Associated PressHomeMIT Dean Resigns for Faking Her Academic CredentialsMarilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned Thursday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after acknowledging she had misrepresented her own academic credentials.April 26, 2007HBCUsHBCU Players Vie for Attention in NFL DraftWhile improved off-season regimens are helping the development of players at Black colleges, it’s hard to say the schools are enjoying a renaissance when it comes to supplying the NFL with talent.April 25, 2007HomeLawsuit Claims Aspiring Minority Doctors Left In ‘Educational Limbo’LOS ANGELES A medical school that trains minority students filed a $125 million lawsuit that claims Los Angeles County breached its contract by leaving the school without an accredited teaching hospital.April 24, 2007StudentsTackling The Problem of Foster Children Missing Out On CollegeA Michigan task force, charged with recommending ways to help teenagers who age out of the foster care system, is focusing on higher education. One proposal would waive tuition for former foster children enrolled in Michigan’s public universities and community colleges.April 23, 2007Faculty & StaffPanels Calls For Mississippi Valley State U. President To Step DownITTA BENA, Miss. The panel Mississippi Valley State President Lester Newman created to study problems at the university has called for his dismissal.April 22, 2007HomeProfessor Had Expelled Gunman From ClassNearly two years ago, Nikki Giovanni had stood up to Cho Seung-Hui before he drenched the Virginia Tech campus in blood.April 18, 2007HomeVa. Tech Gunman Writings Raised ConcernsBLACKSBURG, Va. The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women and rich kids. A chilling picture emerged Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior English major a day after the bloodbath that left 33 people dead, including Cho, who killed himself as police closed in.April 17, 2007StudentsVirginia Tech Gunman Was Student From South KoreaBLACKSBURG Va. A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea killed at least 30 people locked inside a classroom building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university and police said Tuesday.April 16, 2007Leadership & PolicyLong-time Instructors Finally Get BenefitsBALTIMORE The Maryland Board of Regents has approved giving traditional benefits to long-term contractual lecturers. Some lecturers at Coppin State and Frostburg State universities weren’t even getting health insurance, even though they have been teaching for more than 10 years. The Baltimore Sun reported in December that nearly 300 full-time instructors were not eligible for retirement and other benefits.April 16, 2007StudentsQuestions Raised About Virginia Tech’s Response To ShootingsBLACKSBURG Va. A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours and a half-mile apart before the university could figure out what was going on and get the warning out to students.April 15, 2007Previous PagePage 490 of 569Next Page
