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Professional Appointments

Dr. Mildred García has been named president of California State University-Domínguez Hills. She was most recently president of Berkeley College. García earned a bachelor’s from Bernard M. Baruch College, a master’s from New York University and a master’s and doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University.   Gayle Colston Barge has been appointed assistant vice chancellor […]

August 22, 2007

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Affirmative Action Still In Play, Says Departing LDF Leader

Theodore M. Shaw, president-director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who is stepping down February 2008, talks to Diverse about his future plans and the ongoing fight to end inequality in education. He also has some choice words for anti-affirmative action advocate Ward Connerly.

August 18, 2007

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Four national lab directors tour research corridor

FARGO N.D. The director of one of the country’s top government laboratories says North Dakota is earning a national reputation for research facilities at its major universities.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Colleges Struggle to Quit Rankings Habit

U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered. But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.

August 14, 2007

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Four national lab directors tour research corridor

FARGO N.D. The director of one of the country’s top government laboratories says North Dakota is earning a national reputation for research facilities at its major universities.

August 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Eastern Illinois fires athletic director

CHAMPAIGN Ill. Eastern Illinois University fired Athletic Director Rich McDuffie two weeks after saying it found no evidence to support a sexual harassment claim made against him.

August 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Colleges Struggle to Quit Rankings Habit

VANCOUVER Wash. U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered. But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.

August 12, 2007

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UVM College of Medicine gets new dean

BURLINGTON Vt. A pediatrician from Buffalo, N.Y., will become the next dean of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

July 28, 2007

Students

Professional Appointments

Peter Roby has been named athletic director at Northeastern University (Mass.). He becomes only the second Black AD at a New England Division I institution. Roby was previously director of Northeastern’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.   Dr. Maurice Apprey has been named dean of […]

July 25, 2007

Health

Regent says Pomerantz out of line in calling for dean’s ouster

IOWA CITY Iowa A member of the Iowa Board of Regents accused Des Moines businessman Marvin Pomerantz of trying to bully incoming University of Iowa President Sally Mason.

July 22, 2007

STEM

Bogus Degree Sale Scheme Hits New York City college

NEW YORK Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college’s computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians’ assistants, they said.

July 18, 2007

Students

In Education We Trust – The Education Trust

Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, has released a new report full of data that she hopes will support efforts to improve the quality of public education.

July 14, 2007