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Leadership & Policy

Utah higher ed chief will retire in December

SALT LAKE CITY The head of the Utah System of Higher Education said Wednesday he would retire in December.

June 26, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of the District of Columbia: truncated, but still alive – huge cuts proposed to save the university

In order to survive, the University of the District of Columbia — which has already had furloughs and delays in opening — faces the loss of more than one hundred faculty members and serious cuts in its programs.

June 26, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Request For American Indian Presence In UND Search Denied

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.

June 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

College of Santa Fe’s interim president gets the job fulltime

SANTA FE Stuart Kirk, interim president of the College of Santa Fe since mid-May, will serve as the school’s full-time president.

June 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Israel Outraged by British University Union Boycott Calls

LONDON The clubby staff lounges of British universities and the raucous meeting halls of labor unions have long shared a sympathy for the Palestinian cause that has found expression lately with a series of calls for professional unions to boycott Israel.

June 24, 2007

Students

Teaching our youth to fish – Dr. Marvalene Hughes, President, California State University-Stanislaus – Transcript

It was Benjamin Mays who best described what Tuskegee meant to me when he said, “A college must be judged not only be excellent teachers, but by the spirit and philosophy which permeate it from top to bottom.”

June 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Videoconference examines changing role of today’s college president

American college and university presidents have less time than ever for the traditional rode of acting as the academic leader of their institutions. Instead they are fundraising, lobbying and acting as peacemaker among their different constituencies, several presidents and scholars told a nationwide audience at a recent Black Issues In Higher Education videoconference.

June 23, 2007

Students

Building leaders: leadership development program important step for community college presidents

As a community college administrator with an eye on the presidency, Dr. Walter Bumphus wanted to ensure he would be competitive when the time came to climb the career ladder.

June 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Top UI official demoted after letter scheme revealed

MOSCOW Idaho A top University of Idaho official has been demoted after being connected to a letter critical of a school researcher.

June 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Cole’s shoes will be hard to fill: King Farris, Ladner said to be ‘fine candidates.’ – Johnetta Cole as President of Spelman College, Vera King Farris and Joyce Ledner

Johnetta Cole, the first African-American female president of Spelman College, nation’s premiere liberal arts schools, announced that she will relinquish the presidency next spring.

June 22, 2007

Students

Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million

Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.

June 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

OSU proposes raising tuition by almost 10 percent

OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents will consider a proposal Friday that would increase tuition and mandatory fee rates for students at Oklahoma State University’s Stillwater campus by almost 10 percent for the 2007-08 school year.

June 21, 2007