Associated PressStudentsNevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian EnrollmentHigher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.February 26, 2008StudentsThree Campus Security Scares On TuesdayClasses were canceled and a small private college went on lockdown Tuesday as police searched for a man who was seen with a gun on campus, officials said.February 26, 2008StudentsClasses Help University of Missouri Custodial Employees CommunicateSome classes being offered at the University of Missouri-Columbia are for the custodial employees, with the aim of helping them better communicate with each other.February 26, 2008LatinxLouisiana Deputies Taking Spanish Lessonsuniversity language department chair is spending time teaching sheriff’s deputies Spanish so they can handle emergencies better when immigrants who speak little or no English are involved.February 26, 2008Leadership & PolicyNew President Wants to End Texas Southern’s Open-Admissions PolicyTexas Southern University has an alarmingly low graduation rate, but the school’s new president hopes to change that by ending the long practice of admitting all applicants, regardless of their academic background.February 25, 2008Native AmericansUC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native LanguagesThe first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.February 25, 2008Leadership & PolicyAntioch College Campus To Be Closed For 2008-2009 Academic YearAntioch University’s trustees decided Friday that Antioch College in Ohio will suspend operations June 30 and remain closed for the 2008-2009 academic year.February 24, 2008Leadership & PolicyCU Chancellor, Student Editors Apologize for Column on AsiansBOULDER Colo. The chancellor of the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has apologized for a student’s satirical column poking fun at Asians. Editors of the student newspaper apologized as well. The column said Asian students “hate us all” and should be rounded up and forced to play drinking games and endure other ordeals until they […]February 21, 2008Home2 Ex-officials Charged in Federal Education Grant ScamTALLAHASSEE Fla. Two former officials with Florida A&M University and Franklin County’s literacy program were arrested Thursday on charges of scamming a federal grant program. A 21-count federal indictment charged Patricia Walker McGill, 60, of Tallahassee, and Bonnie Segree, 68, of Eastpoint, with conspiracy, theft and mail fraud. Both were released on bond after making […]February 21, 2008SportsFisk Athletic Programs to Change from NCAA to IntramuralNASHVILLE Tenn. Financially strapped Fisk is dropping its NCAA Division III athletic programs for an intramural and club sports system. University officials announced Thursday the change will be effective in May, saying it will better match the historically Black university’s mission and resources while helping the school save nearly $500,000. Spokesman Ken West says the […]February 21, 2008Previous PagePage 329 of 569Next Page
