U.S. universities are anxiously taking steps to address a dramatic change in the racial and ethnic makeup of the student population. Over the coming decades, U.S. universities will recruit from a pool of public high school graduates that will experience a decline of roughly 10 percent or more in non-Hispanic white students, the population that traditionally is most likely to attend four-year colleges. Meanwhile, there will be a double-digit rise in the proportion of minority students -- especially Hispanics -- who traditionally are less likely to attend college and obtain l

For more than two decades, the annual Hispanic Business 500 directory has served as a barometer of the U.S. Hispanic economy. A purchase of the 2007 directory provides the top 500 Hispanic-owned companies list in Excel format including: CEO names; company addresses and telephone numbers; e-mail addresses for 375 companies and Web addresses for 430 companies; and company revenue and employees numbers for 2005 and 2006.

Most people are charitable -- it's human nature to help if you have the means. But how do you account for your generosity, literally? With so many different types of donations and an even broader spectrum of taxable implications, it's not a bad idea to explore the basics of charitable gifts. How do you determine if something's deductible?