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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

Controversy Erupts at N.Y. College Over Tenure for Palestinian Professor

Another controversy involving Mideast politics has erupted on the Columbia University campus, and this time it is over whether to grant tenure to an anthropology professor of Palestinian descent.

September 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

The University of California has established a multi-campus research program to study and develop solutions for problems affecting Asian Americans.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ward Churchill: By Firing Him, CU Regents ‘Gutted Academic Freedom’

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill may have lost his job, but he hasn’t lost his nerve.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Living With a Majority-Minority Mindset

While race relations have improved over the years, a lack of understanding regarding inequalities still exists.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

LOS ANGELES For more than a decade, a group of educational leaders within the University of California system have been working towards a common goal: the development of a statewide think tank that would address the issues of the growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population.

September 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

In Brief: Floyd Flake’s No-Confidence Vote, Diversity Efforts Pay Off At CU, Kentucky Institutions

The labor union representing the faculty at Wilberforce University has issued a vote of no confidence in President Floyd Flake that the school said on Friday is tied to contract talks. Black enrollment at the University of Colorado is up 24 percent within this year’s freshman class while the University of Louisville has hired 45 Asian, Black and Hispanic professors.

September 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Housing Secretary, Former Regent Says He Lost Confidence in Texas Southern

HOUSTON The U.S. housing secretary and former regent testified Friday that he lost confidence in Texas Southern University’s ex-president after details about a spending scandal became public.

August 25, 2007