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Private Jersey College Grapples With Spate of Racial Incidents, Tragedies

TRENTON, N.J. Rider University, where officials are still dealing with three recent bias incidents that have attracted public attention, is no stranger to controversy and tragedy lately. It has also been the scene of two deaths related to substance abuse that have attracted widespread attention and controversy this year.

November 4, 2007

CEO Claims Anti-Minority Remarks Edited on YouTube

The founder and chief of Internet retailer Overstock.com recently got into hot water with controversial remarks he made about minorities and education but he now claims they weren’t just taken out of context.

November 4, 2007

Study: Kids of Immigration Raid Arrestees Face Mental Problems

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Amid thousands of children around the country distraught over a parent arrested in immigration raids, federal officials, school officials and advocates for immigrants argued over who was to blame for leading kids to post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, as a study released last Wednesday found.

November 4, 2007

USM Exchange Program Offers Warm Welcomes

HATTIESBURG Miss. Claire Wright, a 19-year-old exchange student from Surrey, England, would have had a difficult first week of school had it not been for her host family.

November 4, 2007

Carnegie Mellon University Team Wins Pentagon-sponsored Robot Race

VICTORVILLE California Members of a Carnegie Mellon University-based team of engineers and their tricked-out, driverless sport utility vehicle won $2 million (euro1.4 million) for their victory in a Pentagon-sponsored robot race in the Southern California desert, race officials announced.

November 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Some Dixie State College Alumni Balk at University of Utah Union

ST. GEORGE Utah A University of Utah-proposed affiliation with Dixie State College comes with a handful of ironclad conditions but not every Dixie supporter likes the deal.

November 4, 2007

Some South Carolina Schools Work to Shed Nation’s Highest Dropout Rate

CHARLESTON S.C. Takara Perry knows if she had stayed on at St. Johns High School, she would simply have dropped out.

November 4, 2007

Liberal Arts Schools Create Less Macho Niche for Engineering

SWARTHMORE Pa. When Kara Peterman was a high school student interested in engineering, she toured a high-powered engineering university in the Northeast that proudly displayed photos of its graduates.

November 4, 2007

UND Nickname Lawsuit Fund Exhausted

GRAND FORKS N.D. A fund set up to pay legal bills in the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname lawsuit against the NCAA has been exhausted.

November 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Survey Offers a Snapshot of Hovering College Parents

College administrators grumble about the rise of “helicopter parents,” moms and dads who keep hovering over the lives of their children even after they leave for college.

November 4, 2007

Court: University of California Overcharged Students $34 Million

SAN FRANCISCO The University of California system overcharged 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students $33.8 million in fees four years ago, a state appeals court has ruled.

November 4, 2007

African-American

Addressing Anxiety, Depression and Suicide Among HBCU Students

In the wake the massacre at Virginia Tech and the recent shooting at Delaware State University, student mental health is becoming increasingly important to colleges and universities nationwide.

November 4, 2007

Districts Adopt Mexican Curriculum to Help Hispanic Students

Several school districts in the South and West that serve large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrant students are moving to align their middle- and high-school curriculae with what is being taught in Mexico.

November 4, 2007

University of Delaware Halts Controversial Diversity Program

DOVER, Del. Amid growing public scrutiny, the University of Delaware last week halted a controversial residence hall program that critics say tried to force students to accept university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.

November 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

DSU President Wants State Funds for Athletic Facility

DOVER, Del. Delaware State University President Allen Sessoms says the school can’t wait another 35 years for a civic center in Dover.

November 1, 2007

Talladega College Names New President

TALLADEGA, Ala. Dr. Billy Hawkins, president of Texas College in Tyler, Texas, has been named president of Talladega College with plans to bolster enrollment and possibly restart the athletics program.

November 1, 2007

One Teacher Faces Firing, Others Reprimanded in Noose Incident

GRAMBLING, La. A teacher at a north Louisiana elementary school may be fired and three others face reprimands for placing a noose around a child’s neck during a demonstration about racism.

November 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Luna Community College to Pay Legal Bills of Former President

LAS VEGAS, N.M. Luna Community College has agreed to pay the legal bills of its former interim president, who in return will drop any possible claims he may have against the college, said its current interim president, Dr. Sigfredo Maestas.

November 1, 2007