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Leadership & Policy
Gay College President Has Few Peers
When Ralph Hexter assumed the presidency of Hampshire College in western Massachusetts in 2005, his partner of 25 years, Manfred Kollmeir, was officially welcomed with all the trappings of a presidential spouse. Over Labor Day weekend, the couple made it official, exchanging vows in a private ceremony (Massachusetts is the only state allowing gay marriage) and breaking the news last week to the campus community.
September 24, 2007
Asian American Pacific Islander
Best & Brightest: Community College Grad Competes with the Best
In an auditorium brimming with a sea of the country’s brightest young scholars attending prestigious universities like Georgetown and the University of California, Berkeley, Tiffany Dang recalls looking around, and asking herself, “What am I doing here? Am I really at their level?”
September 23, 2007
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Latinx
Tennessee Universities Take Steps to Recruit More Hispanics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Universities across Tennessee are taking steps to recruit more Hispanics to diversify their student bodies, officials say.
September 23, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Ellen Chaffee says she’s leaving as Valley City State University president
BISMARCK N.D. The president of Valley City State University says she’s stepping down in June.
September 23, 2007
Disabilties
Recording companies sue 12 Tulsa University students
TULSA Okla. A dozen University of Tulsa students are being sued in federal court for copyright infringement by 15 recording companies.
September 23, 2007
Latinx
Latina women and higher education – making it happen
Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.
September 23, 2007
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Latinx
Green MBAs seek to balance profit and planet
OAKLAND Calif. Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would start rolling at the idea of a “green MBA.”
September 22, 2007
Asian American Pacific Islander
University of Central Arkansas planning Chinese studies program
CONWAY Ark. A Chinese studies program involving several academic fields is planned at the University of Central Arkansas, paid for in part with a federal grant, university officials say.
September 22, 2007
Latinx
Tennessee universities take steps to recruit more Hispanics
NASHVILLE Tenn. Universities across Tennessee are taking steps to recruit more Hispanics to diversify their student bodies, officials say.
September 22, 2007
Disabilties
Edwards rolls out education policy
DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool.
September 22, 2007
Native Americans
Massachusetts students ordered to pay up or face lawsuits for music piracy
BOSTON The Recording Industry Association of America wants 83 students and staff at several Massachusetts universities to pay $3,000 each or face lawsuits for allegedly downloading music illegally using school computers.
September 20, 2007
Students
Getting to Know Melody Rodriguez
When Melody Rodriguez came to the United States from Merida, Venezuela, at the age of 17, she didn’t know she would work in higher education.
September 19, 2007
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African-American
UW Black History Web Site Surpasses 1 Million Visits
A Web site based at the University of Washington-Seattle featuring African-American history, has just passed the million mark in visits.
September 19, 2007
Latinx
Founding dean of fledgling El Paso medical school fired
EL PASO Texas The founding dean of the fledgling El Paso campus of the Texas Tech University medical school said he was abruptly fired after he refused to resign.
September 19, 2007
Latinx
Some Oregon schools adopting Mexican curriculum
PORTLAND Ore. Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico’s public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history.
September 18, 2007
LGBTQ+
Yale loses court case over military recruiters
NEW HAVEN Conn. Yale Law School prepared Wednesday to end its policy of not working with military recruiters after a court ruling this week jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding.
September 18, 2007
Sports
University of Colorado not selling beer to public at basketball games
BOULDER Colo. Beer sales to the general public will no longer be offered at Coors Events Center for University of Colorado basketball games.
September 18, 2007
Asian American Pacific Islander
ILLINOIS STYLE: Cultural differences may affect brain’s wiring
CHAMPAIGN Ill. On Denise Park’s office wall is a lovely Asian painting, kind of a market scene in what looks to be a village square.
September 18, 2007
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