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News Roundup: Page 458

Faculty & Staff
University of Missouri Faculty Suggest Revoking Cosby Degree
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri Faculty Council has voted to recommend rescind an honorary doctorate given to Bill Cosby. The Columbia Missourian reports the council, which is made up of elected representatives of campus faculty, voted Nov. 5 to take back Cosby’s honorary doctorate in humane letters. Ben Trachtenberg, chair of the Faculty […]
Native Americans
Cherokee Tribe Gifts $4M to University’s Seminary Hall
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. ― The Cherokee Nation has given $4 million to preserve and renovate a 126-year-old hall on the campus of Northeastern State University. The Tahlequah-based tribe announced the gift on Wednesday for the school’s Seminary Hall. The historic building currently houses the College of Liberal Arts administration, faculty and classrooms, and serves more than […]
News Roundup
Brown University Asks Judge to Dismiss Gender Bias Lawsuit
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ― Brown University officials have asked a federal court judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging gender bias brought by a male student who was suspended after being accused of sexual assault. The Providence Journal reports the Ivy League university’s attorney, Steven Richard, argued that the student’s complaint is “overwrought” with innuendo and doesn’t […]
Community Colleges
Armed Security Expected at Community Colleges in Connecticut
by Catherine Morris The Hartford Courant reports that security staff at Connecticut’s community colleges are expected to receive approval to carry weapons on campus on Thursday. The news comes in the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that claimed the lives of 9 victims in early October. All but one […]
Sports
Topeka Korean School Keeps Heritage Alive
by Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. — A longstanding school that is the subject of a recent documentary works to maintain traditions and culture for second-generation Korean-Americans. The Topeka Korean School was founded in 1993, said Sangyoub Park, associate principal at the school and a Washburn University sociology professor, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. The Korean school […]
Students
Muslim Students Seek Permanent Prayer Space at Iowa Colleges
by Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Muslim students at Iowa’s three public universities are seeking permanent spaces for daily and weekly religious observances. Motier Haskins, faculty adviser to the University of Iowa’s Muslim Student Association, says he’s scheduled to meet this week with the school’s vice president for student life to again discuss a […]
Leadership & Policy
University of Kansas Chancellor Addresses Diversity Issues
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas’ chancellor says hiring a new provost and addressing campus concerns about race are among her top priorities. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was hired by the university in 2009. She says it is expected to take six to nine months to hire a new provost. […]
African-American
Mississippi Supreme Court OKs More Student Work for Poor
JACKSON, Miss. ― Law students will be able to do more legal work for poor Mississippi residents under a rule recently approved by the state Supreme Court. Students attending law schools in other states and those who are not getting course credit for the work can now help attorneys representing people who cannot pay, said […]
Students
Community College Students, Union Call for President’s Exit
ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Students and staff at a Rochester community college are calling for the school’s president to leave, citing excessive expenses for the school’s recent centennial celebration as the latest example of her mismanagement. The student association and a faculty and staff union at Rochester Community and Technical College sent an open letter to […]
News Roundup
Author Rejects Claim that Records Release Threatens Funding
HELENA, Mont. ― State education officials must disclose the disciplinary records of a former quarterback accused of rape for the public to understand what the University of Montana is doing to protect students from sexual assault, the attorney for Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer said in court filings. Attorney Mike Meloy urged the Montana […]
Students
Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents
WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]
Students
UVa Looks to Private Donors to Fund Student Financial Aid
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― The University of Virginia is increasingly looking to private donors to cover tuition costs for low-income students amid shrinking state funding. Virginia’s flagship public university currently raises more than $10 million a year for need-based scholarships, UVa spokesman Anthony de Bryun told the Charlottesville Daily Progress. That’s up from $1.5 million that […]
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