David Brooks, Tom Brokaw, Erik Peterson and Patricia Cormier are featured speakers at the 2008 Annual Meeting scheduled for November 23-25 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Read More

The 1998 Higher Education Act requires all postsecondary institutions to make a good-faith effort to distribute voter registration forms to each degree-or-certificate-seeking student who attends classes on campus. The publication Your Vote Your Voice provides resources and ideas to help campuses conduct voter registration and education activities. Learn more

AASCU’s new editions of Policy Matters and Perspectives cover college student success through remedial education and an overview of veterans’ education issues at the national, state and institutional levels, respectively. Read more

California State University Chico has once again been named to an exclusive list of national schools leading the way in sustainability and environmental awareness. The DailyGreen, a popular Web site that bills itself as “The consumer’s guide to the green revolution,” has featured CSU Chico in a list of 10 top colleges and universities that includes Harvard University, Duke University, Middlebury College and Oberlin College. The listing, dubbed “10 of the Greenest Colleges in America,” is at http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/10-greenest-colleges-460708?src=rss

While the physical transformation of Colorado State University-Pueblo is apparent to visitors on a daily basis, those surfing to campus on the Internet might not have gotten the same impression. CSU-Pueblo unveiled a new recruitment web site, www.goCSUPueblo.com, to reflect the new image of the University as a growing, dynamic, and vibrant academic community.

SUNY Fredonia today announced that it has officially stopped accepting any further applications for undergraduate admissions for the fall 2008 semester.  Graduate student applications are still being accepted. Having received more than 6,500 applications from high school seniors for the fall 2008 term — a school record, and up more than 600 from a year ago — Fredonia stands today with more than 1,200 deposits from students eager to become members of its Class of 2012.

The University of Alaska Anchorage is partnering with Creighton University in Omaha to launch a distance-learning program aimed at addressing the state of Alaska’s critical shortage of occupational therapists. Eight students will participate in the inaugural class to begin their nine-semester journey to doctoral degrees in occupational therapy. Read news release

As testament to their commitment to the Jewish community and the study of its history and culture, Raymond and Barbara Alpert have donated $1 million to California State University Long Beach’s Jewish Studies Program in its College of Liberal Arts. The university has named an endowed chair in perpetuity in their honor.

The City University of New York, College of Staten Island has received the following grants:

$150,000 from the Army Research Office for the project, “Ion Beam Written Carbon Nanostructures on Carbonaceous Substrates”

$200,00 from the Robin Hood Foundation for the Funding for Certified Nursing Assistant (CAN) Training Program

$154,602 from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the Creative Exchange Program

$199,280 from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York Small Business Administration for the Small Business Development Center

$206,300 from the New York State Department of Social Services for the Child Care Development Block Grant

Grants received by Coastal Carolina University (S.C.):

$2.3 million for the five-year project GK-12 Fellows Linking Marine and Wetland Research with Science Education in Coastal South Carolina Schools

$20,000 from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the NERRS Graduate Research Fellowship

$5,400 from the PADI Foundation and Slocum-Lunz Foundation for Investigation of Grade C8 Barium Ferrite (BaFe204) Permanent Magnets as a Possible Elasmobrachs Bycatch Reduction System

$2,470 from Project AWARE for Demographics and Habitat Partitioning of Elasmobranchs in Port Royal Sound, SC

$800 the Slocum-Lunz Foundation for Seasonal Movement Patterns of Juvenile Sharks in a Potential Nursery Ground in North Santee Bay, SC and the Role of Physical Parameters in the Spatial Distribution.

$10,878 from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources for Strategy to Investigate the Relationship between Fishery Landings and Environment

$113,740 from contractual services through Horry County, SC, for Coastal Waccamaw Watershed Academy Crabtree Sediment Assessment, Coastal Waccamaw Storm Water USGS Gaging Station Analysis, Coastal Waccamaw Storm Water Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program and Environmental Quality Lab Water Quality Monitoring for Horry County

$40,852 from HDR Engineering for EQL Monitoring and UV Treatment of Stormwater Detention Ponds in Oceanside Campgrounds

$5,000 Student Achievement Grant from National Educational Association (NEA) for a pilot program to build and deploy remotely operated vehicles in the First Year Experience program

$81,182 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Grand Strand Shore Protection Project for Horry County: Sea Turtle Monitoring

$12,455 from S.C. Department of Education for AP Teacher Institute 2008 English Composition

$12,685 from S.C. Department of Education for AP Teacher Institute English 2008

$16,750 from PSARAS Foundation for CCU Early Intervention Mentoring Program

The Kentucky Foundation for Women has awarded $3,000 to the Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Research Institute. The grant will be used by researcher/apiculturalist Tammy Horn to provide workshops for girls in Appalachia about beekeeping and writing, which will help them articulate their own voices for change in their region and state.

Lyndon State College (Vt.) Meteorology Professor Nolan has received a National Science Foundation grant for $238,000 that starts next year. For a number of years, Atkins has been studying tornadoes, working with other scientists to learn more about how they are formed and the conditions that bring the varying degrees of damage. This study, “Damage Survey and Photogrammetric Analyses of Tornadoes, Mesocyclones, and Hook Echoes Observed during VORTEX II,” will involve researchers from around the nation and their research assistants.

New Jersey City University (NJCU) has received $2,709,848 from the United States Department of Education to fund a five-year Title V Project, which will focus on increasing institutional capacity in academic support services and faculty development at the State’s only four-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Commissioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen visited Nicholls State University (La.) to distribute a portion of the nearly $14 million in state money that will help create 176 new professorships at universities around Louisiana.

Saginaw Valley State University (Mich.) has received the following grants:

The U.S. Department of Education’s Title III Strengthening Institutions Program has awarded Saginaw Valley State University $1,776,833 over five years to expand and enhance its online and distance education programs.  The grant supports 100 percent of the project’s total cost.

$335,203 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the proposed Health and Human Services Building to be constructed at SVSU.

A total of $46,682 from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth for the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professors and Future Faculty Fellowship programs.

$15,340 from Mentoring Solutions to provide evaluation services for the Mentor Solutions/Winning Futures Program.

$12,115 from the Ruth Mott Foundation for Enhancing the Local Food System of Flint/Genesee County.  This program will create a community food system network to positively impact the community.

$8,000 from the State of Michigan for graduate nursing scholarships.

$7,000 from the International Council for Canadian Studies: Canadian Embassy for the Faculty Enrichment Grant to support some expenses of a summer study abroad course, and $1,000 from the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States for the study of Canadian music.

$5,000 from Citizens Bank Wealth Management, N.A. for the 2008 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition.

$5,000 from Prima Civitas Foundation for I2M: Inventions to Market Day at SVSU.  This grant supported a half-day event designed to help inventors achieve commercial success.

$5,000 from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium to support research in Modeling Secure Communication Networks.

$4,930 from the National Council on Economic Education to support a workshop that  provided middle school teachers with skills to create a classroom environment where students could experience entrepreneurship and business creation.

$3,500 from Michigan Campus Compact for a writing/art workshop that helped prepare future teachers to work with underrepresented students and encouraged workshop participants to pursue a college education.

$2,500 from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium to support student research in the Probability Function for Detecting Cracks in Aircraft.

$500 from the Michigan Center for the Book to support the Theodore Roethke Centennial Celebration, an event to promote an awareness and appreciation of Michigan's rich literary heritage.

$500 from the Michigan Humanities Council for Celebrating the Great Michigan Read with James Plath, author of Remembering Ernest Hemingway.

Southeast Missouri State University chemistry professor Dr. Rachel Morgan Theall has been awarded a $100,000 grant under the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Discovery Corps Fellowships program to conduct research relating to attitudes and understanding of forensic science and teaching forensic science concepts. Read news release

The number of listeners and the quality of its programming and staffing have won St. Cloud State University (Minn.) student radio station, KVSC 88.1 FM, funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Community Service Grant Program. The station was one of 10 radio stations, nationwide, to receive a community service grant.

The Greater Texas Foundation recently awarded Tarleton State University (Texas) two $25,000 grants for the establishment of the Generation Proud and the Rising to the Challenge scholarship programs for the 2008-2009 school year. Generation Proud will provide $1,000 scholarships to 25 first-generation college students with financial need.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has received the following grants:

$3,000 from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council for research travel to Japan.

$33,740 to evaluate and measure performance of programs offered by Why kNOw Abstinence Education, Inc., a Chattanooga nonprofit organization that operates a comprehensive abstinence education program.

$3,850 to assist in the rental, organization and expansion of studio space with a MakeWork Chattanooga Arts Grant funded through the CreateHere Chattanooga initiative, a collective of programs, projects, incentive funding and individuals working for creative economic and cultural development in Chattanooga.  

$29,999 from the Health Resources and Services Administration to fund a three-day professional development workshop for rural public health nurses. This is the second year of a three-year program designed to support and educate regional nurses, with total funding expected to reach $89,997.

Funds for a faculty member to serve as Chief Curator for the Hunter Museum of American Art in a collaborative arrangement, now entering its third year, which further strengthens the relationship between UTC and the community.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is entering the second year of an $800,000 three-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to continue the Gateway Program, an accelerated RN-BSN degree program specifically designed for working nurses. This grant award for this budget year totals $263,537.

WUTC-FM, licensed to The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and located on the campus, has received donated distribution system equipment from National Public Radio (NPR) valued at $5,872.60 which will streamline how WUTC-FM selects, sends, acquires, and automates NPR programming.

$1,278 in funding from the Arts & Education Council of Chattanooga (AEC) to provide transcription services for AEC's weekly television programs that will be used to provide closed captioning for people with hearing disabilities.

$2,000 for the fourth and final year ($64,581 in total funding) from the National Science Foundation through the University of California (UC) at Davis to continue research on the plant genus Prunus.

$25,000 from the Lyndhurst Foundation to support the second of three years of a Graphic Arts lectureship, which is expected to have a total value of $75,000.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Center for Community Career Education has secured $226,599 from the U.S. Department of Education to continue the ETS program, a federally funded TRIO program designed to identify and assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education in Hamilton County schools. This is the third year that ETS has received funding, with total funding expected to reach $1,099,995 over five years.

Texas Woman’s University’s College of Nursing has been awarded a $614,959 federal grant for its doctor of nurse practitioner (DNP) degree program.

The University of Houston-Victoria (Texas) has received a $492,672 grant for a program that aims to alleviate the state teacher shortage by helping instructional aides and long-term substitutes become certified teachers. Starting in the fall, the three-year grant will fund UHV’s Access to Success program, which provides scholarships; tuition and books to area school district employees who want to become teachers.

USM has received a $354,420 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to support implementation of USM's new general education curricula, a series of courses required of all undergraduate students. This grant follows two other Davis Educational Foundation grants, one for $92,200 and another for $100,000 awarded in 2002 and 2003, which supported the planning stages of the curricula.

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke received the following grants:

UNCP Interventions for a Tobacco Free Community by the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission to Dr. Monica Osburn for $26,708.

Robeson Regional BioTech Education Consortium-ATE Project by the National Science Foundation to Dr. Leonard Holmes for $7,500.

National Space Grant Consortium and Fellowship Program, Phase I by the NC Space Grant Consortium to Dr. Jose Joaquim D'Arruda for $10,000.

UNC Pembroke Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences to Dr. Robert Poage for $274,291.

First American's Teacher Education Program (FATE) by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Indian Education Professional Development Grants to Dr. Zoe Locklear for $270,564.

SIG - SAP Grant Needs Assessment awarded by Southeastern Regional Mental Health/SAMHSA to Dr. Anna Netterville for $40,000.

National Space Grant Consortium and Fellowship Program, Phase II by the NC Space Grant Consortium to Dr. Jose Joaquim D'Arruda for $10,000.   Strategic Plan Development awarded by Union Chapel Harvest Ministries to Sylvia Pate for $500   Strategic Plan Development awarded by N.O.A.H.'s Center (Nurturers of Artistic Hearts) to Sylvia Pate for $500 on.

University of Nebraska at Kearney received the following grants:

$12,030  from the U.S. Geological Survey at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln for New Mapping of Surficial Geology.

$25,266 from the USDA Risk Management Association for Drought Risk, Impact and Mitigation System.

$3,229  from Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District for Boxturtle Relocation.

$154,931  from the National Institute of Health for Nebraska INBRE and  BRIN  (Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) Biomedical Research in Nebraska.

$2,500 from the National Institute of Health and Polaris Health Directions for College Outcomes Management System.

$15,020  from the USDA for NYSP (National Youth Sports Program)/USDA Summer Food Program.

University of Northern Colorado Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Chhandak Basu has received a $49,643 grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade, along with matching university funds, to study the viability of using in automobiles biofuel derived from a tropical tree. During the two-year collaborative project through the Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program, Basu is cloning the genes responsible for production of diesel-like fuel, called oleoresin, in the copaiba or "diesel tree."

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke received the following grants:

UNCP Interventions for a Tobacco Free Community by the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission to Dr. Monica Osburn for $26,708.

Robeson Regional BioTech Education Consortium-ATE Project by the National Science Foundation to Dr. Leonard Holmes for $7,500.

National Space Grant Consortium and Fellowship Program, Phase I by the NC Space Grant Consortium to Dr. Jose Joaquim D'Arruda for $10,000.

UNC Pembroke Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences to Dr. Robert Poage for $274,291.

First American's Teacher Education Program (FATE) by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Indian Education Professional Development Grants to Dr. Zoe Locklear for $270,564.

SIG - SAP Grant Needs Assessment awarded by Southeastern Regional Mental Health/SAMHSA to Dr. Anna Netterville for $40,000.

National Space Grant Consortium and Fellowship Program, Phase II by the NC Space Grant Consortium to Dr. Jose Joaquim D'Arruda for $10,000.   Strategic Plan Development awarded by Union Chapel Harvest Ministries to Sylvia Pate for $500   Strategic Plan Development awarded by N.O.A.H.'s Center (Nurturers of Artistic Hearts) to Sylvia Pate for $500 on.

Western Illinois University African American Studies Department Chair Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah received a $5,000 grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Inc. to assist in the publication of a collection of multicultural poems contributed by writers from around the world. Read news release

Western Washington University has received the following grant awards:

$450,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service for a service-learning program, “Count Me In: Learning and Serving for School Success” (PI – Jennifer Dorr, Director, Campus Compact)

$102,179 from the National Science Foundation for continued funding of the Elwha Research Consortium—a group of agencies studying the effects of dam removals on the Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Washington (PI – Dr. Brad Smith, Dean, Huxley College of the Environment)

$199,876 from the National Science Foundation for a science education project entitled “Chemistry for the Informed Citizen” (PI – Dr. Emily Borda Chemistry Department)

$225,366 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to support research examining the relationship between nutrients and food web dynamics of the harmful alga, Heterosigma akashiwo, which has been responsible for causing mass mortalities in fish in Pacific Northwest and all over the world. (PI – Dr. Suzanne Strom, Shannon Point Marine Center)

$450,000 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year research project studying the nature of algal symbioses in an intertidal algal-anemone association. (PI – Gisele Muller-Parker & Brian Bingham, Shannon Point Marine Center)

$360,000 from the National Science Foundation for a research project entitled: Noble Metal Phosphide Catalysts for Deep Hydrodesulfurization. (PI – Dr. Mark Bussell, Chemistry) $100,000 from the National Science Foundation for collaborative research project studying the production of toxins by bloom-forming algae. (PI – Dr. Kathy VanAlstyne, Shannon Point Marine Center)

$375,0000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service for the “Students in Service AmeriCorps Program. (PI – Jennifer Dorr, Washington Campus Compact)

The E. M. Barr Charitable Trust and The Huntington Foundation have pledged $75,000 and $100,000, respectively, to Youngstown State University (Ohio)’s Centennial Capital Campaign. Read news release

Business professors Dick Crandall, Claudia Kelley, Lyle Schoenfeldt, Mike Dotson, Jim Westerman and Alan E. Singer have been awarded professorships in Appalachian State University (N.C.)’s Walker College of Business. Read news release

Katherine Lisko of Stuttgart, Ark., a student at Arkansas State University, received the Student Travel Award from the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program of the National Center for Research Resources. Lisko accepted a $1,000 award at the symposium August 6 in Washington, D.C.  The award is based on her work, "Elevated Vitamin C Enhances Growth, Stress Tolerance, and Phytoremediation Potential in Arabidopsis," authored by Lisko, R. Shea Harris, and Dr. Argelia Lorence, assistant professor of Metabolic Engineering in the Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI) on the ASU campus.

Barbara Lynne L'Hommedieu, an academic adviser at Central Michigan University, was one of only 13 recipients nationwide to be awarded an Outstanding New Adviser Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has honored Clayton State University (Ga.)’s Dr. Michelle Furlong and Renee McFarlane with the 2008 MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resource Editor’s Choice Award for their article, “Immunity and the Spread of Influenza Within a Population Department of Natural Sciences.” Read the press release in PDF format

WEKU-FM, Eastern Kentucky University’s public radio service, received first place honors in the Enterprise/Investigative Reporting category of the 2008 Public Radio News Directors Awards competition. The news story can be heard at on the WEKU website.

The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), Humboldt State (Calif.)’s demonstration home for sustainable living, recently sent former co-director, Jeffrey Steuben to accept its award for Best Practices in Student Sustainability Program for the California State University (CSU). Read full article

Kennesaw State University (Ga.) Michael J. Coles College of Business accounting professor Dana R. Hermanson received the Wildman Medal, one of the most prestigious academic awards in the field of accounting, at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association. Hermanson, the Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise, was awarded the 2008 Wildman Medal for a paper he published with colleagues from three other universities synthesizing the research on how external auditors evaluate various risks associated with auditing a company’s books.

The Bayou Industrial Group is proud to announce that it has awarded scholarships to three local students for enrollment at L.E. Fletcher Technical/Community College, Louisiana Technical College – Lafourche Campus and Nicholls State University (La.). Read full article

Tarleton State University (Texas)’s recreational sports facility was recently named a “Project of Distinction” winner in the 2008 Education Design Showcase Annual Awards.  Winning projects were chosen on a number of factors including cost effectiveness, innovation and creativeness, energy use and accessibility for all users. Visit the center online at www.tarleton.edu/~recsports

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) team received four awards at the International Aerial Robotics Competition held at Fort Benning, Ga. The team took first place in the 2006 and second in the 2007 competition.

Chris Brinegar, a faculty member affiliated with the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Maine at Farmington, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to lecture and do research at Kathmandu University in Nepal during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Kent Miller, assistant professor of journalism at Central Michigan University, recently spent 10 days at the 6 million-acre Denali National Park and Preserve, snapping photos of everything from grizzly bears to dogsledders and landscapes. Miller offered his services as a volunteer photographer and even funded his own travel expenses to do so, spending 14 hours each day shooting and processing photographs for use by the park in books, brochures, educational presentations and more. In all, he donated more than 1,400 photos. More than 60 of Miller's photos are already posted in the "Photos & Multimedia" section of the park's website.

A University of Central Florida researcher may have found a defense against the Black Plague, a disease that wiped out a third of Europe’s population in the Middle Ages and which government agencies perceive as a terrorist threat today. UCF Professor Henry Daniell and his team have developed a vaccine that early research shows is highly effective against the plague. Findings of his National Institutes of Health and USDA funded research appear in the August edition of Infection and Immunity. The vaccine, which is taken orally or by injection, was given to rats at UCF and the efficacy was evaluated by measuring immunity (antibody) developed in their blood. For more information visit http://news.ucf.edu

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has passed the $100 million goal for its Students First Campaign – a year before the campaign’s end. University and campaign officials announced the milestone on July 29, 2008, and stated plans to continue the drive through June 30, 2009 to fulfill two of the campaign’s key initiatives – undergraduate and graduate scholarships and faculty development.

Inspiring Horizons: The Campaign for Oswego has exceeded its goal and raised $23,857,114, making SUNY Oswego's first comprehensive campaign an overwhelming success. The campaign began in 2002 and met its first goal of $17 million in October 2006. An enhanced goal of $23 million was then set. As of June 30, the campaign had officially exceeded that goal by more than $800,000.

Joseph S. Prus, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Winthrop University S.C.), has been named as the chair of the Executive Board of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education for the 2008-2009 year. The member groups represent millions of educators and members of the public nationwide. Prus of Rock Hill, S.C., was appointed from the specialty organization quadrant through his leadership in the National Association of School Psychologists.

Karen Stock, assistant professor of fine arts at Winthrop University, is spending the fall semester teaching Western art history at Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China, through the Fulbright Scholar Program.