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Leadership & Policy
College Board Reports Most Diverse Class of SAT Test-takers on Record
A record-number of students took the SAT this year, and the increase reflects on this year’s average scores, which showed no improvement over last year and were the lowest in nearly a decade.
August 26, 2008
Students
United Tribes Powwow Committee Hosts Annual Celebration
The United Tribes Powwow Committee is once against hosting one of the longest-running contest powwows in the country.
August 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Kansas University Fires Debate Coach Who Lost Temper Over Racism Accusation
Fort Hays State University has fired its debate coach for losing his temper at a tournament, engaging in a videotaped shouting match that included pulling down his shorts to expose his underwear.
August 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Report Urges U.S. Colleges to Adopt Europe’s Higher Education Accountability Reforms
It’s far from certain whether the U.S. higher education accountability movement will see colleges and universities nationally instituting learning standards and other accountability measures.
August 20, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Public Roles, Private Lives
Universities have become cognizant of the independent lives of presidential spouses, but it’s still a role these “accidental ambassadors” must grow into.
August 20, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
College Presidents Seek Debate on Drinking Age
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
August 19, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Newspaper: NCCU Operated Satellite Campus
North Carolina Central University officials are trying to decide what to do with about 50 students who attended a satellite campus at a megachurch near Atlanta run by a school trustee.
August 11, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Newspaper: NCCU Operated Satellite Campus
North Carolina Central University officials are trying to decide what to do with about 50 students who attended a satellite campus at a megachurch near Atlanta run by a school trustee.
August 10, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Fired Bishop State Instructor Ordered Rehired
A fired Bishop State Community College food service instructor who enrolled in his own course has been ordered rehired with back pay by an arbitrator who ruled his dismissal was unfair.
August 10, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Study: Impending Community College Leadership Shortfall Could Be Avoided Through Diversity Efforts
A significant number of community college presidents will be retiring in coming years, creating a leadership void that could be filled through a concerted effort to groom more minorities and women, according to a new report.
August 7, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Education Department Launches Effort to Simplify Aid Formula
The U.S. Department of Education is launching an effort to reform and simplify how college students apply for and receive financial aid.
August 6, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Homeland Security and UT Brownsville Reach Accord on Campus Border Fence
The University of Texas at Brownsville and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reached an agreement this week barring the government from condemning any university land and committing the school to beefing up security along its existing fence, according to wire reports…
August 5, 2008
Leadership & Policy
School Trustees Blast Ouster Decision as ‘Racist’
Trustees of the historically Black and financially troubled North Forest school district Saturday blasted the state’s decision to disband the school board, calling the order racist and unwarranted.
August 4, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Men Win Suit Against Scandal-scarred Texas Southern
Three former Texas Southern University students credited with helping expose a spending scandal that led to indictments of top administrators won a retaliation lawsuit against school officials.
August 3, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Former S.C. State University President Suing School
The former president of South Carolina State University filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the school and its trustees last week, accusing board members of acting improperly in his firing last year.
August 3, 2008
Students
Wide-ranging bill aims to rein in college costs
Congress wants to blow the whistle on colleges that raise tuition sharply, while helping students pay less for textbooks and making Pell grants available year-round part of a wide-ranging bill designed to address concerns about rising college costs.
July 30, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Phoenix Police: College Shooter Was Punched First
The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police say.
July 30, 2008
Leadership & Policy
New Council at UK Works to Reach More Latino Students
The University of Kansas’s newly formed Latino Vision Council is working to find ways to assist Latinos in gaining access to college.
July 29, 2008
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