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Articles in August 7, 2008 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Education Department launches effort to simplify aid formula
  by Phuong Ly
• Getting to know Chia Youyee Vang
  by Lydia Lum
• AKAs celebrate 100 years of sisterhood and service
• On DiverseEducation.com: meet the bloggers
• Institute for Higher Education Policy
• Montgomery College
• Pace University
• Nova Southeastern University's Law School
• California State University, Monterey Bay, has received a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help students in need of academic support
• California State University, San Bernardino, has received a $50,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to provide services to low-income, minority, disabled women and/or women-owned businesses through its Inland Empire Women's Business Center program
• Florida State University has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to buy a state-of-the-art robotic electron microscope to advance cutting-edge studies
• Fresno State University has received an $80,000 gift from alumnus Tom Dynjan and his wife, Helen, to establish the Tom F. and Helen Dynjan Endowment Fund to support Fresno State's Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute
• Howard University's Division of Nursing has received a $750,000 gift from the Helene Fuld Health Trust for student scholarships
• Teachers College at Columbia University has received a $5 million gift from the GE Foundation to partner with 10 public schools in Harlem
• The University of Maryland's David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora
• The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa has received a $12 million grant from the George Kaiser Family Foundation for its endowment to fund faculty salaries
• Webster University has received a $1 million gift
• 2008 Ad
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Corrections
• Raising a flag of resistance
• 2008 Ad
• Keeping the tradition alive: the relatively low percentage of Black students in jazz studies programs remains a topic of interest as scholars want to ensure that the musical culture of an earlier generation of African-Americans lives on
  by Garry Boulard
• Staying true to its mission: celebrating 40 years, the tribal college movement remains committed to sustaining native culture, language and community, officials say
  by Mary Annette Pember
• 2008 Ad
  by Lydia Lum
• New survey helps community colleges focus up front: the Survey of Entering Student Engagement is deepening community colleges' understanding of students' earliest collegiate experiences
  by Angela Oriano-Darnall
• Summer reading for the teachers: a little variety to stretch the mind—gently
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Winston-Salem State University has received a $50,000 grant
• Diverse calendar
• More than gatekeepers: high school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets
  by Omar M. Cook
• Pell Grant one of few winners in 2009 budget: despite work on education spending bill, Congress unlikely to complete work until after general election
  by Charles Dervarics