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Fairfield University president Jeffrey von Arx
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Fairfield University President Jeffrey von Arx is used to hosting visiting Jesuits, campus speakers, even his parents on occasion in his spacious off-campus house -- but never students. Until Sandy.
Von Arx opened his home to four Fairfield students who had been spending their senior year sharing a rented home on Fairfield Beach Road, just four houses from Long...Read More >>
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Rafael Reif
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In what may be a sign of the growth of science and technology in international education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrestled the top spot in the new U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings away from University of Cambridge, which was No. 1 for the past two years.
MIT, which tied for sixth place among National Universities in the recent U.S....Read More >>
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University of Kentucky president Eli Capilouto hears faculty concerns
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University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto held a lengthy, sometimes contentious meeting with faculty members Monday, in which he promised to consider their concerns over upcoming cuts, a new budgeting system and overall angst about the future of Kentucky's flagship school.
However, Capilouto did not accede to a list of recommendations the University Senate...Read More >>
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U. of North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp
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Professors and other employees at UNC Chapel Hill are trying to persuade Chancellor Holden Thorp to change his mind about resigning in the face of multiple scandals.
About 250 faculty members approved a resolution Tuesday declaring that Thorp "remains the best person to lead our university through these challenging times." The resolution passed despite Thorp...Read More >>
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FAMU interim president Larry Robinson
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It felt like family inside the football stadium at Florida A&M University on Saturday night. Old friends shouted greetings and delivered tight hugs; students clustered in the stands, snapping photos with their cellphones. Grandparents adjusted their orange cushions on the metal bleachers in more or less the same spots they had claimed for decades.
But try as they...Read More >>
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Former U. of Alabama Huntsville professor Amy Bishop
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Amy Bishop pleaded guilty this afternoon to capital murder charges in Madison County Circuit Court in an agreement that will send her to prison for the rest of her life.
Bishop, 47, will not be eligible for the death penalty under the terms of the agreement.
She stood before Judge Alan Mann and entered one guilty plea to capital murder and three pleas of...Read More >>
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NDSCS head football coach Charles Parsons
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A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said.
North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowledges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but says it wasn't because he is gay. Football coach Chuck Parsons...Read More >>
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University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus
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The University of Texas-Austin is backing a sociology professor who came under withering attack for a study that found children of same-sex parents are more likely to be depressed or on welfare than kids raised by heterosexual couples.
The school launched an inquiry into Professor Mark Regnerus' peer-reviewed work last month after a New York-based blogger attacked...Read More >>
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U. of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman
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University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman isn't likely to continue leading the Ann Arbor school once her contract expires in 2014, three members of the Board of Regents told the Free Press.
"She has told the board she wants to retire in 2014," longtime Regent Andrea Fischer Newman said.
The 68-year-old Coleman declined to comment on whether she would...Read More >>
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U. of Virginia rector Helen Dragas leads board forward
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The Board of Visitors, headed by Rector Helen Dragas, established a committee on governance and engagement and a separate one on strategic planning, the university said in a statement yesterday.
Addressing one of the issues that Dragas raised in her effort to fire the president, Sullivan told the board she would bring a plan for faculty salaries to the group in...Read More >>
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Jim Wagner, president of Atlanta's Emory University
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Emory University intentionally misreported data about its students for at least 12 years to groups that rank colleges, President Jim Wagner said Friday.
The deception meant that U.S. News & World Report, Peterson's and others that have long ranked Emory as one of the nation's top colleges did so with inflated data. Students and their families rely heavily on...Read More >>
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UC Irvine professor Rainer Reinscheid held without bail
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A University of California professor was held without bail Tuesday after prosecutors said they found evidence he plotted to kill students and administrators at a high school where his son was disciplined before committing suicide.
Rainer Reinscheid, 48, an associate professor of pharmaceuticals at the University of California, Irvine, is charged with arson for a...Read More >>
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Cal State faculty union president Lillian Taiz
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California State University and its faculty union announced a tentative agreement Tuesday on a four-year contract that provides no pay raises but averts the potential for strikes this fall at the system's 23 campuses.
The deal culminates two years of often contentious negotiations over salary, class sizes, faculty stability and other issues, punctuated by one-day...Read More >>
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Western Washington U. president Bruce Shepard
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Gov. Chris Gregoire has chastised Western Washington University for giving "significant salary increases" to faculty during a poor economy while students faced tuition hikes of 16 percent.
"In the worst economic times in 80 years, I am surprised that Western has entered into a collective bargaining agreement that provides for a salary increase of 5.25 percent...Read More >>
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Teresa Sullivan rehired as UVa president
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The University of Virginia Board of Visitors today acted to reinstate Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the University.
"The past two weeks have been trying for all of us in the University community," Sullivan said. "While this period of uncertainty has been difficult, I believe that those with opposing viewpoints have been well-intentioned, acting only with the...Read More >>
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U. of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan steps down
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The University of Virginia announced Sunday that Teresa A. Sullivan will no longer be president, effective Aug. 15, after two years on the job. Sullivan’s sudden departure comes after a “philosophical difference of opinion” with UVa’s Board of Visitors.
Sullivan took the helm at the university during a deep recession when the university faced big funding...Read More >>
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Embattled FAMU president James Ammons
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Being a president of any university is a lot like having several different jobs at once. You're an administrator, fundraiser and politician, to name a few. At Florida A&M University, there's one more — one that for years has overshadowed all the others: Crisis manager. Today, that duty falls to James Ammons, as he works to protect FAMU from mounting public...Read More >>
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Oracle chairman Jeff Henley gives UCSB $50 million
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Oracle Corp. Chairman Jeff Henley is giving $50 million to the University of California, Santa Barbara -- the largest donation in the school’s history -- to promote scientific research and help overcome budget cuts.
Henley’s donation to his alma mater will go toward the engineering college and the school’s Institute for Energy Efficiency, which conducts...Read More >>
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John Lombardi fired as president of LSU system
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The LSU System Board of Supervisors voted Friday to terminate President John Lombardi.
Lombardi, who was not present at the meeting, has been head of the LSU System since 2007.
Former System President Bill Jenkins will fill in as interim president until Lombardi’s successor is appointed. Board Chairman Hank Danos was authorized to make official decisions for...Read More >>
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The vice dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania resigned Thursday, one day after he was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his false claim to have a doctoral degree.
Penn announced the resignation of Doug E. Lynch, who has been a top official in the education program since 2004, after The Inquirer...Read More >> |
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Nebraska Cornhuskers assistant coach Ron Brown has come under fire for publicly expressing sentiments some say are anti-gay, but he insists he'll continue to speak out against homosexuality.
In March, Brown, 55, testified against an Omaha anti-discrimination ordinance that extended protections to gay and transgender people, which prompted Barbara Baier of the...Read More >> |
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The Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Wednesday approved a plan to bolster salaries of faculty members lagging far behind their peers in pay.
The plan, which will go into place for the 2013 fiscal year -- July 1 to June 30, 2013 -- will distribute newly budgeted money to faculty based on how poorly compensated they are compared to the...Read More >> |
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The University of California can release a report on the pepper-spraying of student demonstrators by UC Davis police but must first remove the names of most officers, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said the task force report does not contain confidential personnel records of police officers who were interviewed during an...Read More >> |
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Faced with a $350,000 budget shortfall, the faculty and administration at New England College have reached into their own pockets to save the jobs of staff members.
According to Director of Public Information Kathleen Williams, the college was facing a deficit of $350,000 between now and June 30, the end of the current fiscal year, and was scrambling to find ways...Read More >> |
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Florida A&M University President James H. Ammons has placed two band faculty members on paid administrative leave following a Tallahassee Police Department investigation released today cited the professors as suspects in a reported 2010 off-campus hazing incident.
Diron T. Holloway, associate professor of music and director of clarinets and saxophones, and Anthony...Read More >> |
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For a few shining moments, the University of St. Thomas School of Law ranked 16 spots higher in the U.S. News and World Report than it had last year, a significant leap.
Today, it has no ranking at all.
After St. Thomas announced that it had reported an incorrect percentage of its 2010 graduates who had jobs at graduation, the magazine stripped the school of...Read More >> |
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University of Illinois President Michael Hogan has resigned, two weeks after he had been asked by school officials to repair his fraying relationship with the faculty.
The resignation was announced in a letter from Christopher G. Kennedy, chairman of the school's board off Trustees. Kennedy said Hogan would stay on until July when longtime administrator Bob Easter...Read More >> |
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Susan Aldridge resigned Thursday as president of the University of Maryland University College, a month after taking an unexplained leave from the state-supported global school amid mounting dissent about her management style and academic priorities.
Aldridge, 60, said she was leaving simply because the time had come. State university officials offered no further...Read More >> |
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Robert Birgeneau will step down as chancellor of UC Berkeley in December after eight years navigating the public university through massive budget cuts and raucous student protests, even as he maintained its status as one of the world's great research institutions.
As if to symbolize Birgeneau's tenure in microcosm, two things happened Tuesday, the day the lanky,...Read More >> |
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The University of Northern Iowa announced yesterday the closures of Malcolm Price Laboratory School, UNI Museum and UNI Print Services as well as $500,000 in cuts to intercollegiate athletics over the next three years.
"The current economic challenges and changes taking place in higher education provide an opportunity for strategic repositioning of the University...Read More >> |
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The faculty at Coppin State University overwhelmingly expressed no confidence in the institution's president, Reginald Avery, in a vote taken Monday, according to letters obtained late Thursday by The Baltimore Sun.
Fifty-five faculty members indicated that they are not satisfied with the leadership of Avery, who has been the school's head since January 2008....Read More >> |
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For the first time, some faculty at the University of Illinois are saying they have no confidence in President Michael Hogan and have called for his presidency to end.
But a UI spokesman said Hogan has the "unwavering support" of UI trustees and has no intention of resigning.
Fourteen senior faculty members are circulating a letter they plan to send next week...Read More >> |
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Millersville University of Pennsylvania announced a reduction of three varsity intercollegiate athletic sports in order to strengthen existing teams' competitive opportunities and ensure a sustainable financial future for the athletics department, according to Dr. Aminta Hawkins Breaux, Vice President of Student Affairs, who oversees the intercollegiate athletics...Read More >> |
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Investment manager and philanthropist Richard Driehaus, who grew up on Chicago's South Side, the son of a mechanical engineer and housewife, is donating $30 million to DePaul University's business college.
It's the biggest gift ever given to the Catholic school.
DePaul will use interest earned on the endowment to recruit and retain faculty at its 100-year-old...Read More >> |
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Oakland University student Joe Corlett says he's considering legal action after he was kicked out of an English class for writing a "Hot for Teacher" essay.
The 56-year-old student from Lake Orion admits his writings during a fall 2011 Advanced Critical Writing class contain sexual fantasies about the instructor.
And his handwritten entry, which is now in the...Read More >> |
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The Ray Charles Foundation is demanding the return of a $3 million gift given to Albany State University a decade ago because the organization says the college has yet to use the money to build a performing arts center in the late artist’s name.
In 2001, Charles gave the south Georgia school $1 million and donated another $2 million a year later after receiving...Read More >> |
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Everyone at Pennsylvania's public colleges is asking the question, although they're terrified of the answer:
What happens if Gov. Corbett continues to slash funding for higher education?
A nearly 20 percent cut last year, and now a proposal for a reduction of up to 30 percent this year - keep it up, and all funding could quickly disappear.
"Everyone is...Read More >> |
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An Eastern Michigan University student who was expelled from a counseling program because she refused to counsel gays and lesbians about their lifestyles won a key victory today in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
A three-member panel of the court said Julea Ward can argue her religious discrimination suit against the university before a federal court jury...Read More >> |
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Southern University has begun to lay off tenured faculty members and staff in the wake of declaring a financial emergency last year.
Chancellor James Llorens said Friday that the immediate layoffs include fewer than 10 staff employees and tenured architecture professor John Delgado, who will lose his job as of Feb. 15.
A few more tenured faculty cuts were...Read More >> |
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An effort to unionize faculty at the University of Oregon is gaining speed as advocates begin fanning out to ask supporters to sign cards seeking state recognition for a new labor organization.
The group United Academics of the University of Oregon began collecting cards from its strongest supporters earlier this month. Last week, the group expanded its efforts...Read More >> |
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Bethune-Cookman University's board chairman resigned Thursday in a second major change in leadership following the pending retirement of President Trudie Kibbe Reed.
The university announced that the board of trustees -- at its first meeting for the year Thursday -- accepted the resignation of Chairman Larry R. Handfield, who has served as chairman since 2009 and...Read More >> |
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The Illinois attorney general's office is lashing out at Westwood College, which has four Chicago-area campuses, claiming the institution misleads students enrolled in its criminal justice program, putting them deep in debt and saddling them with a nearly worthless degree for pursuing careers in Illinois law enforcement.
Westwood, a career college owned by Alta...Read More >> |
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President Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, is launching an Institute of Politics at his alma mater, the University of Chicago, to create bipartisan programs bringing big names in politics to campus and internships for students.
“If years from now I run across young people who have participated in this Institute who are now writers and staffers and yes,...Read More >> |
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A former Tacoma Community College music instructor will be in court next month to answer charges that he convinced one of his voice students she could reach lower octaves if she took off her clothes or did sex acts while singing.
Kevin Gausepohl, 37, is charged in Tacoma Municipal Court with seven counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and one...Read More >> |
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When President Barack Obama wanted University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman to participate in a small group discussion about higher education issues, it was a reflection of her national stature.
When Coleman declined the invitation because she was already scheduled for two trips to Washington, D.C., it was a reflection of her busy schedule, mostly to...Read More >> |
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A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a conservative, former anti-abortion activist who claims she was passed over for a job at the University of Iowa’s College of Law because of opposition from liberal faculty members.
Teresa R. Wagner alleges that Carolyn Jones, former dean of the College of Law, “discriminated against her in violation of...Read More >> |
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Not to be outdone by NYU and their upcoming course on Occupy Wall Street, Columbia University will offer its own course on the nascent movement this spring. Offered by the Anthropology Department, the course [pdf], called "Occupy the Field," will offer "training in ethnographic research methods alongside a critical exploration of the conjunctural issues in the Occupy...Read More >> |
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The Naval Academy is artificially inflating its number of applicants to boost its status among other colleges, according to an academy professor who based his accusations on the school’s own documents.
Specifically, the academy counts as “applicants” people who have not completed an application but have shown an interest through other means, such as applying...Read More >> |
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The dean of the University of Texas School of Law was forced to step down Thursday amid criticism by some faculty members about his allocation of donated funds to professors.
Larry Sager had planned to conclude his deanship at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. But UT President William Powers Jr., a former law dean who named Sager his successor in 2006, told...Read More >> |
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Thanksgiving break will remain an eat-and-run affair after the faculty voted on Monday to keep the College's time off for turkey a brief three days.
Had it passed, the proposal would have extended Thanksgiving break—which currently starts on a Wednesday—to a full week. Faculty would have recovered the lost Monday and Tuesday by removing the Tuesday from fall...Read More >> |
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