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Faculty & Staff

University of Illinois Plans To Add 500 Professors

Chancellor Phyllis Wise intends to complete the surge over the next five to seven years to beef up a flagship campus faculty depleted by retirements and departures.

April 23, 2013

Home

Qualcomm Founder Gives $133M to NYC Tech School

A burgeoning graduate school aimed at reinventing higher education’s relationship with high tech is getting a $133 million gift from a professor-turned-entrepreneur who used his engineering background to help build a major telecommunications company, officials announced Monday.

April 22, 2013

Students

No April Fools: A Tycoon to the Rescue of Post-Grad Studies in China

Just as the fictional Gong was rejected by Harvard, Schwarzman was a Yale senior in 1969 and rejected for a prestigious Rhodes scholarship.

April 22, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Navajo Tech Continues Its Ascension

A small college on the eastern edge of the nation’s largest American Indian reservation is getting noticed.

April 21, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Family Says Chinese Grad Student’s Dreams Led to Boston

The family of a Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombings said in an open letter that it was her dream to study in the United States.

April 21, 2013

Champions Award

Bumphus Takes Center Stage at AACC Conference

Community college giant cited as a “leader among leaders” as he is named 2013 Diverse Champions Award winner for his service.

April 21, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Lead Acquisitions Librarian

Working collaboratively with acquisitions, e-resources, collection management, and cataloging personnel, the successful candidate will be responsible for the coordination and management of the Library’s acquisitions.

April 19, 2013

Opinion

Sal Castro: Inspiration to a Generation

My thoughts are about life-long Los Angeles educator Sal Castro. He passed away a few days ago. How do you explain who he was to someone who never knew him?

April 18, 2013

Leadership & Policy

College Board Approves Plan to Divide State Aid

Mississippi University for Women, the University of Mississippi and Alcorn State University will get financial boosts under a new formula to distribute state money among Mississippi’s eight public universities.

April 18, 2013

Opinion

In Era of Accountability, Let’s Use Proper Evaluations

Periodically, we will share Letters to the Editor that we feel will further shed light on the complex issues that abound in higher education.

April 15, 2013

Students

Online and Traditional Education Through the Eyes of an Undergrad

Perspective of a student who started at a community college, is about to graduate from an online program, and is also an intern at a brick-and-mortar, small, traditional university.

April 10, 2013

Faculty & Staff

NCAA Tournament Important to Recruiting — But Not Likely to Rutgers

Anyone want to go to a school that now has a history of homophobia as well as physical abuse of students? Oh, and besides that, the team doesn’t win basketball games.

April 8, 2013