Associated PressCommunity CollegesShares of for-profit education companies finish mostly lowerShares of for-profit education companies finished mostly lower on Monday, with Universal Technical Institute Inc. leading the way.September 17, 2007HomeHarvard names former congressman to lead Institute of PoliticsFormer Iowa Congressman James Leach was named interim director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics on Monday, replacing Jeanne Shaheen who stepped down to run for a U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire.September 17, 2007HomeRenowned legal scholar will become dean of UC Irvine law school after allA renowned legal scholar was reappointed Monday as dean of the new law school at the University of California, Irvine, a week after the school rejected him.September 17, 2007StudentsHarkin says bill will ease student loan debt crunchSen. Tom Harkin went to Grand View College on Monday to praise a bill aimed at making college more accessible to low-income students and helping graduates with heavy loan debt.September 17, 2007HomeCarnegie Mellon celebrates 25th anniversary of ‘smiley face’Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message.September 17, 2007HBCUsStudent arrested, Tasered at Kerry forum in FloridaA University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.September 17, 2007HomeAttorney in “Jena 6” case files motion to release Mychal BellThe attorney for a teenager whose conviction as an adult in a racially charged schoolyard beating was overturned last week has filed motions to have him released from jail, or at least moved to a juvenile facility, while the prosecutor appeals.September 17, 2007HomeRhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education approves tuition hike at three schoolsThe Board of Governors for Higher Education has approved a tuition and fee hike of between 5 percent and 6 percent at the state’s two colleges and its university.September 17, 2007HomeLawsuit challenges equality of Columbus public schoolsOhio’s embattled public schools were confronted with a new lawsuit Monday challenging whether students within each district being treated equally.September 17, 2007HomeIncome disparity raises gender role questionsMore than 30 years after women entered the workplace en masse, they’re now out-enrolling men in colleges and sometimes out-earning their husbands in a fourth of American households in which both spouses work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.September 17, 2007Previous PagePage 413 of 569Next Page