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Articles in Nov 30, 2006 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• North Carolina Central University has received a $2.3 million grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation to support the construction of the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise Center for Excellence
• Cultivating 'new achievers': experts say K-12 teachers who adopt 'culturally relevant' teaching strategies can engage minority students and prime them for higher education
  by Marc Hequet
• A two-year, $100,000 grant from the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati will help the University of Cincinnati establish a new Center for Jewish Education on campus
• Legal matters
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Still publish or perish: laws schools increasingly choose scholarship over practical experience when identifying instructors
  by Tracie Powell
• Achieving K-12 School Diversity without considering race
  by Eboni S. Nelson
• Maryland: unconcerned about its HBCUS?
  by Bryant Newmuis
• The death of a diversity alliance: when foundation funding dried out, so did a Florida college coalition's diversity initiatives
  by Blair S. Walker
• The University Of California, Los Angeles has received a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to study how justice is administered in American Indian communities
• Clarification
• North Carolina A&T State University
• New Mexico State University's College of Education has received a four-year, $800,000 grant
• Acknowledging the legacy of slavery
  by Mark Whitaker
• TIAA-CREF conference examines higher ed access: Administrators search for funding alternatives as government aid dwindles
  by Jamal Watson
• Duke University has received a $200,000 donation from J. Kevin Kenny Jr., to help endow the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
• Spicy poetry
• University of Texas
• Getting to the truth: legal scholars struggle to understand the impediments to minority success in large law firms
  by Ronald Roach
• Xavier University of Louisiana has received a $100,000 gift from the family of former trustee Evelyn Landis Christman
• Michigan Higher Ed leaders look beyond proposal 2
  by Reginald Stuart
• The University of Texas at El Paso has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Defense to establish the Center for Defense Systems Research
• Boosting minority ranks in the U.S. Foreign Service: a State Department-Howard University program aimed at training minorities for diplomatic duties overseas bears fruit
  by Jamal Watson
• Planting the seeds of interest: Northwest Vista College's robotics program preps children for science careers
  by Angela Timmons
• Diverse poll
• Los Angeles Unified School District
• South Texas College has received a three-year, $798,640 grant
• Saving the earth while they sleep
• Mountain State University School of Leadership and Professional Development
• FAMU Kappas' first to face felony hazing charges under new Florida law
  by Paul Ruffins
• UNITY: Journalists of Color Inc
• CSUN documentary directed by students, starring professors
• An Ethnic Studies evolutions: a new generation of Mexican and Mexican-American students is turning the tide of Chicana/o studies programs in unexpected new directions
  by Garry Boulard
• Scholars debate effectiveness of single-sex classes: girls clearly benefit, but some educators fear such classes will simply warehouse Black boys
  by Kenneth J. Cooper
• African-Americans and American Indians, a shared history
• The power of Oprah
  by Deborah Turner-Lewis
• New York City College of Technology
• ACE conference: more research needed on experiences of minority women leaders
  by Molly Nance
• Texas Southern University
• In his own word: Dr. Edward Brent
• North Carolina A&T State University
• Yale University has received a $57.3 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health as part of a national initiative to increase the speed that research moves from the laboratory to patients
• New Congress expected to give education higher profile: initiatives plan to improve college access and affordability
  by Charles Dervarics
• Deal or no deal? Tribal colleges are a convenient and affordable option for many non-Native students, but the benefits don't necessarily go both ways
  by Mary Annette Pember
• Diverse digits
• American Association for Affirmative Action
• Diverse calendar
• Job Corps national director lays out higher education agenda
  by David Pluviose
• Questions of conduct: the popularity of social networking Web sites is shedding light on the increasing complexities of policing student behavior on campus while respecting their rights to privacy and free speech
  by Michael Lindenberger