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Spain big surprises in women’s volleyball at University Games

BANGKOK Thailand The Spanish women’s volleyball team is the big surprise at the World University Games, upsetting Russia and Brazil to qualify for the quarterfinals in first place in its group.

August 12, 2007

Mexico, Thailand brawl at World University Games soccer

BANGKOK Thailand Soccer players from Thailand and Mexico fought openly on the pitch Monday at the World University Games in a match eventually won by the home team 1-0.

August 12, 2007

LOUISIANA FOOTBALL ’07: Grambling looks to Broadway to take the Tigers back to the top of the SWAC

GRAMBLING La. It seems only fitting that Grambling State, renowned for its “road show” that dates back to the late Eddie Robinson’s heyday, should bring in a coach named Broadway.

August 12, 2007

DeVry Fiscal 4Q Profit Rises 35 Percent, Misses Wall Street Estimates

OAKBROOK TERRACE Ill. DeVry Inc. on Monday said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 35 percent, partly due to higher enrollments, but the for-profit education company missed Wall Street estimates.

August 12, 2007

Indians criticize No Child Left Behind

SANTA FE The No Child Left Behind law fails to recognize native cultures and languages, American Indian officials and educators told a U.S. Senate committee.

August 12, 2007

Native Americans

All-Star event seeks to boost college prospects for American Indians

BARTLESVILLE Okla. Carol Conner asks participants in Oklahoma’s annual Indian All-State basketball games the same question every year: How many of them are planning on attending college?

August 12, 2007

Native Americans

Learning N.C. American Indian culture helps broaden horizons

ST. JAMES N.C. The flat coastal plain, punctuated by trailers and cornfields, offers few clues that this is the home of the Waccamaw-Siouans, a little-known American Indian tribe that has lived in southeastern North Carolina since the mid-1700s.

August 12, 2007

U.S. university donating medical supplies to Uganda

DURHAM North Carolina A neurosurgeon at an elite U.S. university has gathered several tons of medical equipment, some of which sat unused at the school’s medical facility, and is planning on donating it to a Ugandan hospital.

August 12, 2007

Immigrants use fraction of amount they contribute to Ark. economy

LITTLE ROCK A report prepared for legislators says Arkansas pays about $170 million a year to educate, imprison and provide services to immigrants a fraction of the amount, according to a separate study, that they contribute to the state’s economy.

August 12, 2007

Ore. study cites high drug use among Hispanics trying to adapt

PORTLAND Ore. A study led by an Oregon State University sociologist runs counter to some assumptions that Hispanic immigrants tend to bring their drug habits with them to the United States.

August 12, 2007

Arizona Supreme Court upholds dismissal of tuition challenge

PHOENIX The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling dismissing a challenge to the state Board of Regents’ 2003 decision to increase in-state university tuition by nearly 40 percent.

August 12, 2007

Kalamazoo Promise grads’ first year of college started slow, got better

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Associated Press is following the college careers of two members of Kalamazoo Public Schools’ class of 2006. Stephanie Butler and Alex Plair II were among the first recipients of scholarships provided by The Kalamazoo Promise, an anonymously funded free-tuition program for graduates of the school district beginning that year. This is the second in a series of annual stories about Butler and Plair, whom the AP first profiled as their high school careers ended.

August 12, 2007

Hillary Clinton tries to rally state support

TULSA Okla. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told hundreds of supporters Saturday that she’s not sure that she can win over politically conservative Oklahoma in the 2008 election.

August 12, 2007

College savings plan board develops incentive program

OKLAHOMA CITY Administrators at the state’s college savings plan want Oklahomans to learn about the program, and they have developed an incentive plan they think will be hard to pass up: free tickets to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State football games.

August 12, 2007

Robertson’s Regent banking on tuition to stop deficits

VIRGINIA BEACH Va. Regent University plans to more than double its undergraduate enrollment this year as a first step toward balancing its budget.

August 12, 2007

Hillsdale College replaces state scholarship aid with private funds

HILLSDALE Mich. Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts school in southern Michigan, announced Monday it will no longer accept state taxpayer money for student scholarships and financial aid.

August 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Classes could start in 2009 at new Idaho university branch

SANDPOINT Idaho The founder of retailer Coldwater Creek has increased the amount he will spend to bring a University of Idaho branch campus to this resort town, and classes are scheduled to start in 2009.

August 12, 2007

North Dakota medical school gets $10 million grant renewal

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota medical school officials say the National Institutes of Health has renewed a $10 million grant for research into such diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

August 12, 2007