Diverse Issues in Higher Education

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Articles in August 23, 2007 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• The City College of New York and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have received a $1.36 million grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program for a joint study of the effectiveness of near-infrared
• Diverse poll
• Moving forward: for some faculty displaced by Hurricane Katrina, relocating has been a mixed blessing, but others still long for home
  by Lydia Lum
• Marquette University
• Closing the African-American Achievement Gap in Higher Education
  by Angela P. Dodson
• College prep for tykes
  by Emily Wilson
• Pomona College has received a $250,060 grant from the California Educational Facilities Authority to support Pomona's Summer Scholars Enrichment Program
• Houston Community College
• Native role models for native students
  by David Coronel
• The secrets behind their success: attracting and graduating minorities in large numbers, for-profit universities offer access, convenience and some risk
  by Paul Ruffins
• University System of Maryland
• Asian and Pacific Islander students in California say 'count us correctly'
  by Margaret Kamara
• On the big screen: poor us
  by Margaret Kamara
• Miami Dade College has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to help draw students into the science, technology, engineering and math fields
• University of Texas
• A deafening silence
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Diverse digits
• The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has received a three-year, $587,104 grant from the Health Resources Services Administration to fired the development of a new residency-training program
• Disappearing acts: the vanishing Black male on community college campuses
  by Lorenzo L. Esters
• Making 'equal opportunity' work for everyone
  by Lloyd Hansen
• Replacing rhetoric with research: two scholars with ties to the University of Chicago aim to shed light on Black life in the 21st century
  by Susan E. Smith
• Harvard University
• The College of Dupage has received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Community-Based Job Training Grant Program to create a bridge program for nursing students
• A conversation with Joyce Wong
  by Lydia Lum
• Letters From the Future: Linking Students and Teaching with the Diversity of Everyday Life
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Diverse calendar
• Georgia Gwinnett College
• Unleashing Suppressed Voices on College Campuses: Diversity Issues in Higher Education
  by Angela P. Dodson
• NCAA Committee addresses the issue of pregnancy in student-athletes
  by Lois Elfman
• Stop snitchin' start studying
  by Margaret Kamara
• The University of California, Riverside has received a $960,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund 12 graduate fellowships for underrepresented minorities studying math, engineering and science
• North Carolina State University
• A proud graduate
  by C. Collins
• Republican candidates offer few new ideas on education: school vouchers are a perennial favorite, but higher education ideas are lacking
  by Charles Dervarics
• California State University-Dominguez Hills
• The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Brown University , Rhode Island public schools and community organizations
• Fight or flight: Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats
  by Jamal Watson
• Compensating for the inadequacy of public schools
  by Donald H. Smith
• A gift of presidential proportions: nobody understood why Bruce King took a job at the University of South Dakota. But the decision may have saved his life
  by Ibram Rogers
• Winston-Salem State University
• Is right the new left? An analysis of Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the Seattle and Louisville cases
  by Kendra Hamilton