Diverse Issues in Higher Education

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Articles in Dec 29, 2005, issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• William C. Powers Jr. named president of University of Texas at Austin
• Bradley University appeals its Braves nickname to NCAA
• Leveraging potential: in efforts to close the achievement gap, Black college leaders partner with foundations to create innovative, rigorous high schools for minority and disadvantaged students
  by B. Denise Hawkins
• Erroll B. Davis Jr. is named chancellor-designate of the University System of Georgia
• Norfolk State University
• Evaluating evaluations: answering the unasked question
  by Tara Green
• Oklahoma State University received a $14.8 million gift from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to fund an expansion of the university's school of architecture
• Events
• Study: inflation outpaces teacher salary growth in more than 40 states
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Connecticut College
• Bowie State University has been awarded a $65,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
• Rockingham Community College has received a $3 million grant from the McMichael Family Foundation to help establish a civic center on its campus
• i poll
• Black journalists group issues relief checks to members affected by Hurricane Katrina
• In a nationwide survey
• The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland
• University of Tennessee to offer in-state tuition to North Carolina-based tribe
• Barber-Scotia College in North Carolina
• The University of North Texas philosophy department has received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the ethics and values aspects of Hurricane Katrina
• Kalamazoo College in Michigan
• When and where I enter: Black women in the academy
  by Carol E. Henderson
• North Carolina Central University
• Regent University has received a $1 million grant from the Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust to launch the Regent University Center for Entrepreneurship
• Report: 41 percent of bowl-bound schools miss academic standard
• Morehouse School of Medicine
• Conrad K. Harper, a member of Harvard's top governing board, resigns over a proposed raise for university president Dr. Lawrence H. Summers
• In memoriam
• Winston-Salem State University received a $65,000 grant from McFarland & Associates to develop the Healthy Choices create Empowered Changes Program
• Erroll B. Davis Jr. named chancellor-designate of the University System of Georgia
• Distrusting the shot: African-Americans more likely to forgo flu immunizations; ad campaigns attempt to change their minds
• A plug in the pipeline: young minority golfers often can't afford to enter the big-name tournaments, but efforts are underway to produce the sport's next superstar
  by Frank J. Matthews
• Spelman College, in conjunction with Essence magazine, holds a weeklong event "Take Back the Music"
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
• Calhoun Community College has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund the Alternate Health Education Asynchronous Delivery project
• Columbia University
• Tennessee State University
• Achieving diversity on campus: a better approach
  by Don Munce
• Science committee questions pathways to engineering education: two- and four-year colleges must work together to align curricula, committee says
  by Charles Pekow
• Harvard board elects first Black woman
• On Oct. 15, 2005, crowds anywhere from 100,000 to one million gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C
• Creighton University School of Law has received a two-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to create a model to establish a bi-lateral U.S.-Cuba property claims tribunal
• After four decades of leading the national movement to improve higher education
• Albany State University
• Black Knoxville College
• Several colleges offering car-sharing service on campus
  by Ronald Roach
• Huston-Tillotson University
• The Tom Joyner Foundation has received a $50,000 donation from the Jack and Jill of America Foundation to aid historically Black college and university students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
• Efforts underway to restore North Carolina's historic Black hospital
• Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole decides to resign as president of Bennett College but later withdraws her resignation following an outpouring of support
• Dr. Marvalene Hughes, the first female or African-American to be named president of California State University-Stanislaus, is named president of Dillard University
• A&M University
• University of Indianapolis
• Bowie State University in Maryland
• Newspapers may submit online material for Pulitzer consideration
• U.S. execs expect storm of foreign tech competition
• Syracuse University
• Supreme Court signals support of military recruiting at colleges, universities
• Racial minority participation in clinical trials increases with information and access
• Azusa Pacific University
• Essex County College
• 2005 Ad
• University of Alaska-Anchorage
• The family of Preston Robert Tisch has donated $10 million to Duke University Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
• The University of Denver has received $3 million from the Conrad H. Hilton Foundation to endow a chair in the hotel
• Targeting talented students: ETS symposium showcases strategies for the United States to sustain its competitive edge in the world economy
  by Ronald Roach
• In light of his comments regarding women in the sciences
• Edward Waters College
• Georgia Perimeter College
• Taliadega College
• NCAA Division I
• Dr. JoAnn W. Haysbert, provost of Hampton University in Hampton, Va
• Winston-Salem State University
• Down, but not out: Barber-Scotia is without accreditation, students and staff, but the college's president believes there are brighter days ahead
  by Marlon A. Walker
• Tulane University announces cutbacks, layoffs due to Katrina
• Black professors defend Indiana University president
• Peru prepares lawsuit against Yale University to get back Machu Picchu relics
• National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
• John Hope Franklin holds a Mirror to America
  by Ronald Roach
• Houston Community College