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Articles in Oct 18, 2007 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• What works! How Spelman College boosted alumni-giving participation
• Ambidexterity: the University of Texas at El Paso is a unique incubator for bilingual and multilingual students, who are increasingly being sought after by employers in a global economy
  by Peter Galuszka
• Florida Gulf Coast University
• California State University, Northridge has been awarded $80,000 from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
• Higher education must fill the void in student financial management: this fall, thousands of college students started a new chapter in their lives. I can't think of a better decision they could have made, because a college degree is an absolute necessity
  by Robert R. Jennings
• A sacrifice for all Americans
  by Lupe S. Salinas
• New test prep services cater to minority students
  by Tracy Chait
• Man on a mission: amid turnaround effort, new FAMU President James H. Ammons keeps focus on Black males
  by David Pluviose
• North Carolina A&T State University
• The New England Conservatory has been awarded $357,000
• "I put them on notice: they either give, get or get off."
• On equality, Obama tells HBCU students: "we have more work to do"
  by Cassie Chew
• Web site offers college consumers one-stop comparison shop
• Brigman Young University has received a $320,000 grant
• Yale University's medical school has been awarded a grant renewal of $7 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue research on alcoholism
• Diversity efforts in the works
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• High-tech help on the way: both chambers of Congress have passed a technology bill for MSIs. Now they need to bridge their differences to bridge the digital divide at MSIs
  by Charles Dervarics
• Counting on a more diverse workforce: with a new corporate recruitment program in place, auditing firm Deloitte & Touche reaches out to minority students with the lure of scholarships, training and mentoring
  by Cassie M. Chew
• University of Colorado-Boulder
• The Johns Hopkins University has received an award of more than $100 million, which will be spread over five years, to initiate the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
• Where's the outrage?
  by Paula Matabane
• Columbia University's Institute of African Studies reopens under new leadership
  by Jamal Watson
• Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Emory University
• The University Of California, Los Angeles has received $20 million from billionaire Eli Broad for stem cell research
• Clark Atlanta University boasts a top 10 motto
• Champions of civil rights and educational equity
• Music industry group resumes anti-piracy campaign on college campuses
  by Ronald Roach
• Pomona College
• The University of Washington received a $50 million donation
• Diverse digits
• Campaigning for college: Texas' closing the gaps initiative pays close attention to the demographics of its growing minority communities
  by Ronald Roach
• Vance Granville Community College
• Columbia University has received a $2 million grant from the Spencer Foundation to create the Spencer Fellowship for Education Reporting in Columbia's journalism graduate school
• Delving into African heritage
  by E.K. Daufin
• HBCU football teams get a shot at big paydays, national exposure
  by Frank J. Matthews
• Diverse calendar
• Maryville University
• Norfolk State University has been awarded a $50,000 endowment from the Beazley Foundation Inc. to establish the Beazley Foundation Scholarship Fund
• Getting to know Dr. Gregory Chan
  by Lydia Lum
• Community College aims to be first to sponsor presidential debate
  by David Pluviose
• Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Baton Rouge Community College
• The University of Missouri, Kansas City has been given $2.5 million from the Muriel McBrien Kauffmann Foundation to expand the university's Conservatory of Music and Dance
• Beyond the endowing of professorships: whether donating $100 or $100 million to colleges and universities, benefactors often have unique ideas about how their funds are to be used. Here are a few interesting ones
• Cornell's African degree program creates new model for international educational cooperation
  by Paul Ruffins
• Ethical Leadership in the Community College: Bridging Theory and Daily Practice
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Palm Beach County Community College's Boca Raton
• The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has received the largest corporate gift in the institution's history, $30 million, from Harrah's Entertainment, a casino giant