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Dismal ’06 season has Bethune-Cookman going back to basics

DAYTONA BEACH Fla. For much of last season, Bethune-Cookman had the most prolific passing numbers in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

August 14, 2007

Ex-ENMU women’s basketball coach dies

PORTALES N.M. Former Eastern New Mexico University women’s basketball coach Dan Buzard died Tuesday of brain cancer. He was 39.

August 14, 2007

Florida A&M tries for glory in the shadow of Florida State

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Rubin Carter has at least one big fan in Tallahassee, someone who believes that he’s the right man to lead Florida A&M back to prominence.

August 14, 2007

King calls for support for ‘Jena Six’

JENA La. Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the famed civil rights leader, urged a crowd Tuesday night to use the ballot box to change a local justice system where six black teenagers face the possibility of decades in prison for attacking a white classmate.

August 14, 2007

Search committee debating nickname impact in presidential search

GRAND FORKS N.D. A committee looking for candidates for the next University of North Dakota president is debating the impact of the school’s Fighting Sioux nickname.

August 14, 2007

The Search Committee Handbook

Leadership & Policy

Democratic loyalist is picked for Massachusetts higher education post

BOSTON Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday appointed Democratic loyalist Fred Clark to be chairman of the state’s Board of Higher Education.

August 14, 2007

E-mails slow to alert UI campus of bomb threat

IOWA CITY Iowa It took up to two hours for e-mails to reach all users in the University of Iowa’s database, warning people about a bomb threat.

August 14, 2007

UNLV orthodontics program threatened with losing accreditation

LAS VEGAS A national commission has threatened to revoke the accreditation of the orthodontics program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas over concerns about the quality of its education.

August 14, 2007

Regents to consider Nevada coach contract

RENO Nev. State regents are being asked to extend the contract of University of Nevada football coach Chris Ault through June 2012.

August 14, 2007

ACLU: Nevada college standards hurt minorities

RENO Nev. A plan to raise admission standards for Nevada’s two universities could hurt minority students and should be postponed, an official with the American Civil Liberties Union said.

August 14, 2007

IU, search engine explore deeper Web-based research in new partnership

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana University and the human-powered Internet search engine ChaCha are partnering to create a one-stop virtual reference desk that connects students with an array of experts and other help.

August 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tulane gets almost $11 million for kidney, blood pressure work

NEW ORLEANS The National Institutes of Health has given Tulane University $11 million to continue research on kidney function and high blood pressure a major problem in Louisiana, and the principal cause of kidney failure.

August 14, 2007

State releases first batch of Michigan Merit results

LANSING Mich. Most of last academic year’s Michigan high school juniors did well enough on a new standardized test to eventually get some college scholarship money from the state.

August 14, 2007

After winless year, spirits high again at FIU

MIAMI When those preseason magazines previewing the year in college football hit newsstands, many Florida International players rushed to grab a copy.

August 14, 2007

Community Colleges

UNM, CNM getting together

ALBUQUERQUE The top officials at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College say a newly signed collaboration between the schools will be good for students.

August 14, 2007

Report says college students might not be prepared for chosen careers

FARGO N.D. A study finds college students may not be prepared for the careers they want to pursue.

August 14, 2007

Florida receives $6 million from UF Athletic Association

GAINESVILLE Fla. The University of Florida Athletic Association, which produced national championships in football and basketball, is donating $6 million to the university to support academic programs jeopardized by state budget cuts.

August 14, 2007

ACT scores in Louisiana continue upward trend

BATON ROUGE La. The average composite score for Louisiana students taking the American College Test in 2007 was 20.1, the same as last year, the state’s top higher education board said Wednesday.

August 14, 2007