Oracle chairman Jeff Henley gives $50 million to UC Santa Barbara for research and to help overcome budget cuts

John Lombardi fired as president of Louisiana State University system

Penn education graduate school vice dean Doug Lynch resigns over questions about his doctoral credentials

U. of Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown says it would be "an honor" to be fired over anti-gay comments

Faculty Senate at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point approves plan to boost salaries

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• 2012(30)
• May (2)

• John Lombardi fired as president of Louisiana State University system

• Oracle chairman Jeff Henley gives $50 million to UC Santa Barbara for research and to help overcome budget cuts

• April (3)

• Faculty Senate at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point approves plan to boost salaries

• U. of Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown says it would be "an honor" to be fired over anti-gay comments

• Penn education graduate school vice dean Doug Lynch resigns over questions about his doctoral credentials

• March (7)

• Susan Aldridge resigns as president of U. of Maryland University College

• Robert Birgeneau will step down as chancellor of UC Berkeley in December

• University of Illinois president Michael Hogan resigns

• St. Thomas School law school loses national ranking after reporting errors in employment rates of its graduates

• Two FAMU faculty members suspected of band-related hazing, placed on administrative leave

• Money where their staff is: New England College faculty, administrators give their own money to save staff jobs

• Judge: U. of California can release pepper-spray report, but must remove officers’ names

• February (8)

• Burden of Pennsylvania's public college costs falling more and more on students

• Ray Charles Foundation wants back $3 million gift given to Albany State University

• Oakland University student considering legal action after being kicked out of class for writing "Hot for Teacher" essay

• Alumnus Richard Driehaus donates $30 million to DePaul U. business school for faculty recruitment and retention

• Millersville University of Pennsylvania drops three men's sports

• Dozens of University of Illinois faculty members sign letter calling for resignation of president Michael Hogan

• Faculty at Coppin State University express no confidence in the institution's president, Reginald Avery

• University of Northern Iowa closes its natural-history museum and laboratory school

• January (10)

• Columbia University professor Hannah Appel, an Occupy Wall Street "participant," will teach course on OWC

• Appeals court reinstates lawsuit of woman who claims Iowa law school did not hire her because of her political views

• Fund-raising becoming more important for university presidents in Michigan

• Former music instructor charged with convincing 17-year old girl to strip while singing to enhance her vocal range

• Top Obama adminsitration strategist David Axelrod launches politics institute at University of Chicago

• Illinois attorney general's office plans to sue Westwood College

• Bethune-Cookman University's board chairman Larry Handfield resigns

• Effort to unionize 2,000 faculty members at the University of Oregon is gaining speed

• Southern U. begins to lay off tenured faculty members, staff in the wake of declaring financial emergency last year

• Expelled Eastern Michigan University counseling student wins OK to sue after her refusal to advise gays, lesbians

• 2011(276)
• December (5)

• Former Savannah State coach, who claims he was fired because he is white, gets $240,000 in lawsuit settlement

• No-confidence vote for Central Michigan University president and provost shows faculty's frustrations

• Bowdoin College faculty members shoot down proposal that would extend Thanksgiving break to an entire week

• English professor Bruce Fleming accuses Naval Academy of inflating its number of applicants to boost rankings

• University of Texas forces out law school dean Larry Sager

• November (24)

• State fact finder Barry Goldman sides with Central Michigan U. in its ongoing contract dispute with faculty union

• Southern Illinois University-Carbondale faculty association goes on strike

• Georgia system considering ideas that could lead to merging some campuses

• Virginia Supreme Court ruling likely will prohibit liquor ads in student newspapers at Virginia Tech and U. of Virginia

• Senior Penn State officials Tim Curley and George Schultz will quit amid sex abuse scandal

• U. of Colorado will reconsider policy that allows fired tenured professors to stay on school's payroll for a year

• University of California Davis creates institute for innovation and entrepreneurship

• Penn State fires president Graham Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno amid child sex-abuse scandal

• Education Department launches investigation into child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State

• University of Idaho faculty leaders revise policy on professor-student relationships in wake of murder-suicide

• Thousands of Penn State students riot, overturn media van in response to the firing of football coach Joe Paterno

• Citadel admits not reporting sex abuse allegation against former youth camp counselor

• At Tufts University, caution still plays role in faculty hiring decisions two years after recession’s end

• Sacramento State professor abandons his class, takes TA out to breakfast because his students didn't bring snacks

• Capella Education plans to cut 65 non-faculty positions

• University of California-Davis chancellor Linda Katehi says she won't step down despite calls for her resignation

• Oklahoma State officials will examine travel policy in wake of basketball coaches’ deaths

• U. of Toronto launches $2-billion fundraising campaign, the largest university money-raising effort in Canadian history

• New policy makes it harder to hang on to tenure at Utah colleges and universities

• University of Georgia finds prominent sociologist Paul Roman in violation of the school's harassment policy

• October (21)

• Former University of Phoenix enrollment director Michael Berkowitz faces murder charges

• U. of Oregon's tenured professor pay raises catch the eyes of faculty at other universities in Oregon

• President and top dean at Bishop State Community College in Alabama have doctorates from unaccredited institutions

• University of Texas buys professional archive of Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee

• Johnson C. Smith University receives $35 million gift to build science center, renovate dormitory

• Clemson U. faculty group, students wonder about "phantom" laboratory fees for classes with no labs

• Stanford U. establishes presence in New York City, partners with CUNY on technology and entrepreneurship venture

• Fairleigh Dickinson U. president Michael Adams takes leave to undergo treatment for blood-related disorder

• Michael Lawler named health sciences dean at U. of South Dakota

• University of North Carolina upholds Christian a cappella singing group's ouster of gay student

• Critics assail Northwestern U. policy that gives heterosexual couples fewer options than same-sex partners receive

• Towson University faculty members express frustrations, concerns related to three-year old salary freeze

• U. of Florida president Bernie Machen says UF “will quickly become a regional university at best” if it can't offer tenure

• New Oakwood University president Leslie Pollard says he will strive to be school's "Chief Spiritual Officer"

• Proposed plan to merge University of Maryland's College Park and Baltimore campuses faces resistance

• U. of North Carolina system giving schools more leeway in how they respond when faculty receive outside job offers

• Shorter University in Georgia requiring employees to sign a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” rejecting homosexuality

• Ball State University adding staff members to help professors move courses online

• Threatened strike by four unions at Southern Illinois University worries local businesses

• Death of Muscovy ducks sparks outrage At Lynn University in Florida

• September (23)

• Law schools attracting fewer students as legal jobs dry up

• Loma Linda University medical center doctor Ramon Fakhoury arrested for sexual assault

• Indiana U. business school partners with institute in India to create joint master's program in business analytics

• Chico State U. professors say ending on-campus presidential visits will shut them out of selection process

• University of North Carolina system loses 3,032 jobs due to budget cuts

• University of Antelope Valley in California offers to pay employers $2,000 to hire its graduates

• U. of Florida law school to name building for Miami lawyer Stephen Zack after $800,000 gift to promote diversity

• U. of Illinois assistant law dean suspended after inaccurate data about first-year law students posted on website

• Alumnus Edward St. John donates $10 million to U. of Maryland for new high-tech classroom building

• Georgia university system considers consolidating campuses to save money

• Brown U. president Ruth Simmons, the first black woman to lead an Ivy League university, will step down in June

• Former Dickinson State U. president Richard McCallum may get a hearing within a month to contest his dismissal

• Adrian College to build, upgrade female athletic facilities after investigation cites 11 violations of gender-equality rules

• American medical school faculty members join U. of Ghana colleagues in multi-year partnership to fight HIV, AIDS

• Author Greg Mortenson declines University of Louisville's Grawemeyer education award

• Former pharmaceutical executive Maurice Deane gives $20 million to Hofstra University law school

• Jay Kimbrough pulls knife in presence of lawyers after being fired as deputy chancellor of Texas A&M University system

• Graduate student sentenced to 15 years in prison for the stabbing death of Binghamton U. professor Richard Antoun

• Colleges offering courses that examine Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks from scholarly perspective

• Hocking College reinstates Ron Erickson as president after ousting him in June

• August (31)

• Shrinking salary range makes hiring a new chief financial officer more difficult for Missouri State University

• Professor Rudolf Alexandrov's suicide stuns Chestnut Hill College

• Union asks Indiana U. president Michael McRobbie to turn down 22 percent pay raise

• Dickinson State University president Richard McCallum refuses to resign over enrollment discrepancies

• Irma McClaurin resigns as president of Shaw University after less than one year on the job

• Commission denies bid to unionize University of Michigan graduate student research assistants

• Jackson State U. president Carolyn Meyers gives $10,000 of her own money to create endowment for faculty raises

• New professional association launches to help college and high school Title IX administrators

• Hoping to end accreditation crisis, Baltimore International College plans to merge with Virginia-based Stratford U.

• West Virginia State University faculty vote 67-15 to reject leadership of president Hazo Carter

• East Carolina U. dean James Hupp resigns after audit of his travel expenses, discovery of outside income

• New York University will pay $210,000 to employee to settle workplace harassment, retaliation lawsuit

• Our Lady of Holy Cross College dismisses president and 19 board members

• UConn president Susan Herbst establishes new VP position to focus on statewide economic development

• Citing sluggish real estate market, Philadelphia-based Drexel U. scraps plans to build campus in California

• Report: Misconduct while traveling with students led to ouster of former dean at U. of Wisconsin-Fox Valley

• Education Department fines Washington State University $82,500 for improper crime reporting

• Central Michigan U. classes to start with professors on strike and administrators preparing court case against union

• Michele Moody-Adams, dean of Columbia University's undergraduate division, abruptly resigns

• Judge orders 600 Central Michigan U. faculty members to end their strike, return to work

• July (11)

• France Cordova, president of Purdue University, says she will step down in 2012

• ABA panel considering bolstering job protections for non-tenure-track law professors

• Clemson University offers voluntary separation and retirement to 522 employees

• University of Illinois plans to shut down its 50-year old aviation program

• Faculty trustee questions why U. of Kentucky will pay consultants $285,000 to examine school's long term goals

• Former UNC Charlotte employee Thomas Briggs accused of falsifying visa records for more than 60 foreign students

• Florida proposal designed to prevent university turf battles, sparks new controversy over boundaries

• Judge says fired Florida Gulf Coast U. forensics associate professor David Lounsbury should be reinstated

• Washburn University pays $210,000 to settle lawsuit filed by former vice presidents Robin Bowen and Wanda Hill

• Arizona’s university funding system could switch to pay-for-performance model as early as 2013

• Montana State U. scientists to lead $67 million experiment to see if greenhouse gases can be locked underground

• June (20)

• AAUP accuses two campuses in the U. of Louisiana System of firing tenured faculty in an effort to save money

• Yale criticized by Anti-Defamation League for canceling program dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism

• U. of Illinois hopes to raise $100 million through private donations for scholarships over next three years

• Notre Dame trustee Roxanne Martino resigns after being criticized for giving $25,000 to pro-choice organization

• Disaster relief funding cited as one reason for wide-ranging higher education budget cuts in Missouri

• U. of Missouri faculty members cite myriad reasons for voting against requiring all students to take diversity class

• Cornell U. law school enters faculty and student exchange partnership with India's Jindal Global law school

• Report: Princeton University continues to run afoul of federal regulations in its testing of primates

• USC medical school will use $150 million gift to recruit faculty in fields of stem cells, cancer, and liver disease

• David Flory, a physics professor at Fairleigh Dickinson U., accused of running prostitution website

• UNLV to eliminate nine departments, 18 degree programs, 215 jobs

• Anti-Defamation League praises Yale's decision to replace 5-year old anti-Semitism institute with new center

• Missouri State University to give equity pay raises to 40 percent of faculty

• Southern Illinois U. faces questions after giving $80,000 scholarship to president Glenn Poshard's granddaughter

• Harvard Business School's incoming MBA class will include record percentage of female students

• Missouri State University president James Cofer steps down after less than one year on the job

• University of Texas System issues updated data on faculty workload and pay

• Union officials: Central Michigan University faculty union contract at risk of lapsing

• Billionaire Robert Bass gives $1.25 million to College of the Atlantic for new faculty chair position

• More colleges and universities offering courses taught by outsourced instructors

• May (14)

• State withholds money from Virginia Commonwealth University as punishment for raising tuition

• Northern Illinois U. reassigns administrator Angela Dreessen after she had students paint her home

• After faculty's vote of no confidence, Jessie Shefrin resigns as provost of the Rhode Island School of Design

• Former U. of Washington hospital executive assistant charged with embezzling more than $250,000

• Record executive Mo Ostin gives $10 million to UCLA for new music center

• Pikeville College in Kentucky changes name to University of Pikeville

• Columbia University professors say cuts to health care and retirement benefits will lead to faculty flight

• Ohio U. medical school to build Columbus-area campus with $105 million donation

• Davenport U. president Rick Pappas says college committed to remaining open in Holland, Mich.

• University of Colorado sues over "defective" toilet paper, says it clogged toilets in 27 academic buildings

• Brookings City Council may increase sales tax to save jobs at South Dakota State U., the city's top employer

• Pitzer College in Southern California, to inaugurate department of secular studies

• LeTourneau U. professor William Kielhorn, being treated for stage four cancer, teaches class from hospital bed

• William Harvey, president of Hampton University, and his wife Norma donate $1 million to raise faculty salaries

• April (43)

• Mesa State College trustees vote unanimously to change school's name to Colorado Mesa University

• Norfolk State University faculty members want more transparency in school's presidential search

• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty members vote to unionize

• Survey: Cornell U. minority professors significantly less satisfied with their jobs than they were a few years ago

• Adjunct professor who was fired last month for being openly gay, now co-teaching course at U. of Pennsylvania

• Yale U. under federal investigation after complaint filed by several students alleges "hostile sexual environment."

• Columbia University leaders vote overwhelmingly to bring ROTC back to campus

• Bonuses based on how student-athletes perform in the classroom vary widely for NCAA coaches

• As contract negotiations deadlock, Mt. Hood CC faculty members raise possibility of a strike

• Republican Party fails to get all of Wisconsin-Madison professor's emails through open records request

• Manning Marable, Columbia U. scholar and national expert on African-American history, dies at age 60

• Roger Tedrick resigns as board of trustees chairman at Southern Illinois University

• Rutgers U. defends decision to pay Jersey Shore star "Snooki" $32,000 for recent on-campus appearance

• Survey: 59 public university presidents in the U.S. were paid more than $500,000 last year

• Cancer researchers from Indiana University and U. of Notre Dame will work together in new research center

• Proposal to merge U. of Maryland's College Park and Baltimore campuses stirs rivalry

• Thomas Krepel abruptly resigns as president of Fairmont State University after less than two years on the job

• VCU's Final Four foray in men's basketball tournament brings unprecedented amounts of publicity

• Jill Tiefenthaler named president of Colorado College

• Former Vassar College employee Arthur Fisher and his wife accused of stealing $1.9 million from college

• March (39)

• Daniel Amick, a Loyola University Chicago professor, admits he stole artifacts from archaeological site

• Northwestern U. professor J. Michael Bailey apologizes for allowing live sex demonstration on campus

• After 4-year absence, faculty senate to be revived at William Carey University

• Lu Hardin abruptly resigns as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University after less than two years on the job

• Ohio University professor Jay Gunasekera settles lawsuit over his role in plagiarism scandal

• Professor Francois Sainfort and wife Julie Jacko indicted for alleged scheme to be on payrolls of two universities

• Metropolitan State College of Denver decides on new name: Denver State University

• Sister Marie Thornton, a nun and former administrator, admits to embezzling $850,000 from Iona College

• Philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife give USC its largest endowment gift ever: $200 million

• Faculty panel wants Widener U. law school to drop efforts to fire accused professor Lawrence Connell

• North Dakota State U. holds off on closing campus childcare center, which serves children of faculty and staff

• Indiana U. plans to offer thousands of university employees voluntary retirement buyouts

• Former professor Sheila Addison sues John F. Kennedy U., claims she was fired for burlesque show performances

• Ousted 11 years ago, engineer Dennis Polla still being paid by U. of Minnesota while working fulltime elsewhere

• Western Michigan University to use $100 million cash gift to create private medical school

• Chestnut Hill College reaches settlement with fired gay adjunct professor

• California State University to reduce enrollment by 10,000, shrink campus funding by $281 million

• Law school accreditation proposal aims to change how schools report job placement information

• UMass Amherst announces new efforts to recruit graduates of state's community colleges

• UConn launches review of top officials' salaries after criticism over the paychecks of its top police brass

• February (31)

• Five faculty members and religious group sue to block prayer luncheon at Air Force Academy

• Possibility of making LSAT voluntary stirs new debate on test's value and importance

• Eastern Oregon U. president Bob Davies repays $538 for disallowed meals, travel expenses after state audit

• After facing strong opposition from alumni, Southwestern University will not change its name

• Princeton University scraps plan to build arts and transit neighborhood on western edge of its campus

• Tenured professors in Nevada agree to proposed pay cut, critics warn that state could lose top academic talent

• South Carolina passes Higher Education Transparency Act, some colleges already posting expenditures online

• Group holds prayer vigils in several North Carolina cities to support immigrant access to higher education

• Harold Raveché, former president of Stevens Institute of Technology agrees to pay off $721,000 housing loans

• Denver's Metropolitan State College considering name change

• U. of Alaska president Pat Gamble says system's non-discrimination policies should include protection for gays

• Larry Robinson named provost at Seton Hall University

• University of North Carolina plans second study to examine faculty salary disparities

• Colby College professor Philip Brown resigns amid reports that he secretly took bathroom photos of female students

• Loyola University Maryland professor Thomas DiLorenzo faces questions about ties to pro-secession group

• Murray State U. professor Mark Wattier to retire amid controversy over slavery remark

• U. of Iowa may fire professor Malik Juweid for allegedly sending "inflammatory" emails to colleagues

• University of Arizona to open National Institute on Civility in Public Debate

• Holy Family University basketball coach John O'Connor suspended for allegedly assaulting student athelete

• Texas Tech professors, whose salaries have stagnated, miffed over $500,000 raise for football coach

• January (14)

• Johns Hopkins alumnus John Malone gives $30 million for construction of new engineering building

• Study: College students academically adrift, not learning critical thinking, complex reasoning skills

• Pensacola State College fires tenured professor Robert Michael Ardis over degree from alleged diploma mill

• U. of Colorado Denver rewriting policies to prevent conflicts of interest between drug companies and faculty members

• Missouri State University faculty members want study to examine professor salaries

• U. of Kentucky to pay astronomy professor Martin Gaskell $125,000 to settle religious discrimination case

• Amy Falls named chief investment officer at Rockefeller University

• University of North Carolina faculty members may have to self-report convictions

• University of Michigan expands smoking ban to include campus grounds

• Southern Utah University vice president Wesley Curtis resigns after pleading guilty in prostitution solicitation case

• Kristofer Petersen-Overton has appointment to teach Middle East politics rescinded at Brooklyn College

• University of Rhode Island professor John Dunn charged in mortgage fraud scheme

• Study: University endowments increased an average of 11.9 percent for fiscal 2010

• University of Florida plans to close international research center in Paris

• 2010(879)
• December (43)

• Negotiations between University of New Hampshire and its professors hit impasse over raises, health insurance

• Texas A&M University might fire professors for having students request public information documents from school

• Ohio State University president Gordon Gee gives back his $297,000 bonus to help school's scholarship fund

• Republican lawmakers in Iowa want to cancel sabbaticals for university professors

• Harvard University alumni and students accuse downtown Boston nightclub of racial bias

• Yale medical school professor Kimberly Yonkers accused of ghostwriting

• With faculty's backing, Wharton unveils course restructuring that will emphasize flexibility, ethics, and globalization

• New University of Massachusetts expansion plan would add more than 200 faculty jobs

• Study: Adding football and women's lacrosse programs could bring 200 jobs to Stetson University

• Calvin College may cut 20 full-time jobs due to declining enrollment and rising expenses

• Following new controversial remarks, Wayne State University drops its Helen Thomas diversity award

• In protest of merger, Robert Harris steps down as director of Cornell University's Africana center

• Belmont U. womens soccer players say coach told them she lost job because she is a lesbian, expecting child

• Journalist Helen Thomas criticizes Wayne State U. for ending annual diversity award named in her honor

• Panel: University of California should increase out-of-state enrollment and offer more online courses

• Martin University president Algeania Freeman to step down this month, after three years on job

• Obama warns of new "Sputnik moment," stresses need to invest in technology, education

• University of Delaware plans to build state's first public law school, aims for enrolling first class in 2015

• DePaul University faculty and students rally in support of two female, minority professors who were denied tenure

• Five-year year enrollment growth plan at University of Virginia could lead to 90 new faculty jobs

• November (88)

• U. of Tennessee Knoxville chancellor says diversity will be goal when recruiting to fill upcoming academic jobs

• Arizona State University law school considers cutting off funding from state

• Former Rochester Institute of Technology professor Robert Manning sues RIT over his ouster

• State law could cause U. of Illinois researcher Scott White to lose $11.5 million in federal grant money

• About 30 percent of eligible Purdue University employees take early retirement package

• Report: Academic administrators must consider differing needs of underrepresented minority grad students to attract them into academic careers

• Western Carolina U. names search committee, hires Baker and Associates to guide search for new chancellor

• Search group named at University of Kansas to help select next business school dean

• Binghamton University, narrows presidential search to 8 candidates, could name new leader by mid-December

• Three candidates for founding dean position at Western Michigan U. medical school make public presentations

• Tentative deal averts employee strike at University of Western Ontario

• Norfolk State U. launches website to keep students, faculty, and alumni updated on presidential search

• University of Massachusetts search committee begins interviewing candidates for president

• Search committee formed to help find University System of Georgia's next chancellor

• Lincoln University president Ivory Nelson says he cannot fire professor over "insidious" anti-Israel remarks

• Florida's public universities can now charge flat rate tuition instead of charging by credit hour

• University of Michigan allows assistant state attorney general back on campus

• Court says Fisk University can sell stake in art collection‎, but blocks it from collecting most of the sale revenue

• U. of North Carolina president reminds all UNC campuses of legal obligation to remain politically neutral

• Arbitrator orders Florida State University to rescind layoffs of tenured union faculty members

• October (86)

• University of Florida's health science center unveils plan to add 300 academic jobs over next 5 years

• West Virginia University's new budget includes funding for 20 new academic jobs

• U. of Illinois-Chicago faculty leaders may ask trustees to reconsider denying emeritus status to William Ayers

• Former St. John’s University dean Cecilia Chang accused of using students as personal servants

• Stanford medical school opens $90 million training center aimed at transforming the way physicians are trained

• Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell banned from UM campus for criticizing gay student leader

• University of Colorado will end deal that gives kickbacks when students sign up for debit and credit cards

• Distressed Rutgers U. student asked campus officials to change his dorm room before he took his own life

• Pell grants help University of California enroll record number of students from low-income families

• Georgetown U. professor Joseph Palacios creates organization for Catholics in support of gay rights

• U. of Michigan student body president, assistant state attorney general square off in court Monday

• Faculty members, students say U. of Tennessee will be dramatically different when federal dollars run out

• University of Washington's Phyllis Wise welcomes challenges, responsibilities in new interim president role

• Arkansas State U. officials criticized for destroying notes from presidential search committee meeting

• White House to announce initiative aimed at aligning community college courses with demands of employers

• Businessman Anand Mahindra gives Harvard $10 million, the largest gift for study of humanities in school history

• During time of deep budget cuts, UC Berkeley weighs what to do with abandoned president's mansion

• Gates Foundation to announce $34 million, 5-year commitment to raise community college completion rates

• Yale University officials question the level of force New Haven police used against students during nightclub raid

• U. of Minnesota fraternity leaders ban alcohol at parties after 3 reported sexual assaults in as many weekends

• September (97)

• Eastern Michigan U. faculty union and administration reach tentative two-year contract agreement

• Faculty leaders at University of Iowa criticize suspension of two faculty sabbatical programs

• University of Scranton president the Rev. Scott Pilarz will leave next summer to lead Marquette University

• Tulane University students and faculty members play big roles in post-Katrina New Orleans recovery

• Florida A&M University mourns loss of William Foster, the “Dean of America’s Band Directors"

• Western Michigan U. fraternity loses charter, house condemned after student falls from second-story balcony

• Quincy College’s presidential pick, Philip Conroy, declines job and will stay at Mount Ida College

• New York attorney general to investigate deceptive credit card marketing aimed at college students

• Are law school deans a step ahead of the competition when it comes to landing university president jobs?

• Lasell College pays $191,000 to settle allegations it steered student loan applicants to gift-giving lender

• With oldest faculty in its history, Cornell U. plans to hire large numbers of tenure-track professors

• Former San Jose State University student Courtney Howard sues school and sorority for hazing

• Ruling: Nova Southeastern U. contractor must reinstate three former janitors who were fired for unionizing activities

• UC Irvine upholds decision to suspend Muslim student group, but reduces length of suspension

• Northern Arizona U. to give employees first raises in three years, ranging from $500 to $29,000 apiece

• New University of Kentucky faculty trustee Joe Peek lightens up the board with heavy doses of humor

• Four academics among 2010 Balzan Prize winners

• UCLA's Anderson business school seeks to opt out of public funding, gain financial support of private donors

• Colleges offering grade point average forgiveness, fresh start programs to lure back students who dropped out

• San Diego State University launches program to help urban youngsters aim for higher education

• August (82)

• President David Pollick helps Birmingham-Southern College navigate financial crisis

• University of Minnesota close to implementing campus-wide conflict-of-interest policy

• President William Pollard brings "a new energy" to Medgar Evers College, but critics voicing their concerns

• University of Houston-Clear Lake opens first satellite campus

• University of Central Arkansas might request that president's home be exempt from new anti-smoking law

• Stevens Institute of Technology improving reputation under New Jersey-imposed financial oversight

• Appeals court to hear arguments on whether or not University of Texas admissions policies violate the law

• Faculty union at Florida Atlantic University says 3 percent raises not enough, wants to fight for .05 percent more

• University of Michigan medical school faculty hiring hits "highest point ever"

• Georgia’s popular HOPE college scholarship program reaches tipping point as demand outstrips its funding

• Drink to that?!? University of Georgia named top party school in annual Princeton Review national rankings

• Postdoc union and University of California reach tentative deal that would impact about 6,000 researchers

• Arbitrator: University of Florida must reinstate laid off assistant professor David Therriault

• Report: Recruiters at for-profit colleges deceived prospective students and encouraged financial aid fraud

• Unusually large freshman class has University of Iowa officials scrambling to fit everyone in

• America's first Muslim college opens this fall, hopes to cultivate U.S.- born Islamic scholars

• University of Wisconsin cancer researcher Minesh Mehta resigns amid conflict of interest investigation

• Christian academics cite hostility at some colleges and universities

• Academics back Elizabeth Warren as head of new consumer agency

• U. of British Columbia disciplines 13 employees for viewing, distributing pornography on campus computers

• July (109)

• Hackers crack U. of Maine's counseling center servers, gain access to 4,500 student files covering 8-year span

• Denied accreditation, financially struggling Dana College announces it will close

• South Carolina State University reinstates George Cooper as president, 16 days after firing him

• Questions raised about chancellor's investments in prescription drug and medical supply companies

• University of Georgia athletics director Damon Evans apologizes for DUI arrest, hopes to keep job

• Sallie Mae to move corporate headquarters from Washington, D.C. area to Delaware

• George Washington University discontinues housekeeping services in freshman residence halls

• Humboldt State University seeks international growth, president Rollin Richmond addresses graduates in China

• New online piracy rules could impact college campuses throughout U.S.

• After an alleged multimillon-dollar theft, La Salle University hires forensic accountants to review its financial system

• Michigan's financially-strapped community colleges reaping little benefit from retraining programs

• Lawmakers call for an audit of multimillion-dollar transportation center at South Carolina State University

• Controversial lawyer John Rocovich reappointed to Virginia Tech board

• Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman turns down $1 million Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize

• Tribe seeks millions from University of Nebraska foundation campaign over use of culture

• Penn State University clears climate change scientist Michael Mann of manipulating his research findings

• Texas Tech Health Sciences Center professor Rodney Hicks accused of viewing pornographic material online

• 15 institutions removed from American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment list

• Southern Connecticut State University grad Dana Soderberg sues her father for not paying college tuition

• Report: Damon Evans out as athletics director at University of Georgia

• June (132)

• Santa Ana College dedicates scholarship for illegal immigrant students in memory of late immigration activist

• Higher education leaders in Oregon want university system to be free from state legislature

• New Jersey Supreme Court says refusal to renew former college dean's contract was age discrimination

• State of Virginia will pay $10,000 in legal dispute with James Madison University's student newspaper

• Xavier University's business school faculty members will guide aspiring entrepreneurs in new X-LAB competition

• University of Kansas AD Lew Perkins may have violated state ethics laws by accepting exercise equipment

• Search for new president begins again at Grambling State University after three-month hiatus

• Nine U. of Wisconsin-Madison researchers could face animal cruelty charges for experiments that killed sheep

• Community College denies admission to a 13-year old girl, her parents file age discrimination complaint

• Community College president Larry Whitworth says $4,024 dinner was shocking, personally picks up the tab

• Citing "fit" and compensation issues, Cal Poly shuts down search for new president after four months

• California community college summer classes trimmed by budget cuts, some students camp out to get courses

• Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor keeps word, will speak at Hostos Community College commencement

• Boston University professor Thomas Geisbert and team of scientists may be close to finding cure for Ebola

• Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, an icon of American sports during the 1960s and '70s, has died at 99

• Pope names former Catholic University president Rev. David M. O'Connell next bishop of Trenton Diocese

• Former University of Alabama - Huntsville professor Amy Bishop may face charges in 1986 shooting case

• University of California seeks restraining order against more than 10,000 nurses who are threatening to strike

• Lawsuit: Austin Peay State University retaliated against officers who reported sexual discrimination

• American Public University to provide online education to Wal-Mart employees in new partnership

• May (191)

• Obama urges U. of Michigan grads to pursue diversity of thought in a "poisonous political climate"

• University of Massachusetts alumni group will drop dues, membership will increase to 220,000

• Wyoming governor supported canceling William Ayers speech at University of Wyoming

• Careers and Fears : Long-time workers returning to college seeking new skills and new credentials

• Higher ed leaders hope restructuring the New Jersey public university system will succeed this time

• Report : For-profit colleges target homeless shelters, halfway houses to find new students

• Some colleges boycotting surveys needed for annual magazine college rankings

• 40 years later : Shots still reverberate for survivors of Kent State shootings

• Eastern Michigan University ad blitz promotes tuition freeze, has other colleges taking notice

• After "Compton Cookout" scandal, UC San Diego seeks positive connection with Compton high schools

• Hofstra University coach Tim Welsh resigns three days after being arrested for DWI

• State University of New York plan to revitalize economy praised by business leaders

• College students to save big on new textbook rental programs in Mississippi

• Professor at Langston University in Oklahoma will leave job to run for president of Liberia

• Massachusetts higher ed board approves new way to evaluate student achievement at 29 public colleges

• Students pressure University of North Carolina to stop heating campus buildings with coal

• Obama plans new rules to reduce amount of federal financial aid received by for-profit colleges

• Florida universities helping state agencies deal with impact of Gulf of Mexico oil spill

• Report : Illinois politician Michael Madigan swayed University of Illinois to admit relatives of allies, donors

• Virginia Commonwealth University increases tuition 24 percent, but still falls short of closing budget gap

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• Marymount College Seeks Voter Approval for Campus Remodel, New Student Housing

• UW-Madison Ends Apparel Deal with Nike

• University of North Dakota Nickname Supporters Fight to Preserve Name

• IPad Struggles at Some Colleges and Universities

• Michigan State University Dubai awarded academic license by UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

• Classes canceled and exams threatened as ash cloud clogs working Britain

• Study : Many doctoral students taking up to nine years to earn degree

• Governor urges more universities to offer 3-year degrees

• New study : Digital textbook sales expected to reach $1 Billion by 2014

• Lawsuit accuses John Jay College of discriminating against non-citizens

• Higher education struggles in post-earthquake Haiti

• Rutgers University and Apple team up to offer iPad business courses

• Auditors find credit card fraud and abuse at 5 Florida universities

• Census : Women now equal to men in advanced degrees, but pay still lags behind

• Houston Community College chosen to create first community college in Qatar

• Gates Foundation boosts aid to community colleges to help improve graduation rates

• Prairie View A&M University disbands fraternity after hazing-related death

• Proposed Illinois legislation would allow private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy

• Biden says Title IX compliance and enforcement will be high priorities during Obama administration

• Higher education is key focus of Bill Clinton's Haiti reconstruction efforts