Category Archives: Government

Campaign Seeks to Turn Today’s College Students Into Tomorrow’s Feds

Posted on October 26, 2007 by | Comments Off on Campaign Seeks to Turn Today’s College Students Into Tomorrow’s Feds

The Chronicle News Blog: Campaign Seeks to Turn Today’s College Students Into Tomorrow’s Feds

Uncle Sam wants a few good college graduates to go to work for the federal government. Actually, more than a few. And so the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, has announced a campaign to help turn college students into feds.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Campaign Seeks to Turn Today’s College Students Into Tomorrow’s Feds

Posted in Government

Schwarzenegger Vetoes DREAM Bill for Immigrant Students

Posted on October 15, 2007 by | Comments Off on Schwarzenegger Vetoes DREAM Bill for Immigrant Students

Inside Higher Ed: Schwarzenegger Vetoes DREAM Bill for Immigrant Students

Late Saturday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a series of vetoes on various bills — and in so doing dashed the hopes of student activists who have been pushing to make it easier for undocumented students to obtain financial aid and to pressure publishers and faculty members into changing practices that some believe contribute to the high price of textbooks. At the same time, Governor Schwarzenegger signed another bill on textbooks, favored by publishers and opposed by student groups.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Schwarzenegger Vetoes DREAM Bill for Immigrant Students

Posted in Government

Another Scholar, an Expert on Comics, Is Denied a U.S. Visa

Posted on October 11, 2007 by | Comments Off on Another Scholar, an Expert on Comics, Is Denied a U.S. Visa

The Chronicle News Blog: Another Scholar, an Expert on Comics, Is Denied a U.S. Visa

In another case of a foreign scholar finding an unwelcome mat on the United States’ doorstep, Ernesto Priego, a doctoral candidate at University College, London, was recently denied a visa to enter the country to appear at an academic conference.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Another Scholar, an Expert on Comics, Is Denied a U.S. Visa

Posted in Government

Update on FBI-College Relations

Posted on October 9, 2007 by | Comments Off on Update on FBI-College Relations

Inside Higher Ed: Update on FBI-College Relations

In the two years since the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled together a panel of university presidents, the 20-person National Security Higher Education Advisory Board has discussed matters ranging from cyber threats to counterterrorism to the Virginia Tech shootings. In a briefing for reporters at FBI headquarters Wednesday, officials involved with the advisory board provided an update as to its activities — though not surprisingly given the subject, specific details were scarce.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Update on FBI-College Relations

Posted in Government

Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

Posted on October 9, 2007 by | Comments Off on Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

The New York Times: Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, American paratroopers are fielding what they consider a crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations here: a soft-spoken civilian anthropologist named Tracy.

Tracy, who asked that her surname not be used for security reasons, is a member of the first Human Terrain Team, an experimental Pentagon program that assigns anthropologists and other social scientists to American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her team’s ability to understand subtle points of tribal relations — in one case spotting a land dispute that allowed the Taliban to bully parts of a major tribe — has won the praise of officers who say they are seeing concrete results.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

Posted in Academics, Government

Ontario: Religious schools set to give Liberals majority

Posted on October 9, 2007 by | Comments Off on Ontario: Religious schools set to give Liberals majority

The Globe and Mail: Religious schools set to give Liberals majority

Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory’s proposal to fund faith-based schools has inflicted enormous damage on his party, leaving it trailing 15 points behind the Liberals on the eve of tomorrow’s election, according to a new poll.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Ontario: Religious schools set to give Liberals majority

Posted in Government, K-12 issues

Iranian students attack ‘fascist Ahmadinejad’

Posted on October 9, 2007 by | Comments Off on Iranian students attack ‘fascist Ahmadinejad’

The Telegraph: Iranian students attack ‘fascist Ahmadinejad’

To chants of “death to the dictator”, hundreds of Iranian students have mounted a vociferous protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The demonstration at Teheran University, where the president gave a speech opening the academic year, drove home the depth of his domestic unpopularity.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Iranian students attack ‘fascist Ahmadinejad’

Posted in Government, International, Students

ACLU Again Sues the Government Over a Foreign Scholar’s Exclusion From the U.S.

Posted on September 26, 2007 by | Comments Off on ACLU Again Sues the Government Over a Foreign Scholar’s Exclusion From the U.S.

The Chronicle: ACLU Again Sues the Government Over a Foreign Scholar’s Exclusion From the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government on Tuesday to try to force it to allow a senior South African academic to enter the United States.

The scholar, Adam Habib, has been barred from entering since last fall, when he was detained at a New York airport and deported after arriving for a series of academic meetings. This past spring he applied for a new visa, in hope of attending the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, in August, where he had been invited to speak on a presidential panel. U.S. consular authorities never responded to his request.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on ACLU Again Sues the Government Over a Foreign Scholar’s Exclusion From the U.S.

Posted in Government, International, Legal issues

Another Professor Denied Entry

Posted on September 25, 2007 by | Comments Off on Another Professor Denied Entry

Inside Higher Ed: Another Professor Denied Entry

With some regularity in recent years, Bush administration officials have given speeches pledging their commitment to international education and to a smooth visa system for foreign scholars seeking to come to American universities.

There’s just one problem. Cases continue to materialize in which scholars are kept out, leaving them and their American hosts frustrated and angry. There’s the Canadian physicist who couldn’t cross the border to attend a conference. A musicologist at Mills College has been unable to return there after she was turned away at the airport. It took two years (and a lawsuit) for the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to win a visa for one of its new faculty members. Add to those and a number of other cases the situation facing Marixa Lasso, an assistant professor of Latin American history at Case Western Reserve University.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Another Professor Denied Entry

Posted in Faculty, Government

Appeals Court Upholds Military Recruiting

Posted on September 19, 2007 by | Comments Off on Appeals Court Upholds Military Recruiting

Inside Higher Ed: Appeals Court Upholds Military Recruiting

The Solomon Amendment has won another round in court, and the only remaining push against it may have suffered a fatal blow this week when a federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of the controversial measure.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Solomon Amendment did not infringe on the First Amendment rights of law schools that objected to it. The law threatens to withhold federal funds from institutions that limit military recruiters’ access to campuses, which many law schools historically have done to protest the Defense Department’s discriminatory policies toward gay people.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Appeals Court Upholds Military Recruiting

Posted in Government

Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

Posted on September 17, 2007 by | Comments Off on Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

The New York Times: Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

Nalini Ghuman, an up-and-coming musicologist and expert on the British composer Edward Elgar, was stopped at the San Francisco airport in August last year and, without explanation, told that she was no longer allowed to enter the United States.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

Posted in Faculty, Government, International

Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford

Posted on September 15, 2007 by | Comments Off on Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford

Stanford Daily: Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford

Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will be joining the ranks of the Hoover Institution as a distinguished visiting fellow, the University announced Friday afternoon.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford

Posted in Government

UK: John Denham: Universities biased against poor

Posted on September 14, 2007 by | Comments Off on UK: John Denham: Universities biased against poor

Daily Telegraph: John Denham: Universities biased against poor

Leading universities are guilty of bias towards middle-class teenagers leading to a “huge waste” of the talents of children from poor backgrounds, a Government minister said yesterday.

John Denham, the Universities Secretary, said some of the “most sought-after” institutions were shunning bright children from poor homes.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on UK: John Denham: Universities biased against poor

Posted in Government

Kentucky: COMPLAINT: TOO MANY REPUBLICANS

Posted on September 14, 2007 by | Comments Off on Kentucky: COMPLAINT: TOO MANY REPUBLICANS

The Chronicle: COMPLAINT: TOO MANY REPUBLICANS

Kentucky’s attorney general has taken his dispute with the state’s governor over the makeup of public-university governing boards to court. His lawsuit seeks to have 13 of the governor’s appointments declared invalid.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Kentucky: COMPLAINT: TOO MANY REPUBLICANS

Posted in Governance, Government, Legal issues

State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants

Posted on September 14, 2007 by | Comments Off on State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants

Arizona Republic: State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants

Last November, seven out of 10 voters decreed that no longer shall undocumented immigrants get in-state tuition or any public help in covering the out-of-state tab.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants

Posted in Government

Kentucky Governor and Attorney General Clash Over Appointees to University Boards

Posted on August 28, 2007 by | Comments Off on Kentucky Governor and Attorney General Clash Over Appointees to University Boards

Courier-Journal: Kentucky Governor and Attorney General Clash Over Appointees to University Boards

Attorney General Greg Stumbo has sent a letter to Gov. Ernie Fletcher, warning him that recent appointments to the boards of trustees at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville violate state law.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Kentucky Governor and Attorney General Clash Over Appointees to University Boards

Posted in Administration, Government

Alabama: Lawmakers must leave two-year colleges by 2010

Posted on August 27, 2007 by | Comments Off on Alabama: Lawmakers must leave two-year colleges by 2010

The Birmingham News: Lawmakers must leave two-year colleges by 2010

Legislators will no longer be able to hold their seats and work in the state’s two-year college system at the end of their current terms in 2010, and maybe much sooner.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Alabama: Lawmakers must leave two-year colleges by 2010

Posted in Administration, Ethics, Government

Ohio: Governor unifies higher ed

Posted on August 18, 2007 by | Comments Off on Ohio: Governor unifies higher ed

Columbus Dispatch: Governor unifies higher ed

Saying he wants “a new Ohio birthright” of access to a high-quality, affordable college education, Gov. Ted Strickland ordered yesterday that the state’s public higher-education institutions become part of a unified system.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Ohio: Governor unifies higher ed

Posted in Government

Academic Coalition Loses Court Challenge to U.S. Government’s Near-Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba

Posted on August 18, 2007 by | Comments Off on Academic Coalition Loses Court Challenge to U.S. Government’s Near-Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba

The Chronicle: Academic Coalition Loses Court Challenge to U.S. Government’s Near-Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba

A federal court has ruled against a group of academics who challenged restrictions imposed by the Bush administration in 2004 that virtually ended academic travel to Cuba

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on Academic Coalition Loses Court Challenge to U.S. Government’s Near-Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba

Posted in Government

California: Aquirre investigating property sale to college district

Posted on July 16, 2007 by | Comments Off on California: Aquirre investigating property sale to college district

Union Tribune: Aquirre investigating property sale to college district

San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre is investigating a 2006 property deal in which developers Mike Madigan and Paul Nieto made a half-million dollars selling a downtown duplex to the San Diego Community College District.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday that Madigan and Nieto had obtained the property by falsely claiming they had a deal to handle the district’s bond-funded expansion.

Email, RSS Follow

Comments Off on California: Aquirre investigating property sale to college district

Posted in Corporate University, Government