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Jobs Are Scarce for Ph.D.s

If you’re a grad student, it’s best to read the latest report from the National Science Foundation with a large glass of single-malt whiskey in hand. Scratch that: The top-shelf whiskey is probably out of your budget. Well, Trader Joe’s “Two Buck Chuck” is good, too! Liquid courage is a necessity when examining the data on […]

Senate OKs Bill to Allow Gun Carry on Tennessee Campuses

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― The state Senate on Tuesday voted to allow faculty and workers with handgun carry permits to be armed on the campuses of Tennessee public colleges and universities. The bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Bell passed on a 28-5 vote, and the House was expected to take up the measure Wednesday. Republican Gov. […]

University Professor Mauled by Brown Bear While Teaching

JUNEAU, Alaska ― Students and teaching assistants have arrived back in Juneau from a remote mountaineering class that was cut short when one of their professors was mauled by a brown bear. They said Tuesday night that they were tired and not yet ready to talk about Forest Wagner, 35, who was teaching the class […]

Accusers at BYU Investigated by School After Reporting Rape

SALT LAKE CITY ― Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site. She reported the crime to the school’s Title IX office. That same day, she says, BYU’s honor code office received a copy of the […]

APR Scores Show Money Remains Big Factor in College Sports

INDIANAPOLIS ― The wealthiest schools in college sports are cashing in with high academic performances. Others are paying a stiff price for sub-par scores. The NCAA’s latest Academic Progress Rate numbers, released Wednesday, show that schools with less money continue to play catch-up even as athletes remain in school and work toward degrees at record […]

House Votes to Strip University of Tennessee Diversity Funding

The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Monday to approve a bill that would strip state funding from the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The bill passed with a 66-22 vote after almost an hour of passionate debate punctuated by rounds of applause for speakers on both sides of the issue. The vote fell […]

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Rainbow-Colored Nooses Removed From Tenn. University Over ‘Hate Symbolism’ Concerns

A university in Tennessee is investigating after six rainbow-colored nooses were found Monday hanging from a tree on campus. Officials at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., said the nooses — red, orange, yellow, green, blue and black — were arranged in a rainbow on a tree outside of a fine-arts building. “This incident is deeply disturbing and […]

University Mistakenly Sends 5,000 Students Acceptance Emails

BUFFALO, N.Y. — More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university. University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken email was sent Wednesday to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed. He says the university sent a second email about three […]

Secret Harvard Club Breaks Silence, Followed by an Apology

BOSTON — A Boston business chief who broke the public silence of a 225-year-old Harvard all-male club apologized after critics said his comments blamed women for sexual assault. Charlie Storey, the president of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, wrote a letter to Harvard’s student newspaper defending the school’s social clubs for refusing to accept women. He was […]

Leadership & Policy

President Obama to Deliver Howard University Commencement Address

President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at Howard University in Washington next month, the university announced Thursday. The president, who will deliver the remarks May 7, will be speaking at commencement of a historically Black college or university for the third time during his administration. He also has been the featured speaker at […]

John Kerry Urges Miami College Students to Embrace Diversity

Secretary of State John Kerry exhorted Miami Dade Honors College students to pursue an inclusive American dream that includes “what our country stands for internationally.” To encourage freedom, he said, the United States wants to help “the Cuban people to begin a new chapter in their history.” He acknowledged that there are critics who believe […]

UC Davis Spent Thousands to Scrub Pepper-spray References from Internet

UC Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show. The payments were made as the university was trying to boost its image […]

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