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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

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

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

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