cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.StudentsTexas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School TextbooksAUSTIN, Texas ― Top Texas education officials rejected Wednesday letting university experts fact-check textbooks approved for use in public-school classrooms statewide, instead reaffirming a vetting system that has helped spark years of ideological battles over how potentially thorny lessons in history and science are taught. The Board of Education approves textbooks in the nation’s second-largest […]November 18, 2015Leadership & PolicyStudents Want Woodrow Wilson’s Name Removed from PrincetonPRINCETON, N.J. ― Students staged a protest Wednesday inside the office of Princeton University’s president, demanding the school remove the name of former school president and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from programs and buildings over what they said was his racist legacy. Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber told the students he agreed with them that Wilson […]November 18, 2015StudentsFighting Hawks Picked as University of North Dakota NicknameFARGO, N.D. ― University of North Dakota backers have selected Fighting Hawks as the school’s new nickname, the school announced Wednesday. The predatory bird mascot was declared the winner after receiving 57 percent of the vote compared to 43 percent for Roughriders in the two-nickname runoff. The vote was open to people with UND ties, […]November 18, 2015StudentsMichigan State University Sued Over Sexual Assault ClaimsEAST LANSING, Mich. ― Four Michigan State University students filed a civil rights lawsuit Wednesday accusing the school and its leadership of a slow and inadequate response to their sexual assault complaints. The women said university administrators acted with “deliberate indifference” by failing to properly investigate and by violating school policies meant to prohibit harassment […]November 18, 2015StudentsKansas Student Leaders Say They’re not ‘mimicking Mizzou’by Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Protest leaders at the University of Kansas said Monday that they’re pushing for changes that ensure problems faced by minority and other “marginalized” students are addressed swiftly and effectively, rather than “mimicking Mizzou” by seeking the ouster of administrators. Leaders of the Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk group in Kansas […]November 18, 2015Faculty & StaffUniversity of Wyoming to Hire a Diversity Coordinatorby Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming president has announced plans to create a diversity coordinator position and form a committee tasked with increasing inclusivity on campus. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that university spokesman Chad Baldwin says the new position was created in response to concerns about the lack of diversity on […]November 18, 2015African-AmericanBrown University Students Demand Improved Race Relationsby Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A group of 35 graduate students at Brown University have joined together to demand that the Providence school’s administration makes an increased effort to improve race relations on campus. The Providence Journal reports the group, consisting of five graduate student organizations, co-authored a statement released Monday detailing its demands. […]November 18, 2015Leadership & PolicyMARGARET SPELLINGSMARGARET SPELLINGS has been named president of the University of North Carolina System, effective March 1. She is president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Spellings earned a bachelor’s from the University of Houston.November 18, 2015Community CollegesMALING EBRAHIMPOURMALING EBRAHIMPOUR has been appointed dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Rhode Island. He was dean of the business school at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Ebrahimpour earned a bachelor’s from the Institute of Advanced Accounting in Iran, an MBA from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.November 18, 2015HomeJOHN E. FERNANDEZJOHN E. FERNANDEZ has been named director of Environmental Solutions Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a full professor and director of the Building Technology Program and is director of the Urban Metabolism Group at MIT. Fernandez earned a bachelor’s from MIT and a master’s from Princeton University.November 18, 2015Previous PagePage 820 of 3224Next Page
