LOS ANGELES — A private group led by several prominent UCLA alumni has raised $1.75 million to bankroll scholarships for black freshmen, hoping the additional financial aid will help increase African American enrollment at the campus.
“We want to take finances out of the question for these students, to the extent we can,” said Los Angeles […]

SANTA FE — A bill signed by Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday is designed to extend the life of the lottery scholarship fund, which has been projected to run out of money in the next few years.
Senate Bill 364, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, will require that more money from lottery sales […]

Marla Ramirez was 11 and living in Michoacan, Mexico, when her mother announced that her family was headed to California for three weeks to visit her father and go to Disneyland.
Ramirez, her mother and four sisters crossed the border with tourist visas, but the plan to see Mickey Mouse never materialized. The family settled down […]

INDIANA–The Indiana Area School District may soon offer a Chinese language course if a grant is approved.
At Monday evening’s special meeting, the board voted to apply for a grant through the College Board’s Chinese Guest Teacher program.
If approved, the grant will provide the district at least two years of Chinese language instruction with the potential […]

Addressing two problems for the price of one should sound good to the Minnesota Legislature just now. For that reason, we direct lawmakers’ attention to a nifty “twofer” tucked into the House higher education funding bill.
Minnesota Campus Compact, a promoter of service learning in higher ed curricula, makes this claim: Give us a chance to […]

FREDERICKSBURG — A University of Mary Washington student group that helps impoverished children and families in Honduras won $20,000 in a national contest yesterday.
The GrabLife GiveLife contest, sponsored by Dodge, also gives Students Helping Honduras a boost in its campaign to raise $100,000, which university officials say philanthropist Doris Buffett’s Sunshine Lady Foundation has pledged […]

Although not everything will be visible, more than $500,000 in improvements are planned for Midland College’s Cogdell Learning Center this summer.
Bids are out now and officials expect to award a contract in mid-May with construction starting in June and being completed in two phases, Director Liz Zenteno said.
Staff would move back in August and classrooms […]

POMONA — Cal Poly Pomona Intercollegiate Athletics has been one of seven programs to be awarded a matching grant from the NCAA Division II Strategic Alliance to help fund a full-time professional administrative position.
The Strategic Alliance Matching Grant provides funding for Division II […]

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A listener from China named Walker would like information about agricultural programs in the United States. This is our subject today in week number thirty of our Foreign Student Series.
About one hundred colleges and universities began as public agricultural colleges and continue to teach agriculture. These are called […]

Gov. Ted Strickland wants to increase aid to lower-income students in all Ohio colleges by cutting back on a special grant that now goes to any state resident attending a private school.
But try telling that to the tuition-paying parents of 45,000 students at risk of losing that $900 a year or to the heads […]