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Columbia Spectator: Protestors Rush Minutemen
Protestors took the stage minutes after Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, came to the microphone in Roone Arledge Auditorium Wednesday night, sparking a chaotic brawl involving more than 20 students, other attendees, and guests.
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The Chronicle: Student Teacher Who Says She Was Flunked for Reporting Class Prayer Reaches Settlement With University
A student teacher who said she was flunked because she had reported class prayers and Bible studies at her assigned public elementary school has reached a settlement with Southeastern Louisiana University and a local school district, the American Civil Liberties Union announced on Tuesday.
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Maine.com: Another bomb threat closes USM
The University of Southern Maine canceled classes again today after another bomb threat.
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The Charlotte Observer: State audit finds N.C. Central hired workers who used fake ID’s
North Carolina Central University hired workers who used fraudulent Social Security numbers and some of them may have used the identification to obtain state driver’s licenses, according a report from the state auditor.
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Posted in Administration
The Chronicle: Evangelist Sues Murray State U. for Right to Preach on the Campus
James G. Gilles, an evangelist who has preached at hundreds of colleges across the country, has sued Murray State University for keeping him from its campus, a short drive from his western Kentucky home.
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Houston Chronicle: Report: College grads history-deficient
College students are graduating with scant understanding of the nation’s history and institutions, leading them to become uninformed citizens who neither vote nor participate in community service, according to an independent report.
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Posted in Academics
Christian Science Monitor: Student activists rise again – this time for Darfur
She sleeps less, goes out less, and has reduced her course load to work 30 to 40 hours a week organizing student campaigns. Her goal: to end the suffering in Darfur, Sudan, perhaps the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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The Boston Globe: Yes to women’s colleges
TWO WOMEN’S colleges, Regis College and Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, announced recently they will become co educational. Does this matter? Haven’t today’s women “made it”? Are women’s colleges still relevant today?
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Washington Post: Protesters Renew Fight Over Choice Of President
Inside Higher Ed:
Last spring, when protesters took their tents down from Gallaudet University’s grounds after graduation, they posted signs: We’ll be back.
This week, they once again pitched tents and signs to tell the board of trustees, meeting tomorrow and Friday, that they’re still angry about the incoming president and the way she was chosen. Some students and faculty walked out of classes yesterday, demanding that the presidential search be reopened and that there be no reprisals against protesters.
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Inside Higher Ed: Whoa, Dude
“Whoa… dude… Code of Hammurabi. I’ve seen this in … I’ve seen this in a British Museum.” If only these words came from someone goofing off in a high school class. Instead, they were uttered by a lecturer, John Hall, during a class he gave in September to more than 1,000 students taking a business course at the University of Florida.
Within weeks, highlights from the lecture were uploaded onto numerous Web sites, including Break.com, where the video is labeled “Stoned Professor,” and YouTube. And shortly after that, the university placed Hall on paid administrative leave. Another instructor has started teaching the “Principles of Management” course. (Some who have watched assume that the professor was drunk, not stoned.)
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Inside Higher Ed: Dueling Data on Women and Work
Yale researcher challenges Times article saying female grads of elite colleges would choose children over job.
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Posted in Equity
The Chronicle :N.Y. Lawmakers Grill College Board Officials Again
Nearly a year after scoring glitches skewed the SAT results of some 5,000 students nationwide, one New York legislator has put the College Board in the hot seat again.
At a public hearing last week, State Sen. Kenneth P. LaValle questioned officials from the Manhattan-based organization about the mishap. Senator LaValle, a Republican and chairman of the State Senate’s Higher Education Committee, also criticized the nonprofit group for opposing his efforts to increase public oversight of the testing industry.
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Posted in Accountability
Rocky Mountain News: Diversity tops CU leaders’ to-do lists
ncreasing the presence of minorities on campus will be part of the evaluations used to set salaries for top administrators, University of Colorado President Hank Brown said Friday.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Dispute Over Faculty Adviser to Student Newspaper Earns Censure for University
An advocacy group for faculty advisers to student newspapers has censured Oklahoma Baptist University for its decision, in 2005, to not renew the contract of Philip Todd, the adviser to its student paper. The group, College Media Advisers, said in a written statement that Mr. Todd had been dismissed because he refused to follow the orders of the university’s president and other officials who asked him to review the paper before publication, provide them with advance word of articles the paper planned to cover, and include or exclude certain topics from coverage. The group said those demands violated the students’ free-speech rights, the faculty adviser’s job description, and the university’s written policies.
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The Chronicle: Academic Integrity Gets a Bad Grade in Survey of University Students in Canada
Academic misconduct is common among university students in Canada, a recent nationwide study has found. More than half of the undergraduates and 35 percent of the graduate students surveyed admitted some form of cheating on written course work.
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is considering drafts of documents that would form part of a public-education campaign on campus anti-Semitism, a follow-up to the commission’s report on the issue last spring.
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Inside Higher Ed:
The U.S. Supreme Court, on the first day of its new term, let stand a Louisiana court’s ruling that Louisiana State University did not engage in racial discrimination when it fired its former women’s track coach, Loren Seagrave, in 1990. A lower court had found discrimination and ordered LSU to pay Seagrave $773,000. But the appeals panel — in a ruling that the Louisiana Supreme Court let stand — ruled last year that the alleged comments by a former athletics director that Seagrave cited to prove he had been discriminated against for being married to a black woman were too out of date to have been used as evidence of discrimination.
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Posted in Equity
The Tennessean: Tennessee Baptists file suit against Belmont University
The Tennessee Baptist Convention has filed suit against Belmont University, seeking repayment for all financial and property contributions to the university since it began supporting the university in 1951.
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AP: End in sight for state’s decades-old college desegregation case
Alabama students will be able to receive financial aid from a needs-based program included in an impending settlement that would end the state’s decades-old college desegregation case, attorneys said Monday.
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Inside Higher Ed:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has vetoed legislation that would have allowed some undocumented students to apply for state financial aid. Current California law lets undocumented students pay resident tuition rates at public colleges if the students graduated from a California high school, attended a California high school for three years, and indicate that they have applied for legal status. The legislation that Schwarzenegger vetoed would have also given those students the right to apply for financial aid. In his veto message, Schwarzenegger said that the state doesn’t have enough money for legal residents’ aid so it would be inappropriate to add more students. Supporters of the legislation said that the state stands only to gain by making it easier for undocumented students who have lived in the state for years, and who will probably continue to do so, to get the best possible education.
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