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• 2012(47)
• November (1)

• Fairfield U. president Jeffrey von Arx opens his home to students who were displaced by Hurricane Sandy

• October (2)

• Faculty members voice their concerns to U. of Kentucky president Eli Capilouto during intense 2-hour meeting

• Worldwide leader: MIT tops Harvard and U. of Cambridge in the new U.S. News world's best universities rankings

• September (6)

• University of Michigan and president Mary Sue Coleman already planning process to find Coleman's successor

• U. of Texas backs professor Mark Regnerus in battle with gay critic who accused him of scientific misconduct

• Gay college football player says kiss got him kicked off team, coach says player's lying led to dismissal

• Former professor Amy Bishop pleads guilty to killing three people at U. of Alabama Huntsville

• FAMU football fans, alumni adjust to life without school's famed marching band which is suspended for year

• U. of North Carolina faculty members urge chancellor Holden Thorp to change his mind about resigning

• August (4)

• California State University faculty agree to 4-year, no-raise contract, averts possibility of strike this fall

• UC Irvine professor held without bail, accused of plotting to kill people at high school where his son committed suicide

• Emory University discloses it sent false SAT and ACT data to rankings groups for more than a decade

• U. of Virginia board takes steps to improve communication after ouster and return of its president

• July (1)

• Governor chastises Western Washington U. for giving "significant salary increases" to faculty

• June (3)

• FAMU president James Ammons under pressure following multiple scandals, no-confidence vote by board of trustees

• Citing differences with board, U. of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan steps down after two years on the job

• U. of Virginia reinstates president Teresa Sullivan, 16 days after her forced resignation over differences with board

• 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)

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

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

• 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

• University of Texas forces out law school dean Larry Sager

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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)

• 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

• Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon files labor complaint against faculty union as strike vote looms

• 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(878)
• 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 (81)

• 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

• April (51)

• 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