The Chronicle News Blog: Palm-Tree Scandal at MiraCosta College Yields Second Payout
MiraCosta College’s governing board has agreed to pay a former administrator $542,000 to drop one of several lawsuits filed in the wake of a scandal over the illegal sale of thousands of palm trees that belonged to the college, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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The Rouge Forum 2008 conference will be held March 13-16 at Bellarmine Universitiy in Louisville, KY.
For more information and to submit a proposal or register for the conference visit the conference website.
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Tampa Tribune: More blacks succeed at FSU
Growing up on the impoverished streets of Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, Pedro Gassant never considered himself a contender for college. His mother worked for a dry-cleaning business; his father cleaned houses. They didn’t go to college, and neither did Gassant’s five older brothers.
The New York Times: Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
Professors with tenure or who are on a tenure track are now a distinct minority on the country’s campuses, as the ranks of part-time instructors and professors hired on a contract have swelled, according to federal figures analyzed by the American Association of University Professors.
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Las Vegas Sun: Higher ed change would keep public in the dark
After months of debate about a lax disclosure policy that shielded UNLV faculty members’ outside work from the public, the Nevada System of Higher Education has crafted a new policy that shines little additional light on those dealings.
The proposed policy, which the Board of Regents will debate next week, simply would require UNLV and other institutions to file annual reports providing vague information such as how many professors filed outside income disclosure forms.
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Los Angeles Times: President of Oral Roberts steps down
The president of Oral Roberts University, who is accused of misspending university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, resigned from his position, officials said Friday.
Richard Roberts’ resignation is effective immediately, Board of Regents Chairman George Pearsons said in an e-mailed statement.
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The Guardian: ‘Awful, abhorrent’ – but Oxford insists the debate must go on
Hundreds of protesters are expected to gather outside the Oxford Union today to demand that the convicted Holocaust denier David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin are excluded from a debate on free speech.
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Evening Standard: Oxford students sit-in protest fails to silence Holocaust-denier David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin
As student protests go it was a rather tame affair.
At stake were two issues that had ignited the passions of some of our brightest undergraduates – the right to free speech versus the right to demonstrate.
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The Herald: All change again as Higher English faces review
SCOTLAND’S exam body has ordered a sweeping review of Higher English after warnings over the reliability and content of the qualification, The Herald can reveal.
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Austin American Statesman: A&M faculty up in arms over presidential search
Texas A&M University faculty members are up in arms over the lengthy search for a new president and a sharply worded letter from the chairman of the university’s governing board concerning the matter.
The College Station campus has been led by an interim president, Ed Davis, former president of the A&M Foundation, for nearly a year. The previous president was Robert Gates, whom President Bush tapped for defense secretary.
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International Herald Tribune: College lecturer shot dead in students’ clash
A lecturer was shot dead in a government college situated in the Sharea Faisal police limits when two student organisations clashed over control of the college.
As per the details, a clash was reported in the evening hours within the limits of Government Mono Technical College situated in Block-12, Gulistan-e-Jauhar. In the meantime, the police was informed of the clash between two politically active student organisations.
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Christian Science Monitor: The youth of Venezuela rise up
A Dec. 2 referendum in Venezuela that would grant extreme powers to Hugo Chávez isn’t going as the budding dictator planned. Youth are protesting and the poor have doubts. Just who is the “left” in Venezuela is now up for grabs.
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Houston Chronicle: Suspended student sues over Pat Robertson image
A Spring man who said a private university founded by Pat Robertson suspended him over an image showing the televangelist with his middle finger extended has sued the school in federal court.
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The Arizona Republic: Top salaries shed light on state’s universities
Money, as usual, speaks for itself when defining Arizona’s public universities.
Employee salaries reveal much about a school, from the kind of faculty the school can hire to the prosperity of individual programs.
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Daily News Egypt: Palestinian students allowed into Egypt
More than 250 Palestinian students from the isolated Gaza Strip were allowed into Egypt Sunday after having been prohibited from leaving the territories for months.
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The Washington Post: Taking on the Economics of Gender Inequity
In the world of economic theory, Columbia University’s Graciela Chichilnisky is an A-list star.
Nobel laureates laud her work and call her brilliant; some economists credit her with an important economic theory. She is involved in the economics of fighting global warming internationally, and she was recently elected to the university senate.
Prof. Graciela Chichilnisky of Columbia University, shown above on the school’s campus in New York, is a world-renowned economist who has been fighting with her employer over pay and other gender equity issues for 16 years. Below, Chichilnisky leads a class.
Prof. Graciela Chichilnisky of Columbia University, shown above on the school’s campus in New York, is a world-renowned economist who has been fighting with her employer over pay and other gender equity issues for 16 years. Below, Chichilnisky leads a class. (Photos By Helayne Seidman For The Washington Post)
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Chichilnisky is also embroiled in a bitter 16-year fight, including two lawsuits and a countersuit, against the Ivy League school where she teaches. She says she has been a victim of sex discrimination. Her salary, she alleges, has not kept pace with those of her male counterparts. Research grants have been taken away, and administrators have retaliated because of her complaints, she says.
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Diverse Magazine: Black Male Initiative Conference Yields Best Practices
Five years after the University System of Georgia started an initiative to boost enrollment of Black males, officials are seeing results, but they also realize more needs to be done.
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The Guardian: Women miss out on university places
Older women and people from minority ethnic groups are least likely to secure university places, according to research from the University admissions service, Ucas.
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The Guardian: Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration
British universities must stop courting China and start seeing the country as a threat, the former head of Nottingham University’s Chinese campus warned today.
In a report from the higher education thinktank Agora, the founding provost of Nottingham-Ningbo, Prof Ian Gow, claimed China wants to profit from the UK’s strengths in science and technology by absorbing the talent and intellectual property of its partners.
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The Washington Post: Report Examines Rape Allegations
The U.S. Naval Academy needs to find out why four students who reported being raped declined to cooperate with investigators or withdrew their help, according to a Department of Defense report on sexual assault and harassment released Friday.
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