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Articles in March 23, 2006 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Fattah higher ed conference attendees get full-ride grad school scholarships
  by David Pluviose
• Starting Anew: biding their time in out-of-state teaching positions, New Orleans faculty members are optimistic about a post-Katrina return to the 'Big Easy'
  by Lydia Lum
• Clark College
• Cameron University received $4 million from the McMahon Foundation as part of the university's Changing Lives campaign
• The University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication received a $10 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation to support the school's Project for Global Communication Studies
• Education gaps among U.S. hispanics stagnating economic progress: study shows Hispanics more likely to attend two-year colleges, but less likely than other ethnic groups to transfer to a four-year institution
  by David Pluviose
• Restructuring, restoring and rebuilding: with rivalries washed away in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans universities are sharing expertise and resources in order to survive
  by Kendra Hamilton
• Fullerton College
• Clemson University received a $1 million donation from the Wachovia Foundation to support two programs aimed at encouraging high school students to consider college
• The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University received a $4.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness
• Fostering a sense of unity and cooperative spirit
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Meharry president to assume presidency of Morehouse School of Medicine
• Office of Academic Support and Intercultural Services
• Lincoln University
• The Searle Fund has awarded a $5 million grant to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a collaboration of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago
• New book sheds light on the doctoral student experience
  by Ronald Roach
• Wayne State to open Biofuel Lab
• Media Lab
• Duke University's Fuqua School of Business received a $1 million donation from Jack Bovender, CEO of the HCA health care system in Nashville, Tenn
• The invisibility of the Black family during hurricane katrina
  by Lillian B. Poats
• Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks dies at age 93
• Covenant, convention and context
  by Julianne Malveaux
• Forsyth Technical Community College's Community & Economic Development Department
• North Carolina Central University has received a $164,000 grant from the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund to begin a tobacco use prevention and cessation program on campus
• High School Reform plan may cripple college programs: Bush plan would cut technical and vocational programs to fund high school initiative
  by Charles Dervarics
• NCAA hits 99 sports teams with academic penalties: HBCUs appear disproportionately affected by new rule
• Marygrove College
• Bucknell University will receive $416,640 to establish a wireless Internet network
• The University of the Ozarks received $20 million from Helen Walton, the widow of Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton
• Up and running: former AAHE Hispanic caucus strikes out on its own and sets an ambitious agenda
  by Frank L. Matthews
• Higher education software giants merge in multimillion-dollar deal
  by Ronald Roach
• Alabama A&M University
• Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism received a $194,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to train journalists to produce more accurate and nuanced reporting on race and ethnicity
• Events
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• Supreme Court upholds college military recruiting law
• Tarrant County College's South Campus
• Bowie State University
• Sarah Lawrence College received a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor to endow two scholarships in the Art of Teaching Program
• Wanted: the retention of female graduate students: Stanford follows MIT's lead and implements maternity policy for female graduate students; move recognizes challenges in retaining women in academia
  by Veronica P. Mendoza
• UMass offers science degrees for K-12 teachers
• University of New Haven
• Jackson State University's computer science department received 25 laptop computers and a $50,000 donation from State Farm Insurance's foundation
• Indiana University admissions plan will hurt minorities, says professor
• The Paradox of Black Male Initiatives
  by Kamau Bobb
• North Carolina A&T State University
• Miami University received a $4 million contribution from Thomas J. Petters, CEO and chairman of Petters Group Worldwide