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Sports

Iraqis Latest Recruited International Students to Attend University of Cincinnati

Students from Iraq are the latest products of overseas recruiting by the University of Cincinnati, which is building enrollment and revenues with international students.

January 14, 2013

Leadership & Policy

FBI Probed SC State as Legislative Audit Unfolded

In summer 2011, officials at South Carolina State University were defending the school’s transportation center, a multi-million-dollar project in which a state audit had found mismanagement and poor planning but no overt impropriety.

January 13, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama Schools Form Consortium to Boost Health Care Workforce Diversity

College leaders representing more than a dozen Alabama institutions signed up their respective schools to join a state-based consortium organized to increase the number of minorities in the health care professions.

January 13, 2013

Disabilties

New Pell Grant Restrictions Lower Enrollment

New regulations enacted by Congress in June have stripped Pell Grant eligibility from nearly 3,000 Mississippi students.

January 10, 2013

HBCUs

FAMU Student Paper Faces Hazing-Related Libel Suit

Florida A&M University’s student newspaper has delayed publication of its first spring semester edition, due in part to a libel suit over a hazing story.

January 9, 2013

Students

Faculty Diversity a Topic of Discussion at MLA Annual Convention

The 128th Modern Language Association convention features hundreds of sessions covering a variety of topics related to American and European literature.

January 3, 2013

MSIs

Higher Education Spared Cuts — For Now

Higher education programs and education-related tax breaks get a reprieve of at least 60 days as a result of the agreement by President Obama and Congress that averts the “fiscal cliff.”

January 2, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State Audit Likely to Cost Over $500K

Representatives for Gov. Robert Bentley Robert Bentley -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus Newssay the state will likely spend over $500,000 on a forensic audit surrounding contract concerns at Alabama State University.

January 1, 2013

Home

Governor Plans to Vote to Keep Alabama State President

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he will vote to retain Joseph Silver as president of Alabama State University unless he hears a legitimate reason why Silver should be fired.

December 20, 2012

Community Colleges

Oklahoma Higher Education to Focus on More Graduates

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education chancellor says the state must increase graduation rate of students who enroll in colleges and universities.

December 19, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State’s Board Considering President’s Fate

An email sent from one trustee to the board chairman says that it appears “the full Board has already decided to terminate President Silver” at a meeting Friday.

December 19, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Presley Retiring After 20 Years as Community College President

Dr. Vivian Mathews Presley, president of Coahoma Community College for more than two decades, and the first woman to head a community or junior college in the state of Mississippi, will retire June 30.

December 18, 2012