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Faculty & Staff

Pennsylvania’s proposed state university faculty pact has bonus, raises

HARRISBURG Pa. Professors at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities would each receive an immediate $1,750 cash bonus and annual salary increases totaling 10 percent under a four-year contract agreement released Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former state Indian Affairs official named to UND search panel

BISMARCK N.D. A tribal college president and former director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission has been appointed to the committee that will recruit the University of North Dakota’s new president.

July 2, 2007

The Search Committee Handbook

Community Colleges

Bishop State nursing director resigns

MOBILE Ala. Bishop State Community College’s nursing director resigned days after a report by the state two-year college system cited problems in her department.

July 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Knoxville College President-Elect Starts At A Different Institution

This week, Dr. Earl Yarbrough Sr. is finally occupying the seat he’s sought most of his professional life — the one belonging to a historically Black university president.

July 2, 2007

African-American

U.S. Colleges Urged To Improve Access For Disadvantaged International Students, Particularly Africans

U.S. colleges are beginning to reverse the decline in international student enrollment that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But the key to future growth may be the ability to attract lower-income and disadvantaged foreign students, including those from Africa, witnesses told a House hearing Friday.

July 2, 2007

Report: lock faulty to Purdue utility room where student died

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. A Purdue University student fatally shocked last winter in a high-voltage campus utility room entered that room through a door with a faulty lock that might have prevented it from being securely latched, a consultant concluded.

July 1, 2007

Former college football players could find work in new league

ORLANDO Fla. Rudy Griffin’s college football career ended two years ago when he graduated from Alabama, but the desire to play still hasn’t left him.

July 1, 2007

Medical student ruminates on need for anatomy and meaning of life

Before Christine Montross decided to become a psychiatrist, she was a poet, university writing instructor and high school English teacher. So she has a way with words. Now, she has brought that talent to one of the most traumatic parts of medical training – anatomy, the dissection of the human body – in a book entitled “Body of Work.”

July 1, 2007

Bredesen names 4 new trustees to University of Tennessee board

NASHVILLE Tenn. Gov. Phil Bredesen has named four businessmen, including a former state Democratic Party chairman, to fill vacancies on the University of Tennessee board of trustees, Bredesen’s office announced Monday.

July 1, 2007

Governor signs pioneering tax credit law to stop ‘brain drain’

AUGUSTA Maine With applause filling his office, Gov. John Baldacci signed on Monday what’s described as the nation’s most far-reaching law to keep the state’s best and brightest from fleeing after graduation by offering tax credits to reimburse their college loans.

July 1, 2007

CDC suspends Texas A&M bioweapons research

AUSTIN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suspended Texas A&M University’s federal research on some infectious diseases after two cases in which the school failed to report researchers’ exposure to bioweapons agents.

July 1, 2007

Georgia Tech’s West gets tryout with Harlem Globetrotters

ATLANTA The Harlem Globetrotters’ adopted theme song “Sweet Georgia Brown” would be a nice fit if Georgia Tech’s Mario West is successful in his tryout with the team.

July 1, 2007

UNC Wilmington hires athletic director

WILMINGTON N.C. UNC Wilmington hired Kelly Landry Mehrtens as its athletic director Monday.

July 1, 2007

UNC Wilmington hires athletic director

WILMINGTON N.C. UNC Wilmington hired Kelly Landry Mehrtens as its athletic director Monday.

July 1, 2007

Purdue’s men’s basketball team won’t travel much for non-conference games

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. The Purdue men’s basketball team will only leave Indiana three times this season before the start of Big Ten play.

July 1, 2007

Tommy Bell named athletic director at Indian University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

FORT WAYNE Ind. Tommy Bell, who oversaw fundraising for Southern Illinois University’s athletic department since 2001, was named Monday as IPFW’s athletic director.

July 1, 2007

Ohio Justices Attend Science Training Seminar at University

COLUMBUS Ohio Judges trying to keep up with scientific advancements say they face difficult decisions in determining what kinds of evidence to allow into courtrooms. As gatekeepers over what testimony is heard by a jury, judges must decide which experts are relevant and which are truly experts.

July 1, 2007

Ohio University trustees reappoint embattled president

ATHENS Ohio Trustees at Ohio University have reappointed the school’s embattled president to the post for one more year.

July 1, 2007