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Sports
Iraq War Veteran Preparing to Resume
While many other star high school athletes set their sights on college football, Timmy Bailey signed with a different recruiter…
February 22, 2006
Students
Celebration or Placebo?
“I hate Black History Month.” Such reads the title of a 2001 essay posted on…
February 22, 2006
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Students
Grants & Awards
Brandeis University (Mass.) received a $25 million donation from Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro for a new 175,000-square-foot science center. The $154 million facility will be named the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center. The donation matches the largest in school history, also given by the Shapiro family for the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center. […]
February 22, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Historically Black Allen University Drops Football Program
Allen University has dropped its football program because the small, historically Black college can’t afford the $1.4 million annual price tag, school officials say…
February 21, 2006
Sports
Fight Song for UNH Hockey Team Banned as Potentially Racist
“Black Betty,” a rock song used to rally fans at University of New Hampshire hockey games for about a decade, is no more…
February 13, 2006
Sports
Duke University Toughens its Drug Testing Policy for Student-Athletes
Duke University has strengthened its policy for student-athletes who test positive for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, school officials announced recently…
February 12, 2006
Sports
Maryland Governor Faces Questions Over University Golf Course Funding
Gov. Robert Ehrlich is facing questions from some at the University of Maryland for putting more than a $1 million into the school’s budget to repair the school’s golf course instead of fixing two science buildings…
February 7, 2006
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Sports
University of North Dakota President Says Nickname Fight Goes On
University of North Dakota President Charles Kupchella says the school’s fight to keep its Fighting Sioux nickname has gone too far to quit now…
February 6, 2006
Sports
Current, Former College Athletes Discuss Academic Pressures During Summit
Several current and former Division I-A collegiate athletes gathered earlier this week on the campus of George Washington University…
February 2, 2006
Leadership & Policy
NCAA Says Tribe’s Support Won’t Save Generic
A Louisiana tribe’s blessing won’t save the University of Louisiana-Monroe’s “Indian” mascot from the NCAA’s displeasure…
January 25, 2006
Sports
Radford Has Best Graduation Rate Under NCAA Guidelines
Led by Radford, almost two dozen Division I schools reported Graduation Success Rates of at least 95 percent for…
January 23, 2006
Sports
University of Colorado Football Player Suspended After Racist E-mail
A University of Colorado football player has been suspended and his girlfriend…
January 11, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Community College Basketball Coach
A former basketball coach at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kan., pleaded guilty to helping…
January 11, 2006
Sports
Ivy League Football Has First Black Head Coach
Columbia University recently became the first Ivy League college to hire an African-American to lead its football program…
January 11, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
NCAA Says Tribe’s OK Won’t Save Generic “Indian” Mascot at ULM
Louisiana tribe’s blessing won’t save the University of Louisiana-Monroe’s Indian mascot from the…
January 2, 2006
Faculty & Staff
West Valley College Faculty Member Pleads in $200K Embezzlement
A retired West Valley College faculty member pleaded no contest to charges she embezzled more than…
December 29, 2005
Sports
Tulane University Announces Cutbacks, Layoffs Due to Katrina
Students at Tulane University will return to a school with a gutted engineering department…
December 28, 2005
Sports
Report: 41 Percent of Bowl-Bound
Forty-one percent of bowl-bound college football teams fall below the NCAA’s new academic benchmark…
December 28, 2005
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