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Faculty & Staff

Other Types of Campus Crimes

Other Types of Campus CrimesIt is often said that our campuses reflect the society from which the students come and that, given some of the communities where our campuses are located, it is unrealistic to presume that they can be immune from crime. Indeed, when crime erupts on our campuses we usually react with, “How […]

February 14, 2001

Community Colleges

Student Accused of Selling College Lab Equipment on eBay

Student Accused of Selling College Lab Equipment on eBayFORT COLLINS, Colo.P  olice at Colorado State University have     traced the theft of $7,000 in equipment from the engineering department to a student who allegedly put the items up for bid on the Internet.The student allegedly took six electronic testing devices from a lab during the spring […]

October 11, 2000

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Legislature to Look at Education Budget Bill

Legislature to Look at Education Budget BillA major education-funding bill and plans to tinker with the Higher Education Act were awaiting Congress when it returned to work this month.An education budget bill was the top item on the agenda for most lawmakers and advocates. The House and Senate both approved an education-spending bill with a […]

September 27, 2000

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Education Department Announces Changes in Colleges’ Disciplinary Policies

Education Department Announces Changes in Colleges’ Disciplinary PoliciesColleges and universities may no longer be able to shield some internal student disciplinary procedures from public view, the U.S. Department of Education says in a potentially far-reaching policy.A number of complex changes to FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, were implemented this summer to meet […]

September 13, 2000

Students

Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber Superheroes

Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber SuperheroesMinority students here at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry received a series of threatening e-mail messages last March warning them to “be afraid, not only for their future careers but for their lives.“If firearms need to be used. Then they will,” said the message, which […]

August 16, 2000

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Congress Takes on Hate Crimes

Congress Takes on Hate CrimesWASHINGTON — With hate crimes increasingly in the news at colleges and universities, Congressional Black Caucus members are stepping up their efforts to gain congressional approval of legislation with tougher penalties in hate crime incidents.“As a nation, we can send a message that we will not tolerate a resurgence of the […]

July 19, 2000

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Database Will List Campus Crime Figures

Database Will List Campus Crime FiguresBOSTON — High-schoolers weighing their college options soon will be able to see college crime statistics nationwide by tapping into a new online database being compiled by the U.S. Department of Education. The databank will include numbers from colleges and universities around the country and Canada, detailing the number of […]

July 19, 2000

STEM

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON —  If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

STEM

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON —  If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

March 1, 2000

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Bomb Scares Leave Scars at Florida A&M University

Bomb Scares Leave Scars at Florida A&M UniversityTwo Explosions, Deemed Hate-Related, Have Rocked This Historically Black Campus and Spurred Debates Over Greater Security MeasuresTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Authorities charged an unemployed 41-year-old White man earlier this month with planting two small bombs on the Florida A&M University campus, casting a pall of fear and igniting a […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio — The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. […]

September 29, 1999