Associated PressLeadership & PolicyCU President to Review Ex-coach’s Domestic Assault HandlingBOULDER, Colo. — University of Colorado President Bruce Benson will have the final say on how to handle university officials’ failure to report claims of domestic violence against a former assistant football coach. The Daily Camera reports the university’s Board of Regents had decided the president should make the decision on Monday after a seven-hour […]May 23, 2017Leadership & PolicySUNY Provost Set to be New University of Missouri ChancellorCOLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri System is set to hire the provost and executive vice chancellor at the State University of New York to run its flagship campus in Columbia, two years after the previous chancellor resigned amid protests over racial concerns on campus. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, citing multiple sources it didn’t […]May 23, 2017StudentsCarleton College Suspends 13 Over Hazing; Assault AllegedNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Officials at a small private college say they suspended 13 students over hazing at an initiation into a secret social club that involved extreme alcohol consumption, and police are investigating a reported sexual assault that followed. Carleton College said it suspended the students for three trimesters, or one academic year, for violating […]May 22, 2017WomenFilm Producer, Parents Donate $25M to St. Lawrence UniversityCANTON, N.Y. — A private college in northern New York has received a $25 million donation from an award-winning film producer and her parents. Officials at St. Lawrence University in Canton announced over the weekend that it has received the largest gift in the college’s 161-year history from 1982 graduate Sarah E. Johnson and her […]May 22, 2017StudentsSome Notre Dame Students Plan to Walk Out During Pence SpeechSOUTH BEND, Ind. — A University of Notre Dame student says he and some others plan to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s Sunday commencement address at the school by walking out on the speech. Protest organizer Bryan Ricketts tells the South Bend Tribune he expects 50 to 100 fellow graduating students to silently leave just […]May 18, 2017Leadership & PolicySearch for New Jackson State President ContinuesJACKSON, Miss. — Trustees are still looking for a new president for Jackson State University. After hours of closed debate Thursday, College Board President C.D. Smith said trustees haven’t reached a consensus, and are now broadening their search beyond the three unnamed finalists they have been considering. Smith says it’s wrong to say the search […]May 18, 2017Leadership & PolicyInterim Missouri Chancellor Says She Won’t Get Permanent JobCOLUMBIA, Mo. — The interim chancellor and provost at the University of Missouri says she is not a candidate to become permanent chancellor. Chancellor and Provost Garnett Stokes, who took over May 3, said Tuesday she expects the new chancellor to be named within the next two weeks. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Stokes didn’t […]May 17, 2017Campus ClimateUniversity of Illinois Cancels Scientist Talk After BacklashURBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois has cancelled plans to host a talk by Nobel Laureate James Watson after faculty raised concerns about his discredited views on race and intelligence. Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson tells The News-Gazette the center dropped plans to host the scientist before a date had […]May 17, 2017Faculty & StaffUniversity of Missouri to Cut 400 Positions Amid Budget WoesCOLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri expects to cut 400 positions amid enrollment drops and cuts in state funding. The Kansas City Star reports that Interim Chancellor Garnett Stokes spoke about the cuts with faculty, students and staff at a campus forum Monday. Stokes says at least half of the positions to be cut […]May 16, 2017StudentsMichigan Senate Votes to Make Flint Eligible for Scholarship ProgramLANSING, Mich. — High school graduates from Flint could qualify for college scholarships under legislation that would make the city eligible for a Promise Zone. The Senate approved the bill 35-2 Tuesday. It goes to the House, where a similar measure died last year in a committee whose chairman has since left the Legislature due […]May 16, 2017Previous PagePage 79 of 569Next Page