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Faculty & Staff

UNC Faculty Group Says Secrecy to Hurt New University Head

Faculty representatives for North Carolina’s public university system said Thursday the next president of the 17-campus University of North Carolina will take the job with extra baggage by failing to meet with teachers and researchers first.

October 22, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Dayton Expands Men of Color Mentoring Program

DAYTON, Ohio — Miles Tidd is now a solid, focused senior at Belmont High School who holds down a job and has an eye on attending The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina.

October 18, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Kingston Provides Backdrop for Scholars to Convene

Leaders from all over gather in Kingston, Jamaica, for the International Colloquium of Black Males in Education.

October 7, 2015

Students

How Surging U.S. Student Debt is Affecting Borrowers’ Lives

America’s $1.2 trillion in student debt is having consequences in far-reaching ways.

October 5, 2015

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Foundation, Universities Announce $100M for Brain Research

The Kavli Foundation and three universities are committing $100 million for neuroscience research and plan to launch three institutes to bring together researchers from different disciplines to investigate the workings of the brain.

October 1, 2015

Students

Dispute over Black Lives Matter at Heart of Boycott of Wesleyan Newspaper

At Wesleyan University, known for its liberal culture, a campaign to shut down the campus newspaper is coming from an unlikely source: its students.

September 24, 2015

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Missouri Colleges Would Freeze Tuition for Funding Hike

Leaders of Missouri’s public community colleges and universities said Monday that they will freeze undergraduate tuition next school year as part of a deal with Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon to ramp up funding from the state, although the extra spending needs legislative approval.

September 22, 2015

Leadership & Policy

LESTER ARNOLD

LESTER ARNOLD has been named associate vice chancellor for human resources at Winston-Salem State University. He most recently served as senior vice president of human resources for FOCUS Brands Inc. Arnold earned a bachelor’s from Norfolk State University and an MBA from the University of Hartford.

September 9, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Soccer Players Suspended for a Match after Blackface Incident

Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs.

September 3, 2015

Students

Schools Spending More Despite State Cuts

A new report from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), finds that, on average, four-year public universities may have raised tuitions, but that increase does not fully cover the amount lost by state disinvestment.

August 27, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Scranton University Faculty Protest Contract on Move-in Day

Some University of Scranton faculty members picked freshman move-in day to demonstrate for what they called “a fair contract.”

August 23, 2015

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Northeastern University Agrees to Pay $2.7M in Settlement

Northeastern University will pay $2.7 million to the federal government after failing to account for research funds it received from 2001 to 2010.

August 19, 2015