts. "

CNN.com - Feldman: Spend education money on what works - Sep. 28, 2003: "Critics are giving President Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' program a failing grade. They claim it will take much more than the $22 billion the administration is offering. Others complain that the bill is simply too ambitious and uniform to address the different need of individual schools. "

CNN.com - Student beats odds, goes to college - Sep. 26, 2003: "He was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father, and his enrollment exemplifies a College Board finding that, among Hispanics and blacks who graduated last spring from high school and took the SAT exam, more than 50 percent aspired to be the first in their family to attend college. (By comparison, only 31 percent of the white test-takers would be the first to attend college.) "

DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS: "When a personal crisis nearly forced Smith out of school, her peers in the UNC Africana Studies Department and in several groups for black and minority students held a bake sale and a pizza sale on campus to raise the money Smith needed to continue her studies.



The old-fashioned fundraisers generated more than $2,200 in less than two days - one Greeley couple plunked down $500 for a pizza - allowing the 34-year-old single mother of two to get her studies back on track.


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