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Professional Appointments

Kevin Gover, a professor of law and affiliate professor of the American Indian studies program at Arizona State University, has been named director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Eric […]

October 2, 2007

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Iranian university dean invites Bush to address professors, students

TEHRAN Iran The dean of a northeastern Iranian university has invited U.S. President George W. Bush to address professors and students and answer their questions on human rights, terrorism and the Holocaust, state television reported Monday.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Shelton State finance chief placed on leave pending probe

TUSCALOOSA Ala. The head of Shelton State Community College’s finance office was placed on paid leave Monday pending a probe of financial operations by the office, school officials said.

October 1, 2007

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Colleges Offer Career Help to Alumni

Dozens of colleges and universities have begun offering career-counseling services not just to recent graduates but to thousands of alumni, including some former students who completed their degrees a decade ago or longer.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Troubled FAMU Law School Gets A Boost From New Dean, Higher Bar Exam Pass Rate

Florida A&M University’s Law School, which faces a possible loss of its accreditation, recently got a boost in the form of a new dean and good news about higher pass rates on the bar exam.

September 30, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Visit by Iranian President Was Just the Latest Controversy for Columbia University Leader

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger keeps finding himself in the middle of campus turmoil. He enrolled at Columbia’s law school in 1968, when the campus was convulsed by anti-war protests. He was a dean at the University of Michigan during a struggle over the school’s speech code. Later, as the university’s president, he defended its affirmative action policies all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 30, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Officials at North Carolina A&T, NCCU mull future of series after brawl

GREENSBORO N.C. Officials at North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central are considering the future of their football series after the latest meeting ended in a post-game brawl that police broke up with pepper spray.

September 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

New dean at LSU med: chancellor had been dean since Katrina

BATON ROUGE La. For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, LSU’s medical school has a separate chancellor and dean of medicine.

September 24, 2007

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Report says UMDNJ dean in Camden changed grades

TRENTON N.J. The former top administrator of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Camden medical school gave passing grades to unqualified students, potentially endangering their innocent patients, according to a federal monitor’s report.

September 23, 2007

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Stingier job market awaits new law school grads

A law degree isn’t necessarily a license to print money these days.

September 23, 2007

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Green MBAs seek to balance profit and planet

OAKLAND Calif. Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would start rolling at the idea of a “green MBA.”

September 22, 2007

Sports

University of North Dakota athletic director says school lacks resources for transition

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota athletic director Tom Buning says he and his staff are overworked and don’t have enough money to make a proper transition to the NCAA Division I.

September 22, 2007