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Faculty & Staff

Controversy Stirs Over Yale Press Decision to Remove Image Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad From Text

In her forthcoming book, The Cartoons That Shook the World, Brandeis University professor of comparative politics Dr. Jytte Klausen examines the impact of 12 controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad originally published in Denmark in 2005.

August 17, 2009

African-American

Gene Variant Predicts Racial Disparity in Hepatitis Treatment Success

Scientists say they’ve found a big reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for White patients than for African-Americans. It’s a tiny variation in a gene.

August 17, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Five Arrested After Shooting Injures Five on Langston Campus

Five people were arrested after shots injured five people on the campus of Langston University early Sunday, a spokeswoman for the school said.

August 17, 2009

For-profit colleges’ increased lending prompts concerns

The economic recession has made it harder for students to obtain bank loans. So, some of the nation’s biggest for-profit colleges and vocational schools are boosting enrollment in tough times by making more loans directly to cash-strapped students, knowing full well many of them probably won’t be able to repay what they borrowed. According to […]

August 16, 2009

College scholarships in limbo in tussle over ‘Promise’

Students in Michigan have letters from the state ‘promising’ them the Michigan Promise Scholarship awards, but the scholarship could be eliminated. According to the Detroit News, more than 96,000 students are still unsure of whether the state will honor their Michigan Promise Scholarship. The students earned the state-funded merit scholarship — worth up to $4,000 […]

August 16, 2009

Changes in store at Florida colleges

The economic downturn is impacting many states and Florida is one of them. On next week, more than 1.3 million students will arrive at Florida’s public universities, community colleges and private colleges for the fall semester, and the budget crunch will continue to affect their academic experience, the Miami Herald reported. Students will see bigger […]

August 16, 2009

Community Colleges

Number of UNC administrators increases

The number of administrators at the University of North Carolina system schools has grown 28 percent in the past five years a newspaper analysis reported. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that the rate is faster than the growth of teaching positions or student enrollment. According to The Charlotte Observer, the analysis shows […]

August 16, 2009

Classes Start For Local Universities

Students at the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and other metro Atlanta colleges and universities begin classes on Monday. According to CBS Atlanta, officials expect to enroll more than 30,000 students at George State, which would be a university record and an 8 percent increase over last fall. As part of that 30,000, […]

August 16, 2009

Community Colleges

Md. Community colleges riding new wave in higher education

Many students in the state of Maryland are deciding to head to community colleges this fall. Community colleges are seen as an option for education and an avenue for jobs. According to the Baltimore Sun, at the Community College of Baltimore County, fall enrollment is expected to be 20 percent higher than last year. At […]

August 16, 2009

SPE announces scholarship winners for graduate research.

Gregorio Manuel Velez-Garcia and Zeba Farheen Abdul Samad will each receive a $2,000 scholarship check at the Society of Plastic Engineers Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition to help underwrite research in composites for ground transportation, ThomasNet reported. Velez-Garcia will use scholarship for development work on new method for predicting fiber orientation in fiber-reinforced, injection-molded thermoplastics, […]

August 16, 2009

Clemson sets application, enrollment record while maintaining academic quality

Clemson University will welcome its largest freshman class this week. According to Clemson University Media Relations, the university set a record enrollment of 16,281 undergraduate student applications. The director of admissions said the university accepted more freshmen and transfer students because of uncertainty about how the economic recession would affect yield – the percentage of […]

August 16, 2009

Some Undergrads Shave a Year Off College to Save

While educators debate the wisdom of three-year college degrees, some ambitious students are going ahead and finishing their course work in three years anyhow as a way to save thousands of dollars in tuition.

August 16, 2009

Native Americans

Tribal Members, Researchers Band Together to Bring Back Condor

The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.

August 16, 2009

AKA Lawsuit Reveals Longtime Internal Conflicts

For an organization with a code of silence rivaled only by police departments, a 38-page lawsuit filed by eight members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority against its president and board of directors is unusual enough.

August 13, 2009

Are Endowments Making a Rebound?

For more than a year, college endowments have been an investment train wreck, but things appear to be turning around.

August 13, 2009

Leadership & Policy

In Brief: The Recession and Higher Ed

: The Georgia Board of Regents approve mandatory unpaid furloughs; University of Illinois president vows admissions reform; University of Southern Mississippi considers campus closure.

August 13, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Georgia colleges to furlough employees 6 days

The Georgia Board of Regents approved the mandatory unpaid leave for about 40,000 employees Wednesday as a way to save the University System of Georgia about $42 million. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the furloughs are among a series of cuts facing the system’s 35 colleges as Georgia suffers through the current economic crisis. […]

August 12, 2009

Georgia Tech professor faces 15 counts of sexual exploitation

Faiz Al-Khayyal , a Georgia Tech associate professor, was arrested and booked into the Fulton County jail Wednesday night after being charged with 15 counts of sexual exploitation of children, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The university previously suspended without pay for violating the computer-use policy. A university official said that illicit computer activity prompted […]

August 12, 2009