Associated PressStudentsNation’s largest school district wins top public education awardNEW YORK The nation’s largest school system has won the country’s top prize in public education that honors an urban district with the greatest student improvement and most success reducing achievement gaps among the poor and minorities.September 17, 2007StudentsColumbia student union nixes controversial anti-illegal immigration speakerNEW YORK Jim Gilchrist, founder of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project who was forced off a Columbia University stage last year, will not be coming back for a return engagement at the school.September 17, 2007Health$31 million federal research grant to Morehouse, othersATLANTA A $31 million federal grant has been awarded to a group of Atlanta-area universities and medical organizations. It is one of a dozen such grants announced Tuesday, designed to better translate lab discoveries into patient treatments.September 17, 2007HomeNavy, University of Hawaii agree on contract for university research centerHONOLULU The Navy and the University of Hawaii have agreed to terms on establishing a Navy research center on campus.September 17, 2007Leadership & PolicyExaminers’ reports show Alabama 2-year colleges doing OK jobPRATTVILLE Ala. Financial aid abuse at Bishop State Community College has led state examiners to expand the scope of their audits, but such problems have not been found at other schools so far, an examiner told system presidents Tuesday.September 17, 2007SportsDuquesne Still Healing From ShootingsPITTSBURGH One year after five players were shot in the worst act of random violence to strike a major college sports program, Duquesne University’s basketball team is in a healing mode.September 17, 2007StudentsFuneral for UM student who fell from tree scheduled for ThursdayJACKSON Miss. Bradley Jameson chose to leave his native Texas for the University of Mississippi because he wanted to attend school “in a community that was all about the college.”September 17, 2007HomeWomen’s lawsuit against University of Colorado set for trial in ’09DENVER A lawsuit filed by two women who say they were raped at a party attended by University of Colorado football players and recruits has been set for trial in 2009.September 17, 2007HomeSouth Korea court refuses to issue arrest warrant for ex-professor in fake degree scandalA South Korean court rejected a prosecutors’ request Tuesday for a warrant to arrest a former college professor accused of faking her Yale doctorate in an escalating scandal that forced a senior presidential aide to quit.September 17, 2007Leadership & PolicyCSU, UC leaders consider financial issues this weekBERKELEY Calif. Higher education leaders tackle financial issues this week with California State University trustees considering paying top brass more while University of California officials look at raising professional school fees.September 17, 2007Previous PagePage 412 of 569Next Page
