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Articles in Feb 21, 2008 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Getting to know Dr. David Ikard
  by Pearl Stewart
• Community college by choice: two-year colleges are increasingly serving high-achieving students, while at the same time, trying to avoid mission creep
  by David Pluviose
• Winston-Salem State University
• New York City College of Technology/Cuny has received a $29,959 grant from the Humanities Grants for Faculty at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment program of the National Endowment for the Humanities
• A new stream of scholars
  by Sharon Watson Fluker
• Suffering the borrowing blues: proprietary schools likely to be most affected by lenders' retreat from high-risk student loans, officials say
  by Charles Dervarics
• U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
• The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C., has awarded $40 million to Duke University to create more than 30 new faculty positions
• Correction
• The new genealogy: it's leading Americans to discover their multiracial roots
  by Ronald Roach
• Xavier University
• Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College $20,000
• Cover letters that talk
• King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Montgomery College
• Virginia State University has received a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support a Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions program
• All in the family
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• What works! How one community college gave displaced factory workers the confidence to enroll
  by Eugenia Miranda
• Johnson C. Smith University
• Cleveland State University's Nance College of Business Administration has been awarded $150,000 from the Key Foundation to create the KeyBank Student Managed Investment Fund
• Beyond diversity training: diversity and equity work require taking action
  by James Ewers
• A second chance
  by Alice R. Smith
• Stalemate persists over American Indian remains at UC Museum: native groups want more control over repatriation process
  by Ibram Rogers
• University of Arizona
• The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research
• Library of Congress receives historic addition
• A month of discoveries: Black History month brings out the best publishers have to offer
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Savannah State University
• The University of Utah has received software valued at $21.2 million from Landmark
• Junior colleges can't be left behind
  by Richard Kitson-Walters
• Descendant of University of Missouri founder creates slavery atonement fund: endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States
  by Jamal Watson
• Duke University
• The Florida Institute of Technology has received $5 million from the Harris Corporation Charitable Fund to create the Harris Institute for Assured Information
• Spectrum's own 'Emergency Teacher'
• On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Texas A&M University
• Wellesley College has received a $150,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation's Summer Stipend Program in the Sciences
• Diverse digits
• Hispanics bearing the brunt of xenophobia: resentment of undocumented immigrants has become a major part of the political agenda from national presidential races to local elections
  by Peter Galuszka
• The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge, has received a $10,000 donation from alumnus Peter M. Leonhardt
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