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Utah State to Receive Largest Donation in School History

LOGAN Utah Utah billionaire Jon M. Huntsman Sr. is pledging the largest donation in Utah State University history.

November 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

New University of Hawaii Chancellor Says School’s a Tarnished Jewel

HONOLULU The University of Hawaii’s new Manoa chancellor says the campus is a tarnished jewel.

November 20, 2007

Father Frustrated Over Pace of Search for Missing Jackson State U. Student

JACKSON Miss. The father of a missing 20-year-old Jackson State University student says he’s frustrated by what he describes as a slow-moving investigation.

November 20, 2007

Nebraska College Reaching Out to Potential Students in Iowa

DES MOINES Iowa Earlier this week, seniors at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs got a letter explaining that starting next fall, they can get half-price tuition at the University of Nebraska at Omaha just 13 miles and one state border away.

November 20, 2007

UC Santa Barbara Sigma Chi Fraternity Surrenders Charter After Hazing

SANTA BARBARA Calif. The Sigma Chi fraternity has surrendered its University of California, Santa Barbara, charter in wake of a hazing incident a year ago that led to criminal charges.

November 20, 2007

North Dakota State Students Want More Arabic Studies

FARGO N.D. Students at North Dakota State University say they want more Arabic language studies.

November 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Poll: Majority of Faculty Want Oral Roberts University President Gone

TULSA Okla. More than 80 percent of the faculty at Oral Roberts University do not want Richard Roberts to continue as president of the evangelical school, a new survey shows.

November 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Barack Obama says family experience gives him broader base for foreign policy views

CLARION Iowa Democrat Barack Obama said Monday his childhood experience in Asia and his family in Kenya give him a greater foreign policy understanding than politicians who merely take junkets to other countries.

November 20, 2007

Texas Southern University Reforms Would Give Regents More Control

HOUSTON Texas Southern University has proposed a slate of reforms that would give regents greater oversight as the school tries to recover from a period of turbulence and financial mismanagement.

November 20, 2007

In Brief: Schools Chief Tells Principals No Assemblies for Ethnic Groups

Complaints about a meeting to improve Black and Hispanic test scores leads to mandate to end assemblies for ethnic groups; the incidence of hate crimes rose 8 percent last year, according to FBI; Jackson State University student is missing.

November 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Idaho Board of Education to Study Fairness in Dual Credit System

TWIN FALLS Idaho A State Board of Education official says the time may be ripe to re-examine the dual credit system that allows high school students to earn college and high school credit at the same time when they take college-level classes.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Clatsop Community College Looks for Federal Grant for Renovations

ASTORIA Ore. Clatsop Community College officials are hoping that federal officials will come through with a grant to help stabilize the crumbling facilities on the campus, which have been rated as 100 percent likely to collapse in a major earthquake.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Enrollment Tailing Off in Some Phoenix-area Community Colleges

MESA Ariz. Despite a growing population in Maricopa County, enrollment in the county’s community college system is dropping.

November 19, 2007

Texas Southern University Reforms Would Give Regents More Control

KAILUA-KONA Hawaii Work is to begin next summer on the first building for the planned West Hawaii Community College center, but it’s not a state or university project.

November 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Ousted Sprint Executive Said to be Candidate to Head University of Missouri

KANSAS CITY Mo. The search for the next University of Missouri president is down to a single finalist.

November 19, 2007

Va. Tech Sirens Work as Designed

BLACKSBURG Va. No problems were reported in a test of Virginia Tech’s emergency sirens.

November 19, 2007

ND’s Two Largest Universities See Opposite Enrollment Trends

GRAND FORKS N.D. North Dakota’s two largest universities have seen enrollment trends in opposition directions over the past few years.

November 19, 2007

CU-Boulder Set to Begin Requiring Background Checks of All New Hires

BOULDER Colo. The University of Colorado plans to make background checks a part of all hires and promotions after a former employee with a criminal history was accused of slashing a student with a knife.

November 19, 2007