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UH archives initiative passes U.S. Senate

HONOLULU The U.S. Senate has approved a plan to establish the Henry Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii.

July 26, 2007

Faculty & Staff

University of Colorado fires professor after remarks likening Sept. 11 victims to Nazi

BOULDER Colorado The University of Colorado’s governing board fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack victims to a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of research misconduct.

July 26, 2007

President Bush to honor University of Michigan math professor

ANN ARBOR Mich. A University of Michigan professor is joining an elite group recipients of the National Medal of Science.

July 26, 2007

Judge says Shelby County schools still unfair to blacks

MEMPHIS Tenn. A district judge has ruled that Shelby County schools still are not ready to have a 1963 desegregation order lifted.

July 26, 2007

Doctored photos prompt journal to retract research study

COLUMBIA Mo. The journal Science retracted a paper Friday that included doctored photos from a former researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

July 26, 2007

Frat adviser: Cartoon may have prompted alleged threat

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. A Southern Illinois University student accused of writing a note threatening a “murderous rampage” similar to the April one at Virginia Tech may innocently have been mimicking what he’d seen on a cartoon, a fraternity adviser of the suspect said.

July 26, 2007

Community Colleges

Iowa community college students opt for out-of-state schools

AMES Iowa Many Iowa community college graduates are opting to transfer out of the state to complete four-year degrees, according to an Iowa State University study.

July 26, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Two North Alabama community colleges battle for robotics center

DECATUR Ala. Two north Alabama community colleges are jockeying for a robotics center that is being touted as a national center for robotics research, education, and training.

July 26, 2007

Community Colleges

Suspect in cash-for-grades scheme held on $250K bail

MARTINEZ Calif. A 25-year-old man about to graduate from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo pleaded not guilty to charges he reaped thousands of dollars helping fellow students at a Northern California community college get their grades changed on transcripts.

July 26, 2007

Community Colleges

Dewhurst makes plea for community colleges solution

AUSTIN Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made a public plea Wednesday for state leaders to find a way to reallocate $154 million in vetoed funds for community college health insurance.

July 26, 2007

Community College Photo

Top Democratic presidential hopefuls express support for Urban League agenda

ST. LOUIS The leading Democratic presidential contenders on Friday endorsed a National Urban League agenda that calls for mandatory early childhood education and universal health care for children.

July 26, 2007

Community Colleges

High schoool educators get look at Alabama HBCU’s auto institute

MONTGOMERY Ala. Trenholm State Technical College wants high school educators to know that the path to a career doesn’t always go through a four-year college.

July 26, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Alcorn State University President George Ross to assume job Jan. 3

JACKSON Miss. Incoming Alcorn State University President George Ross said Friday his leukemia is in remission.

July 26, 2007

Recommendations to be presented from yearlong diversity audit

TULSA Okla. Increasing the number of students studying abroad, doing more international recruiting and developing classroom courses focusing on how inclusiveness benefits everyone are some of the recommendations from a yearlong evaluation of diversity efforts at Oklahoma State University.

July 26, 2007

8 U.S. students graduate from free Cuban medical school

HAVANA Eight American students graduated from a Cuban medical school on Tuesday and said they planned to put six years of education paid for by Fidel Castro’s communist government to use in hospitals back home.

July 26, 2007

Lawyer Asks for Changes in Schools Case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.

July 26, 2007

Whites, Privileged Students Primary Beneficiaries Of Ohio Early College Program, Study Finds

A study of Ohio’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options program finds that nine of 10 of its participants are White, and most enrollees come from suburban rather than urban or rural high school districts. The study by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Ohio’s largest education philanthropy, also takes PSEO to task for lacking any data showing PSEO’s positive impact on college outcomes. The study comes as the Ohio General Assembly prepares to expand the program at the behest of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland.

July 25, 2007

College Student Accused of Terror Threat

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. He seemed in many ways a typical college student — president of his fraternity at Southern Illinois University, an aspiring rapper who wrote about finding a girlfriend who could cook. He said his favorite book was the Bible.

July 25, 2007