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Haslams donate $10M to UT-Knoxville for academics

KNOXVILLE Tenn. A $10 million gift to the University of Tennessee’s main campus announced Tuesday will be used to support its acclaimed forensic anthropology and Renaissance studies programs, endowed professorships and honors scholarships that include study abroad.

October 2, 2007

Faculty & Staff

University of Chicago tops $2 billion figure in fundraising drive

CHICAGO The University of Chicago says it’s surpassed its $2 billion fundraising goal, making it the nation’s seventh campus to raise at least that amount during a capital fundraising campaign.

September 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

New dean at LSU med: chancellor had been dean since Katrina

BATON ROUGE La. For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, LSU’s medical school has a separate chancellor and dean of medicine.

September 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

University of New Hampshire faculty sets strike authorization vote

DURHAM N.H. The faculty union at the University of New Hampshire soon may take a contract dispute to a new level.

September 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Oregon universities seek ways to prevent dropouts

EUGENE Ore. As classes begin at Oregon public universities, higher education officials hope to reduce a dropout rate that likely will result in the loss of 2,200 of 10,400 incoming freshmen before their sophomore year.

September 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Western Washington University president announces her retirement

BELLINGHAM Wash. Western Washington University President Karen W. Morse, the longest-serving university president in the state, announced Friday she would retire Sept. 1, 2008.

September 22, 2007

California State University, Long Beach removes journalism chairman

LONG BEACH Calif. The chairman of the journalism department at California State University, Long Beach, lost his position after criticizing a plan to end print editions of the campus newspaper.

September 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Leader picked for terrorism research center at Penn State

STATE COLLEGE Pa. An expert in the psychology of terrorism has been picked to direct a terrorism research center headquartered at Penn State University.

September 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Board of Higher Ed gives tentative nod to president pay raises

MINOT N.D. Members of North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education are raising questions about new pay standards that would make the university system’s campus presidents eligible for hefty salary increases. One president compared the changes to being generous with a team’s coach while shortchanging its players.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Embattled chancellor of University of California, Irvine apologizes for withdrawing offer to Duke legal scholar

IRVINE Calif. The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty Thursday as he apologized for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar from Duke University the founding dean of the university’s new law school.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

UCI chancellor apologizes for flap over law dean’s rejection

IRVINE Calif. The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty Thursday as he apologized for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar the founding dean of the university’s new law school.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

A beloved professor delivers lecture of a lifetime

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday afternoon, but before he said a word, he received a standing ovation from 400 students and colleagues.

September 19, 2007

MSU announces team to assess university’s programs for athletes

BOZEMAN Mont. A 16-member team of Montana State University employees, former athletes and community members is scheduled to meet here Thursday night to begin assessment of the school’s programs and policies that relate to student-athletes.

September 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Rejected by NY college, conservative center sets up off campus

Rebuffed by Hamilton College, three professors are establishing The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization as an independent center.

September 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Legal scholar’s dismissal could delay UCI law school opening

IRVINE Calif. The opening of the University of California, Irvine’s new law school in 2009 could be delayed now that the school has to begin a new search for a founding dean, said officials.

September 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

GOP politician sent email asking how to stop naming of UC Irvine law school dean

IRVINE Calif. A conservative Los Angeles County politician asked about two dozen people in an e-mail last month how to prevent the University of California, Irvine from hiring renowned liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as its founding law school dean, a spokesman for the politician said Friday.

September 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

UND surpasses goal for research money

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota researchers received more than $100 million in grants, contracts and other funding in fiscal 2007, surpassing the school’s goal.

September 16, 2007

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Faculty & Staff

Sparks Fly at HBCU Week Session on Wage Disparities Study

Washington Hundreds of top administrators and faculty gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the HBCU Week Conference, which concluded Tuesday. Attendees were exposed to a wide array of programming focused on a “fulfilling the covenant” theme, inspired by Tavis Smiley’s best-selling book, The Covenant With Black America.

September 11, 2007