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Oregon College Workers Must Report Abuse Under New Law

Oregon higher education employees and coaches are joining the list of people required by law to tell authorities when they believe a child has been abused.

December 30, 2012

Disabilties

Gov. Walker Considers Freezing University of Wisconsin System Tuitions

Gov. Scott Walker says he’s considering several options to keep tuitions affordable in the University of Wisconsin System.

December 17, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Group Issues ‘Call to Action’ on Teacher Prep Program Reform

The Council of Chief State School Officers is calling for states to hold teacher preparation programs more accountable for student achievement.

December 17, 2012

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs’ Self-Inflicted Wounds, Friendly Fire and Other Consequential Outcomes

.The high turnover rate in leadership at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities has reached the crisis stage.

December 16, 2012

Students

Diversity Class May Be Required at University of New Mexico

Students at the University of New Mexico may soon be required to take at least one class on diversity.

December 3, 2012

Students

Scott Wants Low-Cost Degrees At Florida Colleges

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday challenged Florida’s community and state colleges to develop four-year degrees that would cost no more than $10,000, which also would continue their move into an area that was once the sole domain of the state’s public universities.

November 26, 2012

HBCUs

Wyo. Joins Alliance To Improve College Graduation

Wyoming is joining an alliance of states working to increase the number of students successfully completing college.

November 21, 2012

Faculty & Staff

State Senate Panel Wants Audit of University of Hawaii

A state Senate panel said Monday that the University of Hawaii could have avoided losing $200,000 in its failed attempt to hold an athletic department fundraiser if officials had performed due diligence on a company claiming to be Stevie Wonder’s booking agent.

November 20, 2012

African-American

Survey: New Grads Can Expect Modest Rise in Hiring

Modest good news for college students: An annual survey predicts employers will increase hiring of new four-year college graduates about 5 percent in the coming year.

November 15, 2012

Students

Dr. Edmund W. Gordon Battles to Eradicate Achievement Gap

Before most knew what an achievement gap was, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon was working to eliminate it. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars on divergent learning styles and championed supplemental education long before it was popular. In fact, Gordon popularized the term. He was also an architect of the nation’s Head Start program in the 1960s. Today, however, at 91, Gordon is still beating the drum of education reform as loud as he did half a century ago with a historic commission to get to the bottom of assessment.

November 7, 2012

Asian American Pacific Islander

Embattled St. John’s Dean Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

A disgraced dean of St. John’s University accused of using students as personal servants was found hanging in her apartment Tuesday, dead of an apparent suicide one day after she testified in her own defense at her criminal trial, a law enforcement official said.

November 6, 2012

Leadership & Policy

Panel Finalizes Fla. Higher Education Proposals

More tuition flexibility linked to stronger accountability measures for Florida’s state universities are among the final recommendations approved Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education task force.

November 6, 2012