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Stimulus money slow to reach colleges: an avalanche of funding is expected after slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects
President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus spending package was, supposed to move shovel-ready construction projects, including campus...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/01/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
A mediating force: home to a county with changing demographics, the College of Southern Maryland steps in to facilitate discussions surrounding race and class
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a suburban area of Washington, D.C., Southern Maryland has remained unusually "Southern." Its rolling tobacco fields,...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 09/03/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
An Air Force officer and academic
With its red brick, Georgian-style buildings situated among the gently rolling hills of central Virginia, Hampden-Sydney College has long been...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 07/23/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
Coach Keeling: the rescuer
Throughout his three-decades-long sports career, Rudy Keeling has been a builder. As basketball head coach at the University of Maine at Orono, he...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 05/28/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
Capital gains or Richmond: Arthur Ashe Jr.'s hometown amasses a surprising athletic leadership profile
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By any measure, Tamika Duck, 25, is on the fast-track for a successful career in sports...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 05/28/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
Getting into the game: despite the fast-growing and lucrative landscape, of video game designing, minority students are finding themselves with limited options in the field
Malcolm Perdue faces a dilemma as challenging as the computer games he loves to play. The 19-year-old student at Atlanta Metropolitan College...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 03/19/09 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
Drastic measures for difficult times: hit hard by the global financial crisis, colleges are cutting their budgets in ways that prompt fears about access and retention for minority students
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Call it the perfect storm for university funding. Just as economic downturns are squeezing state...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 12/11/08 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
'An engine of diversity': North Carolina's Research Triangle area is providing research and career opportunities for the region as well as creating a diverse work force
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Makendra Umstead, studying near the famed Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina's...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/02/08 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
UT-Brownsville, feds compromise on border fence: critics say proposed border fence was less about security than about the politics of illegal immigration
For 82 years, college students have walked freely back and forth across the U.S.-Mexican border on the site of a 465-acre campus that once was an...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 09/18/08 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication -
A fundraising blueprint: Howard University sets the bar high for its largest ever capital campaign, and now plans to share the secrets of its success with fellow HBCUs
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the fall of 2001, top administrators and trustees from Howard University secluded themselves...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 05/01/08 by Peter Galuszka · More from publication
