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South Korea court refuses to issue arrest warrant for ex-professor in fake degree scandal

A South Korean court rejected a prosecutors’ request Tuesday for a warrant to arrest a former college professor accused of faking her Yale doctorate in an escalating scandal that forced a senior presidential aide to quit.

September 17, 2007

Leadership & Policy

CSU, UC leaders consider financial issues this week

BERKELEY Calif. Higher education leaders tackle financial issues this week with California State University trustees considering paying top brass more while University of California officials look at raising professional school fees.

September 17, 2007

Community Colleges

Shares of for-profit education companies finish mostly lower

Shares of for-profit education companies finished mostly lower on Monday, with Universal Technical Institute Inc. leading the way.

September 17, 2007

Harvard names former congressman to lead Institute of Politics

Former Iowa Congressman James Leach was named interim director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics on Monday, replacing Jeanne Shaheen who stepped down to run for a U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire.

September 17, 2007

Renowned legal scholar will become dean of UC Irvine law school after all

A renowned legal scholar was reappointed Monday as dean of the new law school at the University of California, Irvine, a week after the school rejected him.

September 17, 2007

Harkin says bill will ease student loan debt crunch

Sen. Tom Harkin went to Grand View College on Monday to praise a bill aimed at making college more accessible to low-income students and helping graduates with heavy loan debt.

September 17, 2007

Carnegie Mellon celebrates 25th anniversary of ‘smiley face’

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message.

September 17, 2007

Student arrested, Tasered at Kerry forum in Florida

A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.

September 17, 2007

Attorney in “Jena 6” case files motion to release Mychal Bell

The attorney for a teenager whose conviction as an adult in a racially charged schoolyard beating was overturned last week has filed motions to have him released from jail, or at least moved to a juvenile facility, while the prosecutor appeals.

September 17, 2007

Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education approves tuition hike at three schools

The Board of Governors for Higher Education has approved a tuition and fee hike of between 5 percent and 6 percent at the state’s two colleges and its university.

September 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Rejected by NY college, conservative center sets up off campus

Rebuffed by Hamilton College, three professors are establishing The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization as an independent center.

September 17, 2007

Lawsuit challenges equality of Columbus public schools

Ohio’s embattled public schools were confronted with a new lawsuit Monday challenging whether students within each district being treated equally.

September 17, 2007

Income disparity raises gender role questions

More than 30 years after women entered the workplace en masse, they’re now out-enrolling men in colleges and sometimes out-earning their husbands in a fourth of American households in which both spouses work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

September 17, 2007

UNH receives diversity award

The University of New Hampshire is one of two dozen colleges and universities around the country recognized for its programs to encourage diversity.

September 17, 2007

UMBC, IBM partnering on PlayStation processor development

Researchers at a new computing lab at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County will develop applications for IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine, the processor that powers Sony’s PlayStation3 gaming console, the university announced.

September 17, 2007

Little Rock center tells story of 1957 integration at Central High School

The shrieking white crowds, the armed soldiers, the recalcitrant governor and the nine black teenagers who dared to attend all-white Central High School tell the story of civil rights in America at a new visitors center.

September 17, 2007

Study shows US College students have inadequate knowledge of American history and institutions

Students at some of the nation’s top universities have a woefully inadequate knowledge of US history and institutions, according to report released today by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).

September 17, 2007

Morgan Stanley Partners with HBCUs to Train Talent

Two business school instructors at Morehouse College and a third instructor at Howard University are the first to participate in a partnership between HBCUs and New York-based investment firm Morgan Stanley.

September 17, 2007