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Faculty Criticize UC Berkeley Over Sexual Harassment Claims
BERKELEY, Calif. ― University of California, Berkeley faculty members are condemning the university’s handling of yet another sexual harassment case. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday that in a letter to Vice Provost Janet Broughton, tenured professors in Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian Studies department say they are frustrated that numerous complaints against an assistant […]
March 28, 2016
Students
Student Who Says He Was Expelled for Rough Sex Wins Lawsuit
McLEAN, Va. ― A student who said he was wrongly expelled from George Mason University for engaging in consensual, sadomasochistic sex has won a federal lawsuit demanding his reinstatement. The student, who is identified only as John Doe in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was expelled in 2014. His ex-girlfriend said […]
March 28, 2016
African-American
After Protest, ‘The Bell Curve’ Author Sails Through Lecture
But for all the things the protesters at Virginia Tech had to say about Murray and his writings, when the time came to say something directly to Murray during the Q&A, the protesters offered not a peep.
March 27, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Louisville Professor Offers Farm to Syrian Family
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ― He was a vegetable farmer in Syria before the civil war forced the family of seven to flee. She is a University of Louisville professor who lives on an unused 16-acre farm. So when sociologist Patricia Gagne read in The Courier-Journal about Ahmed Al Tybawi, his wife and five children ― she […]
March 27, 2016
Students
U. of California Boss to Monitor Campus’ Anti-harassment Plan
BERKELEY, Calif. ― University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Saturday it will closely monitor UC Berkeley’s efforts to address sexual harassment complaints and assaults on campus following an outcry over what some saw as light-handed discipline of faculty members who sexually harassed students and staff. Napolitano said in a statement that UC Berkeley Chancellor […]
March 27, 2016
Students
Chicago State U. Students Left Adrift Amid Budget Impasse
The uncertainty surrounding the south Chicago institution’s future can be demoralizing, CSU students said.
March 27, 2016
Students
Mizzou Diversity Officer Ready ‘to Help Effect Transformational Change’
Dr. Kevin McDonald’s appointment comes amid a challenging year for the University of Missouri System.
March 27, 2016
Opinion
Remembering Bud Hodgkinson, the Guru of Education Demographics
Those of us who did not know Bud quickly learned that he was the guru who was constantly analyzing demographic trends and how they affected education at all levels.
March 25, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Cornell Taps Former Leader After President’s Death
ITHACA, N.Y. ― Cornell University says Hunter Rawlings III will once again serve as interim president while the school seeks to replace its deceased leader. Rawlings is a 71-year-old professor emeritus of classics who was Cornell president from 1995 to 2003 and interim president in 2005 and 2006. He is taking the interim presidency again […]
March 24, 2016
Students
California Jury Rejects Graduate’s Suit Against Law School
SAN DIEGO ― A jury found Thursday that a San Diego law school did not mislead a graduate who sued on the grounds she was lured to the school by false promises that her degree would land her a job after graduating. The San Diego Superior Court jury rejected Anna Alaburda’s claim against the Thomas […]
March 24, 2016
Students
Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue
A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]
March 24, 2016
Students
University of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism
SAN FRANCISCO ― The University of California’s governing board adopted a statement condemning anti-Semitic behavior on Thursday, becoming the first public university system to do so since campaigns for academic and economic boycotts of Israel have taken root on many U.S. college campuses. The board also unanimously and without discussion adopted a companion report urging […]
March 24, 2016
Students
East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim
GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]
March 24, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Bill to Defund University of Tennessee Diversity Office Withdrawn
Lawmakers, angry over web postings by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion of the University of Tennessee, want to strip the office of all state funding for the coming fiscal year.
March 24, 2016
African-American
UConn’s Residential Learning Community Comes Under Fire
Two dissident members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have accused the University of Connecticut of promoting “racial isolation” by planning a space to increase the low retention of African American male students.
March 24, 2016
African-American
ED Secretary: U.S. Higher Ed Becoming ‘Caste System’
John King warned that the U.S. is becoming a “caste system of colleges and universities” in which more affluent students have advantages while poorer students “get shortchanged.”
March 24, 2016
Disabilties
Experts: Broadband Key to Boosting Higher Ed Access for Poor
A federal program that provides phone service to the poor could boost access to higher education if the program is upgraded to include broadband service, panelists said Wednesday.
March 23, 2016
Students
U.S. Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. ― The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren’t taking classes through the school. The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell […]
March 23, 2016
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