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

• North Carolina Central University has received a $100,000 donation from the Meldrum Family Foundation to launch the Christopher S. Meldrum Chemistry Scholarship Fund
• Diverse poll
• The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois will use a $500 million grant from energy firm BP to create the Energy Biosciences Institute
• A perfect 10?
  by Marlon A. Walker
• Grambling State University
• Leading the diversity charge at UT
  by John Egan
• The Center for the Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University has received a three-year, $550,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support the center's goals of improving diversity in U.S. newsrooms
• Degree discrimination? India's three-year undergraduate degrees seem to provide a solid academic foundation, but there's no consensus among U.S. graduate schools
  by Anita Nahal
• Access to college means access to economic mobility for America's underserved
  by Kathleen Waldron
• Technology usage at a glance
• The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Higher Education for Development Program have awarded $400,000 to the Rochester Institute of Technology and $350,000 to Arizona State University to further partnerships with universities in Kosovo
• Diverse digits
• Winston-Salem State University
• Tribal colleges fight to retain federal funding: unaffected by federal cuts, HBCUs and HSIs rally on behalf of tribal colleges
  by Charles Dervarics
• Purdue University
• Duke's devil of a mess: with the rape case against three Duke lacrosse players unraveling, a group of Black faculty are now accused of rushing to judgment
  by Christina Asquith
• Diverse calendar
• Michigan proposal 2 battle threatens scholarships: affirmative action ban collides with wishes of some scholarship donors
  by Natalie Y. Moore
• Duke University
• Prairie View A&M University has received a $32,000 donation from Shell Oil Co. to support the university's engineering program
• An unpredictable turn of events
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the United Negro College Fund will split $1 million from the Siemens Foundation as part of the Siemens Teacher Scholarships Program
• Demystifying the process: ETS and HBCUs work together to improve the Praxis passage rates of Black students
  by Angela P. Dodson
• University of Louisville
• Remembering a Genius
• Spelman College has received a $175,000 gift from Elder Bernice A. King and Home Depot Inc. to endow the Be A King Scholarship in honor of her mother, the late Coretta Scott King
• Digging out of the digital divide: scholar and entrepreneur Randal Pinkett discusses how far America still must go to achieve technological equality
  by Peter Galuszka
• Bowie State University
• Providing $100k grants to seven Black colleges, Tom Joyner Foundation encourages the recruitment, retention of minority teachers
  by Dianne Hayes
• Pennsylvania State University
• Expanding access: with the United States lagging behind other industrialized nations in broadband Internet service, one public-minded firm proposes a radical plan
  by Ronald Roach
• California State University-Northridge
• Scholars gather for State of the Black Union
• Kellogg Community College
• A real fear: it's more than stage fright. Math anxiety can derail academic or professional success. But some scholars are working to help students get over it
  by Paul Ruffins