Associated PressFaculty & StaffNew Mexico University to Lay-off Staff, Freeze Vacant PostsLAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State University’s finalized budget will freeze over 90 vacant faculty and staff positions and lay off two personnel. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports university officials said Friday that the moves will close an $8 million gap in the institution’s budget. Administrators say the personnel cuts are much smaller than […]July 10, 2017Faculty & StaffProtesters: Rehire Adjunct Fired for Fox News CommentaryLIVINGSTON, N.J. — Activists are imploring New Jersey lawmakers to demand a college rehire an instructor who was fired last month after officials said she made racially insensitive remarks during a Fox News interview. About a dozen protesters, including members of Black Lives Matter, showed up at a Thursday night meeting of county legislators to […]July 9, 2017StudentsJudge Tosses Texas Professors’ Lawsuit Over Guns on CampusAUSTIN, Texas — A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by three University of Texas professors who argued that a new state law allowing concealed handguns on campus could have a “chilling effect” on classroom debate. Sociology professor Jennifer Lynn Glass and English professors Lisa Moore and Mia Carter sued last summer, before the law […]July 9, 2017StudentsAlabama Program Aims to Recruit Hispanic NursesTUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is launching a program to increase the number of Hispanic nurses involved in health care. The Capstone College of Nursing has received a $1.7 million grant for the Bama-Latino Project, which aims to recruit Hispanics into baccalaureate nursing programs. Alabama nursing professor Normal Cuellar says in a statement […]July 9, 2017StudentsSamford to Forego Funds from Baptist Group After LGBT FlapBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Samford University will refuse an anticipated $3 million annual budget allocation from the Alabama Baptist State Convention next year, university officials said. The university’s Board of Trustees executive committee approved the decision Friday after consultation with state convention leaders. The move is effective Jan. 1. “I believe the action taken by our […]July 9, 2017StudentsUniversity of Arkansas Won’t Sell Alcohol Despite ApprovalFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — University of Arkansas doesn’t plan on selling alcohol at intercollegiate sporting events despite state-issued alcohol permits taking effect. Alcoholic Beverage Control Division Director Mary Casteel tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that large-attendance facility permits for concessionaire Levy Premium Foodservice LP to sell alcohol were approved last month and took effect Saturday. University spokesman […]July 6, 2017StudentsStudent Group Sues College in Michigan Over Speech PolicyCLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A conservative nonprofit student group at a community college in southeastern Michigan has sued the school, saying its policy of requiring permission for public speech violates members’ First Amendment rights. Attorneys representing Turning Point USA say the Macomb Community College chapter is challenging the school’s expressive activity policy in a federal […]July 6, 2017StudentsU of Illinois to Host Conference on College Student HungerURBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois will hold a conference focusing on the problem of hunger in college students. Agricultural engineering professor Prasanta Kalita organized the effort to bring the Presidents United to Solve Hunger conference to the Urbana-Champaign campus in March of next year. Kalita said the conference is expected to draw up […]July 5, 2017StudentsU. of New Hampshire Institute on Disabilities Gets $2.7M GrantDURHAM, N.H. — The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant to support the independence, productivity and quality of individuals with disabilities. The funding for the university’s Institute on Disability comes from the federal Administration for Community Living. It will be used for research, for training future health and human […]July 5, 2017Asian American Pacific IslanderIvy League Historian Returns Prize After Citations QuestionsNEW YORK — A Columbia University professor who specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history has returned a 2014 prize he received from the American Historical Association after some sources in the winning book were questioned. Charles K. Armstrong, author of “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992,” won the association’s […]July 5, 2017Previous PagePage 69 of 569Next Page