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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Oral Roberts President Receives ‘No Confidence’ Vote
TULSA Okla. Embattled Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts, facing accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, has received a vote of no confidence by the tenured faculty at the evangelical university.
November 14, 2007
Students
No Place Like Home
Passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of “good things come to those who wait.”
November 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
ACT Inc. Board, CEO Paid Higher Than Most Nonprofits
DES MOINES, Iowa The Iowa City-based nonprofit organization that develops ACT college entrance tests pays its board and its top executive more than almost all other nonprofit organizations in the United States.
November 11, 2007
Students
Engaging Community College Students
As soon as they walk through the door, new community college students should see an advisor who will help chart the path students need to follow to achieve their educational goals, but that’s only happening for half of the students, say researchers from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, which is releasing a new report today that provides a blueprint for community college student success.
November 11, 2007
Students
Engaging Community College Students
As soon as they walk through the door, new community college students should see an advisor who will help chart the path students need to follow to achieve their educational goals, but that’s only happening for half of the students, say researchers from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, which is releasing a new report today that provides a blueprint for community college student success.
November 11, 2007
Students
School Districts Under Desegregaton Orders Confused By Latest Supreme Court Ruling On Diversity
Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of White teachers with Black ones, they say.
November 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Oral Roberts’ Son Accused of Misspending
TULSA Okla. A Beverly Hills house and country club membership. Vacations in Palm Springs and the South Seas. A closet as big as an apartment, stuffed with hundreds of pairs of shoes, suits, dresses and golf shoes.
November 8, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Southern Methodist U. to Get $20M from Dallas Couple
DALLAS Philanthropists Harold and Annette Simmons plan to announce a $20 million gift to Southern Methodist University on Friday.
November 8, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor to Teach Urban Policy at Temple U.
PHILADELPHIA Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor John Street will enter the world of academia when he leaves office in a couple of months.
November 8, 2007
Faculty & Staff
University President Asks State for $129 Million Next Year
DOVER, Del. University of Delaware President Patrick Harker is asking state budget writers for $600,000 for a new institute that would match faculty members working on renewable energy with research partners in the private sector.
November 6, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Grassley Probes Three Oral Roberts Regents
TULSA Okla. An Iowa senator is investigating possible financial wrongdoing by six televangelists, including three who sit on the board of regents for Oral Roberts University.
November 6, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville’s Faculty Senate Calls for Poshard’s Resignation
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. The faculty senate at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville wants the system’s president to resign over plagiarism claims.
November 5, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Survey Offers a Snapshot of Hovering College Parents
College administrators grumble about the rise of “helicopter parents,” moms and dads who keep hovering over the lives of their children even after they leave for college. But helicopter parents aren’t just hovering. They’re swooping down in attack mode.
November 4, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Survey Offers a Snapshot of Hovering College Parents
College administrators grumble about the rise of “helicopter parents,” moms and dads who keep hovering over the lives of their children even after they leave for college.
November 4, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Taking Flight Internationally
As the new director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in Latin American history, Dr. Ben Vinson strengthens the center’s internationalist orientation.
October 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Grants and Gifts
Armstrong Atlantic State University (Ga.) has been awarded $483,760 by the National Science Foundation for scholarships to support students in computer science, information technology, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics fields. The Association of American Indian Physicians and its partners in the Healthier Indian Country Initiative have received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department […]
October 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Test-Driving Their Passions
As Watson fellows, recent college graduates spend a year abroad without the requirement of producing a research project. But most do, and academically and professionally,the experience proves priceless.
October 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Ethnic Fraud?
For American Indian scholars, securing a job in higher education can sometimes be as simple as checking a box.
October 31, 2007
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