The New York Times: Spitzer Wants to Endow State’s Public Colleges
In his annual address to the Legislature on Wednesday, Gov. Eliot Spitzer will propose establishing an endowment for the state’s higher education system and adding 2,000 faculty members, according to a person with knowledge of the speech.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Chief Executive at Strayer Inc. Is Named CEO of the Year
The chief executive of Strayer Inc., a higher-education company that has pointedly avoided the aggressive growth strategies of many of its competitors, has been named CEO of the Year for 2007 by Morningstar, an independent investment-research company.
Strayer, based in Arlington, Va., owns Strayer University, which operates 51 campuses in 12 states in the eastern United States and Washington, D.C. Strayer enrolls 36,000 students, about half of whom take all their courses online.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Historical Association Welcomes Bolivian Scholar at Center of Visa Dispute
Washington — A special session on scholars and visa troubles at the annual meeting here of the American Historical Association featured a speaker who wouldn’t have been able to attend last year.
Waskar T. Ari Chachaki, a Bolivian scholar who had been hired by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln but was denied a visa by the Department of Homeland Security, appeared on the panel on Friday to talk about his experience.
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The Chronicle: Amid Violence, Kenyan Universities Postpone Opening
Nairobi — Universities in Kenya have postponed their opening dates for fear that students and academic staff members might be caught up in the violence that has hit the country following opposition leaders’ claims that last week’s presidential election was rigged.
The Nairobi campus of United States International University, Egerton University, Kenyatta University, Moi University, and the University of Nairobi have advised their students not to report to their campuses on Monday, as earlier planned.
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The Chronicle News Blog: George Washington U. Drops Opposition to Adjunct Union and Strikes a Deal
After years of fighting to stay away from the bargaining table, George Washington University announced today that it had ratified its first collective-bargaining agreement with its part-time professors.
The deal was reached more than three years after adjuncts at the university voted to unionize, in an election certified by the National Labor Relations Board.
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National Academy Answers Creationist Challenge
Professors who have been blindsided by students who support intelligent design can look to the National Academy of Sciences for help. The academy and its sister Institute of Medicine today published a book, called Science, Evolution, and Creationism, that offers clear explanations about evolution and why creationism is not science. The book, which has answers to frequently asked questions in the back, is available on the academy’s Web site. The site will also present a live audio Webcast, on Friday at 11 a.m. Eastern time, to discuss the book.
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Despite Surging Endowments, High-Ranking Universities and Colleges Show Disappointing Results in Enrolling Low-Income Students
Despite Surging Endowments, High-Ranking Universities and Colleges Show Disappointing Results in Enrolling Low-Income Students
In recent years, the endowments of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities have soared. Many of these institutions are committing substantial funds in efforts to enroll more students from low-income families. Results have been disappointing over the long and short terms. The percentages of low-income students at almost all of the highly selective colleges and universities have declined.
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The Chronicle: West Virginia U. Roiled Over Alleged Transcript Rewrite for Governor’s Daughter
Michael S. Garrison was controversial at West Virginia University even before his arrival in September as president. Now he is linked to a developing scandal that raises questions about the ties between the university and the state’s power brokers in politics and business.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Murray State U. and Preacher Settle Lawsuit
Murray State University, in Kentucky, has settled a lawsuit with a well-known evangelical preacher who sued the public institution in 2006 after he was barred from speaking there.
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An Ohio judge who last month approved the sale of Myers University, to a group of people with ties to the for-profit University of Northern Virginia, is apparently reconsidering. The deal has been opposed by some as a takeover of the financially troubled Cleveland college. Now the judge is concerned that the purchasers don’t have enough cash, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, and he is considering proposals from two other entities. One is a consortium of school districts and job centers that wants to use Myers as a base to offer online college courses to high school juniors and seniors. The other entity is Knowledge Investment Partners, a private equity firm. Last year, the firm purchased the Schiller International University, which includes London City College and the American College of Switzerland.
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AP: Judge rewrites Mo. ballot language on affirmative action
A judge on Monday rewrote the ballot language for a proposal banning most government affirmative action programs in Missouri, striking down a version originally crafted by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan as unfair.
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Posted in Equity
Inside Higher Ed: Counterpoint to Presidential Careerism
At a time when the pay of leading college presidents soars over $1 million a year and many a campus leader prefers the title “CEO,” it sounds almost quaint to hear several dozen top administrators wrestle with such a fundamentally personal — and yet outward-looking — question as: “How might the thoughtful coupling of a president’s personal sense of calling with the mission of the institution she or he serves enhance presidential leadership?”
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Inside Higher Ed: GW part-timers gain contract after long fight
After an extended legal fight over a union election for part-time faculty members, George Washington University and the Service Employees International Union have reached agreement on a first contract. Under a summary released by the union, key provisions included are: more protection against discharge, more job security through rights granted after teaching specified numbers of courses, and significant increases in the minimum per-course payments. The minimum for a 3-4 credit course taught by a faculty member with a terminal degree will be $3,800.d
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The Knoxville News: UT chief, faculty panel meet to discuss search for new chancellor
Committee offers input on selection of new chancellor
That’s the message University of Tennessee faculty sent Friday in a meeting with UT President John Petersen regarding the selection of the next chancellor of the Knoxville campus.
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Inside Higher Ed: ABC Thinks You’re Rich; ‘U.S. News’ Says Your Job Is Cushy
It turns out that college administrators and professors should stop complaining about their pay and working conditions, at least according to U.S. News & World Report and ABC News.
On Saturday night, Charlie Gibson, the ABC anchor, was introducing a question in the Democratic presidential debate about proposed tax increases for wealthy Americans and his example of those who might be affected: college professors at a liberal arts college.
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Inside Higher Ed: When Identity Trumps Diversity
When a professor asked for an exemption to a Calvin College policy so she could join a black church — while remaining a tenure-track faculty member — the board said no.
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The Tucson Citizen: 119 UA students reclassified as out-of-state
Renee Schafer Horton
TUCSON – Since July 3, the University of Arizona has been able to corroborate the legal status of 758 of the 877 students it previously reported as “not verified” under the strictures of Proposition 300.
Passed by voters in November 2006, Proposition 300 requires illegal immigrants to pay out-of-state tuition and bans them from receiving state tuition assistance.
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The Charleston Gazette: WVU files suit against Rodriguez
School wants judge to determine if it breached contract with ex-coach
West Virginia University sued its former football coach, Rich Rodriguez, on Thursday, in an effort to secure a $4 million buyout from Rodriguez for breaking his contract with the school.
According to the lawsuit, WVU officials want a judge to determine that the school did not breach its contract with Rodriguez. They also say the contract requires Rodriguez to give written notice if the school breached the contract, and that he never did.
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AP: IUP, professor settle suit over dissertation, alleged advances
PITTSBURGH — An Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor who has written about faculty-student relationships has settled a lawsuit brought by a doctoral student who claimed the professor sabotaged his dissertation when he spurned her advances.
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Inside Higher Ed:
Arizona is the latest state where extending health benefits to the partners of gay employees in public higher education has become controversial. Capital Media Services reported that the administration of Gov. Janet Napolitano has moved through the state regulatory process to add the benefits, arguing that offering them will make the state’s colleges more competitive in recruiting employees. But the Center for Arizona Policy, a group that describes itself as supporting “traditional moral principles,” has filed objections to the plan.
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