Associated PressAfrican-AmericanStolen artifacts returned to Kenya after more than 20 yearsMOMBASA Kenya A set of wood carvings revered in Kenya as memorials to the dead and coveted on the international African art market has been returned to an East African village after being stolen more than two decades ago.June 24, 2007StudentsSecurity expensive for state-run New Orleans schoolsNEW ORLEANS Providing security for state-run schools in New Orleans has been expensive.June 24, 2007HomeUA-Fort Smith establishes police departmentFORT SMITH Ark. Growing student enrollment at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith has prompted the former community college to add an armed police department.June 24, 2007Community CollegesMany with degrees returning to community collegesGREENSBORO N.C. Many North Carolinians with degrees are returning to community colleges to further their education, largely the result of majoring in a subject that doesn’t bode well in today’s job market, officials said.June 24, 2007Recruitment & RetentionPa. state universities’ chancellor says she’ll step down in 2008HARRISBURG Pa. The chief executive of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities gave notice Monday that she plans to resign more than a year from now.June 24, 2007Community Colleges2 Ark. schools want to switch bonds to cover nursing school costsLITTLE ROCK Two Arkansas universities want to shift money set aside by a statewide bond issue to help fund improvements to their nursing programs, as enrollment and interest climbs in the field.June 24, 2007HomeWestern Kentucky Appoints Inaugural Diversity OfficerBOWLING GREEN, Ky. Western Kentucky University has its first diversity officer.June 24, 2007HealthYoung Graduates Worst Off Among the UninsuredTUCSON, Ariz. Congratulations, Shannon Tighe. You are a University of Arizona graduate. But you have no medical insurance.June 24, 2007HomeBlack College Enrollment in South Rate Passes MilestoneRALEIGH, N.C. For the first time ever in the South, Blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region’s population as a whole something not yet true of the country overall.June 24, 2007Faculty & StaffMississippi Valley State President Lester Newman ResignsITTA BENA, Miss. Dr. Lester C. Newman, the embattled president of Mississippi Valley State University, announced his resignation Friday, effective July 15.June 24, 2007Previous PagePage 482 of 569Next Page
