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Articles in Feb 8, 2007 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Black college leadership under scrutiny
  by Eugene A. Eaves
• A global exchange: study abroad programs to Africa teach American students an appreciation for the continent and the resiliency of its people
  by Dana Forde
• Sarah Lawrence College
• The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a five-year, $5.5 million grant to California State University-Northridge, Harvard University, the University of Southern California and the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national labs to investigate corrosion
• Overshadowed: although generally not included in newspaper accounts or history books, a number of Asian Americans were heavily involved in the Black Panthers
  by Lydia Lum
• Getting to know Dr. James T. Minor
  by Christina Asquith
• For-profit schools popular destination for minorities
  by Charles Pekow
• 'They are starting to pay attention': President Ronald Mason talks about how Jackson State University is raising its profile
• Grambling State University
• The University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley will use a $750,000 grant from NASA to conduct a joint experiment aimed at detecting life on Mars
• Diverse poll
• In the name of diversity: the departure of a popular Hispanic professor at Stanford spurs debate on whether universities should offer extra incentives to retain minority faculty
  by Veronica Mendoza
• Empowering the Black masses: book chronicles civil rights, Black power movements in America's 'first capital.'
  by Yohuru Williams
• Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $25 million each to Butler University and Purdue University to improve pharmacy education, outreach and research at the two institutions
• American Indians should boycott racist colleges and universities
  by Harold Monteau
• New college access campaign teaches students to 'KnowHow2GO'
  by Dianne Hayes
• Southern University
• The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial has received separate $1 million contributions from CIGNA, Shell Oil Company and the Verizon Foundation to aid in the construction of the memorial on the National Mall
• Resuscitating MLK/Drew: suffering from years of neglect and mismanagement, the termination of the medical center's doctor-training program has wider implications surrounding the production of minority physicians and the overall health of the local communi
  by David Pluviose
• Translating disabilities in foreign countries
• Four-year Universities: HBCU presidential salary survey, 2006-2007
• Baltimore City Community College
• Diverse calendar
• Power to the People
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Minority-serving institutions find new technology advocates: tech funding is one of several higher ed bills before Congress
  by Charles Dervarics
• Celebrating: black history month
• Bowie State University
• Using technology to recruit a diverse student body
  by Arlene Cash
• Report: employers say college graduates lack essential skills to succeed in today's global economy
  by Shilpa Banerji
• Connecticut College
• Johnson C. Smith University has received grants from Coca-Cola and the Merancas Foundation to support the university's Saturday Academy, an outreach program with local elementary schools
• Diverse digits
• Compensating the president: executive salaries at public black colleges and universities
  by Olivia Majesky-Pullman
• Wells College
• The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Diversity brings in the dollars
• The journey for Jackson State: a source of pride for its community, this HBCU has emerged as a research and public service leader in Mississippi
  by Ronald Roach
• University of Delaware
• 'Wake up everybody' to save Black boys: watching a generation disappear is not an option
  by James Ewers
• Book of note: a history of black women in the ivory tower
  by Stephanie Y. Evans
• Regaining a lost heritage: can a simple procedure unlock African-Americans' genetic history? Or is DNA tracing just an expensive waste of time?
  by Toni Coleman
• University of Puget Sound