Associated PressStudentsShooting at Ark. University Kills 2, Wounds 1CONWAY, Ark. The head of the University of Central Arkansas said Monday that campus was safe after a shooting left two students dead and a third person wounded. Police said the killings did not appear to be acts of random violence and that there was no remaining threat on the 12,500-student campus. Police said they […]October 26, 2008HomeHarlem’s Apollo Theater to Create Oral HistoryColumbia University and the Apollo Theater Foundation plan to create an oral history of the famed Harlem theater that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and other music legends.October 26, 2008HomeColumbia University Defends Women’s StudiesColumbia University urged a judge Friday to toss out a lawsuit that claims a women’s studies program is unconstitutional because there is no similar men’s program, saying the lawsuit “reads like a parody.”October 26, 2008HomeW.Va. crafting long-term higher ed funding planCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia officials are putting the final touches on a plan that aims to end the state’s piecemeal approach to funding growth and upkeep at its public colleges and universities. “We need to move-away from this one-time funding,” Dennis Taylor, vice chancellor for administration at the Higher Education Policy Commission, told […]October 23, 2008HBCUsNeb. university releases details on Ayers threatsLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A memo providing details of angry communications from people furious about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s invitation to former radical William Ayers says the threats of violence and protests included veiled threats to kill him. Psychology associate professor Mario Scalora, who is on the university threat assessment team, said in the memo […]October 23, 2008StudentsUA head wants in-state rates for illegalsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The head of Arkansas’ flagship university said the state must do everything it can to encourage more students to seek bachelor’s degrees – including possibly offering illegal immigrants the lower tuition rates given to residents. University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart stopped just short of endorsing a possible measure […]October 23, 2008SportsOklahoma State projects affected by donor’s lossesOklahoma State University officials cheered when oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens gave a record-setting gift of $165 million to his alma mater two years ago for athletic programs and then invested it in his BP Capital hedge fund so that it would grow even more. But now the fund has dropped so low amid the […]October 23, 2008HomeCollege Savings Plans Not Immune to Market SwingsThere’s $30,000 sitting in Ellen Anthony’s 529 college savings plan.October 23, 2008African-AmericanUniversity of Maryland Archaeologists Find African ‘Spirit Bundle’University of Maryland archaeologists have found what they believe to be one of the earliest examples of the spiritual traditions brought to North America by African slaves.October 22, 2008StudentsBrownsville Wins $1Million Prize for Academic GainsOne of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won the coveted $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education last week in recognition of its academic advances.October 21, 2008Previous PagePage 292 of 569Next Page
