Tag: Around Academe
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Library material available via Google
Google Inc.’s Internet launched a project this past December that will make books and government…
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Report: College sports programs low in minority, gender hiring
Only 6 percent of athletic directors and 10 percent of college coaches in all sports are…
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Study: Tuition burden for low-income families increased 6 percent
Tuition at public four-year colleges rose by 7 percent in 2005-the least amount of growth within…
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Princeton changes tenure policy
According to the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education, Princeton University…
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Duke okays donations to leave pool for its Katrina relief volunteers
Duke University has introduced a temporary program that provides reimbursement to employees who volunteered during…
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UGA alumnus is named associate dean at Baylor University
UGA alumnus John F. Tanner has been named associate dean for research and faculty development…
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Mississippi colleges: $675.5 million to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina
According to estimates by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning,…
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Princeton tackles grade inflation
Princeton has launched a campaign to cut the number of “easy A’s” among undergraduate students.…
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Columbia dedicates $15 million to faculty diversification campaign
Columbia University trustees unanimously approved a funding commitment of $15 million to a campaign for…
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NYU gets $105 million pledge
A microbiologist at New York University recently pledged at least $105 million to the institution,…
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Science, engineering enrollment up
Graduate programs in science and engineering at U.S. colleges enrolled 474,203 students in fall 2003,…
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NCAA exempts FSU from ban
Following an appeal by Florida State University administrators, the National Collegiate Athletic Association exempted the…
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Youngstown faculty vote to strike
Faculty at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio voted early last month to go on…
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Mellon Foundation stops fellowship program in humanistic studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has decided to stop offering its one-year fellowship in humanistic…
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War veteran wins tuition fight
A former U.S. Marine who was initially denied in-state tuition at Austin Community College will…
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UC Davis gets $1 million donation
Thirty years after it helped create the University of California, Davis Regional Burn Center, an…
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NASULGC names new president
M. Peter McPherson, president emeritus of Michigan State University, will become president of the 214-member…
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Grant helps digitize newspapers
As part of the National Digital Newspaper Project, the University of California at Riverside, the…
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AAHE announces plans to disband
After nearly 40 years of operation as a nonprofit organization, the American Association for Higher…
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Librarian loses ‘pretty girl’ lawsuit
A Harvard University librarian lost a lawsuit in which she claimed she had been repeatedly…
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Students end eight-day hunger strike
More than two dozen students at Georgetown University recently ended an eight-day hunger strike to…
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Berkeley warns of possible data theft
Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley, are investigating the theft of a laptop…
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TV host gives $1M to Northwestern
Bob Barker, host of the TV game show The Price is Right, has donated $1…
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Southern Ill. U. pays on-time grads
A new incentive program that will pay students $500 if they are scheduled to graduate…
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