Category: Higher Education/System

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — The College Republicans at Emory University need a new meeting room. A smaller one.

SANTA CRUZ � Denice Denton starts her new job as chancellor at UC Santa Cruz on Valentine�s Day, but she�s already begun wooing the campus community.

Denton was the first woman to get tenure in engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Responding to a formal complaint from a vocal critic of Michael Moore, the Federal Election Commission is investigating whether colleges violated a ban on corporate donations to political campaigns by allowing the controversial and partisan filmmaker to appear on their campuses during this fall’s presidential-election campaign and by paying him a speaker’s fee.

American eighth-grade students have made significant gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.

The Education Department has canceled its annual grant competition for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education because Congress has earmarked the bulk of the program’s $163.6-million budget for pork-barrel projects.

Top donors to the McConnell Center for Political Leadership include some of the biggest corporations in Kentucky as well as major defense, tobacco and food companies across the country.

The donors to the University of Louisville academic center named for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., include Ashland Inc., the RJR Nabisco Foundation, Toyota and military contractor United Defense, all of which gave $500,000 or more.

Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Muslim scholar whose visa to teach in the United States was revoked in August by the federal government, has resigned from the University of Notre Dame post that he was to have taken this past autumn, and now he is without a job.

Dane County residents without some college education are three times more likely to die young than their better- educated counterparts.

GENEVA (Reuters) – A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him.

UW-Madison and Milwaukee’s Discovery World Museum of Science, Economics and Technology will unveil an exhibit about the cutting-edge field of nanotechnology during an open house Thursday on the UW-Madison campus.

Five of the world’s largest libraries have joined Google in a Herculean effort to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable.

San Francisco — Google Inc. is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine.

Marquette University finance majors will have the opportunity to get a taste of what it is like to work on Wall Street when a new applied investment management (AIM) program is launched at the Milwaukee campus in January.

Having persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down race-conscious undergraduate admissions policies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case are now asking a lower court to force the university to pay damages to thousands of rejected white and Asian-American applicants.

At 8 p.m. the night before his psychology midterm, Chris Langley found himself at a familiar crossroads. Should he open his thick textbook and start studying, knowing that his mind would soon drift elsewhere? Or should he first visit a friend who, he knew, had something that could help him meet the seemingly insurmountable task?

Computer worms and other network pests are boring holes in campus technology budgets. More than half of American colleges and universities said they spent a greater portion of their information-technology budgets on security this year than last year, according to a Chronicle survey.

The University of Louisville Foundation said last week that it would release by today the names of 75 corporate and foundation donors, and the amounts they have given.

The announcement followed the foundation board’s decision that it would not appeal a Kentucky court’s ruling on the issue.

Credit card and mortgage companies promise customers an answer “while you wait” on loan applications. Now, more and more colleges are doing the same ââ?¬â? visiting high schools and letting applicants know their admissions fate right on the spot.

It is easy for the legions of math-challenged adults to dismiss findings that show they have a lot of company among the nation�s 15-year-olds. Sadly, however, this country�s status as a global technological leader is imperiled by how relatively poor U.S. teens are doing in math.

The law firm that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the University of Michigan’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions policy wants U-M to refund application fees to thousands of people who were rejected by the school.

The departing president of the University of Notre Dame sharply criticized his own institution on Wednesday for firing its football coach, Tyrone Willingham, last week at the end of his third season. (Subcription required.)

For Jessica Janiuk, a transgendered student at UW-Eau Claire, one of the most basic decisions of daily life was a brain-dender.

Which bathroom she she use?

“There is no safe choice when you are between genders and are constantly forced to make a decision,” she said. “I was afraid I would get assaulted in the men’s bathroom or get arrested in the women’s bathroom.

Worried about persistent security flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, officials at the Pennsylvania State University system have taken the unusual step of recommending that students, professors, and staff members stop using the popular Web browser. (Subscription required.)

Colleges that bar or restrict military recruiting on their campuses cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled last week.

People will continue to write books, people will continue to read books, and the academic-publishing process needs to be reformed so that we can continue to meet our goal of scholarly communication in an economically sustainable way.

Without question, concerns about the mental health of college students have risen substantially over the past decade. Numerous studies all point in the same direction: Serious mental-health problems are growing on campuses, and more professional resources are needed to solve them. (Subscription required.)

MIAMI – The University of Miami School of Medicine announced its largest donation ever Monday: $100 million from the family of the late construction magnate Leonard Miller, founder of the Lennar Corp.

The U.S. Department of Education said it is investigating a complaint that the University of Virginia’s undergraduate admissions policy discriminates against white applicants.

U.S. high school students match their peers in other nations when it comes to math skills. But ask them to apply those skills to real-world situations and things begin to look a bit bleak, a new study suggests. The nation’s 15-year-olds make a poor showing on a newly released international test of practical math applications, ranking 24th out of 29 industrialized nations, behind South Korea, Japan and most of Europe. U.S. students’ scores were comparable to those in Poland, Hungary and Spain.

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees – including an MBA awarded to a cat.

The College Board, which owns the SAT college entrance exam, is demanding that a nonprofit group critical of standardized tests remove from its Web site data that breaks down scores by race, income and sex. The demand, in a letter to The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, also known as FairTest, accuses the group of infringing on the College Board’s copyright.