Author: jplucas

Texas Tech Chancellor Dr David Smith announced today that he plans to stay right here in Lubbock.

David Smith pulled out as a candidate for University of Wisconsin System president a day before he and three other finalists were to interview for the job. Smith, the chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, is in negotiations with Texas Tech officials on a contract extension. He earns more than the maximum salary allowed for the UW post.

Textbooks are expensive because publishers inflate prices by adding “bells and whistles” that professors don’t want and students don’t use, an official of a student-advocacy group told the U.S. House of Representatives’ principal subcommittee on higher education on Tuesday. (Subscription required.)

Critics of a recently enacted Kansas law that makes some undocumented immigrants eligible for lower tuition rates at state colleges filed a lawsuit this week that seeks to block the new benefit. (Subscription required.)

This fall’s crop of freshmen at Duke University will get a snazzy digital toy along with their campus maps, dormitory-room keys, and orientation booklets: a brand-new iPod, paid for by the university. (Subscription required.)

Thirty-nine years ago, in a landmark speech at Howard University, President Lyndon B. Johnson called on the nation to achieve not just legal equality for all races in America, but “true equality.”

Sheyda Jahanbani may be a student, but her life at Brown University in Providence, R.I. feels more like a job. There are long hours of teaching, a boss who gives orders, and she depends on her income to pay the bills.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered the University of Minnesota last week to reveal the names of candidates in the university’s 2002 presidential search. (Subscription required.)

As president of the University of Hawaii System, Evan S. Dobelle kept in his office here a bucket of plastic crabs tipped on its side, a few fake crustaceans scattered across the floor. The scene was meant to send a message about his mission in Hawaii, a place where Mr. Dobelle says people had clawed and pulled each other into a trap of sustained mediocrity. (Subscription required.)

A burgeoning class of itinerant college presidents, who have more in common with corporate chief executives than with the tweedy campus leaders of yesteryear, does not necessarily bode well for institutions of higher education, a leading expert on organizational success cautioned college business officers on Sunday. (Subscription required.)

Six more colleges have signed deals with Napster to provide the company’s online music service to their students, the company plans to announce today, in a move that college officials hope will reduce illegal music trading by offering a legal alternative. (Subscription required.)

George Washington University this fall will become one of a small number of colleges to attempt a novel solution to the problem of students illegally downloading music from the Internet.

NEWTON, Mass. – The SAT is changing next year, most notably by adding a written essay, and the nearly as-popular ACT will include an optional essay. But while the changes are designed to make the tests less “coachable” starting in spring 2005, test prep companies insist the opposite is true and that the tips and methods they’ve been teaching for years are even more useful now.

ANN ARBOR � The University of Michigan Board of Regents on Thursday approved a modest 2.8 percent tuition hike.

But first they made it clear they won�t be bullied again by the state to set their rates at certain levels and will raise tuition if the university isn�t spared from more state funding cuts.