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University of Missouri to Investigate Potential Embezzlement
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri in Columbia is investigating a possible case of employee embezzlement. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that a university news release Tuesday said that the school’s Police Department was investigating “suspected misappropriation of funds from student organization accounts affiliated with Greek Life.” The release says the money was held […]
Students
University of Alaska Fairbanks to Eliminate Economics Degree
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The University of Alaska Fairbanks is discontinuing its economics degree program. The Board of Regents made the decision to cut the program during its most recent meeting. Two faculty members recently received layoff notices, giving them one year left to teach, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Tuesday. The university’s Faculty Senate met […]
Faculty & Staff
Former Panthers President Morrison Returns to Teaching
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former Carolina Panthers president Danny Morrison is heading back to college. Morrison, the onetime athletic director at Wofford and TCU, will teach at the University of South Carolina’s College of Hospitality, Retail and Sports Management starting next month. The school announced Morrison’s addition this week. Between stints at Wofford and TCU, Morrison […]
Students
Applications Pile Up for University of Montana’s Top Job
MISSOULA, Mont. — A recruiting company official says 98 people have applied to be the next president of the University of Montana. Jim McCormick of AGB Search tells the Missoulian that the applicants come from 38 states and five countries. The school hopes to select a new president by October. Former Commissioner of Higher Education […]
Students
Teens From 15 States Learn Mandarin Chinese in Mississippi
OXFORD, Miss. — Thirty American teenagers are learning to speak Mandarin Chinese during an intensive summer program at the University of Mississippi. Now in its 11th year, Mississippi StarTalk is a federally funded program for students who will be high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. A university news release says language classes are taught at […]
Students
New Program: Centenary College to Baylor Nursing School
SHREVEPORT, La. — Centenary College says a new program helps science graduates enter a one-year program at Baylor University’s nursing school. Representatives from the schools in Shreveport and Dallas signed the agreement last week. Centenary spokeswoman Kate Pedrotty says students who graduate with all of the courses required to get into Baylor’s FastBacc program will […]
Students
New York Gets 75,000 Applications for Free Tuition Program
BUFFALO, N.Y. — About 75,000 people who applied for New York’s first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. “It feels absolutely terrific,” Binghamton University student Natan Nassir, of Great Neck, said after learning Thursday that the state will pick up his tab […]
News Roundup
Grad Donates $50M to St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — A graduate of St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia has given $50 million to the Roman Catholic university, the largest gift in the school’s history. The university plans to bolster its endowment and increase scholarships with the gift announced Thursday from 83-year-old James Maguire and his wife, Frances Maguire. St. Joseph’s said the gift […]
Students
UC Berkeley in Another Clash Over Right-wing Speaker
SAN FRANCISCO — Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro is the latest right-wing pundit who can’t speak on the University of California, Berkeley campus under the conditions proposed by a campus Republican group, officials for the university and the student organization said Thursday. The Berkeley College Republicans requested a room that could accommodate 500 people for […]
Faculty & Staff
Southern University Fires Vice Chancellor Dumas
Southern University has fired Dr. Brandon K. Dumas, the school’s vice chancellor for student affairs who was placed on administrative leave last month for undisclosed reasons. Dumas will have the opportunity to appeal his termination to the historically Black institution’s board of supervisors Friday. Dumas, who had served in his position for nearly five years, […]
Faculty & Staff
Southern Cal Addresses Drug Allegations Against Ex-dean
LOS ANGELES — The president of the University of Southern California says officials will “examine and address” a newspaper report that the recently resigned dean of the medical school abused drugs and associated with criminals. In a letter Tuesday, USC President C.L. Max Nikias acknowledged concern on campus following the Los Angeles Times report that […]
Students
Lehigh University Suspends Fraternity for Alcohol Violations
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Lehigh University officials have suspended a fraternity following several alcohol-related code of conduct violations at the eastern Pennsylvania campus. A blog run by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs states police cited more than 40 students for underage drinking at an event hosted by Kappa Sigma in April. The university decided […]
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