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Southern U. President Agrees to Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit

BATON ROUGE, La. Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter has agreed to settle his whistleblower lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment by the chairman of his system’s governing board in exchange for a two-year contract and a salary supplement that will nearly double his state-funded salary of $220,000.

August 30, 2007

Governor Troubled That Virginia Tech Gunman’s Paper Wasn’t Shared

RICHMOND, Va. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said that he is troubled that Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho’s violent class essays, including one with a narrative similar to the massacre he carried out, were not widely shared with law enforcement and university officials.

August 30, 2007

5 University of Colorado Temps on Paid Leave for Background Check Following Stabbing

BOULDER, Colo. Five people hired at the University of Colorado through a mental-health agency were placed on paid leave for background checks Tuesday, after a former program participant was accused of attacking a student with a knife.

August 30, 2007

Report: Federal Aid to Schools Devastated By Hurricane Katrina Woefully Inadequate

WASHINGTON Gulf Coast schools decimated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita two years ago are still waiting for promised federal help, a new report finds. The study, released Wednesday by the Southern Education Foundation, reveals that a lack of government intervention has caused as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students to stay out of school.

August 29, 2007

Tufts Dean Reverses Byline Requirement on Conservative Student Journal

MEDFORD, Mass. A Tufts University dean earlier this week reversed a campus board’s requirement that a student-run conservative journal include authors’ names with articles — a rule imposed after the magazine published an unbylined parody that many found racist.

August 29, 2007

Abu Ghraib Art May Be Permanently Housed at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. A collection of work by Colombian artist Fernando Botero about Abu Ghraib may be permanently housed at the University of California, Berkeley.

August 29, 2007

Just the Stats: How Minorities Fared on the 2007 SAT

The most diverse group of test-takers in the history of the exam sat for the SAT in 2007, with 39 percent, or four out of 10 test-takers, classified as minority.

August 27, 2007

Justice Department Sides with Mormon Student Who Lost State-Funded Scholarship

CHARLESTON, W.Va. The U.S. Department of Justice is backing a Mormon student who lost his state-funded, merit-based scholarship because he left West Virginia University to serve a two-year church mission.

August 27, 2007

North Carolina Needs 400,000 New Workers With Bachelor’s Degrees By 2014

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. North Carolina’s universities are falling behind on providing the number of well-educated, skilled workers the state needs, according to a report last week to a commission planning the University of North Carolina system’s future.

August 27, 2007

Killings in Newark Challenge Delaware State “Family”

While law enforcement officials continue their investigations in the killing of three college students, the Delaware State University community is trying to cope with the loss of the victims as students return to the campus this week.

August 25, 2007

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Housing Secretary, Former Regent Says He Lost Confidence in Texas Southern

HOUSTON The U.S. housing secretary and former regent testified Friday that he lost confidence in Texas Southern University’s ex-president after details about a spending scandal became public.

August 25, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Students Could Not Reverse Tenure Denial of Popular Black Professor at Washington University

In the effort to win tenure for Washington University professor Dr. Leslie Brown, some unlikely alliances were forged. A diverse coalition of several hundred students petitioned the administration urging them to reconsider Brown’s tenure, arguing that the popular professor of African-American studies was a valued asset to the university — particularly a university with a miniscule number of tenured Black professors.

August 22, 2007

Community Colleges

New Study: California Community College Students Abandon Transfer Plans At High Rate

Six in 10 California community college system students with high school diplomas and transfer aspirations are giving up transfer plans or dropping out after only one semester, a new study reveals. Research conducted by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) also finds that two-year college students taking four classes or more are far more likely to transfer.

August 22, 2007

Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

A Deafening Silence

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this summer on the school integration plans in Seattle and Louisville seemed to be met with a deafening silence by the nation’s civil rights groups.

August 22, 2007

Letters

A Proud Graduate As an alumnus of the Community College of the Air Force, I am very proud of the great milestone of 300,000 graduates (see “Establishing a Real-World Credential, June 28). I have visited several education centers during my career and found the staff knowledgeable, caring and dedicated to the mission of educating others. […]

August 22, 2007

A Conversation with Joyce Wong

Dr. Joyce Wong has been director of athletics at Eastern Connecticut State University since 1999, overseeing Division III intercollegiate sport programs such as basketball, soccer, baseball, swimming and track and field.

August 22, 2007

Community Colleges

On the Big Screen: Poor Us

In the new documentary “Indoctrinate U.,” filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney poses this question: What do all of the colleges and universities featured in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 have in common?

August 22, 2007