ABC News: Colleges Look Overseas for Racial Diversity
Carol Swain grew up poor, one of 12 children, and dropped out of the ninth grade to get married. Three children later, at 20, her life was thrown into crisis — a daughter had died of crib death, she filed for divorce and took a job at a garment factory.
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Posted in Diversity
The Arizona Republic: Colleges OK’d to check citizenship
Most students who attend the state’s three universities won’t have to hand over additional documentation to prove their citizenship.
The Arizona Board of Regents gave universities permission on Thursday to implement Proposition 300, a voter-approved initiative that prevents undocumented residents from getting in-state tuition.
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Posted in Government
Inside Higher Ed: Would U.S. News Make Up Fake Data?
It’s not unusual for college presidents to complain about U.S. News rankings (at least out of the earshot of U.S. News editors). But on Sunday, the president of Sarah Lawrence College publicly charged that the magazine is preparing to publish made up, false data about her institution. Meanwhile, Inside Higher Ed has learned that 10 other liberal arts college presidents are preparing a letter to be sent to hundreds of college presidents proposing a new set of policies that might challenge the role of the rankings. The policy options include complete non-cooperation with U.S. News and refusing to fill out the “reputational” survey — which many educators deride as a “beauty contest” that is particularly lacking in substance, even though it represents 25 percent of the magazine’s rankings formula.
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Posted in Ethics
The Boston Globe: Harvard sweetens reward for doctors who teach
Harvard Medical School will increase by millions of dollars a year its payments to doctors for teaching students, a recognition of how difficult it has become to persuade busy physicians to devote time to educating the next generation of care givers.
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Posted in Salary/Economic Benefits
The Dallas Morning News: SMU faculty split on ties to Bush institute
The faculty senate of Southern Methodist University split down the middle Wednesday on whether the campus should consider dissociating from a partisan institute that would be part of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
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Posted in Faculty
Cambridge Evening News: Boozy students are a sick joke for porters
COLLEGE porters have been given jabs to protect them from catching Hepatitis B when they wipe up the vomit of boozing students.
Gonville and Caius College has admitted its outside porters are vaccinated against the liver disease after it emerged undergraduates have been warned over their binge-drinking.
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Posted in Students
Inside Higher Ed:
The American Anthropological Association’s Executive Board has endorsed the boycott of Coca-Cola products, citing “the growing anthropological record of problems in communities where the Coca-Cola Company operates.” The push to boycott Coke has been growing on campuses, although some institutions have pulled back from it. The company has repeatedly defended its activities and said that critics have distorted its record.
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Posted in Advocacy
Reuters: Rules force man to urinate in bottle in exam
BERLIN (Reuters) – Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet.
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Posted in International, Students
The Salt Lake Tribune: Gun bill effects limited to dorm rooms
University administrators and gun-rights advocates celebrated the passage of a bill that would allow dorm residents to choose to room with a non-gun carrier.
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Posted in Government
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Students face off over college chief
To Clark Atlanta University President Walter Broadnax, a 5 percent tuition increase is barely enough to cover costs.
To some students, however, the hike is just the latest catalyst in a long line of complaints at the historically black Atlanta institution.
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Inside Higher Ed: Campus Downloading Crackdown
The music industry is ramping up its campaign against illegal file sharing by college students — and asking campus administrators to play a more central role in that process.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Academic Presses Endorse Statement on Scholarly Publishing in Digital Age
Another group of academic publishers has taken a stand in the open-access wars. The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers announced this week its endorsement of the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing. That document spells out “key industry principles” articulated by the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers in response to a European Commission conference on scientific publishing this year.
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Posted in Open access
The Washington Post: Ouster Sought of Howard President
The head of the faculty senate called for the ouster of Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, saying that the school is in a state of crisis and that it’s time to end “an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at the highest level.”
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Posted in Administration
The Chronicle: Salaries Rise 3.8 Percent for Professors
Faculty salaries rose 3.8 percent this year, in part as a result of larger increases at public universities than in recent years, according to a survey scheduled for release today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Extensive statistics from the survey accompany The Chronicle’s report.
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The Chronicle: Hughes Institute’s Deal With Elsevier Will Open Up Access to Its Researchers’ Work
In the ever-shifting terrain of scientific publishing, two big players have jostled the field by reaching an agreement that would trade cash payments for making peer-reviewed manuscripts freely available six months after their publication.Hughes Institute’s Deal With Elsevier Will Open Up Access to Its Researchers’ Work
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Posted in Open access
Inside Higher Ed: Surprising Departure at SUNY
John R. Ryan has been popular with professors, administrators and legislators in his two years as chancellor of the State University of New York, winning substantial budget increases and generally calming the waters after his less popular predecessor was ousted when he lost favor with the then-governor. So it came as a shock to many in Albany and on SUNY’s 64 campuses when Ryan announced suddenly on Wednesday that he was quitting to become president of the Center for Creative Leadership, a nonprofit group that runs training programs for leaders in the public and private sectors.
The Chronicle: SUNY Chancellor Says He Will Resign at the End of May
The chancellor of the State University of New York, Vice Adm. John R. Ryan, announced on Wednesday that he will resign in three months, surprising the state’s higher-education officials and putting leadership of the often-tumultuous system up for grabs.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Cal State’s Faculty Union Begins Vote on Whether to Stage Historic Strike
Unionized instructors across the 23-campus California State University system began taking a strike vote today, casting ballots on whether to stage “rolling walkouts” that would send professors to picket lines for two days at a time, from one campus to the next.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
New Mexico Highlands University will pay a former assistant professor of chemistry $205,000 to settle the last of several lawsuits based on conditions that led the American Association of University Professors to censure the institution and that brought down an embattled president.
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Posted in Legal issues, Tenure & Promotion
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has sued the U.S. government to try to force it to respond to a petition the institution filed 21 months ago as part of the process of hiring a Bolivian historian. Observers say the lawsuit appears to be the first time that a higher-education institution has gone to court in recent years in a case in which a foreign scholar was kept out of the country for what may be ideological reasons.
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The Chronicle: An Update on the 2006-7 Pay of Presidents at Public Institutions
John T. Casteen III, president of the University of Virginia, has moved up to third on a list of the highest-paid university presidents. Figures for Virginia and three other institutions — California State University, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and Virginia Commonwealth University — completed compensation decisions after The Chronicle’s survey of executive compensation was published in November.
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