Associated PressLeadership & PolicyColleges Struggle to Quit Rankings HabitU.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered. But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.August 14, 2007HomeFour national lab directors tour research corridorFARGO N.D. The director of one of the country’s top government laboratories says North Dakota is earning a national reputation for research facilities at its major universities.August 14, 2007SportsNew Mexico State football team will wear pink for breast cancer researchLAS CRUCES N.M. To most fans, college football is a black-and-blue sport. At New Mexico State, it’s time to think pink.August 14, 2007HomeNifong complains about NC State Bar’s handling of his ethics caseRALEIGH N.C. When former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong mailed in his law license last week, he also included a note bemoaning “the fundamental unfairness” of the North Carolina State Bar’s handling of his ethics case.August 14, 2007HomeArk. ACT results reach record in math and readingLITTLE ROCK Arkansas high school students reached record scores on the math and reading portion of the ACT college entrance exam this year, but the state still trailed the national composite average on the standardized test.August 14, 2007SportsLegal trouble with Rutgers player only beginning for ImusNEW YORK On the same day Don Imus settled a lawsuit with CBS Radio after being fired for making sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, his legal troubles with one of the players began.August 14, 2007SportsPro or not pro? That’s the question among student athletesNAKHON NAYOK Thailand The clink of a putter and the applause that followed at the 18th hole cut through a symphony of crickets in the dim light of dusk.August 14, 2007HBCUsThai American returns to her family’s roots at World University GamesNAKHON NAYOK Thailand Three weeks before most of her U.S. teammates arrived for the World University Games, Jennifer Tangtiphaiboontana had a homecoming. They’re becoming increasingly poignant every time she visits Thailand.August 14, 2007Faculty & StaffUNH accepts factfinder report in faculty contract disputeDURHAM N.H. There is a break in the impasse in contract talks between faculty and the University of New Hampshire.August 14, 2007StudentsCamp gives students taste of traditional native artFARMINGTON N.M. A dozen American Indian high school students sat in a room, concentrating hard on the beginning of a small loom in front of them.August 14, 2007Previous PagePage 424 of 569Next Page
