Grants

• Sojourner-Douglass College, a predominantly black educational institution in Maryland, received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand their practical nursing program at campuses in East Baltimore, Annapolis, Cambridge, and Salisbury.

• Cheyney University, the historically black educational institution in Pennsylvania, received two grants totaling $480,000 from the Friends Fiduciary Corporation to support the renovation of Humphreys Hall on campus and to add to the Richard Humphreys Scholarship fund for Cheyney students.

• The Institute for Higher Education Policy received a $4.2 million grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to support first-generation college students at predominantly black colleges and universities, at Hispanic-serving educational institutions, and at tribal colleges and universities.

• The University of Illinois received a three-year, $380,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a project to integrate automated systems at several university libraries in Africa.

• The law school at Howard University, the historically black educational institution in the nation’s capital, received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to operate a fair housing legal clinic education program.

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