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Disheveled college applications causes bomb scare

CHARLESTON Ill. Here’s a tip for aspiring college students: make sure your applications don’t warrant a visit from the bomb squad.

July 22, 2007

Langston named in student loan inquiry

OKLAHOMA CITY Langston University officials say they do not have details of an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office that found that a Langston financial aid officer accepted perks from a student loan company before advocating the lender on a preferred list for students.

July 22, 2007

Dustup Over Racial Slur Comes at Delicate Time for Young Law School

PROVIDENCE, R.I. The law school at Roger Williams University is a relative infant among peers, opened less than 15 years ago and angling ever since to elevate its national profile and climb the rankings ladder.

July 21, 2007

Higher Tuition Rates Cause Concern at College Campuses in Handful of States

Michigan is one of a handful of states where tuition at some public universities will increase by nearly 10 percent or more starting this fall. Four-year public schools in Illinois, Colorado and Oklahoma also plan tuition increases that could at least triple the general inflation rate.

July 18, 2007

Gun Rights Activists: Firearms Ban Would Make MSU More Dangerous

BOZEMAN Mont. Montana State University plans to restrict firearms and ban concealed weapons from campus, steps that gun-rights activists argue would make students more vulnerable if a Virginia Tech-style gunman were to threaten the MSU campus.

July 18, 2007

3 E. Michigan Administrators Forced Out

YPSILANTI Mich. Three Eastern Michigan University administrators, including the president, have been forced out, months after top school officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play.

July 18, 2007

Yale Junior Found with Guns Arraigned on Charges of Threatening

NEW HAVEN Conn. A Yale University student who is accused of firing a gun in the living room of his off-campus fraternity house over the weekend has been arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace.

July 18, 2007

Hudson Begins Tenure as Miss. Valley State U. Leader

ITTA BENA Miss. It was a pivotal moment in the 56-year history of Mississippi Valley State University.

July 18, 2007

Best & Brightest: Obligation To Native Culture, Community Fuels Academic Drive

Karletta Chief has come a long way since the days when, as a Stanford University undergrad, her father had to sell the family’s cattle to cover the costs of her engineering books. Such were the sacrifices of the Navajo first-generation college student and her parents, a minister and a Navajo weaver.

July 18, 2007

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

July 18, 2007

Enrollment Growing Faster at Tennessee’s Private Colleges

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The state’s private colleges are growing faster than public ones, government data show.

July 17, 2007

New Mexico Educators Won’t Face Federal Sanctions for School Racism Project

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. School leaders in a southern New Mexico district will not face federal sanctions for allowing a high school project on racism in which students posted signs reading “Whites Only” and “People of Color” above water faucets, federal officials said.

July 17, 2007

New Mexico School District Will Implement Policy Against Racial Harassment

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights says the Truth or Consequences school district must ensure an educational environment free of racial discrimination after a Black student complained about a high school racism project.

July 17, 2007

Oxford Administrators Using Facebook to Monitor Students

LONDON For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For university authorities, it’s a way to find and fine troublemakers.

July 17, 2007

Univ. President Fired After Cover-Up

YPSILANTI,Mich. Eastern Michigan University fired its president, months after top university officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play despite evidence that later led to murder charges.

July 16, 2007

Illegal Immigrants Find Aid for College in N.M.

FORT COLLINS Colo. At least 10 undocumented students from Colorado will get to attend classes at the University of New Mexico this fall, with many not having to pay for tuition or books.

July 15, 2007

Journalism Scholarship Established in Memory of Mississippi Publisher Tisdale

JACKSON Miss. The Charles Tisdale Memorial Scholarship is being established by the Jackson Association of Black Journalists, the president of the organization announced Friday.

July 15, 2007

Remote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and Minds

DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.

July 15, 2007