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Penn State Faculty Rejects Vote of No Confidence in the Board of Trustees

The 32-member board of trustees has come under fire for its handling of a child sex abuse scandal that led to the firings of the university president and longtime football coach Joe Paterno.

January 25, 2012

Emerging Scholars: Righting Social Wrongs — Alexes Harris

The fifth profile in a 12-part examination of prominent young scholars focuses on Dr. Alexes Harris, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington who researches the inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system.

January 24, 2012

Educator Takes On Teachers Unions

Addressing parents directly from the vantage point of an insider, Dr. Steve Perry details an insightful and frightening view of the state of the American public school system in new book.

January 12, 2012

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Bridging the Gap

Minnesota Higher Education Institutions Strive To Embrace, Understand Somali Students.

January 9, 2012

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La. Gov. Bobby Jindal Opposes Proposal To Cap TOPS Grants

The Governance Commission suggested a restructuring of TOPS, to give all students a flat grant amount, capped at the same level for everyone, rather than tied to the cost of tuition at an individual school.

January 9, 2012

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Consumer Appointment May Help Students, Advocates Say

Higher education groups back President Obama’s selection of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which may help limit unscrupulous student loan practices.

January 9, 2012

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Why Ethnic Studies Courses Are Good for White Kids Too

Last week, Judge Lewis Kowal of Arizona upheld a ban on ethnic studies classes in the Tucson Unified School District. Ethnic studies generally refer to courses such as African-American studies, Asian studies, or — in the case of the Tucson Unified School District — Mexican-American studies. Courses such as these, which comprise full programs at […]

January 8, 2012

Bringing Sexy Back: The ‘Critilicious’ and Theoretical Framing

There’s a new wave in scholarship or perhaps it’s the way we have always operated. Nevertheless, it seems like we, some scholars, are looking for the next “really cool” theoretical framework. Sort of like the newest dance craze or hot new trendy outfit, everyone’s “doing it or wearing it.” Now this trendiness has come to […]

January 5, 2012

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Court Rules Berkeley Not Obligated To Reinstate Fired Professor

The University of California, Berkeley, doesn’t have to reinstate a former untenured Native American faculty member although a jury awarded her retaliation damages, a California Court of Appeal has ruled.

January 5, 2012

Coach Tubby Smith: ‘We’re Contenders, Not Pretenders’

The exuberant Tubby Smith is just the fifth coach in NCAA history to pull off the rare feat of leading four teams (Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky and Minnesota) to the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

January 5, 2012

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Georgetown Study Sheds Light on College Majors and Employability

The report found that unemployment rates are much higher for recent graduates who majored in architecture and the arts—13.9 and 11.1 percent, respectively—than for those who graduated in other majors.

January 5, 2012

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Robert Carter, Fighter Against Segregation, Dies

Robert Carter, a lawyer who helped put together the legal arguments that led to major civil rights victories against segregation, has died.

January 5, 2012

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Robert Carter, Fighter Against Segregation, Dies

Robert Carter, a lawyer who helped put together the legal arguments that led to major civil rights victories against segregation, has died.

January 5, 2012

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FAMU Trustees Opt for “Independent” Anti-Hazing Committee

Trustees of Florida A & M University this week approved an action plan that includes honoring deceased marching band member Robert Champion with a memorial and scholarship.

January 3, 2012

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With Federal Backing, Universities to Expand Innovative K-12 Learning Programs

Expansion of STAD-Math is being overseen by Old Dominion University, which has won $25 million in i3 funds to expand the program to serve 135,000 students in 185 “high need” middle schools throughout the country over the next five years.

January 3, 2012

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Judge Hears Case Over Maryland Funding of Historically Black Schools

Attorneys arguing that Maryland’s history of racially-segregated higher education is ongoing used decades-old state reports to try to make their point as a federal trial began Tuesday.

January 3, 2012

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Concordia University-St. Paul: A Resource of Hmong Culture

When Lee Pao Xiong helped launch the Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University-St. Paul, he hoped it would become a destination for not only scholars worldwide, but also for non-academicians.

January 2, 2012

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Federal Judge Dismisses Texas A&M International Discrimination Suit

federal judge in Houston has tossed out a civil rights suit that claimed a Texas university was getting rid of Asian faculty members to replace them with Hispanics.

January 2, 2012

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