Grants &Awards - Brief Article

Black Issues in Higher Education, May 11, 2000

[solid sqaure] Central State University has received a $25,000 grant from the Ashland, Inc. Foundation to promote faculty and student excellence programs.

[solid square] The City University of New York has received a $145,000 donation from the Carver Scholarship Fund to help broaden minority opportunities in the sciences and mathematics.

[solid square] Columbia University has received a $20,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to help the university's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library facilitate the ongoing digitalization of data from the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.

[solid square] Cuesta College in California has been presented with a $100,000 gift from Diane P. Blakeslee, a former president of the college's foundation board of directors. The money will be used to help improve the facilities at the Cuesta College Auditorium.

[solid square] Florida A&M University has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program. The money will be used for 13 graduate fellowships in engineering and physics. The historically Black institution also received a $450,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to educate consumers about the credit process and help home buyers qualify for home mortgage loans.

[solid square] Hampton University in Virginia will be the recipient of a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation to bolster the journalism and communications program at the historically Black institution. A $1 million endowment will establish the Scripps Howard Professorship of Journalism and the rest of the money will be used for faculty development, scholarships and computers.

[solid square] John Carroll University in Cleveland has received a $20 million gift from Charles and Helen Dolan, who met at the university as undergraduates 50 years ago. The gift will go toward the construction of the university's new science and technology center.

[solid square] Morehouse College in Atlanta has received a $1 million gift from the Motorola Foundation to help construct a state-of-the-art, 63,000-square-foot leadership center to house the historically Black institution's leadership development and community service departments.

[solid square] Yale University has been given a five-year, $11 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to establish a clinical trials network aimed at testing, refining and disseminating drug addition treatments into communities.The Ivy League school also received a $3 million grant from the Personality Disorder Research Foundation to study personality disorders.

[solid square] The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities will receive a $1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to continue Proyecto Access, a summer program designed to provide logic and problem-solving skills to minority middle school and high school students interested in pursuing a college degree in the fields of engineering, science, information technology and mathematics. The institutions involved in this summer's project are: Hostos Community College, a member of the City University of New York system; Jersey City State University; Florida International University; New Mexico State University; the Community College of Denver; Pima Community College in Arizona; Richard Daley College in Chicago; Los Angeles City College; and Oxnard College in California.