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Section: Leadership & Policy

Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents

WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]

November 29, 2015

Washington University Cancels Classes Over Hate Speech

SEATTLE — After a racist thread on social media sparked outrage on a quiet Washington state campus, college officials sent students home a day early for the Thanksgiving holiday. Western Washington University sent out an alert cancelling classes and an email to students just after 6 a.m. Tuesday from President Bruce Shepard. It is unknown […]

November 24, 2015

University of Kentucky to Cover Controversial Campus Mural

LEXINGTON, Ky. ― Nine years after his predecessor rejected calls to remove a controversial Great Depression-era campus mural that featured Black workers toiling in a tobacco field, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has decided to cover the painting until a more permanent solution is found. Capilouto wrote on the school’s website Monday that he […]

November 24, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Drake State President Placed on Administrative Leave

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ― Helen McAlpine, long-time president at Drake State Community and Technical College in Huntsville, has been placed on administrative leave. The Alabama Community College System Office made the announcement in a statement Monday, and did not give any reason for McAlpine’s leave, but said it is a “personnel matter.” Kemba Chambers, dean of […]

November 24, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso

An African-American nursing student who was dismissed for low grades has lost her racial discrimination suit against Valparaiso University.

November 22, 2015

Texas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School Textbooks

AUSTIN, Texas ― Top Texas education officials rejected Wednesday letting university experts fact-check textbooks approved for use in public-school classrooms statewide, instead reaffirming a vetting system that has helped spark years of ideological battles over how potentially thorny lessons in history and science are taught. The Board of Education approves textbooks in the nation’s second-largest […]

November 18, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Students Want Woodrow Wilson’s Name Removed from Princeton

PRINCETON, N.J. ― Students staged a protest Wednesday inside the office of Princeton University’s president, demanding the school remove the name of former school president and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from programs and buildings over what they said was his racist legacy. Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber told the students he agreed with them that Wilson […]

November 18, 2015

Faculty & Staff

University of Wyoming to Hire a Diversity Coordinator

by Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming president has announced plans to create a diversity coordinator position and form a committee tasked with increasing inclusivity on campus. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that university spokesman Chad Baldwin says the new position was created in response to concerns about the lack of diversity on […]

November 18, 2015

Leadership & Policy

MARGARET SPELLINGS

MARGARET SPELLINGS has been named president of the University of North Carolina System, effective March 1. She is president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Spellings earned a bachelor’s from the University of Houston.

November 18, 2015

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Leadership & Policy

TOM TSENG

TOM TSENG has been appointed vice president for development and campaign co-director at the University of Hawaii Foundation. He is senior director of the International Division of the Office of Development at Stanford University. Tseng holds a bachelor’s and a master’s from Cornell University.

November 18, 2015

Brown Vowing Action After Officer Detains Dartmouth Student

by Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown University’s president is promising a full investigation and regular meetings on racial issues after a campus police officer handcuffed a student from another Ivy League school, an encounter officials called “heated and physical.” President Christina Paxson apologized in an email Saturday to the campus community for the “fear […]

November 15, 2015

Leadership & Policy

UNC Governors Pressured Over Chancellor Pay Raise Meeting

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ― Governors of North Carolina’s public university system planned to gather Friday under pressure over a closed-door meeting that resulted in big pay raises for a dozen top campus executives. The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors was scheduled to meet to decide whether to release details of the private meeting […]

November 13, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Four Finalists for President of S. Louisiana Tech College

BATON ROUGE, La. ― A North Carolina community college official and former official of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System is among finalists for president of Fletcher Technical Community College in south Louisiana. Two finalists already work at Fletcher, in Schriever ― about 60 miles west-southwest of New Orleans ― and the fourth is […]

November 13, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Drexel University Rescinds Honorary Degree for Bill Cosby

PHILADELPHIA ― Drexel University has joined a number of other schools in rescinding an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby amid accusations of sexual assault. Drexel President John A. Fry says the misconduct that came to light in a deposition given by Cosby “stands in clear opposition” to the Philadelphia school’s values. He says in […]

November 12, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Regents Approve Albany State, Darton State Merger

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the merger of Albany State University and Darton State College, a move pushed forward by system Chancellor Henry “Hank” M. Huckaby.

November 11, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Bid

Harvard law professor Larry Lessig is ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

November 2, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Fort Valley State Students Back Ousted Swanier in Bid to Save Job

A group of current and former Fort Valley State students are rallying behind a popular tenured associate professor who was notified earlier this year that her position is being eliminated due to efforts to cut costs at the financially strapped public Black university.

October 28, 2015

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Ole Miss Removes Mississippi Flag with Confederate Emblem

The University of Mississippi quietly removed the state flag with its Confederate battle emblem from its place of honor on campus Monday morning after students and faculty called it a divisive symbol that undermines efforts to promote diversity, tolerance and respect.

October 26, 2015