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University Press Plans a Full Shelf of Texas Titles
In the opening of his 1983 New Yorker profile of the household-hints columnist Heloise, Ian Frazier wrote: “I had not been in Texas long before I started having millions of insights about the...
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Enrollment Boost Ends Layoff Threat at Purdue U.-Calumet
Last month seven faculty members at Purdue University’s Calumet campus, in Hammond, Ind., were told they would be laid off at the end of the current academic year because declines in enrollment had...
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Panel Will Explore Role of Slaves in U. of Virginia History
Theresa A. Sullivan, the university’s president, appointed a 27-member Commission on Slavery and the University and said it would continue efforts “to raise awareness of the university’s relationship...
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Texas A&M U. Regents Reject Governor’s Pick for Interim President
The Texas A&M University System’s regents on Saturday chose an agriculture-researcher-turned-university-administrator as interim president of the university’s flagship campus, in College Station,...
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Deaf Medical Student Must Be Offered More Assistance, Judge Rules
A federal judge in Omaha ruled on Friday that Creighton University’s medical school must provide a deaf student with an interpreter and a transcription service in addition to other assistance it had...
View ArticleIowa State U. AIDS Researcher Resigned After Admitting Fraud
Iowa State University has acknowledged that an assistant professor of biomedical sciences resigned in October after admitting responsibility for fraudulent findings in research aimed at creating an...
View Article2 Professors Charged in Trading Scam, Securities Commission Says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that it had charged a professor and a former professor in Florida with running a sham stock-option-trading scheme that began in 2010 and...
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Agency Approves Meningitis Vaccine for U. of California at Santa Barbara
The federal Food and Drug Administration on Friday gave the University of California at Santa Barbara a green light to vaccinate students against Type B meningitis, which infected four students in...
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Colleges Begin Courting New Obama Library Foundation
Friday’s announcement that President Obama had created a foundation to pick a site for his presidential library has set off a new round of speculation over where the facility might end up, with...
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Players Say Boston U. Women’s Basketball Coach Bullied Them
After four scholarship players left the team, Boston University is investigating whether Kelly Greenberg, its women’s basketball coach, has abused players, The Boston Globe reports. “We have been made...
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Civil-Rights Agency Will Investigate UC-Berkeley Assault Allegations
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said on Friday that it would investigate a complaint filed by dozens of University of California at Berkeley students and alumni, according to...
View ArticleCiting Low Enrollment, Bryan College Will Cut 20 Jobs
Bryan College’s president told faculty and staff members on Friday that enrollment shortfalls at the Dayton, Tenn., institution mean it will have to cut 20 of its 173 full-time positions and stop...
View ArticleFormer SUNY President Must Repay $100,000 in Outside Compensation
A former president of the State University of New York’s Upstate Medical University, David R. Smith, will have to give up $100,000 he was paid by a pediatrics firm that did business with the university...
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Illinois Legislators Fail to Advance $100-Million Offer for Obama Library
The Illinois General Assembly ended its spring session without approving a proposal to offer $100-million in state funds to lure President Obama’s presidential library to the state in which he started...
View ArticleLibrarian of Congress Chooses Charles Wright as Poet Laureate
Charles Wright, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia, was named on Thursday as the Library of Congress’s next poet laureate. With two dozen books of verse to his credit, the...
View ArticleAccreditor Puts Baylor College of Medicine on Probation
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education said on Friday that it was putting Baylor College of Medicine on probation after an accreditation review found deficiencies in 14 administrative areas, the...
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California Suspends GI Benefits at Corinthian Colleges
Two state agencies in California are taking steps that add to the pressure on Corinthian Colleges Inc., which is the subject of a high-profile investigation by the U.S. Department of Education. The...
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3 Big Art Collections Head for Stanford U. Arts Center
Jacob Lawrence designed this poster for the 1974 Whitney Exhibition. (Stanford U. image) Stanford University has been given three big art collections, including more than 1,200 notebook sketches by...
View Article7 Fired Faculty Members Return to Work at Seminary in New York
The Episcopal seminary in New York that fired eight of its 10 faculty members in late September has hired seven of them back, The New York Times reports. The Board of Trustees of the institution, the...
View ArticleColumbia Journalism School Deans Will Review ‘Rolling Stone’ Article
Rolling Stone has asked two deans at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism to review the editing process behind the magazine’s widely read article about sexual assaults at the University...
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