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Articles in April 3, 2008, issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• MSIs score significant victory in Congress: more minority-serving institutions are competing for and winning Homeland Security Department funding
  by Charles Dervarics
• Quinnipiac University
• The University of South Florida has received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor in support of academic and scholarship programs for underrepresented students
• Student input helps community colleges improve overall experience: focus groups find out what works in the classroom, on campus
  by Arleen Arnsparger
• The University of Texas at El Paso will receive $5 million over the next six years from the Department of Homeland Security, after being designated a Center of Excellence for Border Security
• 'Antipreference' campaigns heat up: Ward Connerly is working to end affirmative action programs in five states, but opponents are fighting back
  by Reginald Stuart
• Teacher, warrior: Barbara Sizemore: an insider reports on the decades-long fight to teach our children
  by Angela P. Dodson
• National Writing Project
• The American Council on Education has received $250,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to help support ACE's Initiative for Severely Injured Veterans
• Diversifying faculty in Illinois: a revamped initiative aims to increase minority faculty numbers throughout the state
  by Ronald Roach
• The University of Washington-Seattle has received $700,000
• Diverse calendar
• Thinking about their future in a different way: Roosevelt University partners with a local high school and promises its students full financial support if admitted
  by Pearl Stewart
• Columbia University Teachers College has received a $20 million gift
• Dr. Sally Clausen
• Assessing the academy for 21st-century performance
  by Beverly M. John
• Community college no longer? Harper College's effort to gain baccalaureate-granting status has sparked a debate in Illinois over the mission of two-year colleges
  by David Pluviose
• Mercy College
• Lincoln University has received a $100,000 grant from alumnus Dr. Chapman W. Bouldin Jr
• Finally taking root: as scholars try to get university administrators across the country to understand how distinct Filipino American studies are, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign program continues to expand
  by Lydia Lum
• Higher education in the land of Lincoln
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• MacAlester College has received a $13.5 million gift from philanthropist Shelby Moore Cullom Davis
• University of California
• Needed: other forms of emergency notification
  by Barbara Brown
• The project to build a Memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. amid the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., received $3 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• A 'patron saint' for Chicago State University: long-neglected Chicago State University has a powerful friend in the Illinois legislature, and the school is not even in his district
  by Jamal E. Watson
• Widener University
• Correction
• A 'historical problem: Southern Illinois University Carbondale fares well on its hiring of minority administrators, but it is being taken to task for the lack of women in its executive ranks
  by Phuong Ly
• San Francisco State University has received a $3.75 million gift from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
• Xavier University of Louisiana
• Empowering Hispanic scholars to navigate the academy: a Northeastern Illinois University program seeks to fill the pipeline with Hispanic faculty, administrators
  by Michelle J. Nealy
• Getting to know Debbie Reese
  by Mary Annette Pember
• The University of California, Davis' Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility has received a $100,000 donation from the ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs to support research into sustainable pollination and a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder
• University of Arizona
• Illinois news nuggets: with nearly 200 degree-granting institutions in the "Land of Lincoln," Diverse couldn't cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots
• Columbia Law School
• The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School, has received $5.5 million in new gifts
• The heart of the mission: as a top producer of minority health practitioners, a University of Illinois at Chicago program seeks to improve the quality of medical care in communities of color
  by Angela Forest