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Community Colleges

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination Lawsuits

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination LawsuitsSALT LAKE CITYSalt Lake Community College is facing a federal lawsuit from several employees who claim the school has discriminated against them. The suits claim the college has created a hostile work environment for minorities and that White employees enjoy preferential treatment. An SLCC spokesman, Joy Tlou, said the […]

October 8, 2003

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Harvard Student Newspaper Sues University for Campus Records

Harvard Student Newspaper Sues University for Campus RecordsBy Shilpa Banerji CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, filed a lawsuit against the university late last month to gain access to campus police records regarding various incidents. The lawsuit, filed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, claims that since Harvard police officers […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Ringing the Alarm on Campus Computer Security

Ringing the Alarm on Campus Computer Security Indianapolis Even before the tragic Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, campus computer networks operated by the nation’s colleges and universities was at serious risk for unlawful intrusions, hacker break-ins, and for being used as a staging ground from which cyberattackers could assault other computer systems. Information technology experts now […]

November 21, 2001

Students

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant Aid

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant AidNeedy students who drop out of college may face fewer responsibilities to pay back federal grant aid if a proposal from leading higher education groups becomes law.With support from more than a dozen other groups, the American Council on Education (ACE) is calling for major changes in […]

August 15, 2001

Students

Training for Tragedy

Training for TragedyWhether by homicide or suicide, the impact of a student’s death on fellow classmates can be devastation, shock and dismay. For many young college students, it is often their first experience with death.When a student dies on campus, who makes the call to the family? What types of support services are available to […]

February 14, 2001

Students

Student Deaths Shake Up College Campuses

Student Deaths Shake Up College CampusesBy Linda Meggett BrownOrangeburg, S.C.Acelebration to honor the memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday, Jan. 15, turned tragic at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., when a freshman student was gunned down on campus.Philip Lee Jr., 20, of Newark, N.J., was shot in the back of […]

February 14, 2001

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White Supremacist Fliers Surface at CU After Student Council Rejects Proposal to Fight Affirmative Action

White Supremacist Fliers Surface at CU After Student Council Rejects Proposal to Fight Affirmative Action Boulder, Colo. F liers with racially charged statements appeared at the University of Colorado shortly after the student council rejected a proposal to fight affirmative action. Faculty and staff members reported recently that up to 50 fliers and stickers signed […]

January 17, 2001

Students

Michigan State University Takes Initiative

Michigan State University Takes Initiative In Addressing Racial Profiling On CampusEast Lansing, Mich.Bruce Benson, chief of police at Michigan State University, had heard about it on CNN. He read about it in scholarly police journals. And while attending national police conferences he heard the issue constantly analyzed and dissected. Racial profiling, he noticed over the […]

December 20, 2000

Students

University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ Concerns

University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ ConcernsKNOXVILLE, Tenn. What started as a sophomore-level student art project meant to depict the strangulation of the environment — nine nooses hanging from a tree — has many Black students at the University of Tennessee seeing the incident as more than just art. Last month’s episode was the […]

December 6, 2000

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Campus Police Seize Student’s Computer for Copyright Violations

Campus Police Seize Student’s Computer for Copyright ViolationsSTILLWATER, Okla.C ampus police at Oklahoma State University confiscated a student’s computer over allegations from the recording industry that it was used to distribute copyright material. Everett Eaton, director of public safety at Oklahoma State, says that police seized a computer from a 19-year-old male student’s room last […]

October 11, 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

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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