Diverse Issues in Higher Education

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Articles in Dec 27, 2007 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Course watch
• In memoriam
• Real estate developer Sonny Astani has donated $17 million to the University of Southern California, his alma mater, to advance the study of "megacities
• How the University of Texas Medical Branch responded to changing demographics
• California State Polytechnic University has received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to aid the university in producing more graduates specializing in cyber security
• Spelman College
• HACU honors champions of Hispanic higher education
• 2007 Ad
• The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded $1.2 MILLION in grants to promote public safety programs
• Who are for-profit colleges serving, and at what cost?
  by David Hawkins
• No Kung Fu poses, please
• Airing Dirty Laundry: Cosby and Poussaint's book stirs up a caldron of commentary pro and con
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Hampton University
• A 'new breed'
  by Robert McAnally
• Black, Brown and College Bound: annual conference focuses on boosting minority male higher ed attainment
  by David Pluviose
• Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of urban affairs center for health equity has received more than $900,000 in funds from the National Institutes of Health
• University of Texas-Pan American
• With friends like these…
  by E-K. Daufin
• Reveling in retirement: after two college presidencies, Dr. James Hefner is taking time to pursue his avocations, while still in demand within academia
  by Kendra Hamilton
• Temple University will receive a $2.4 million grant to encourage and prepare more of its science and mathematics majors to teach at the middle school and high school levels
• Diverse calendar
• UGA students to use mobile media to increase AIDS awareness
• Georgia HBCU Researches how to tenderize goat meat: changing "chewy" texture of the meat could position it as the nation's next health fad, researchers say
  by Herb Frazier
• Howard University Hospital
• Defining moments
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Black lawmakers urged to join earmark feast: despite presidential veto, earmarks are likely to stay and be accessible to minority-serving institutions under Democratic-controlled Congress
  by Charles Dervarics
• California State University, Northridge has received a $23,500 grant from the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance to provide seed money to student entrepreneurs and faculty to make prototypes of their ideas
• Camden County College
• Time for tough love?
  by Carolyn Vermont
• Growth in minority student enrollment gives rise to more MSIs
  by Michelle J. Nealy
• Johnson C. Smith University has received $1 MILLION from the Wachovia Foundation to expand the Wachovia Excellence Endowed Scholarship, which is currently funded at $90,000
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Black studies—still a priority
  by Wilfred Frye
• Report: minority doctoral recipients gaining momentum
• Norfolk State University has received a $100,000 endowment from NSU Board of Visitors member Gary T. McCollum and his wife Fredericka A. McCollum
• University of Texas-El Paso