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| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Book Says Many U.S. Universities Are Waste of Money |
| Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities such as Harvard University and Yale is a waste of money, a new book asserts. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| GMU Could Open Campus in South Korea |
| George Mason University is studying whether to open a campus in South Korea that would be within a two-hour plane ride of one-third of the world's population. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| IUPUI to Probe 'Emotional Abuse' Allegations in Women's Basketball |
| A three-member panel will investigate allegations of "emotional abuse" and NCAA rules violations in Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis' women's basketball program. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| A Summer School that Might Have Pleased Paul Bunyan |
| In an age when Facebook and video games have conspired to keep adolescents tethered to a sofa, and the book “Last Child in the Woods” laments the loss of contact with nature, Paul Smith’s College is providing an outlet for young people who crave a different experience. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| UNT Faculty Gives Jackson Low Marks |
| Faculty at the University of North Texas rated Chancellor Lee Jackson between “poor” and “fair” in a recent performance survey. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Colleges' Upgrade Begins |
| A combination of new and renovated buildings continues to rise in the San Diego Community College District with funding from Propositions S and N. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Military Tweaks Aid for Spouses |
| The Department of Defense has reopened its program to help military spouses pay for school, but, as expected, fewer people will be eligible, and they'll get less money. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| UC San Diego Police Investigate Noose in Stairwell |
| UC San Diego police are investigating an incident in which a rope resembling a noose was found suspended in a campus stairwell. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| POLL: Dreaming the Dream: Immigrant Higher-Ed Students Hope to Obtain Legal Status |
| if the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bipartisan Senate bill known as the “DREAM Act,” passes in Congress this year, Erika Grispino would be eligible to apply to change her status from temporary to permanent. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Big Enrollment Jump Strains State's Community Colleges |
| Pressure is growing on Connecticut's community colleges as heavy enrollment continues in an ailing economy. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Former Duquesne Faculty Member Files Suit against University |
| A former faculty member Tuesday filed suit in federal court charging Duquesne University and its law school with sexual harassment, gender discrimination, retaliation and breach of contract. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Chico State Enrollment Expected to Be Lowest in Five Years |
| Enrollment at Chico State University in the fall is expected to be around 16,000, which is about 1,000 fewer students than were enrolled the previous fall, according to Allan Bee, the campus' director of admissions. |
| 07/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| For Six State Colleges, a New Outlook |
| With a flourish of the governor’s pen, much of the bookstore fare at Bridgewater State College became collectors’ items. That’s because the merchandise — hats, teddy bears, and 15 varieties of T-shirts — will be outdated by the fall, when the school unveils a new logo for Bridgewater State University, its new name, as part of a law signed yesterday that will rebrand six state colleges as universities. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| UH to Put Marketing out to Bid |
| After eight years of keeping its marketing in house, the University of Hawaii athletic department said it plans to entertain bids to outsource the rights. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| UWM Students Unhappy about Basketball Trip |
| The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Association is grumbling about the decision to send the school's basketball players, staff and some guests on a trip to Italy next month. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media |
| Harvard Business School and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business have joined a growing list of business schools that are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula, addressing the corporate demand for social-network-savvy employees. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Judge Rules University of Alaska Firing Improper |
| A judge has ruled the University of Alaska failed to follow its own regulations and improperly fired an employee in 2008. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Stony Brook Weighs Southampton Options |
| Stony Brook University has created an advisory committee that will look at a wide range of options for its Southampton campus, including devising ways other SUNY schools could use the property and turning it into a creative arts center. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| EMU Social-Work Student Loses Appeal |
| Lawyers for a national religious liberty group said they plan to appeal a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former Eastern Michigan University graduate student who said she was kicked out of a master’s program because she refused on religious grounds to counsel a homosexual client. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| SDSU Dismissal of Longtime Extension Insect Specialist under Fire |
| The dismissal of South Dakota State University insect expert who a colleague says refused to change his recommendations on pesticide spraying has prompted a protest from a national group of scholars. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Unpaid Internships Can Cost -- or Pay off for -- College Students |
| Even with the recession, students are willing to dish out hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars to cover expenses for internships far from home. In some cases, students also pay hundreds of dollars more for the college credits that employers require their interns to receive. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Missouri State Auditor Releases Higher Education Reviews |
| The state Department of Higher Education should have been more involved in picking projects for a college construction program and choosing what to delay when money ran short, according to a review released Wednesday by the state auditor's office. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Community College of Vermont Will Expand Its Montpelier Headquarters |
| The Community College of Vermont will undertake a $4 million expansion project to consolidate its administrative offices and its Montpelier learning center just north of Montpelier. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Former Dana College President Rehired at Omaha College |
| College of Saint Mary has hired the former president of Dana College as Dana continues the process of closing its doors. |
| 07/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Will NYC's College Building Boom Bubble Pop? |
| Real estate development was the first casualty of the Great Recession, but a half-dozen New York City colleges are in the midst of an unprecedented building boom. |