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Articles in Sept 23, 2004 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education

• North Carolina Central University was awarded a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for science education and undergraduate research, to enhance science and mathematics programming
• Bennett College has received a $102,735 grant from the U.S. Department of Education
• Prevent spam filters from blocking legitimate e-mail
  by Reid Goldsborough
• Morris Brown employee sentenced in visa scheme involving illegal immigrants
• Failing our black children
  by Phillip Jackson
• Virginia State University
• I poll: following are the results from the Aug. 26, 2004, edition's poll question posted on the Black Issues Web site
• Utah College whistleblowers file lawsuit
• Arthur Ashe commemorative stamp unveiled at U.S. Open
• Prairie view A&M University campus voting site denied
• Bush offers glimpse of a second-term education agenda
  by Charles Dervarics
• California State University, Northridge has received a two-ear $300,000 grant for a innovative new program
• Jamaica to provide internet access in its poor communities
  by Ronald Roach
• Elizabeth City State offers new birth-to-kindergarten degree program
• University of Florida
• Robert W. Woodruff Library
• Appeals court oks disclosure suit against Connerly group
• Something special taking root: orchid deal helps University of Maryland Eastern Shore generate revenue, expand academic programs and foster regional economic growth
  by Crystal L. Keels
• Search engines essential to internet, study finds
  by Ronald Roach
• Events
• The California State University, Dominguez Hills Orthotics and Prosthetics program received a $575,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense
• Survey unveils high-tech ownership profile of American college students: ninety percent of students own computers
  by Ronald Roach
• National underground railroad freedom center dedicated in Cincinnati
• North Carolina University
• Xavier University first HBCU to join Peace Corps Fellows/USA program
• Women's groups speak out against Michigan 2006 affirmative action measure: Ward Connerly main financial backer in anti-affirmative action effort
• Tribal leader calls for unity, voter participation to Native American students
• Student loan groups bilk billions out of U.S. government
  by M.H. Miller
• Delaware State University, along with three other major Delaware institutions of higher education and a health-care provider, have been awarded a $16.7 million grant from the Delaware idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence
• Minority test takers make significant gains on SAT: but achievement gap between White, minority students persists
  by Cassie Chew
• UT Austin creates new diversity position
• Paul R. Jones African American Art Collection Exhibits at University of Delaware
• Leaders urge schools to address 'culture of detachment' among students
• Report: uncertain future for African Americans despite past gains
• Monroe Community College and Rochester Institute of Technology were awarded a $624,386 National Institutes of Health
• Quinnipiac University
• Phalaenopsis John Hope Franklin
  by Crystal L. Keels
• AAUP protest barring of Muslim scholar
• Surging in the southeast: North Carolina HBCUs expected to play significant role in facilitating college access for the increasing Latino population in the region
  by Ronald Roach
• Shaw University
• Rallying around education
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Ottawa University announces new international partnership
• MIT names first woman president
• University of Kansas doctoral student researches 'dean of African American painters'