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Articles in Dec 15, 2005 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• iDpoll
• Southern Illinois University begins talks over fellowship dispute
• University of Michigan selling 1843 mansion that once sheltered fleeing slaves
• Idaho researchers develop language for underwater robots
• New Mexico State University
• Bronx Community College received a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement a new Energy Services Technology associate degree program
• The University of Central Florida has received $12.5 million and 50 acres of land valued at more than $8 million from the Tavistock Group, a private investment company, to establish the UCF Healthcare Campus at Lake Nona
• Culture clashes in the South
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• New Orleans' Black colleges prepare to reopen in January: Dillard, Xavier awarded $2 million grants from Bush Foundation for recovery efforts
  by Scott Dyer
• University of South Carolina, Claflin University to partner on HIV/AIDS, cancer initiative: institutions to share $7.5 million grant from federal health disparities agency
• Right person, right time: as chancellor of Fayetteville State University, Dr. T.J. Bryan leads the University of North Carolina System's second oldest institution with confidence, energy and accessibility
  by Eleanor Lee Yates
• Citrus College
• Pomona College
• North Carolina Central University received a $1.5 million grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation as part of a "Capital Equipment for Teaching Laboratories" project for the Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center of
• Correction
• Colorado University police investigating racist hate letter sent to student leader
• FBI taps UC Berkeley students for minority recruitment campaign
• Publisher launches Black health portal
• Houston Community College System
• The Alabama State University College of Education received a $30,000 grant from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
• The University of California, Los Angeles School Management Program has received grants from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the California Community Foundation for a combined total of $244,913
• Higher education associations provide tool to assess commitment to campus diversity
  by Cassie Chew
• North Carolina Central University votes to move to Division I
• Southern hospitality: new research examines the racial inequities that still plague higher education institutions in the South
  by Kendra Hamilton
• Is the Department of Justice at war with diversity?
  by Julianne Malveaux
• Houston Community College
• The National Council for Community and Education Partnerships received a $5 million grant from the SBC Foundation to support college access programs for students from low-income communities
• Stopping the raid on student aid: higher education leaders call on lawmakers to use Pell Grant surplus to expand the program, rather than divert funds to other projects
  by Charles Dervarics
• Hispanic, diversity-based Greek organizations raising cultural awareness on campus
• Alcorn State's benefits from Ayers fund begin
• eBay founder establishes microfinance partnership with Tufts University
• Paterson University
• City College of New York received a $26 million gift from Andrew S. Grove, a member of the class of 1960 and a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corp
• Winston-Salem State University received $1.25 million
• Taking exception
  by Gerald Horne
• George Mason University team offers counseling services to Katrina victims
• Miles College president Rev. Albert J. Sloan dead at 62
• Hopkins to launch new graduate program in nanotechnology
  by Ronald Roach
• Camden County College
• The African Virtual University and the Open University received a $900,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation to support the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa initiative
• Texas Tech University received a $1 million grant
• House Committee approves welfare reauthorization package
  by Charles Pekow
• College graduation rates moving to top of agenda for education leaders, policy-makers
• Swept into the background: scholars say that distrust of government officials by Vietnamese hurricane evacuees may have had its roots in the Black community
  by Lydia Lum
• Preparing our students for financial responsibility
  by Clive Muir
• Tuskegee University
• Elizabeth City State University received a three-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the college's "Textbook and Learning Materials Program."
• Making academia less 'toxic'
  by Thomas Landefeld
• Ranks of millionaire college presidents rise
• University of Delaware leads public universities in study abroad participation
• Bay state Bravado: should he be successful in his bid for governor, former assistant attorney general for civil rights Deval Patrick has plans to improve public higher education in a state known for its elite private institutions
  by Ronald Roach
• Ann Armstrong has been named executive director of the Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation at Teachers College, Columbia University and president of Teachers College Innovations
• Syracuse University
• The Southern University College of Engineering received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Navy to enable the college to fabricate advanced water reactors
• GAO study: loan repayment imperfect science
  by Charles Pekow
• New Web site provides resources on HIV education and prevention
• ACT selected to develop framework for new national writing test
• BellSouth Foundation to donate $20 million to virtual learning
• Northern Virginia Community College's Alexandria
• Cleveland State University received a $1.3 million grant from the National Center on Minority and Health Disparities, an arm of the National Institutes of Health
• Events
• Lawsuit challenging 'No Child Left Behind' thrown out
• American Indian Law courses headed to University of Richmond
• MIT report: army recruiting fewer blacks
• Rhode Island to build statewide wireless network
• Southern University Marching Band
• Duke University has received a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an advanced wireless sensor network that can measure, model and predict biophysical changes in the forest environment
• Lost in the shuffle: the critical role of community colleges
  by Timothy D. Leinbach