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Leadership & Policy

Virginia high court to hear disputes over Randolph coed move

RICHMOND Va. The Virginia Supreme Court will hear the appeals of students and alumni challenging the end of 115 years of single-sex education at the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

Leadership & Policy

University of Minnesota workers suspend strike, weigh offer to end more than 2-week walkout

MINNEAPOLIS Clerical and health care workers at the University of Minnesota abandoned picket lines Friday and will vote on a contract offer that could end their more than two-week-long strike.

Faculty & Staff

Western Washington University president announces her retirement

BELLINGHAM Wash. Western Washington University President Karen W. Morse, the longest-serving university president in the state, announced Friday she would retire Sept. 1, 2008.

Leadership & Policy

University of West Georgia professor to run Alabama’s largest school system

MOBILE Ala. University of West Georgia professor Roy Nichols has been chosen as superintendent of Mobile County schools, the state’s largest system with some 65,000 students.

Leadership & Policy

Ohio State gives basketball coach Thad Matta $480,000 raise and adds a year to his contract

COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State gave men’s basketball coach Thad Matta a raise of almost $500,000, boosting his salary to just under $2.5 million a year, and added a year to his contract to extend it through the 2016 season.

Leadership & Policy

Report: College president charged $25,000 in travel expenses

COLUMBUS Ohio The president of a technical college whose school is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office charged more than $25,000 in travel expenses to a credit card, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Leadership & Policy

Former Harvard president Summers disinvited from UC talk

Some consider Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad among the world’s most dangerous men, but Columbia University has resisted calls to rescind an invitation for him to speak there Monday.

Leadership & Policy

Montana regents discuss university enrollment declines

BILLINGS Mont. Maintaining enrollment numbers at the state’s colleges and universities was a recurring topic of discussion at the state Board of Regents meeting here.

Leadership & Policy

Delaware State officials say Virginia Tech inspired fast response when 2 students shot

DOVER Del. Alex Bishoff heard five gunshots from inside his dorm room at Delaware State University and looked out his window to see people scattering. He immediately thought of the Virginia Tech shootings in April.

Delaware State students point to tension among rival groups before shooting wounded 2

DOVER Delaware Tension between rival groups of friends from New Jersey and Washington, D.C., preceded the late-night shooting at Delaware State University that wounded two people, students said.

Leadership & Policy

NYC officials asks Columbia University to cancel speech by Iranian president

NEW YORK Columbia University is providing Iran’s president with a forum for his “hate speech” and should withdraw its invitation to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak at the prestigious university, the head of New York City’s City Council said Thursday.

Leadership & Policy

SIU discloses Poshard’s contract as university system’s president

Details of Glenn Poshard’s contract as president of the 35,000-student Southern Illinois University system:

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