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Articles in April 19, 2007 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City
• San Francisco State University has received a $100,000 gift from social activist Paul Louie to create a new scholarship to help fund educationally disadvantaged students at the university
• Protecting the traditions of HBCUs
  by Dee Bailey-Gittens
• Howard faculty demand new president: faculty Senate Council says fiscal mismanagement is hurting the academic quality of the university
  by Dianne Hayes
• Burnham Institute for Medical Research has received more than $6 million in funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• Corrections & clarifications
• An unusual suspect: often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals
  by Lydia Lum
• Essex County College has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help increase enrollment, graduation and transfer rates for minority students in the science, technology, engineering and math fields
• Conveying a simple, yet difficult message: how Whitman College officials and student-leaders moved swiftly to prevent a racial incident from dividing the campus
  by George S. Bridges
• Diverse poll
• New Congress more amenable to the DREAM Act
  by Charles Dervarics
• Diverse digits
• Howard University has received a $1 million donation from Daimler-Chrysler to fund new scholarships at the university
• The United Negro College Fund has received a $1 million gift from Exxon Mobil to support UNCF's programs
• Racism is racism
  by Jim Charles
• Accommodating Picky Palates: while there remains disagreement over the prevalence of the "Freshman 15," college health and dining officials are trying to help students wade through many; convoluted nutritional choices
  by Lydia Lum
• The Christopher Family Foundation has awarded a $1 million gift to the Chicago Project, an international consortium led by the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Spring clean your plate, but choose wisely
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Putting ghetto on blast
  by Christina Asquith
• California State University-Northridge
• Shaw University has received a $5 million gift from John Mack, the CEO of Morgan Stanley
• Just focus on the facts
  by Tamela Blalock
• FAMU's fiscal fumblings: frustrated Florida legislators threaten to withhold state funding if institution doesn't clean up finances soon
  by Marlon A. Walker
• Austin College has received a $2.5 million gift from alum John Q. Adams Sr. and his wife, Vicki
• Smarties turn to idiots for guidance
• A one-stop shop: funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information
  by Ronald Roach
• Princeton University
• Iraq is bad … but what about urban America?
• Bennett College
• Real-life heroes
• Elizabeth City State University