Associated PressHomeCouple’s $5 million to fund cancer research at Carnegie MellonPITTSBURGH Carnegie Mellon University is establishing a new research center to help fight cancer with the help of a $5 million donation.September 20, 2007Leadership & PolicyNYC officials asks Columbia University to cancel speech by Iranian presidentNEW YORK Columbia University is providing Iran’s president with a forum for his “hate speech” and should withdraw its invitation to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak at the prestigious university, the head of New York City’s City Council said Thursday.September 20, 2007HomeGates Foundation gives Notre Dame $20 million to study malariaSOUTH BEND Ind. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the University of Notre Dame a $20 million grant Thursday to support research aimed at evaluating and improving malaria control programs.September 20, 2007Leadership & PolicySIU discloses Poshard’s contract as university system’s presidentDetails of Glenn Poshard’s contract as president of the 35,000-student Southern Illinois University system:September 20, 2007Faculty & StaffBoard of Higher Ed gives tentative nod to president pay raisesMINOT N.D. Members of North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education are raising questions about new pay standards that would make the university system’s campus presidents eligible for hefty salary increases. One president compared the changes to being generous with a team’s coach while shortchanging its players.September 20, 2007HomePresidents of Brown, RISD to formalize dual-degree programPROVIDENCE R.I. Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design will formalize a new partnership.September 20, 2007SportsOSU files response to motorist’s lawsuit against SuttonSTILLWATER Okla. Oklahoma State University has filed a response to a lawsuit by a Perry woman who was injured in a traffic collision last year with former basketball coach Eddie Sutton.September 20, 2007HomeUniv. of Michigan president gives back salary hikeANN ARBOR Mich. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman says she honored but says she will give back a 3 percent pay raise.September 20, 2007HomeImmigrants’ children grow up in dual-language worldWICHITA Kan. When smiley 10-year-old Lourdes Martinez runs over to her mom and talks, she does it in Spanish.September 20, 2007Recruitment & RetentionCole says he won’t be just a care-taker at UMass-AmherstAMHERST Mass. The new interim chancellor of the Univesity of Massachusetts-Amherst says he’ll be more than just a caretaker during his year at the helm.September 20, 2007Previous PagePage 402 of 569Next Page