Associated PressCommunity CollegesBudget director named interim president of higher ed councilLEBANON Ky. The state Council on Postsecondary Education hired state Budget Director Brad Cowgill as interim council president on Thursday.July 26, 2007Leadership & PolicyWayne State latest in Michigan to raise tuitionDETROIT Wayne State University’s governing board on Wednesday approved a 12.8 percent tuition increase, plus a contingency fee of $13 per credit hour for students this fall.July 26, 2007HomeCollege students will be able to renew B-On-Time loansAUSTIN Qualifying college students will be able to renew loans from the state’s B-On-Time program in the upcoming school year, despite previous warnings that hundreds of students would lose the forgivable loans.July 26, 2007HomeSIUE exploring text-messaging method of warning campus of threatsEDWARDSVILLE Ill. In line on her college campus to donate blood, Angela Negron was unsure which was more surprising: That the school’s police happened upon a fellow student’s cryptic note allegedly threatening mayhem rivaling April’s massacre at Virginia Tech, or that she had to learn of the threat from a reporter not the school five days after it surfaced.July 26, 2007Leadership & Policy4 Kansas regents nominees win approval of key Senate committeeTOPEKA Kan. Four people won the seal of approval Thursday from a key Senate committee to start serving on the state Board of Regents.July 26, 2007StudentsWisconsin attorney general: Race can be considered in admissionsMADISON Wis. A new freshman admissions policy requiring University of Wisconsin campuses to consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors is legal, the state attorney general said Thursday.July 26, 2007HomeUH archives initiative passes U.S. SenateHONOLULU The U.S. Senate has approved a plan to establish the Henry Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii.July 26, 2007Faculty & StaffUniversity of Colorado fires professor after remarks likening Sept. 11 victims to NaziBOULDER Colorado The University of Colorado’s governing board fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack victims to a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of research misconduct.July 26, 2007HomePresident Bush to honor University of Michigan math professorANN ARBOR Mich. A University of Michigan professor is joining an elite group recipients of the National Medal of Science.July 26, 2007HomeJudge says Shelby County schools still unfair to blacksMEMPHIS Tenn. A district judge has ruled that Shelby County schools still are not ready to have a 1963 desegregation order lifted.July 26, 2007Previous PagePage 443 of 569Next Page