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Ottawa University Announces New International Partnership

Ottawa University Announces New International PartnershipOTTAWA, Kan.Ottawa University has partnered with SEG International BHD (SEGi), Malaysia’s largest private higher education provider, with more than 18,500 students in 14 campuses and six training centers throughout the country. As part of the partnership agreement, Ottawa University will provide a 13-month distance-learning program for working adults leading to […]

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AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar

AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar WASHINGTONThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently protested the U.S. government’s action to revoke the work visa of Professor Tariq Ramadan, a citizen of Switzerland and well-known Muslim scholar who had been appointed to a faculty position at the University of Notre Dame beginning this fall. The State […]

Legislation Vies to Revitalize Foreign-Student Enrollment

Legislation Vies to Revitalize Foreign-Student EnrollmentBy Kristin BagnatoIn an effort to reverse declining enrollment by foreign students, Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., last month introduced legislation intended to ease some of the more burdensome aspects of the student visa process. As the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System — better known as Sevis — procedure stands […]

Berkeley’s ‘Best-Kept’ Secret

Berkeley’s ‘Best-Kept’ SecretNational summit seeks to involve youth in how communities are redeveloped By Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.“I always planned to drop out of high school and have three kids,” exclaims a smiling young woman swaddling a baby. “I’ve always wanted to have asthma,” rejoices a corn-rowed teenager, standing in front of a construction site that […]

Interacting as a Global Entity

Interacting as a Global EntityGoldman Sachs Foundation institute sets out to prepare next generation of world leaders By Hilary Hurd Anyaso They are wise beyond their years. They are multi-talented, entrepreneurial, represent an incredibly diverse group of countries and care deeply about the world in which they live. And their average age is 21. For the […]

University of Pittsburgh Cancels Cuba Portion Of Study Abroad Program

University of Pittsburgh Cancels Cuba Portion Of Study Abroad ProgramPITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh canceled a trip to Cuba that has traditionally been a part of its study abroad program known as Semester at Sea. The cruise had stopped in Cuba since 1999, but officials decided to cancel it because of the Bush administration’s toughened restrictions […]

Knowledge Is Power

Knowledge Is PowerDouble the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented YouthEdited by Richard Kazis, Joel Vargas and Nancy HoffmanHarvard Education Press, 2004, 280 pp., $54.95 library, ISBN 1-891792-23-7; $28.95 paperback ISBN 1-891792-22-9Only 25 percent of U.S. high school students complete any college degree. Among African American youth, only 18 percent earn a baccalaureate by age […]

Florida International University Unveils Plan For New Medical School

Florida International University Unveils Plan For New Medical SchoolMIAMI Florida International University presented plans in early July for a medical school on its campus, saying the facility is necessary to help alleviate a shortage of physicians. FIU President Modesto Maidique said a formal proposal has been presented to the Board of Governors, who must approve […]

African-American

Georgia Professor Wins International Award for History Volume

Georgia Professor Wins International Award for History VolumeATHENS, Ga. The Conference on the History of Women Religious, an international body of scholars numbering about 600 members, honored a book by a University of Georgia history professor at its sixth triennial conference in Atchison, Kan., last month. Dr. Diane Batts Morrow, associate professor of history and […]

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High School

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High SchoolCORAL GABLES, Fla.The University of Miami has partnered with a private Florida-based K-12 school to collaborate on an online high school. Last fall, the Sagemont School in Weston approached the university with plans for a partnership that would allow the university’s professors to conduct […]

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]

Service is in Her Blood

Service is in Her BloodThe daughter of noted blood bank pioneer Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis is no stranger to the spotlight. Yet, it is from her own political and educational pursuits that she has become a well-known figure in the Washington, D.C., area. After working as a research scientist at the National […]

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