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Dustup Over Racial Slur Comes at Delicate Time for Young Law School

PROVIDENCE, R.I. The law school at Roger Williams University is a relative infant among peers, opened less than 15 years ago and angling ever since to elevate its national profile and climb the rankings ladder.

July 21, 2007

House Approves Major Funding Increase For HBCUs

Citing the need for a dramatic funding increase, the House of Representatives has approved a plan to raise Black college funding by $125 million next year – 40 percent more than the current budget.

July 18, 2007

Just the Stats: How to Increase Minority Presence in STEM Fields at Your Institution

A few weeks ago, I started to look at the programs that work to boost minority participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, specifically Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. The Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) is another successful program that focuses on helping STEM students by providing long-term institutional funding to Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and tribal colleges and universities. The National Science Foundation provides funding for both programs.

July 18, 2007

Higher Tuition Rates Cause Concern at College Campuses in Handful of States

Michigan is one of a handful of states where tuition at some public universities will increase by nearly 10 percent or more starting this fall. Four-year public schools in Illinois, Colorado and Oklahoma also plan tuition increases that could at least triple the general inflation rate.

July 18, 2007

Indiana U. Hopes For Jumpstart in Technology Startups

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Indiana University hopes a newly created job at the school will help technology research make the jump from the laboratory to the business world.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Arkansas State U. Committee Recommends Indians Nickname Change

JONESBORO Ark. The committee reviewing Arkansas State’s use of the nickname Indians formally recommended Monday that Chancellor Robert Potts appoint a panel to help change it.

July 18, 2007

Texas A&M Signs with Adidas, Ending University’s Relationship with Nike

PORTLAND Ore. Adidas just did it again.

July 18, 2007

Gun Rights Activists: Firearms Ban Would Make MSU More Dangerous

BOZEMAN Mont. Montana State University plans to restrict firearms and ban concealed weapons from campus, steps that gun-rights activists argue would make students more vulnerable if a Virginia Tech-style gunman were to threaten the MSU campus.

July 18, 2007

Bogus Degree Sale Scheme Hits New York City college

NEW YORK Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college’s computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians’ assistants, they said.

July 18, 2007

3 E. Michigan Administrators Forced Out

YPSILANTI Mich. Three Eastern Michigan University administrators, including the president, have been forced out, months after top school officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Roger Williams University board chairman in R.I. says racial slur ‘slipped out’

PROVIDENCE R.I. The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying it “kind of slipped out.”

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Rare Letter for Sale: Pardon of Black Underground RR Hero

PHILADELPHIA A letter that documents President Franklin Pierce’s pardon of a black man who harbored slaves went up for sale Monday.

July 18, 2007

Edwards Touts Diverse Schools Plan in Fight Against Poverty

PITTSBURGH Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday called for measures to strengthen education for poor children and make schools more economically diverse in order to fight poverty in America.

July 18, 2007

Yale Junior Found with Guns Arraigned on Charges of Threatening

NEW HAVEN Conn. A Yale University student who is accused of firing a gun in the living room of his off-campus fraternity house over the weekend has been arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace.

July 18, 2007

Higher Tuition Rates Cause Concern at College Campuses in Handful of States

EAST LANSING Mich. Michigan State University senior Katie Wright worries college tuition is rising so fast that some working-class families, including her own, may soon find higher education unaffordable.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Forced Out EMU Officials Get $550,000

YPSILANTI Mich. Three university administrators who were forced out this week after their school was accused of covering up the dorm room rape and killing of a student will receive nearly $550,000 in severance packages, documents show.

July 18, 2007

Supercomputer to Anchor New Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha Computing Center

OMAHA Neb. A supercomputer expected to be among the 50 most powerful in the world will anchor a new computing center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

July 18, 2007

Unlimited Tuition Break for Wisconsin Veterans Divides Lawmakers, Vets

MADISON Wis. Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton urged the Legislature on Wednesday to honor the original intent of a tuition benefit program for Wisconsin veterans by not putting any limits on how long they have to take advantage of it.

July 18, 2007