Associated PressStudentsPurdue Faculty Say Cuts Will Hurt Areas with Most DiversityWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Some Purdue University faculty say a plan to overhaul graduate education negatively affects disciplines with the most minority and female graduate students. A five-year initiative laid out last semester by College of Liberal Arts Dean David Reingold would raise graduate teaching assistants’ pay and trim their teaching loads by reducing incoming […]April 24, 2016StudentsU. of Michigan’s New Multicultural Center Gets $3M BoostANN ARBOR, Mich. ― A $3 million gift will help fund a new building at the University of Michigan’s main campus that will house the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center. The funding from Mark Bernstein, a member of the Board of Regents, and his wife, Rachel Bendit, was announced at a board meeting Thursday. […]April 21, 2016African-AmericanDolezal’s Visit to Omaha University Draws BacklashOMAHA, Neb. ― Omaha residents have raised concerns about a visit from Rachel Dolezal, who resigned as president of an NAACP chapter in Washington last year after it was revealed that she is White. The Omaha World-Herald reports that University of Nebraska Medical Center professor Dr. Renaisa S. Anthony’s decision to bring her to […]April 21, 2016StudentsUniversity of Iowa Officials Re-evaluate Chalking PolicyIOWA CITY, Iowa ― University of Iowa officials are re-evaluating the university’s 6-year-old chalk art policy after an anti-abortion group’s sidewalk art caused a skirmish last week. The Students for Life group says its members drew 3,200 hearts on a university walkway with the intention of showing pedestrians the number of abortions occurring in the […]April 21, 2016HBCUsUniversity Mistakenly Sends 5,000 Students Acceptance EmailsBUFFALO, N.Y. — More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university. University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken email was sent Wednesday to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed. He says the university sent a second email about three […]April 18, 2016StudentsEx-Iowa State Athlete Sues School Over Response to Rape CaseAMES, Iowa — A former Iowa State University basketball player who faced a rape charge that was later dropped is suing the school, claiming its response ruined his chances of playing professional basketball. The Des Moines Register reports Bubu Palo’s lawsuit accuses university officials of wrongly punishing him even after the criminal case against him […]April 13, 2016Leadership & PolicyMichigan College President Could be Fired Over SpendingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. — A college in southwestern Michigan says the school’s new president was suspended and could be fired because of unapproved spending and improper management. Jennifer Spielvogel was suspended with pay Friday at Lake Michigan College, near Benton Harbor. She started in January after working at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. Lake Michigan […]April 13, 2016African-AmericanChildren Donate $250K to Tennessee State in Parents’ HonorNASHVILLE, Tenn. — The children of a couple who met at Tennessee State University in the 1930s have donated $250,000 to the schools in their parents’ honor. University officials say it is among the five largest donations from a family in the university’s history. The university said Damon Lee III and Kimberly Lee-Lamb made the […]April 12, 2016StudentsUConn: Sexual Violence Survey Shows Students Feel SafeSTORRS, Conn. — A survey on sexual violence shows students feel safe on University of Connecticut campuses, school officials said Monday. The university released the results of the anonymous survey of 6,000 random students, which was administered in November 2015 by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium. About 1,500 students from Storrs and regional campuses […]April 11, 2016News RoundupKentucky Attorney General Sues Governor Over Education CutsFRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general has sued his state’s Republican governor, saying he overstepped his authority when he ordered budget cuts for state colleges and universities without legislative approval. Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has proposed $650 million in state spending cuts over the next two years as part of a plan to begin […]April 11, 2016Previous PagePage 138 of 569Next Page