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Articles in May 29, 2008 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Diverse digits
• Howard University
• Twelve faculty members at OHIO UNIVERSITY have been awarded a $124,000 grant by the Ohio University Research Committee and the University Post-Doctoral Fellow Program
• Diverse calendar
• University of Akron offers class on Black male issues
• Saint Xavier University
• Queensborough Community College has received a $62,000 grant from the G-Unity Foundation for scholarships
• Public relations masks the real college-access crisis: the wealthiest universities enroll the smallest percentage of low-income students—this has to change
  by Daniel F. Sullivan
• Correction
• Charting a new course: the University of Maryland Eastern Shore becomes the first HBCU to receive a PGA Professional Golf Management Program
  by Frank J. Matthews
• University of Wyoming
• The University of North Texas has received a $10,000 grant from the University of Southern California's Center
• Fostering an inclusive environment: leaders at Cal Poly Pomona aim to create an inclusive environment for undocumented students, first by creating an AB 540 liaison
  by Veronica P. Mendoza
• Purchase College
• Southern University has received $34,950 from the ExxonMobil Foundation
• Revving up HBCU Motorsports
  by James B. Ewers, Jr.
• Correlating diversity success with academic success: Texas A&M, NCAA partnership recognizes universities that best champion diversity
  by Ibram Rogers
• University of the District of Columbia
• The University of California, Berkeley, has received $2 million from the Dow Chemical Co. Foundation
• Highest level of accounting graduates in more than 30 years
• Asian Americans largely ignored by presidential candidates, political scientists say
  by Lydia Lum
• California State University, Bakersfield, has received $1 million from the CSU system, which received funds from the Bernard Osher Foundation to be distributed
• Winston-Salem State University has received a $291,000 grant from the University of North Carolina General Administration to collaborate with Mount Airy Schools and Winston-Salem area schools
• A waning priority: despite high expectations with Democratic Congress, public policy groups are losing hopes of repealing financial aid ban on students convicted of minor drug offenses
  by Charles Dervarics
• Temple University
• Saint Augustine's College has received a $400,000 grant from The Andrew Mellon Foundation
• Understanding the "Bling-bling generation"
• Youth on fire: distinctive books show how the struggle for rights and recognition rests on new generations
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has received a $10 MILLION grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Nursing Research to study better ways of managing sedation for children on lifesaving ventila
• Saluting an all-time great
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• 2008 Ad
• University of Virginia
• With a $1.8 million grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Southern Education Foundation has fulfilled requirements to create a $6 million endowment for the Center to Serve Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Going for $1 billion
  by Jason T. Smith
• Impact players: golf grew in popularity in Seoul after it held the 1988 Olympics, and now U.S. college coaches are witnessing the emergence and competitiveness of Korean golfers
  by Lydia Lum
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a $3 MILLION, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health