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News Roundup: Page 228
News Roundup
Green Mountain College Announces Closure, Partnership to Help Students Complete Degree Programs
Green Mountain College (GMC) Board of Trustees have announced that the 185-year-old institution will close its doors at the end of the spring 2019 semester. GMC officials said the college has created a teach-out partnership with Prescott College to help GMC students complete their degrees before the school closes. Under the partnership, Prescott will admit […]
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University of South Florida St. Petersburg Sends 430 Acceptance Emails By Accident
Officials at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP) said it recently sent 430 acceptance emails to student applicants by accident. The university said the emails were delivered on Saturday, Jan. 19 and were a result of “human error”, according to a statement to ABC News. “All of us work in higher education because […]
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Temple University Health System Changes Management as Part of new Restructuring Plan
In a recent letter sent to Temple University Health System faculty, chief medical officer Susan Freeman and chief administrative officer Alan Rosenberg will be stepping down from their posts as part of the system’s restructuring. The letter, written by the system’s president and chief executive Larry Kaiser, also stated that Temple University Hospital’s CEO Verdi […]
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Michael Bloomberg: Johns Hopkins University Needs Armed Police Force
Former Mayor of New York and major donor to Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg, recently said it’s “ridiculous” that the university does not have an armed police force. “When you have a city that has the murder rate that Baltimore has, I think it’s ridiculous to think that they shouldn’t be armed,” Bloomberg said. The […]
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Students in Blackface Video No Longer Attend University of Oklahoma
A day after two University of Oklahoma students made a blackface video that went viral, president Jim Gallogly announced that the students will leave the campus. “This type of behavior is not welcome here and is condemned in the strongest terms by me and by our university,” Gallogly said in the announcement. “This behavior does […]
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Robot Food Delivery Service Now Available at George Mason University
George Mason University students can now have select food and drinks orders delivered to them by robots, thanks to a new partnership with European startup company Starship Technologies. Starship will bring at least 25 six-wheeled robots to the Fairfax campus. Students can use the robot delivery service for orders from Blaze Plaza, Starbucks and Dunkin’ […]
Students
Child Prodigy with Full-Ride to Southern University Begins First Semester of Classes
Elijah Precciely, an 11-year-old child prodigy from Baton Rouge recently began his first full semester at Southern University where he is pursuing a degree in physics. In May 2018, Southern University announced that Precciely was taking courses at the institution before he received a full-ride scholarship to attend Southern. With his completed courses from last […]
Students
University of Central Arkansas Receives $20M Donation for New Fine Arts Center
The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) has received a $20 million from the Windgate Foundation, the largest donation in more than a century of its existence. The donation will be used to create the new, 114,000 square foot Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The center will include an exterior space for three-dimensional art, […]
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Marshall University Food Pantry Offer Services to Federal Workers
Marshall University’s Department of Dietetics food pantry has opened its doors to federal workers struggling as a result of the government shutdown. “We are deeply committed to providing nutrition education and programming to not only our students, but to those we serve in our community as well,” said Dr. Kelli Williams, chair of the university’s […]
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Retired Lt. Col. Danielle M. Conway Appointed Dean of Penn State Dickinson Law
Retired Lt. Col. Danielle M. Conway, current dean and law professor at the University of Maine School of Law, has been appointed dean of Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson Law, effective July 1. Prior to joining the University of Maine in 2015, Conway served on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of […]
Recruitment & Retention
Report: Iowa’s Community Colleges See Decrease in Total Enrollment, Increase in Minority Enrollment
According to the Annual Condition of Iowa’s Community Colleges report, the state’s community college enrollment decreased by 1.2 percent in 2018, while tuition increased. However, the community colleges still serve over half of Iowa students pursuing higher education, and have seen a record 22.4 percent increase in minority enrollment, according to The Gazette. Minority students […]
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Wright State University Faculty Strike Begins
Members of the Wright State University (WSU) Faculty Union have begun their strike, leaving their offices on the campus early Tuesday morning as a result of failed contract discussions with the university Board of Trustees. The faculty union filed a strike notice after rejecting the most recent contract offer from the WSU Board of Trustees, […]
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