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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Despite signing an agreement to resolve a semester-long contract dispute, relations between Central Michigan University's administrators and faculty don't appear to be thawing. The Academic Senate -- the primary governing board over academic issues, such as curricula -- passed a non-binding, no-confidence vote in CMU President George Ross and Provost George...Read More >>

Former Savannah State football coach Robby Wells received compensation of $350,000, which included $110,000 to his attorneys, to settle his discrimination lawsuit against the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and SSU administrators. The Savannah Morning News learned details of the agreement after issuing a freedom of information request for...Read More >>

In a poignant call to action, speakers at the funeral for a Florida A&M University drum major urged for an end to the hazing linked to the death of Robert Champion. Eight former band mates saluted Champion by walking toward his open casket. They raised their batons in unison, then abruptly turned to show their capes embroidered with the letters: C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N....Read More >>

A tape-recorded phone call in which Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine’s wife appears to bolster the allegations of child sex abuse against her husband added another shock wave to the case Sunday, leading to the firing of Fine on Sunday night and eliciting comparisons to the coverup of child sex abuse allegations at Penn State. In a statement...Read More >>

Florida A&M University Band Director Julian White, who was fired this week after the death of a drum major, wants to keep his job. Authorities are investigating possible hazing in the death of Robert Champion, 26, on Nov. 19. And the Associated Press is reporting that Champion’s family plans to sue the school. University President James H. Ammons said...Read More >>

A University of Utah professor, arrested over the weekend for allegedly viewing child pornography on his laptop during a flight, will be arraigned on Monday in a Boston court. Police arrested Grant D. Smith, 47, on Saturday when a Delta Airlines flight from Salt Lake City landed at Boston's Logan Airport. A passenger tipped off authorities that Smith was using...Read More >>

A prominent University of Georgia researcher must schedule visits to his own office and can no longer make personnel decisions affecting members of his research team after he was found in violation of UGA’s harassment policy. Paul Roman, an expert in substance abuse treatment, created a hostile work environment for female employees, and retaliated against one of...Read More >>

Under a new policy adopted Friday by the state board of regents, it will be a little harder to hang on to tenure at Utah colleges and universities. Regents voted to strengthen the post-tenure reviews of professors, mandating periodic evaluations that ensure faculty continue to meet standards for teaching and research once they achieve tenure’s...Read More >>

The University of Toronto has launched the largest university fundraising campaign in Canadian history, setting an ambitious $2-billion target as it recovers from the blows of a global recession. The new campaign – twice as large as the university’s most recent effort, which ended in 2003 – was unveiled Sunday night at the university’s Convocation Hall,...Read More >>

Oklahoma State University officials will examine the school’s travel policy in the wake of a plane crash that killed women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke, an assistant coach and two other people in central Arkansas, a spokesman said Sunday. “Certainly, it’s a little early, we’re still kind of recovering from this, but we’ll certainly look at the...Read More >>

University of California-Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi says she won't resign despite outrage over her handling of campus officers' blasting pepper spray into the faces of students protesting Friday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. "I really feel confident at this point the university needs me," Katehi said today on "Good Morning America." "There are...Read More >>

Capella Education Co. said it plans to cut about 65 positions, or 4% of its non-faculty workforce, in an effort to trim excess capacity. The company, a provider of online post-secondary education through its Capella University, specializes in doctoral and master's programs in education, business administration, nursing and public administration. In July, it...Read More >>

Sacramento State professor George Parrott walked out of his Psychology 101 lab class Thursday morning because his students didn't bring any snacks. Instead, he says, he went to breakfast with his teaching assistant. The professor said students are told of the requirement to bring snacks on the first day of class. A handout from the teacher is clear – "Not...Read More >>

While the recession that prompted a close examination of the university budget ended over two years ago, it has had a delayed and lingering impact on the university's hiring practices. The university sees itself in a more stable situation than in 2008 and 2009 and has handled the brunt of the recession "very well" in terms of maintaining a balanced budget and...Read More >>

While working as a youth camp counselor at The Citadel, accused molester Louis “Skip” ReVille reportedly watched pornography and behaved inappropriately with two boys under his care, school officials said Saturday. When ReVille was charged in recent weeks with sexually assaulting teenage boys in other incidents, The Citadel revealed that a summer camper once...Read More >>

Thousands of enraged Penn State students tore through the streets of State College, Pa., overnight to protest the firing of Joe Paterno after the longtime head football coach was removed from his position effective immediately. Penn State's board of trustees dismissed the legendary coach despite his statement earlier in the day that he would retire at the end of...Read More >>

A new policy at the University of Idaho would strongly discourage relationships between faculty members and students following a murder-suicide, in which a professor killed a graduate student he had taught and dated, then took his own life. Ernesto Bustamante resigned Aug. 19 and three days later, gunned down 22-year-old Katy Benoit outside her Moscow home, police...Read More >>