When he was 8 years old, Andy Martinez stood outside his hilltop West Orange school with his classmates and watched the World Trade Center burning in the distance. The third grader was unsure what was going on. "We were watching it from the football field," said Martinez, now 18, of South Orange. "I got pulled out of school." A decade later, Martinez is...Read More >>

A graduate student from Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing a university professor to death in upstate New York. Abdulsalam al-Zahrani had pleaded guilty in May to first-degree manslaughter for killing Binghamton University professor Richard Antoun. Prosecutors said the 48-year-old al-Zahrani had come to believe Antoun was part of a...Read More >>

A&M System Deputy Chancellor Jay Kimbrough, a good friend of Gov. Rick Perry, was fired from the A&M System on Wednesday and then pulled out a pocketknife in the presence of two System lawyers, he confirmed. Kimbrough said he was just "being cynical and comical" and his intent was misinterpreted. As of late Wednesday, police were investigating the incident,...Read More >>

Hofstra University is naming its law school after Maurice A. Deane, a former Endo Laboratories executive and law school graduate who made a $20 million donation, the university’s biggest single gift. Hofstra said it’s renaming its roughly 40-year-old law school the Maurice A. Deane School of Law after the former pharmaceutical company executive, former...Read More >>

Author Greg Mortenson has decided to decline the University of Louisville's prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education. Mortenson is author of “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones into Schools.” He was selected for the award based on his efforts to build schools and educate children, especially girls, in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In...Read More >>

On Sept. 20, 2011, faculty members of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University will join with colleagues at the University of Ghana to launch a multiyear partnership that will enhance the expertise of medical students and professionals in the area of HIV/AIDS, which continues to plague much of Africa. The partnership is funded by a $1.1 million-grant from...Read More >>

The federal government is forcing Adrian College, a private school in southeast Michigan, to build and renovate facilities after citing it for 11 violations of gender-equality rules, including not adding female locker rooms when it built a new $6.5-million multipurpose stadium. The college, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, agreed to a series of...Read More >>

Former Dickinson State University President Richard McCallum may get a hearing within a month to contest his dismissal. The president of North Dakota's Board of Higher Education said today he hopes the hearing will be scheduled in mid-October. Grant Shaft says board members shouldn't comment about the case in the future because they will be deciding McCallum's...Read More >>

Ruth J. Simmons, the first African-American woman to lead an Ivy League university, is stepping down as president of Brown University. In a statement sent to students, faculty, and alumni yesterday morning announcing her departure, Simmons called her time leading Brown deeply satisfying but said the time was right for a change. “I recently decided that this...Read More >>

After years of expansion, college leaders took the University System of Georgia down a different path Wednesday by discussing campus consolidations and other steps to save money. Chancellor Hank Huckaby said the system will review whether college mergers would be cost-effective and develop criteria to determine potential candidates among the 35 campuses. It's...Read More >>

Baltimore developer Edward St. John has donated $10 million to the University of Maryland, College Park to help his alma mater build a new high-tech classroom building in the heart of campus. The proposed Edward St. John Teaching and Learning Center would offer 2,000 classroom seats and be used daily by one-third of the campus' undergraduates. It would address a...Read More >>

The University of Illinois posted inaccurate data about the grades and test scores of this semester's incoming first-year law school class on its website, but has now removed that data and put an administrator on leave. "Somebody saw prior information for the incoming class and thought it wasn't accurate, that it did not accurately reflect LSAT scores and grades...Read More >>

The University of Florida’s law school will name a building after a prominent Miami attorney on Monday, following an $800,000 gift from the lawyer and his firm. Stephen N. Zack, a UF law school alumnus and immediate past president of the American Bar Association, recently set up an endowment fund titled with his name. Zack, the first Hispanic president of the...Read More >>

If you're looking to hire a nurse, solar panel installer or pastry chef, the University of Antelope Valley has a deal for you. The for-profit school, based in a former motel in Lancaster, will pay employers up to $2,000 for each graduate they hire. But there are lots of conditions, including that the offer is good only this month and the graduate must be hired...Read More >>

The UNC system has cut 3,032 employees across North Carolina due to state budget reductions, including 488 full-time workers and 2,544 part-time employees, a new report said. Most of the part-timers were contract or adjunct professors, which means bigger classes and fewer academic choices for the university system's 220,000 students. The UNC Board of Governors...Read More >>

Some faculty at Chico State University fear they'll be shut out of the process for choosing California State University campus presidents if a proposed new policy is adopted. The issue is campus visits. Currently, finalists for a campus presidency must spend a day at the campus, meeting faculty, staff, students and community members and giving a public...Read More >>

Through the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, IU will expand its presence in India through partnerships with two Indian Institute of Management locations under memorandum of understandings signed Wednesday (Aug. 31). The signings are part of an 11-day visit to India by IU President Michael A. McRobbie and several university administrators and deans....Read More >>

A Southern California doctor is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting two patients. The alleged incidents happened at the Urgent Care East Campus of Loma Linda University Medical Center. Investigators suspect there may be more victims. Two women have come forward to accuse the doctor of sexual assault. The first was a 32-year-old woman; the second, a...Read More >>

Tenia Phillips has heard the horror stories about life after law school, circa 2011, from crushing student loan debt to recent graduates serving coffee at Starbucks. The reality check didn't deter the 27-year-old Texan from pursuing her childhood dream, though it took four years of working as an apartment leasing agent before she could start fall classes last week...Read More >>

Iona College has suspended Dr. Warren Rosenberg, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs effective immediately after becoming aware of inaccuracies in student performance data reported to external agencies. Rosenberg is a tenured professor and so still employed by the college. Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences Brian Nickerson has been appointed as interim...Read More >>

Ten days after his ouster from the presidency of Our Lady of Holy Cross College, the Rev. Anthony DeConciliis said Friday he still doesn't know why he was fired. DeConciliis, 70, was terminated Aug. 16 for no stated reason, along with all 19 trustees, by the order of Marianite nuns who run the Algiers college. The dismissals might have jeopardized the...Read More >>

Higher education officials tired of watching talented faculty jump to private industry and out-of-state universities for better pay want Gov. Dennis Daugaard to end South Dakota's salary drought. After three years of frozen wages, the Board of Regents says its priority in Daugaard's next budget is at least a 4 percent salary bump for all state workers. Some...Read More >>

In what is said to be the largest fundraising goal in American academia to date, USC is launching a campaign to garner $5 billion in donations by 2018, on top of $1 billion given to the school in the last year. USC President C.L. Max Nikias said he was optimistic that the campaign, to be announced Sunday, would succeed despite the economic worries that even...Read More >>

Six months after some UW Health doctors wrote questionable sick notes for protesters rallying against Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to limit public sector collective bargaining, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hasn't finished disciplining the doctors. The UW School of Medicine and Public Health has denied the State Journal's April 27 request for records of its...Read More >>

Of all the amenities in Miami’s newest office building, the mortuary in the back might be the biggest advantage for Lawrence Binder. The 33-year-old owner of a small Boca Raton company selling transplant material, Binder does considerable business with the University of Miami’s tissue bank. Next month, the bank is moving into an $11.5 million facility inside a...Read More >>

With Champagne flutes held aloft, the leadership of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Virginia Commonwealth University toasted bequests totaling $115 million — the largest cash gift in each organization's history. In an announcement made Thursday afternoon in the museum's Marble Hall, they said nearly $70 million will go to the VMFA to create a restricted art...Read More >>

An N.C. Central University spokeswoman confirmed late Thursday that the director of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law has proposed locating a center at NCCU's law school with money from conservative Raleigh businessman Art Pope. Faculty at the law school are scheduled to vote on the matter in the next few weeks, said Cindy Fobert, a spokeswoman for the...Read More >>

Youngstown State University called off a planned strike just hours after the union rejected what the university administration called its final, best offer. At 7 p.m., Sherry Linkon, a spokeswoman for the more than 400-member union, announced the offer was rejected by a “pretty substantial majority.” “We’re very sorry to have to go on strike,” Linkon...Read More >>

The Florida Board of Governors has scrapped a plan to designate regions for state universities and revamped the proposed regulation. The original plan would have established eight regions for the 11 state universities and an approval process for any university starting a program with a major physical presence in another region. UF, which would have been in a...Read More >>

Dr. Joseph J. Kubacki, the former chairman of Temple University School of Medicine’s ophthalmalogy department, was convicted by a federal jury Monday of 150 counts of health-care fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements in health-care matters, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia. Kubacki, 62, of Destin, Fla., allegedly caused...Read More >>

Central Michigan University students will see all of their instructors at class on Tuesday, following an order issued by a judge for the university's faculty association to temporarily restrain its work stoppage. "I have sent out a release for the faculty to take down the picket line and return to their next scheduled class," Faculty Association President Laura...Read More >>

The dean of Columbia College has abruptly resigned over what she called administrative changes that would diminish or eliminate her authority, leaving the undergraduate division of Columbia University without a leader two weeks before the start of classes. Michele M. Moody-Adams, the first female and the first black dean of the college, said in an e-mail sent...Read More >>

A flurry of activity Sunday night left Central Michigan University professors out on strike, administrators readying a court case against the union and students bewildered about who would teach their classes today. The strike was being closely watched by universities across the state because it could foreshadow next year, when faculty contracts at several other...Read More >>

Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violations in 2007 of a campus crime reporting law, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults, the university said Friday. WSU will appeal the fine, spokesman Darin Watkins told The Associated Press. The U.S. Department of Education detailed the fine in a letter to WSU...Read More >>

The abrupt retirement of James Perry as dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in February stemmed from misconduct weeks earlier in Africa, Gannett Wisconsin Media has learned. Documents obtained by Gannett Wisconsin Media through a public records lawsuit characterize Perry, the face of UWFV for nearly two decades, as offensive...Read More >>

In a nod to the region's hemorrhaging real estate market, Drexel University officials announced this week that they are backing away from a plan to build an undergraduate campus west of Roseville. Even as Drexel entered the picture in 2007 as a potential partner in developer Angelo K. Tsakopoulos' plan to fund construction of a university through the development...Read More >>

UConn's new president, Susan Herbst, is so concerned about the state's economic development — and the university's contribution to it — that she is establishing a new university vice president position. Herbst embarked on the search for a vice president for economic development earlier this month and hopes to have the job filled by mid-September. "It's one...Read More >>

With no warning and no explanation, the president of Our Lady of Holy Cross College and all 19 members of its policy-making board have been dismissed. Notification came Monday via email from Sister Suellen Tennyson, local leader of the order of Marianite nuns that owns the Algiers college, board members said. The Rev. Anthony DeConciliis, who had been installed...Read More >>

New York University, the largest private university in the United States and one of New York City’s ten biggest employers, will pay $210,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had alleged that NYU...Read More >>

Dr. James Hupp, dean of the new dental school at East Carolina University, has resigned following a state audit about improper travel expenses and an internal investigation that uncovered outside compensation that he had not reported to ECU. Hupp will no longer be dean, but he will remain on the faculty, the university said. The audit, released today by the...Read More >>

West Virginia State University faculty overwhelmingly rejected long-time President Hazo Carter's leadership Tuesday. Believing that their college is stuck in a rut, professors voted 67-15 at a faculty meeting that they have 'no confidence' in Carter, the longest serving college president in West Virginia. Only the university's Board of Governors can hire or...Read More >>

ATIXA, the Association of Title IX Administrators, launched today. ATIXA provides a professional association for school and college Title IX Coordinators and administrators who are interested in serving their districts and campuses more effectively. Since 1972, Title IX has proved to be an increasingly powerful leveling tool, helping to advance gender equity in...Read More >>

The board of trustees of Baltimore International College has signed a letter of intent to merge with Virginia-based Stratford University, a move the board chairman hopes will end an accreditation crisis that threatened to close the downtown culinary college. "We have much in common," said Baltimore International Chairman Charles Nabit in explaining the proposed...Read More >>

Jackson State University President Carolyn Meyers has made the rare move of making a large personal donation to the university. Meyers, who is not a JSU alumnus, announced this week that she has given $10,000 to create an endowment for faculty raises. "Rewarding and recognizing people should not be left to the Legislature or anybody else," she said. "It starts...Read More >>

A drive to unionize University of Michigan graduate student research assistants hit a major snag Monday when the Michigan Employment Relations Commission rejected a union move to label the research assistants as public employees. MERC officials, voting 3-0, said they saw no reason to overturn a 1981 ruling that research assistants are not public employees and thus...Read More >>

Irma McClaurin, Shaw University's third president in three years, has stepped down. Neither the downtown Raleigh university nor McClaurin, 58, said what led to the resignation. Both said the departure was a mutual decision. "Shaw University has seen many changes and experienced challenges in the last six months. And with change comes transitions," the...Read More >>

Dickinson State University President Dr. Richard McCallum said in a press release issued to The Dickinson Press at about 1:50 this afternoon that he has no intention of resigning his post as president of the university. The release is a copy of a letter he will distribute to DSU staff and faculty. McCallum had not been in contact with the university or the...Read More >>

The union that represents Indiana University's support staff is urging IU's president to turn down a 22 percent pay raise, saying that money could help prevent layoffs at a campus library. IU said last week that school President Michael McRobbie would see his base pay rise 22 percent over two years.Read More >>

Rudolf Alexandrov taught math classes at Chestnut Hill College twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday evenings. And on Wednesday, shortly before he jumped to his death, he sat in the rotunda of St. Joseph's Hall and collected his thoughts, as was his routine. "We were not aware that he was suffering any kind of emotional stress at all," said the college's director...Read More >>

A national search for Missouri State University's chief financial officer has failed after several months of effort, as the university has lowered the salary it was willing to pay. The position became vacant when Nila Hayes, the university's top financial position, retired in July. The search for her replacement started in spring, and the university initially...Read More >>