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Del. State campus shooting victim didn’t know who fired at him, mother says

DOVER Del. One of the two students wounded in a shooting on the Delaware State University campus doesn’t know who the gunman was or what triggered the attack, his mother says.

September 23, 2007

Virginia Tech Inspires Delaware State Response

DOVER, Del. Alex Bishoff heard five gunshots from inside his dorm room at Delaware State University and looked out his window to see people scattering. He immediately thought of the Virginia Tech shootings in April.

September 23, 2007

Accreditation Reform Focus of Forum

A forum on accreditation Friday in Washington, D.C., drew calls for changes in the current system as well as a need to focus on larger issues such as college affordability for low-income students and more accountability for institutions.

September 23, 2007

Scandals Affect Drop, But Officials Say Decline Is Temporary

HOUSTON Enrollment at Texas Southern has dropped to its lowest point in five years and school officials acknowledge that the internal scandals that drew the attention of state lawmakers made an impact.

September 23, 2007

K-12 Improvement Center of UNCF Summit

While a college education is vital to achieve great lengths in the workplace and in life, the quality of time spent in the classroom years before determines whether a person will excel in higher education.

September 23, 2007

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

West Kentucky University officials say protest won’t sway university’s no-gun policy

BOWLING GREEN Ky. A group of Western Kentucky University students are planning a protest next month to decry a campus policy banning guns.

September 22, 2007

Money in hand and facilities ready, researchers begin stem cell work

HARTFORD Conn. David Rowe says a special breed of mice he is developing at the University of Connecticut Health Center may one day help reveal new treatments for severe limb injuries, like the ones U.S. troops are returning with from Iraq.

September 22, 2007

Police: Student jumps from roof of NYU residence hall

NEW YORK A college freshman jumped to his death from a dormitory roof at New York University, where a series of student suicides several years ago spurred such measures as blocking access to balconies, authorities said.

September 22, 2007

New space center being built at Morehead ‘a dream come true’

MOREHEAD Ky. A new, $15.6 million research and instructional support space science center is being built in eastern Kentucky at Morehead State University.

September 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Durango college trustees slams scheduling of game against Montana

DURANGO Colo. A Fort Lewis College trustee has accused the athletic department of “pigskin prostitution” for scheduling a game against the much larger University of Montana, resulting in a 49-0 drubbing after a 17-hour bus ride.

September 22, 2007

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

As Ahmadinejad heads for NYC, protesters head for Columbia

NEW YORK Critics of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started protesting before the hardline leader even made his scheduled arrival in New York for a couple of planned speeches at a high-profile university and the United Nations that have aroused a storm of opposition.

September 22, 2007

Money in hand and facilities ready, researchers begin stem cell work

HARTFORD Conn. David Rowe says a special breed of mice he is developing at the University of Connecticut Health Center may one day help reveal new treatments for severe limb injuries, like the ones U.S. troops are returning with from Iraq.

September 22, 2007

School at center of civil rights battle celebrates 75 years

NEW MARKET Tenn. The little school tucked away in the east Tennessee mountains may have faded from the public spotlight, but it was once at the center of the struggle for civil rights.

September 22, 2007

Ohio University trains school’s first SWAT team

ATHENS Ohio A squad of police officers from Ohio University has completed training to become the school’s first certified SWAT team, filling a gap the department’s chief said became clear after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.

September 22, 2007

Oregon’s Willamette University hires its first archivist

SALEM Ore. Amid the old yearbooks, senior theses, reel-to-reel tapes and the plastic seal balancing a gold dollar sign on its nose, Mary McKay is in her element.

September 22, 2007

University of Wyoming energy school may have Gillette presence

GILLETTE Wyo. University of Wyoming officials are interested in establishing a research partnership between the new School of Energy Resources and Gillette College.

September 22, 2007