The Obama Administration is launching an experimental initiative to provide Pell grants to high school students enrolling in college courses. The initiative targets low-income students.
First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the third annual College Signing Day in Harlem. About 4, 000 high school seniors and several celebrities joined Mrs. Obama for the event to promote higher education.
A new report says the college graduation gap between Black and Whites students remains, even with an overall increase in graduation rates. But some institutions are successfully helping to close the gap.
A group of Black law students at Washington and Lee University are demanding that the school’s administration publicly denounce its Confederate past and distance the…
In a sudden move that upset faculty, students, alumni and members of the community, Martin University has fired sixteen employees. The decision, suddenly announced on Friday (October 18), took the university community and general community by surprise. Students flooded AM1310 The Light’s Friday Amos & Abdul program with calls and complaints of concern. Callers charged […]
In a stunning announcement, the Trustees of Martin University has named former Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Eugene White as the university’s Interim President. Dr. White takes the helm of the Indianapolis’ o and Indiana’s only HBCU from Dr. George Miller who announced last month that he was leaving Martin University after two years. Dr. […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 26 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. For the first time in its seven years, Afternoons with Amos broadcast live from the campus of Martin University, Indiana’s only historically Black university. Amos talked with Interim University President Dr. Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow along with students, faculty and admissions and financial aid staff on […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 29 Minutes. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. The new Interim President of Martin University Charlotte Westerhaus and Board Chair John Bartlett appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain Westerhaus’ appointment. Formerly Vice-President of Diversity at the NCAA, Westerhaus succeeded former President Dr. Algeania Freeman. Bartlett, who is an Indiana State Representative, […]
