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Faculty & Staff

Examining higher education’s role in health care – educating personnel for allied health services – special report: health sciences

To meet health industry needs for thousands of physical therapists, occupational therapists and other trained health professionals, colleges and universities have revamped their course offerings. Even so, they turn down more students than they accept.

June 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Reporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universities

Universities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.

June 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Appreciation: Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996 – Obituary

On August 2-4. 1996. Louis Westerfield — law school dean at three schools, law professor at four schools, author, judge, community leader, and dedicated family man — died of a heart attack in New Orleans.

June 22, 2007

Community Colleges

Dean of CMC Summit Campus to leave for position in Arizona

BRECKENRIDGE Colo. The dean of the Summit Campus of Colorado Mountain College announced plans this week to leave the school to become the first female president of an Arizona community college.

June 22, 2007

Home

Dismissals spark protests at Texas-Arlington – advisory council of Texas-Arlington University

The firing last month of the director and staff of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Mexican-American Studies continues to draw a barrage of protests front campus and community activists.

June 22, 2007

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Going Hollywood – Dr. Tommie Stewart, theatre director, Alabama State University

Looking calm and assured, Dr. Tommie “Toneo” Stewart settles into a chair in her office in Tullibody Hall at Alabama State University. Posters and awards line the walls in her office, where she has worked as director of theater for the last six years.   On this particular morning, however, she is not Stewart the […]

June 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

First in family with degree, now Iowa president

IOWA CITY Iowa Sally Mason wasn’t brought up around higher education, but she plans to make herself right at home as the University of Iowa’s new president.

June 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School names new dean

PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School said Thursday that it has named Thomas S. Robertson as its new dean, effective Aug. 1.

June 20, 2007

Sports

Mississippi Valley Athletics Director Leaves for Hampton University.

ITTA BENA Miss. Lonza Hardy Jr., athletics director at Mississippi Valley State University for the past six years, has resigned to take a similar position at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.

June 19, 2007

Students

Texas twister – Graduate Opportunities Program

In 1978, Sarita Brown told the dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Austin that the reason the university had so few minority graduate students was the fault of the university, not the lack of eligible candidates. A well-run program, she said, could bring in many more Black and Hispanic graduate students.

June 19, 2007

Students

Cash-for-grades Scam Highlights Dilemma For College Admissions

BERKELEY, Calif. News that dozens of community college students in the San Francisco Bay Area may have been hitting their checkbooks rather than textbooks in a cash-for-grades scam highlighted an academic dilemma: What to do about cheaters?

June 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Alabama College President’s Indictment Leads to Internal Investigation of Two-Year System

MONTGOMERY Ala. Two-year colleges chancellor Bradley Byrne said n internal investigation has begun following the indictment of former Alabama Fire College President William Langston and will focus on the hiring of the director’s children.

June 18, 2007