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Faculty & Staff

Dartmouth College Cancels Classes After Protest

Administrators announced that Wednesday’s classes would be replaced by programs focused on the college’s commitment to fostering respectful debate.

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Monetary Investment in ‘Student-Athletes’ Suggests Label Needs to be Reversed

The disparity among the amount of money spent on the average student and the amount of money spent on the average athlete is staggering.

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Faculty & Staff

2 Va. State Students Missing After Entering River

A university spokesman says two Virginia State University students who went missing in the Appomattox River over the weekend were not participating in any activities related to the school.

Faculty & Staff

Navajo Tech Continues Its Ascension

A small college on the eastern edge of the nation’s largest American Indian reservation is getting noticed.

Leadership & Policy

Family Says Chinese Grad Student’s Dreams Led to Boston

The family of a Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombings said in an open letter that it was her dream to study in the United States.

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Faculty & Staff

Rutgers President to be Asked About Scandal Severances

TRENTON, N.J. — Rutgers President Robert Barchi is scheduled to appear Thursday before an Assembly budget panel, where he’ll be asked about six- and seven-figure payouts given to three university officials ousted during a basketball coaching scandal.

Leaders Urge Colleges to Expand Sports Programs for Students With Disabilities

Jaunelle White, the director of compliance for athletics at Texas Southern University, says little has been done in the way of work toward adapting programs to accommodate students with disabilities.

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Clemson President Barker to Return to Teaching

Clemson President Jim Barker is going back to being an architecture professor after 14 years leading the school.

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Clemson Students Find Bacteria Risk in Beer Pong

The most dangerous part of playing beer pong might not be drinking too much beer.

Fewer African-Americans Playing Baseball at HBCUs Due to Economics, Opportunities

A 2012 article in the Raleigh News & Observer noted White players made up a majority of the baseball players in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

Bethune-Cookman assistant athletic director Bryan Harvey says a college baseball team’s racial makeup depends on connections that the coaches have prior to coming to a specific school.

Criminal Justice Students Experience House Arrest

A classroom debate over just how tough house arrest is has prompted a criminal justice professor at a central Illinois college to come up with what is a punishing assignment.

Leaders in HBCU Community Have Long Debated Institutional Role of Student-Athlete

Following Jesse Owens’ spectacular record-breaking four-gold-medal performance at the 1936 Olympics and Joe Louis’s capture of the heavyweight boxing title in 1937, a number of African-American coaches and journalists argued that African-American colleges should increase their financial support of athletics in hopes of producing more athletes who demonstrated the ability of the race.

Longtime football coach and athletic director Marino Casem, flanked by former players Walter Payton (left) and Gary Johnson, says “the better well-rounded individual is a well-rounded athlete.”

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