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Chowan to join CIAA football conference in 2008

MURFREESBORO N.C. Chowan will join the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association as a football-only member beginning next season, school and league officials said Monday.

September 24, 2007

Former DePauw president Richard Rosser dies at 78

GREENCASTLE Ind. Richard F. Rosser, president of DePauw University from 1977-86 and later president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, has died at age 78.

September 24, 2007

New Yorkers among winners of $500,000 MacArthur genius grants

CHICAGO A New York City woman who helps students go to college with their “posse,” a psychiatrist who treats combat veterans and a museum director on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are among the 24 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.”

September 24, 2007

Community Colleges

Benedict College building evacuated; 5 sent to hospitals

COLUMBIA S.C. Emergency officials in Columbia say a classroom building at Benedict College has been evacuated after five people complained of breathing problems and were sent area hospitals.

September 24, 2007

List of 24 recipients of MacArthur Foundation genius grants

The list of 24 fellows announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each will receive $500,000 over the next five years.

September 24, 2007

Move to ACC showcases Boston College to southerners

BOSTON Boston College’s decision to shift its sports teams to the Atlantic Coast Conference two years ago has led to a spike in applications from the southern states that dominate the league.

September 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

New dean at LSU med: chancellor had been dean since Katrina

BATON ROUGE La. For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, LSU’s medical school has a separate chancellor and dean of medicine.

September 24, 2007

Student reports armed man at Southern New Hampshire University

HOOKSETT N.H. Students and parents on Monday questioned why Southern New Hampshire University did not go into lockdown Sunday night when a student reported seeing a man with a gun on campus.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Columbia president Bollinger reviled, praised for allowing Ahmadinejad

NEW YORK Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, heavily criticized for allowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the school, on Monday was enthusiastically applauded for his tough remarks to the Iranian leader.

September 24, 2007

Little Rock 9 honored at gala featuring former President Clinton

LITTLE ROCK Former President Clinton said that 50 years after nine black student integrated Little Rock Central, the world is still struggling with the “unfinished legacy” of looking past race, ethnicity and other differences.

September 23, 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

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

Student Charged in Delaware State Shooting

DOVER Del. Police arrested an 18-year-old man in the shooting of two students at Delaware State University, authorities said Monday. As they led him into a courthouse, he told reporters: “I’m sorry.”

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

Texas Tech defensive coordinator steps down

LUBBOCK Texas Texas Tech defensive coordinator Lyle Setencich stepped down Sunday, citing personal reasons in a move that came a day after the Red Raiders lost to Oklahoma State 49-45.

September 23, 2007

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

Community Colleges

College town party paper isn’t for everyone

COLUMBIA Mo. Ah, college life. All-night study sessions in the library. Professors challenging the conventional wisdom. Snowball battles on the quad.

September 23, 2007

Report says UMDNJ dean in Camden changed grades

TRENTON N.J. The former top administrator of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Camden medical school gave passing grades to unqualified students, potentially endangering their innocent patients, according to a federal monitor’s report.

September 23, 2007