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Faculty & Staff

University of Tennessee Faculty Demands Computer System Improvements

KNOXVILLE Tenn. University of Tennessee professors, frustrated by e-mail outages and Internet security concerns, are demanding improvements in the university’s computer system.

October 29, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Wheaton Turns Faculty Into Students for Semester-long Session

NORTON, Mass. No sooner does Leah Niederstadt finish teaching her introduction to museum studies class at Wheaton College than she has to rush out the door to her next class.

October 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

With Record-breaking Attendance, Annual SREB Conference Addresses Recruitment, Retention of Minority Faculty

ARLINGTON, VA. Hundreds of doctoral candidates, faculty and university administrators converged on Arlington, Va., last week for the 14th annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, a three-day conference on teaching and mentoring hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), an educational advocacy organization based in Atlanta.

October 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Sculptor Rebuilds Ga. University’s $1M Sculpture of Earth Following Collapse

KENNESAW Ga. It took Finnish-born sculptor Eino roughly four months to rebuild the world.

October 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tutu Will Visit St. Thomas If Professor Is Reinstated

ST. PAUL Minn. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has notified the University of St. Thomas that he’ll accept an invitation to speak on campus next spring, but only if the university reinstates Cris Toffolo as director of the Justice and Peace Studies Program.

October 22, 2007

Students

Alumni Scramble to Keep Antioch College Open

YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign: “Office of Transition.”

October 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

North Dakota Board of Higher Education Approves Salary Plan

FARGO N.D. The state Board of Higher Education has approved higher salary ranges for the state university system chancellor and college presidents. The board’s faculty adviser says the focus should now shift to teacher salaries.

October 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Report: IRS Notified Oral Roberts University of Problems with Political Programs

TULSA Okla. Oral Roberts University officials received notification from the Internal Revenue Service last year of deficiencies in the way the nonprofit school had handled political programs, a spokesman has confirmed.

October 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Professor Targeted With Noose: “I Will Not Be Silenced”

NEW YORK Hundreds of students and faculty members at Columbia University in New York City rallied Wednesday afternoon to protest the hanging of a noose on the office door of a popular African-American professor.

October 9, 2007

Students

The Rise of the Ghetto-Fabulous Party

In a recent article published in Colorlines, Dr. C. Richard King, an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, and Dr. David J. Leonard, an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, argue that the “gangsta” parties could be the culmination of two decades of conservative politics at colleges and the “corporatization” of American universities.

October 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

University of New Hampshire faculty sets strike authorization vote

DURHAM N.H. The faculty union at the University of New Hampshire soon may take a contract dispute to a new level.

September 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Oregon universities seek ways to prevent dropouts

EUGENE Ore. As classes begin at Oregon public universities, higher education officials hope to reduce a dropout rate that likely will result in the loss of 2,200 of 10,400 incoming freshmen before their sophomore year.

September 22, 2007