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Leadership & Policy

University of Maryland Investigates Possible Hate Crime After Noose Discovered Hanging in Tree

COLLEGE PARK, Md. University of Maryland police on Monday were investigating as a possible hate crime what appeared to be a noose hanging in a tree near a building that houses several black campus groups.

September 10, 2007

ASU Providing Private Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

PHOENIX Arizona State University has helped as many as 200 illegal immigrants obtain private scholarships this semester to help pay for higher out-of-state tuition that voters approved in a state referendum, university President Michael Crow said.

September 9, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Remembering Little Rock

Ten years ago, Sharon M. Draper was honored as National Teacher of the Year.

September 5, 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

Asian and Pacific Islander Students in California Say ‘Count Us Correctly’

When Christine Santos arrived at the University of California, Los Angeles from Guam in the fall of 2004, she said she felt like a foreigner even though nearly 34 percent of new students at UCLA were Asian.

August 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Disappearing Acts: The Vanishing Black Male On Community College Campuses

Many consider community colleges “open door” institutions, denoting their unique role of providing an affordable and quality education for the masses.

August 22, 2007

Virginia Tech Panel: Increase Security, Establish Team to Monitor Students Posing Threats

BLACKSBURG, Va. Virginia Tech’s internal review of the campus massacre that left 33 people dead recommended Wednesday more monitoring of troubled students, classroom locks and other security measures.

August 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Cornel West Debates Michael Eric Dyson Over Use of the N-Word on New CD

Dr. Cornel West, one of the nation’s most recognized Black public intellectuals, this week released his second hip-hop CD, which he hopes helps bridge the gap between younger and older generations. The collaborative project featuring some of the biggest names in rap and R&B also includes a debate between West and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson over the use of the N-word.

August 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown Taps New High-Profile Board of Corporate Leaders

Morris Brown has addressed several issues that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools cited when it yanked the college’s accreditation in 2002. But Morris Brown still has to show that it’s fiscally stable and that’s where many of the school’s new trustees, including executives who can attract corporate dollars, come in.

August 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Katrina Curriculum: A Lesson In Promoting Dialogues About Race and Class

A new curriculum is set to launch this upcoming school year at Columbia University, Teachers College, based on Spike Lee’s HBO documentary, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”

August 19, 2007

Va. Tech Starts Semester With New Crisis

BLACKSBURG, Va. A Virginia Tech campus still reeling from the deaths of 32 people at the hands of a student gunman last spring began its fall semester Monday amid another tragedy: a carbon monoxide leak at an off-campus apartment left five roommates hospitalized, two in critical condition.

August 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial: “UC President Dynes bows out after controversial 4 years”

However hard he tried, Robert Dynes could never escape a pay-and-perk controversy that overshadowed his four years as president of the University of California.

August 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Community colleges face ‘double-whammy’ from budget cuts

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Community colleges are facing a “double-whammy” from impending spending cuts because their enrollment is soaring although their budgets are based on last year’s attendance, Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp acknowledged Wednesday.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Democratic loyalist is picked for Massachusetts higher education post

BOSTON Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday appointed Democratic loyalist Fred Clark to be chairman of the state’s Board of Higher Education.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Bishop State investigation at center of Alabama furor over “fuhrer”

MONTGOMERY Ala. The emotion-charged German title “fuhrer,” usually associated with Adolf Hitler, has created a furor between Democrats and Republicans that could be a buildup to the next race for governor.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Colleges Struggle to Quit Rankings Habit

U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered. But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.

August 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

UNH accepts factfinder report in faculty contract dispute

DURHAM N.H. There is a break in the impasse in contract talks between faculty and the University of New Hampshire.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Catawba College president to retire at the end of school year

SALISBURY N.C. Catawba College’s president of more than five years plans to retire at the end of the 2007-2008 school year, officials announced Tuesday.

August 14, 2007

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