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Articles in May 4, 2006 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• The California Institute of Arts has received a $5 million gift from Richard Seaver, chairman of the Hydril Co., a machinery manufacturing company
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education
• Report: college access for low-income minorities could get worse
• Georgetown University
• Princeton University has received a $101 million gift from trustee and 1955 graduate Peter B. Lewis
• Stanford University Law School has received a $20 million gift from William H. Neukom, a 1967 graduate of the school and chairman of the law firm Preston, Gates & Ellis
• France will continue to mirror apartheid-era South Africa, says law professor
• Ashland University has received a $5 million gift from Dwight C. Schar, chairman and CEO of NVR, a homebuilding and mortgage-banking company
• The University of Florida's College of Design, Construction and Planning has received $1 million from the Marshall E. Rinker Sr. Foundation
• For missing civil rights hero, a degree at last: in a final salute, University of Missouri School of Law honors first Black applicant
  by Christina Asquith
• Texas A&M University-Commerce
• The Association of African Universities has received a three-year $118,500 grant from the Carnegie Foundation to establish a new unit in Africa
• Minority coaches on the move in high-profile basketball programs
  by Frank J. Matthews
• U.S. minority culture course requirement debated at Penn: some faculty feel proposed course serves political rather than academic interests
  by Ronald Roach
• La Sierra University has received a $5 million gift from Weldon and Joan Schumacher to help pay for new science buildings on campus
• Reaching a fever pitch
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Corporate recruiters criticize UW-Madison's lack of diversity
• John Hope Franklin a symposium: a legacy of excellence: embracing the traditions of Dr. John Hope Franklin
• Events
• Bush signs bill awarding Tuskegee Airmen Congressional Gold Medal
  by David Pluviose
• Towson University
• Louisiana higher education officials to reorganize state's technical colleges
  by Scott Dyer
• DR. G. Pritchy Smith
• Ramapo College of New Jersey has received a $2.5 million gift from Richard and Millicent Anisfield to support the construction of a new building for the university's business school
• R. Benjamin Wiley Partnership Program for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
• The Executive Leadership Council has received $2.1 million from IBM to fund the second phase of the council's Technology Transfer Project
• Manning the ship: more male scholars are showing up in women's studies departments, but experts are hesitant to call it a trend just yet
  by Shilpa Banerji
• Foundation for Independent Higher Education
• Kansas State University has received a $4.3 million bequest from Mary Jarvis, a 1942 graduate of the university
• University of Virginia, Black colleges plan student exchange
• Wellesley College has received a $2.7 million bequest from Virginia Webbert, a 1935 graduate of the college
• Future uncertain for Howard pharmacy students: accreditation body puts program on probation
  by David Pluviose
• Kalamazoo College
• Meharry Medical College
• I poll
• For illegal college students, an uncertain future
  by Dina M. Horwedel
• Urban Studies and Public Service at Cleveland State University
• Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has received a $1.5 million gift from Barbara Lee to endow the Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series
• Study details how U.S. can lessen foreign oil dependency
  by Ronald Roach
• House votes to reauthorize higher education act: party-line vote rejects several Democratic provisions to sharply contested bill
  by David Pluviose
• Lakeland Community College
• College of Education at California State University-Dominguez Hills
• Howard University has received a $100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Is a new civil rights movement emerging?
  by Kevin Johnson
• Wayne State to receive first known hydrogen fuel cell police car
  by Ronald Roach