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Faculty & Staff

Webinar: Experts Explore College Trustee Board Roles, Responsibilities

Expert panelists, including former university president David Roselle, offered practical advice on how college trustee boards as well as individual trustee board members should conduct themselves.

January 31, 2013

Pres. Roselle Press Conference

A Special Tribute to the Unsung Athletics Directors of College Sports

In the second installment of a four-part series, the Diverse editors sought to recognize those current and former athletics directors across the country who have blazed the trails and opened doors for minorities in sports.

January 29, 2013

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A Special Tribute to the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of College Sports

Many are familiar with the work of organizations such as Black Coaches and Administrators and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which serve as policing organizations to monitor the NCAA’s commitment to diversity in hiring as well as athletic programs’ commitment to academics, respectively.

January 28, 2013

Alumni Giving Starts with Students

Like many college administrators across the country, I am never quite sure what to expect with the beginning of each academic year.

January 27, 2013

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Social Media’s Undeniable Impact on College Sports

In just a few short years, social media have become the centerpiece at the table of intercollegiate athletics. Stakeholders are now examining how best to utilize and at times cope with entities such as Twitter and Facebook.

January 27, 2013

ESPN’s Danny Kanell

Leadership & Policy

Bankrupt Lon Morris College Campus Sold at Auction

The oldest junior college in Texas has been sold at auction with much of the property going to the local school district and an office supply company.

January 23, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Latest NCAA Scandal Comes from Headquarters

In an embarrassing blow to its watchdog image, the NCAA said Wednesday its enforcement staff had botched the high-profile investigation of the University of Miami by improperly conducting at least two depositions while working with an attorney for disgraced booster Nevin Shapiro.

January 23, 2013

NCAA Division II Delegates Deny Mexico Pilot Program Membership

In a narrow vote of 138 for and 141 against, the NCAA Division II delegates opted not to extend to Mexican colleges the same invitation to begin the application for membership process that had been given to Canada in 2008.

January 22, 2013

Student-Athletes Discuss Diversity at NCAA Convention

What does it mean to have diversity programs that are really inclusive—from the standpoint of the student athlete? That was the focus of a panel of former student athletes, now graduates, who shared their real life experiences with an audience of higher education athletics administrators at the 2013 convention of the NCAA in Dallas, Jan. […]

January 22, 2013

Three More Schools Win OK To Waive Out-Of-State Costs

Mississippi Valley State University on Thursday became the second public university to allow all out-of-state residents to pay the same tuition rates as students who live in Mississippi.

January 21, 2013

Report: National Pool of High School Graduates to Shrink, Grow More Diverse

Between now and 2020, the nation’s colleges and universities can expect to recruit among a smaller but decidedly more diverse pool of students, according to a new report.

January 17, 2013

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Special Report: 2013 NCAA Convention

Diverse salutes UConn Athletic Director Ward Manuel and 24 other intercollegiate sports leaders who have opened doors of opportunity for the underrepresented and underprivileged.

January 17, 2013

University of New Orleans Tries Marketing Blitz to Stem Student Losses

The University of New Orleans is putting its name everywhere from social media outlets to highway billboards and trailers at local movie theaters.

January 14, 2013

Iraqis Latest Recruited International Students to Attend University of Cincinnati

Students from Iraq are the latest products of overseas recruiting by the University of Cincinnati, which is building enrollment and revenues with international students.

January 14, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Unified Basketball Schools Continue to Plot Future

The seven Catholic schools that have decided to leave the Big East and form their own league continued to plot the future Friday, retaining Proskauer Rose LLP Proskauer Rose LLP -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 Daysand Pilson Communications, Inc., to aid in their defection.

January 6, 2013

Appeals Court Favors Grambling State in Former Football Coach’s Suit

The First Circuit Court of Appeal of Louisiana has ruled that Grambling State University had just cause to fire football coach Melvin Spears and reduced the amount of money he had been awarded as a result of winning his lawsuit.

January 3, 2013

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Rhode Island Can’t Access Student Records at Closed School

Rhode Island higher education officials say a career training school that abruptly shut down has lost its accreditation, and they’re calling on the school to release student records.

January 3, 2013

Governor: NCAA ‘Piled On’ Penn St. for Its Own Benefit

The NCAA overstepped its authority by imposing hefty sanctions on Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday as he filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the college athletics governing body.

January 2, 2013