·         $200,000 for Livingston College in North Carolina for teacher training and mentoring of minority students;

·         $300,000 to Virginia State University to develop an international economics program;

·         $300,000 for Southern University at New Orleans for a minority science initiative; and

·         $200,000 to Bowie State University in Maryland for a principals’ academy.

Lawmakers had included most of these projects as designated funds under the federal Fund for the Improvement of Education or the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.

Likewise, the Senate Appropriations Committee last summer also approved education earmarks. The bill never gained final approval, but the committee recommended hundreds of appropriations, including:

·         $100,000 to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for campuswide technology upgrades;

·         $400,000 to the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education for education and mentoring programs at Wilberforce University and Central State University in Ohio;

·         $500,000 for Salish Kootenai College, a tribal institution in Pablo, Mont., for faculty and student recruitment; and

·         $400,000 to Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, also a tribal college, to expand training programs and purchase equipment.

There is still a chance that some of these projects may survive intact, however. The new Congress has yet to approve a 2007 education spending bill, and several advocates told Diverse it is possible higher education may get an exemption from this moratorium.