Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Filed in Grants and Gifts on March 1, 2013
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
The University of Oregon received a three-year, $3.2 million grant from Google Inc. to support the work of the Network Startup Resource Center. The center helps universities in Africa establish network infrastructure for online initiatives.
Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina received a $957,797 grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for a program to improve the cultural competence of teachers of young children. The grant program is under the direction of Beth Day-Hairston, an associate professor of education at the university. Dr. Day-Hairston is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University and holds a master’s degree from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North Carolina A&T State University, a historically Black educational institution in Greensboro, received a three-year, $1 million grant from Merck & Company Inc. to support the university’s new Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Aging, and Community Health.
Historically Black Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida, received a $495,000 grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to support the construction of the educational institution’s Center for the Prevention of Health Disparities. The new 2,500-square-foot center, the first new construction on the college’s campus since 2005, will be a hub for research on health disparities within urban communities.
