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Articles in July 29, 2004, issue of Black Issues in Higher Education

• Master's degrees
• Sullivan University System
• Few college programs reap gains from education spending bill: HBCUs, community colleges receive small victories
  by Charles Dervarics
• Seven historically Black colleges and universities have been selected to participate in a new grant initiative to develop community service and service learning programs that address health disparities in racial and ethnic communities
• First professional degrees
• Olivet College
• Census Bureau releases data on educational attainment by race, ethnicity
• Succeeding by any means necessary
  by Johnny D. Jones
• NCAA violations cause MEAC to strip FAMU of championships
• Slow and steady
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Doctorate degrees
• Moraine Valley Community College
• Survey reveals 48 top supporters of HBCU engineering schools
• Americans turning to Internet for graphic war images
  by Ronald Roach
• Judge orders temporary reinstatement of Kansas State newspaper adviser
• Knowledge is power
• The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Waste Management Institute received a $615,000 five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Savannah River Site
• Georgia professor wins international award for history volume
• Xavier buildings added to National Register of Historic Places
• Energy Department launches science education campaign
  by Ronald Roach
• Penn State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Meharry Medical College were recently awarded a $5 million collaborative research grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish research centers for the study of minority-based issu
• Age, race and sex disparity found in cancer research trial participation
• Florida International University unveils plan for new medical school
• Broadband access expected to exceed 325 million in 2008
  by Ronald Roach
• Events
• Noel-Levitz honors institutions for outstanding retention efforts
• Former U.S. Secretary of Energy O'Leary named 14th president of Fisk University
• Quinnipiac University
• College of Charleston Law School to open in August
• 'A new mountain to climb': as the new dean of UC-Berkeley's law school, Christopher Edley Jr. plans to continue the civil rights and social justice agenda work for which he has become well known
  by Ronald Roach
• Atlanta University Center Consortium
• Is there a doctorate in the house? With such a significant shortfall of African Americans with PH.D.s in science, engineering and technology, more HBCUs are taking on the challenge of offering the terminal degree
  by Kendra Hamilton
• Bridging the gap: National Science Foundation initiative eases the transition from undergraduate to graduate study
  by Crystal L. Keels
• Forsyth Tech Community College
• USC offers pacemakers that can be monitored online
  by Ronald Roach
• The top 100: interpreting the data
  by Victor M.H. Borden
• California State University
• Using information technology to learn about it
  by Reid Goldsborough