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Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Entrepreneurship Training Can Empower Students Being Left Behind
The rote learning taking place day after day in classrooms across the country in order to meet minimum No Child Left Behind benchmarks leaves most students bored and many teachers demoralized. Missing from the NCLB renewal discussion is the benefit of entrepreneurship education, with its experiential and contextual methods that empower students and keep them engaged.
October 23, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Sculptor Rebuilds Ga. University’s $1M Sculpture of Earth Following Collapse
KENNESAW Ga. It took Finnish-born sculptor Eino roughly four months to rebuild the world.
October 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Tutu Will Visit St. Thomas If Professor Is Reinstated
ST. PAUL Minn. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has notified the University of St. Thomas that he’ll accept an invitation to speak on campus next spring, but only if the university reinstates Cris Toffolo as director of the Justice and Peace Studies Program.
October 22, 2007
Students
Alumni Scramble to Keep Antioch College Open
YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign: “Office of Transition.”
October 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
North Dakota Board of Higher Education Approves Salary Plan
FARGO N.D. The state Board of Higher Education has approved higher salary ranges for the state university system chancellor and college presidents. The board’s faculty adviser says the focus should now shift to teacher salaries.
October 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Report: IRS Notified Oral Roberts University of Problems with Political Programs
TULSA Okla. Oral Roberts University officials received notification from the Internal Revenue Service last year of deficiencies in the way the nonprofit school had handled political programs, a spokesman has confirmed.
October 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Businessman Donates Nearly $75 Million to University of Oregon
EUGENE Ore. Retired businessman Lorry Lokey has given a $74.5 million gift to the University of Oregon, with most of the money going toward the sciences.
October 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Summit: Faculty Challenged to Get Off Athletic Sidelines and Get Involved
Washington, D.C. In response to the recently released Knight Foundation survey showing that higher education faculty care little about college athletics, a group of nationally recognized experts meeting here urged them to rethink their attitudes and lack of involvement.
October 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Columbia Professor Targeted With Noose: “I Will Not Be Silenced”
NEW YORK Hundreds of students and faculty members at Columbia University in New York City rallied Wednesday afternoon to protest the hanging of a noose on the office door of a popular African-American professor.
October 9, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Arkansas State Minority Program Canceled
JONESBORO, Ark. Arkansas State University has shut down a program to help minority students excel academically and go on to graduate school.
October 7, 2007
Students
The Rise of the Ghetto-Fabulous Party
In a recent article published in Colorlines, Dr. C. Richard King, an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, and Dr. David J. Leonard, an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, argue that the “gangsta” parties could be the culmination of two decades of conservative politics at colleges and the “corporatization” of American universities.
October 4, 2007
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Students
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
Students
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
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