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Leadership & Policy

UND search committee hopes to finish early next year

The president of the state 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 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Indiana State president stepping down next year

A shake up at Indiana State University in Terre Haute continued Friday with the school president’s announcement that he would step down when his contract expires next summer.

June 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

MiraCosta College president negotiates $1m buyout

OCEANSIDE, Calif. MiraCosta College’s embattled president Victoria Munoz Richart has negotiated a buyout worth at least $1 million that will see her employment end June 30.

June 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi Valley State president Lester Newman resigns

ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman announced his resignation Friday after serving nearly nine years as leader of the historically Black college.

June 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans

KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.

June 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The HBCU presidential pressure cooker – historically Black colleges and universities

Faced with hostile legislatures, growing enrollments, and shrinking budgets, the presidents of many historically Black colleges and universities are also under increasing pressure from their boards of trustees to perform “satisfactorily” or get out.

June 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Museum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University Center

Atlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.

June 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School names new dean

PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School said Thursday that it has named Thomas S. Robertson as its new dean, effective Aug. 1.

June 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

We’ve all had to adjust on Capitol Hill

Covering Capitol Hill over the past two years represents a prime example of how important it is for journalists to stay flexible and learn new rules of the trade to remain productive.

June 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

New Alcorn State University President Being Treated for Leukemia in Michigan.

JACKSON Miss. Mississippi higher education officials said Wednesday that it will be August or September before Alcorn State University’s new president assumes his post.

June 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Alabama College President’s Indictment Leads to Internal Investigation of Two-Year System

MONTGOMERY Ala. Two-year colleges chancellor Bradley Byrne said n internal investigation has begun following the indictment of former Alabama Fire College President William Langston and will focus on the hiring of the director’s children.

June 18, 2007

Students

Settlement Ends Dispute Over N.J. College Newspaper Adviser’s Ouster

TRENTON, N.J. Trustees at a southern New Jersey community college have agreed to permanently reinstate a student newspaper faculty adviser whose removal had sparked protests from journalism groups and even criticism from a federal judge.

June 18, 2007