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Parry, Marc – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
As the federal government prepares to pour billions of stimulus dollars into increased broadband Internet access, colleges are trying to claim much of the money and shape the emerging national networking policy. Their focus is $4.7-billion that will be doled out under a new grant program administered by a small Commerce Department agency called…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Telecommunications, Internet, Grants
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Defense Department contracts to colleges, universities, and other non-profit organizations were for research, development, testing, and evaluation for military projects and for civilian water-resource projects. A list of those with contracts of $500,000 or more is presented. (MLW)
Descriptors: Colleges, Contracts, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Jacobson, Robert L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Foreign language teachers' organization leaders criticize the ideas and planning behind a privately-funded National Foreign Language Center, charging that: they were not adequately involved in its preparation, adult language education would be overemphasized, the funds could be used otherwise, and a tendency toward a single language education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Federal Programs, Higher Education
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Four investors have committed $8.5 million to start companies based on discoveries made at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory. It may be the first venture-capital fund to market products flowing from a federal laboratory. Graduate student volunteers are doing most of the development work. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cooperative Programs, Federal Programs, Fund Raising
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Implications of the Higher Education Amendments are summarized regarding student aid, facilities, child care, libraries, community development, continuing and cooperative education, developing institutions, disadvantaged students, education research and development, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, graduate education,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education, Day Care