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Faculty & Staff

Analysts Warn Higher Education Headed for a Shakeout

Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be phased out.

September 8, 2013

Students

University of Louisville Business Chief Facing Fraud Allegations

The executive director of a medical department at the University of Louisville wrote checks to himself from several medical practices linked to the school for amounts possibly exceeding $2 million over the last six years, an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator said in an affidavit.

September 4, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs

The Associate Vice President for Student Affairs/Dean of Students (AVPSA/Dean of Students) works alongside the Vice President for Student Affairs in providing overall leadership for the Division of Student Affairs and is directly responsible for the supervision of the Offices of Community Standards, Counseling Services, Residence Life, and Student Activities.

August 28, 2013

Students

Ohio Student Says Racist Campus Postings a ‘Joke’

An Oberlin College student acknowledged posting anti-Islam fliers and racist cards around the campus of the historically liberal Ohio university earlier this year, saying he meant them as a “joke” to provoke a reaction, according to statements he made after being detained by campus security.

August 26, 2013

Students

Norfolk State President Suddenly Fired

The governing board of Norfolk State University has fired President Tony Atwater.

August 25, 2013

Disabilties

N.Y. Sues ‘Trump University’ and Its Get-Rich Claims

New York’s attorney general sued Donald Trump Donald Trump -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus Newsfor $40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony “Trump University.”

August 25, 2013

African-American

After a Look Back, Students Embrace Opportunity to March on Washington

Among those attending 50th anniversary events for the March on Washington, college students are embracing commemorations as a time to claim their own moment in the Civil Rights Movement.

August 22, 2013

Leadership & Policy

NCAA Getting Out of Jersey-Selling Business

NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday it would stop the practice immediately after reports this week that team jerseys and other items linked to individual schools could be found on its own website by searching for specific player names.

August 8, 2013

STEM

Special Issue: STEM Education

Diverse reports on the state of STEM education and programs aimed at filling the STEM pipeline, as well as the rankings of the leading institutions awarding the most STEM-related degrees to minorities.

August 5, 2013

African-American

U.S. Higher Education Deeply Stratified Along Racial Lines, Study Says

Enrollment study describes postsecondary system’s complicity as a passive agent in the systematic reproduction of White racial privilege across generations.

July 31, 2013

Faculty & Staff

LSU Employees To Get First Pay Raises in Over Four Years

BATON ROUGE La.—LSU faculty and staff will see pay raises of up to 4 percent, under the first salary increase for campuses in more than four years, LSU System President F. King Alexander said Friday. Exactly who will get raises, what type of salary increase people will receive and how much they will cost remains […]

July 28, 2013

Students

Norfolk State Under Watch By Accrediting Agency

RICHMOND Va.—Norfolk State University’s accrediting agency plans to review the school to determine whether it should be sanctioned for accreditation-related issues. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges sent a letter to Norfolk State President Tony Atwater concerning the review last week. In the letter, the commission […]

July 25, 2013