The Boston Globe: MassBay president gets no-confidence vote
Faculty members at Massachusetts Bay Community College have delivered a decisive no-confidence vote in President Carole Berotte Joseph, following months of unrest on campus and intensifying the pressure against the leader of the Wellesley-based school.
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Tulsa Word: ORU in debt $52.5 million
The regents chairman says the board is working to reduce it.
Oral Roberts University is $52.5 million in debt — an amount on the decline but a burden keeping the college from improving its campus, university representatives said Wednesday.
The debt accumulated from “years and years and years and years of . . . borrowing,” said board of regents Chairman George Pearsons, who still was gathering information on the sources of debt.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Plagiarism Scandal Spurs Renewed Call on Southern Illinois U. Campus to Secede
More than 30 faculty members at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville have signed a petition asking that the institution be made officially separate from the system’s Carbondale campus. The petition, which was addressed to the state’s governor, follows revelations that Glenn Poshard, president of the Southern Illinois system, copied numerous portions of his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation without properly citing the sources.
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Chicago Tribune: SIU Edwardsville faculty group urges Poshard to step down
The faculty leadership group at Southern Illinois University’s Edwardsville campus called Thursday for embattled university President Glenn Poshard to resign.
The 45-5 vote by the Faculty Senate comes a week after a separate faculty committee at the university’s sister campus in Carbondale concluded that Poshard, who was found to have committed “inadvertent plagiarism” in portions of his master’s and doctoral theses, should fix his work but remain as president.
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Tulsa World: Updated: Roberts taking leave of absence
Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts issued a written statement on Wednesday saying he is taking an indefinite leave of absence, following intense scrutiny spawned by financial, political and other allegations raised in a lawsuit.
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The Chronicle: Survey Finds Extensive Ties Between Industry and Medical-School Department Chairs
Nearly two-thirds of the department chairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals who participated in a recent survey have financial or other ties to industry that could create institutional conflicts of interest, according to a report being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Ties between individual faculty members and companies have been closely scrutinized in recent years (The Chronicle, January 25, 2006), but relatively little attention has been paid to institutional conflicts that arise when schools and departments or their senior officers have financial connections with companies.
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Inside Higher Ed: New Harvard prez questions focus on assessment
In her inaugural address as president of Harvard University Friday, Drew Faust questioned the emphasis of many in Washington on assessment — at least as currently being practiced. “We are asked to report graduation rates, graduate school admission statistics, scores on standardized tests intended to assess the ‘value added’ of years in college, research dollars, numbers of faculty publications. But such measures cannot themselves capture the achievements, let alone the aspirations of universities. Many of these metrics are important to know, and they shed light on particular parts of our undertaking. But our purposes are far more ambitious and our accountability thus far more difficult to explain,” Faust said. She added: “A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future.” Faust also noted the criticism that higher education is slow to change. “In the past half century, American colleges and universities have shared in a revolution, serving as both the emblem and the engine of the expansion of citizenship, equality and opportunity — to blacks, women, Jews, immigrants, and others who would have been subjected to quotas or excluded altogether in an earlier era. My presence here today — and indeed that of many others on this platform — would have been unimaginable even a few short years ago. Those who charge that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities even of the mid 20th century.”
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Inside Higher Ed: Southern Illinois President Cleared of Plagiarism
He made citation “errors” and “mistakes” that require immediate correction. But Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, did not intentionally plagiarize a doctoral dissertation he completed as a graduate student there more than 20 years ago, according to a faculty panel formed by the institution’s chancellor to look into the charges of academic dishonesty.
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The Chronicle: Ex-President of Eastern Michigan U. Sues Its Board of Regents, Seeking Reinstatement
The former president of Eastern Michigan University sued its Board of Regents on Thursday, arguing that his firing violated a state law that protects whistle-blowers.
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The Chronicle: Panel Finds ‘Errors,’ Not Plagiarism, in Dissertation by Southern Illinois U. President
A faculty committee has issued its verdict on whether Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, plagiarized numerous portions of his dissertation, which he completed at the university in 1984. In short, he’s off the hook.
That’s not to say he didn’t plagiarize. The report, a copy of which was given to The Chronicle, finds “many instances” in Mr. Poshard’s dissertation in which “the words of others are present in a continuous flow with student Poshard’s own words, so that readers cannot distinguish between those sources.”
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The Chronicle News Blog: Plagiarism Report Says Southern Illinois President Made Only ‘Errors and Mistakes’
A faculty committee has issued its verdict on whether Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, plagiarized numerous portions of his dissertation, which he completed at the university in 1984. In short, he’s off the hook.
That’s not to say he didn’t plagiarize. The report, a copy of which was given to The Chronicle earlier today, finds “many instances” in Mr. Poshard’s dissertation in which “the words of others are present in a continuous flow with student Poshard’s own words, so that readers cannot distinguish between those sources.” Remarkably, the report does not deem those instances to be plagiarism. They are, instead, “errors and mistakes.”
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The Chronicle News Blog: Polytechnic U. Board Endorses Plan to Merge With NYU
Trustees of Polytechnic University approved a preliminary plan this afternoon to merge with New York University. The agreement will give the Greenwich Village behemoth the science and technical school it has lacked since it closed its campus in the Bronx more than 30 years ago, and it will secure the financial future of Brooklyn-based Polytechnic, which has struggled with deficits and outdated facilities.
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The New York Times: Professors Sue Oral Roberts President
A suit filed by three former professors charges financial, political and personal irregularities by the president of Oral Roberts University, including a claim that he illegally mobilized students to campaign for a Republican mayoral candidate.
The president, Richard Roberts, the son of the university founder, the television evangelist Oral Roberts, has offered a series of denials. But he declined yesterday to respond in detail to the accusations in the suit.
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Houston Chronicle: Slade jurors sift through evidence
Jurors deliberating the fate of ousted TSU President Priscilla Slade start sifting today through boxes of evidence they requested on Monday, a task that could take days.
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Telegraph: Bible Belt college head faces ‘luxury life’ claim
The president of a Bible Belt university faces a string of allegations by former staff who claim that he and his family have squandered funds on a lavish lifestyle.
Richard Roberts, the son of Oral Roberts, one of America’s most prominent televangelists, says God has told him to fight a lawsuit brought by three former professors. They claim they, too, have divine guidance in their struggle for justice.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Embattled President of Oral Roberts U. Wins Support From a Higher Authority
God, it seems, has gotten involved in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday against Oral Roberts University and its president, Richard L. Roberts.
In his weekly chapel address today, Mr. Roberts said God had spoken to him this morning and advised him to respond to the lawsuit. “Here’s what he told me to say to you,” Mr. Roberts told the students and professors gathered at the service, according to the Associated Press. “‘We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not.’
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The Chronicle: Audio Interview: A Gay President Speaks Out
Charles R. Middleton, president of Roosevelt University and one of 11 openly gay college presidents in the United States, talks about discrimination in the presidency.
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The Herald: Privately-run college faces action over false adverts
A privately-run college which insisted it was not a bogus operation is facing action from Scotland’s exam body after falsely advertising courses in its online prospectus.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is to write to Middlesex College in Glasgow asking it to remove references to HND and HNC qualifications in business and information technology from its website.
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The Boston Globe: Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts
Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts’ university, or else he would be “called home.”
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.
Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors’ expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter’s senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay.
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The Chronicle: 3 Former Professors Sue Oral Roberts U., Alleging Political and Ethical Misconduct at High Levels
Three former professors at Oral Roberts University have sued the evangelical institution in Tulsa, Okla., filing a petition on Tuesday in state court that accuses the university’s president, Richard L. Roberts, of using university resources to back a local mayoral candidate and to bankroll an extravagant lifestyle for his family.
The lawsuit also says that university administrators tried to cover up the president’s involvement in the mayoral campaign when the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the nonprofit institution’s interventions into local politics.
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