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DREAM Act Effort Renewed

WASHINGTON Immigration groups are mounting a new effort on the long-debated DREAM Act by trying to attach the education and citizenship measure to a defense bill moving through the U.S. Senate this week.

September 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fisk University, Wal-Mart Heiress Strike Deal on Stieglitz Art Collection

The Fisk University board of trustees approved a deal this week selling the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art a 50 percent interest in the school’s prized Alfred Stieglitz Collection of art and photographs. The price: $30 million.

September 25, 2007

New Graduates Crushed By Student Loan Debt, Study Says

New graduates are leaving college with more debt, but their starting salaries at new jobs are not keeping pace with their debt, a new study by the Project on Student Debt indicates.

September 25, 2007

Southern Utah hires assistant basketball coach

CEDAR CITY Utah Southern Utah University has hired a New Mexico Junior College assistant coach to join its men’s basketball coaching staff.

September 24, 2007

New philosophy school ERP software: Try it first, fix it later

When Jay Reinke’s July 31 paycheck wasn’t automatically deposited into his bank account, the 42-year-old painter at Arizona State University, went to the school’s human-resources office. A paper check was waiting for him. For $0.00.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Officials at North Carolina A&T, NCCU mull future of series after brawl

GREENSBORO N.C. Officials at North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central are considering the future of their football series after the latest meeting ended in a post-game brawl that police broke up with pepper spray.

September 24, 2007

Los Alamos chemist named MacArthur recipient

Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist My Hang Huynh was chosen Tuesday as one of two dozen 2007 winners of what are popularly known as “genius grants” from the MacArthur Foundation.

September 24, 2007

NCAA Woman of the Year finalists include University of Arizona swimmer

INDIANAPOLIS Tennessee distance runner Felicia Guliford and Arizona swimmer Whitney Myers were among nine finalists selected Tuesday for the NCAA’s annual Woman of the Year award.

September 24, 2007

Rhode Island College to pay $5,000 in dispute over free speech

PROVIDENCE R.I. A public college will pay $5,000 to a women’s group that filed suit claiming its free speech rights were violated when campus police removed signs that read “Keep your rosaries off our ovaries.”

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Gay College President Has Few Peers

When Ralph Hexter assumed the presidency of Hampshire College in western Massachusetts in 2005, his partner of 25 years, Manfred Kollmeir, was officially welcomed with all the trappings of a presidential spouse. Over Labor Day weekend, the couple made it official, exchanging vows in a private ceremony (Massachusetts is the only state allowing gay marriage) and breaking the news last week to the campus community.

September 24, 2007

Former House leader says Republican presidential candidates skipping black forum make mistake

WASHINGTON The former leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, said Tuesday that top tier Republican presidential candidates are making a mistake by skipping a forum focused on issues of importance to black voters.

September 24, 2007

Iowa legislator calls for limits to campus credit card offers

DES MOINES Iowa An Iowa City legislator called for restrictions on credit card marketing to students at Iowa’s public universities, and the head of the state Board of Regents said the group may seek more information about confidential deals with alumni organizations.

September 24, 2007

ACLU files lawsuit alleging South African scholar kept from United States for political views

BOSTON A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

September 24, 2007

Irish political party Fianna Fail starts recruitment drive in Northern Ireland universities

DUBLIN Ireland Fianna Fail, the political party that has dominated politics in the Republic of Ireland for decades, began recruiting university students Tuesday in Northern Ireland its first concrete move into the British territory.

September 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

University of Chicago tops $2 billion figure in fundraising drive

CHICAGO The University of Chicago says it’s surpassed its $2 billion fundraising goal, making it the nation’s seventh campus to raise at least that amount during a capital fundraising campaign.

September 24, 2007

Kupchella releases few details on Buning leave

GRAND FORKS N.D. Surveys such as the one done in the University of North Dakota athletic department before Athletic Director Tom Buning took a four-week leave of absence are routine, UND President Charles Kupchella says.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

SC educator appointed Coppin State University president

ADELPHI Md. Reginald S. Avery has been appointed president of Coppin State University.

September 24, 2007

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS: Michigan universities must use research to develop new industries

Michigan’s three research universities are worth a strong investment from the state if they continue to create new economic activity that leads to new jobs.

September 24, 2007