Associated PressHBCUsOSU President Greeted Like State’s New GovernorCOLUMBUS Ohio There was something mighty familiar about the selection-slash-coronation of Gordon Gee as Ohio State University’s new president last week.July 15, 2007StudentsIllegal Immigrants Find Aid for College in N.M.FORT COLLINS Colo. At least 10 undocumented students from Colorado will get to attend classes at the University of New Mexico this fall, with many not having to pay for tuition or books.July 15, 2007HomeSoldier in Iraq Uses Computer, Friends to Stay in CollegeMIAMI Juan Ramos hunkers down in Army barracks just outside Saddam Hussein’s hometown, hoping insurgent fire doesn’t interrupt his online biology class.July 15, 2007StudentsJournalism Scholarship Established in Memory of Mississippi Publisher TisdaleJACKSON Miss. The Charles Tisdale Memorial Scholarship is being established by the Jackson Association of Black Journalists, the president of the organization announced Friday.July 15, 2007Leadership & PolicyGordon Gee to be Highest Paid College President in OhioAKRON Ohio Incoming Ohio State University president Gordon Gee will take a pay cut when he leaves Vanderbilt University to assume the helm of the nation’s largest university, but his $775,000 salary easily will make him the highest paid college president in the state.July 15, 2007HomeArkansas Historians Fear State History Will Be Removed From K-12 CurriculumLITTLE ROCK Many historians, upset with what they expected Saturday would be a watering down of the teaching of Arkansas history in the public schools, will seek a one-year moratorium on new teaching guidelines that are to go into effect this fall.July 15, 2007StudentsRemote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and MindsDEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.July 15, 2007DisabiltiesGrant Prompts Future Special Ed Teachers to Enroll in UNH Training ProgramDURHAM N.H. Thanks to several federal grants, New Hampshire soon may be seeing more special education teachers.July 15, 2007Leadership & PolicyFormer North Dakota Higher Ed Administrators Remain On PayrollFARGO N.D. Two North Dakota higher education administrators who resigned last year under fire remained on the payroll through June 30, doing little work but costing taxpayers more than $450,000.July 15, 2007HBCUsIU Vice President Headed to NCCUBLOOMINGTON Ind. Outgoing Indiana University vice president Charlie Nelms has been appointed chancellor of North Carolina Central University, the nation’s first state-supported liberal arts institution for black students.July 15, 2007Previous PagePage 453 of 569Next Page
