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Leadership & Policy
College Investments Net Good Returns, Questions About High Costs
Colleges and universities raked in money by the billions last year. But their investing success now has a price a movement in Congress to force the wealthiest schools to spend more of their money to keep down tuition.
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
Leadership & Policy
Lawsuit Against Oral Roberts University Revised to Include New Allegations
TULSA Okla. A lawsuit against Oral Roberts University, filed by three former ORU professors, has been revised to include an internal report that details allegations against university President Richard Roberts and his wife, Lindsay.
October 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Florida Lawmakers Pass $1.1 Billion Budget Cut, Tuition Increase
TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida’s budget could shrink by about $1.1 billion and college students may pay higher tuition due to legislation passed Friday in response to a shortfall in tax revenue blamed mainly on a housing slump.
October 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Mistrial for Ex-Texas Southern University President
HOUSTON Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
October 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Florida Bill Would Peg Community College Tuition Hikes to Inflation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Legislation that would raise community college and state-university tuition by 5 percent in January also includes automatic increases in future years tied to inflation, as well as a technology fee for universities.
October 10, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Florida Bill Would Peg Community College Tuition Hikes to Inflation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Legislation that would raise community college and state-university tuition by 5 percent in January also includes automatic increases in future years tied to inflation, as well as a technology fee for universities.
October 10, 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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Leadership & Policy
Jury Deadlocks in Texas Southern Trial
HOUSTON Jurors deliberating whether Texas Southern University’s former president misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes said they were at an impasse Wednesday, but the judge told them to keep working.
October 9, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Oregon Coast Community College Gets New Home, At Last
NEWPORT Ore. Oregon Coast Community College has been without a home for 20 years.
October 9, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Alabama Architect Defrauded Two-Year System With Bribes, Prosecutors Say
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Federal prosecutors say Anniston, Ala. architect Julian W. Jenkins gave bribes worth $85,000 to two-year college system Chancellor Roy Johnson and his family and $1,800 to a college president in return for more than $2.6 million in contracts.
October 9, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging
The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.
October 8, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Alabama Architect Defrauded Two-Year System With Bribes, Prosecutors Say
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Federal prosecutors say Anniston, Ala. architect Julian W. Jenkins gave bribes worth $85,000 to two-year college system Chancellor Roy Johnson and his family and $1,800 to a college president in return for more than $2.6 million in contracts.
October 3, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
New HBCU Rankings Get Mixed Reviews
U.S. News & World Report has launched a new ranking series, “America’s Best Black Colleges,” which ranks historically Black colleges and universities separately but by using the same methodology as its annual “America’s Best Colleges” rankings.
October 2, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Getting to Know: Dr. Robert Franklin Jr.
Prior to profiling Morehouse’s new president in the pages of Diverse, we reported online about his speech at the HBCU Week conference last month where he essentially outlined some of his plans for the all-male college.
October 2, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging
The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.
October 2, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Oregon Coast Community College Gets New Home, At Last
NEWPORT Ore. Oregon Coast Community College has been without a home for 20 years.
October 2, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Ohio State University president Gordon Gee officially takes over
COLUMBUS Ohio The Ohio State University’s rehired president Gordon Gee officially took over Monday, telling well-wishers who greeted him with a surprise celebration that it was the first day of his dream of returning to the university.
October 1, 2007
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