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Faculty & Staff

Oral Roberts President Receives ‘No Confidence’ Vote

TULSA Okla. Embattled Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts, facing accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, has received a vote of no confidence by the tenured faculty at the evangelical university.

November 14, 2007

Students

No Place Like Home

Passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of “good things come to those who wait.”

November 14, 2007

Students

School Districts Under Desegregaton Orders Confused By Latest Supreme Court Ruling On Diversity

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of White teachers with Black ones, they say.

November 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Oral Roberts’ Son Accused of Misspending

TULSA Okla. A Beverly Hills house and country club membership. Vacations in Palm Springs and the South Seas. A closet as big as an apartment, stuffed with hundreds of pairs of shoes, suits, dresses and golf shoes.

November 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Southern Methodist U. to Get $20M from Dallas Couple

DALLAS Philanthropists Harold and Annette Simmons plan to announce a $20 million gift to Southern Methodist University on Friday.

November 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Grassley Probes Three Oral Roberts Regents

TULSA Okla. An Iowa senator is investigating possible financial wrongdoing by six televangelists, including three who sit on the board of regents for Oral Roberts University.

November 6, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville’s Faculty Senate Calls for Poshard’s Resignation

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. The faculty senate at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville wants the system’s president to resign over plagiarism claims.

November 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Taking Flight Internationally

As the new director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in Latin American history, Dr. Ben Vinson strengthens the center’s internationalist orientation.

October 31, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ethnic Fraud?

For American Indian scholars, securing a job in higher education can sometimes be as simple as checking a box.

October 31, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Study: Minority Faculty Severely Underrepresented in Top 100 STEM Departments

U.S. policymakers need to step in with policies that help boost the number of tenured and tenure-track minority faculty members in science and engineering fields, if the United States is to remain competitive on global scale in these areas, argued a group of minority scholars at a press conference on Capital Hill.

October 30, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Budget Gives UW Campuses Money to Add Students, Researchers

MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin System is about to get bigger.

October 29, 2007

Students

Officials Looking for Ways to Ease Shortage of Nursing Teachers

FARGO N.D. Ways to encourage graduate students to consider teaching, and the use of private money to supplement faculty wages, are among the ideas being discussed to ease a shortage of nursing teachers in the region.

October 29, 2007