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Community Colleges

The educational horizon shifts south for U.S. border colleges

AUSTIN, Texas Inspired by – the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), community colleges throughout the Southwest are developing curricula catering to a growing number of students seeking careers linked to hemispheric trade.

July 4, 2007

Students

An organization by any other name… – controversial name change of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico to “Centro de la Raza – includes related article

Controversy Flares Over University of New Mexico’s Centro de la Raza

July 4, 2007

Students

Northern State University appoints dean of student affairs

ABERDEEN S.D. Rhoda Smith has been named dean of student affairs at Northern State University, a position she held once before.

July 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former state Indian Affairs official named to UND search panel

BISMARCK N.D. A tribal college president and former director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission has been appointed to the committee that will recruit the University of North Dakota’s new president.

July 2, 2007

Community Colleges

Bishop State nursing director resigns

MOBILE Ala. Bishop State Community College’s nursing director resigned days after a report by the state two-year college system cited problems in her department.

July 2, 2007

Sports

Tommy Bell named athletic director at Indian University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

FORT WAYNE Ind. Tommy Bell, who oversaw fundraising for Southern Illinois University’s athletic department since 2001, was named Monday as IPFW’s athletic director.

July 1, 2007

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UNC Hospitals’ pharmacy director removed after auditors question expenses

CHAPEL HILL N.C. The pharmacy director at UNC Hospitals was removed from his position after state auditors said he double-billed the state for travel expenses and submitted his son’s travel and cell phone bill.

June 30, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Raises approved for Oklahoma University Athletic Director, football and basketball coaches

ARDMORE Okla. Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione and five of the Sooners’ head coaches including football coach Bob Stoops and basketball coaches Sherri Coale and Jeff Capel had raises approved Wednesday by the university’s Board of Regents.

June 27, 2007

Community Colleges

Establishing a Real-World Credential

Community College of the Air Force to award 300,000th associate degree.

June 27, 2007

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Kim Bottomly has been named the 13th president of Wellesley College (Mass.). She had most recently served as deputy provost at Yale University. Bottomly earned her bachelor’s and doctorate from the University of Washington. Dr. Kim Bobby has been appointed chief diversity officer at the University of Puget Sound (Wash.). She had served as […]

June 27, 2007

Health

UMC’s Jones to serve as president of American Heart Association

JACKSON Miss. Dr. Daniel W. Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, will take over as president of the American Heart Association on July 1.

June 26, 2007

Health

Pinn expands the scope of NIH – Vivian W. Pinn, National Institutes of Health – special report: health sciences

When Dr. Bernadine Healy, the renowned A cardiologist who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook a search in 1991 to hire the first permanent director of NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), she did not have to look far to fill the position.

June 23, 2007