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Articles in Nov 17, 2005 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Air Force coach under fire for comments on minority players
• Hagerstown Community College received a $37,245 grant from the Verizon Foundation to purchase 40 laptop computers and two storage carts
• Santa Clara University recruiting students with blogs
• The University of North Texas received a grant of $500,000 from the Noyce Foundation to support the UNT Science and Mathematics Robert Noyce Scholarship Program
• Remembering Rosa Parks, 1913-2005
• Pew report: Latinos more likely than Blacks, Whites to attend the largest public high schools
• Cultural collisions: the relationship between international teaching assistants and American students can often be challenging—tips to ease the tension
  by Anita Nahal
• Savannah State University
• The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management received a $225,000 grant from the SBC Foundation
• The Lumina Foundation for Education granted $28.9 million to six organizations in support of their work with Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, particularly students of col
• A quiet crisis: conference highlights higher education disparities between Latino men and women
  by Patrick Harris
• Hip-hop video game tour targeting Black colleges
• Columbia College
• Events
• UNC-Chapel Hill opens up records about ties to slavery
• Tommie Smith, John Carlos sculpture unveiled at San Jose State University
• Katrina relief continues
• Blogging with Blackprof.com: Black professors launch Internet blog to discuss race, law and culture
  by Ronald Roach
• Central State University
• Georgia's only HBCU engineering program fighting closure: Clark Atlanta University says program would be too costly to bring up to accreditation standards
• National Association of Black Accountants received a $25,000 grant from Tyson Foods Inc. to support various NABA events in 2006 at the local and national levels
• College price increases moderate, but reliance on borrowing still rising
• The pivotal role of women
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• The ticking of the biological and tenure clocks: Princeton University institutes new policy, placing the school at the forefront of family-friendly workplaces
  by Patricia Valdata
• Community College
• The City College of New York received a five-year $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health through the Research Centers for Minority Institutions initiative
• Old electronics from America, Europe fuel toxic crisis in Africa
  by Ronald Roach
• Study: gender, race gap still exists in sports front offices, sidelines: WNBA receives top marks for opportunities for women and minorities
• Alcorn State first to receive endowment money from Ayers settlement
• University of San Diego
• Government questions effectiveness of STEM expenditures
• Duke University
• Kentucky State University received a $137,143 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service to support the rehabilitation/restoration of Jackson Hall, the oldest building on KSU's campus
• Michigan State professor wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
• Stetson University Tampa Law Center
• The Juilliard School received a $25 million grant from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation. The gift will be added to Juilliard's $150 million "Second Century Fund" capital campaign
• Rice University
• The New Teacher Academy, part of Columbia University's Teachers College Innovations, received a grant of $350,000 from Jones New York In The Classroom Inc., a not-for-profit corporation formed earlier this year for the purpose of supporting teachers and i
• UMass study ranks Delaware first, Louisiana last for work environment
• Why are 90 percent of college faculty still White?
  by Pauline E. Kayes
• Delaware State University's Applied Optics Center received $630,000 from the U.S. Defense Department to establish a multi-disciplinary research collaboration project with cancer researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia
• Coppin State, Hampton named among top wireless schools
  by Ronald Roach
• Skidmore College
• The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc. received $1 million from Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas to help build a King memorial in the nation's capital
• University of Maryland Eastern Shore aims to start first golf degree at HBCU
• John Hope Franklin publishes memoirs of life
• Flying standby: the life of an adjunct professor can be rewarding but uncertain
  by Crystal L. Keels
• Morehead State University
• Jane Ann Williams is the new director of education and training for multicultural affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• The race for diverse talent: a shared interest
  by Edie Fraser
• Diversity officers—coming to a campus near you? From diversifying the curriculum to the faculty, these senior-level administrators are taking on unprecedented roles
  by Shilpa Banerji
• University of Georgia Terry College of Business wins first place in 2005 National Black MBA Association competition
• Fiscal strains force Xavier University to cut programs, faculty
• ECS reprinted report highlights continued need to improve student learning
• Princeton University offers 'Vodcasting'
• Yale Divinity School
• The Winston-Salem State University Center for Community Safety received a $550,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase the capacity of small faith- and community-based organizations to work with at-risk youth
• College faculty more confident regarding retirement savings than general working population, survey finds
• D i poll
• Student looks to open Latino fraternity at Iowa State University
• Arkansas med school uses breast cancer technology to reduce repeat surgeries
• The Yale School of Medicine has received a $10 million four-year grant from the National Institutes on Child Health and Human Development
• Getting off the burnout track? For "freeway faculty," new models of work could be an escape route—or a roadblock
  by Kendra Hamilton