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by Greg Cruey on April 29, 2008
The Provost of West Virginia Universty, Gerald E. Lang , and the dean of the university's College of Business and Economics, R. Stephen Sears, have both stepped down from their administrative...
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by Greg Cruey on April 23, 2008
Back in December we reported on a case at West Virginia University where questions had arisen about an MBA awarded to Heather Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin. The Chronicle of...
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by Greg Cruey on March 18, 2008
At a time when Clemson University could be soaking up a little glory over the performance of it's basketball team, the institution instead is having to put up with criticism over its handling of...
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by Greg Cruey on February 26, 2008
Ferrum College south of Roanoke, Va., is under lockdown this morning after school staff saw a man with a handgun in a residence hall on campus, according to news sources. The campus alarm system was...
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by Greg Cruey on February 25, 2008
Yale is planning two new residential colleges and a 700-student increase in enrollment, according to University Business and the Boston Globe. The move is the biggest expansion at Yale since the...
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by Greg Cruey on February 24, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education's news blog reported on Friday that Southern Methodist University in Dallas has now firmed up a deal to become the site of the George W. Bush Presidential...
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by Greg Cruey on February 20, 2008
Engineering Your Life is the latest in a long line of efforts to draw women into technical field - in this case, engineering. The new website is designed to help make engineering seem appealing to...
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by Greg Cruey on February 17, 2008
On Thursday, 27 year old Stephen P. Kazmierczak, with at least two handguns under his coat and a guitar case in his hand, entered Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, walked onto...
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by Greg Cruey on February 10, 2008
Reader's Digest has published a campus safety report that includes rankings of 285 colleges and universities in the US. "Is Your College Student Safe at School?" is the name of the piece...
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by Greg Cruey on February 07, 2008
Union University in Jackson, Tenn., has entered the recovery phase of campus life after a tornado devastated the campus on Tuesday. An official UU Recovery blog is up and running on the web, and...
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by Greg Cruey on February 07, 2008
California's Proposition 92, a ballot initiative that would have lowered community college tuition and increased funding for the state's 109 community colleges, was defeated in Tuesday's...
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by Greg Cruey on January 24, 2008
The Tampa Tribune reported today that Florida's oversight board for state run universities ordered the institutions under it to raise tuition by eight percent and begin cutting enrollment. There...
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by Greg Cruey on January 17, 2008
The Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix, was found liable this week for misleading investors and ordered to repay shareholders $280 million, according to the Associated...
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by Greg Cruey on January 16, 2008
On February 5th, when voters in California go to the polls they'll find a number of ballot initiatives before them. One of them, Proposition 92, could have a profound impact on funding for both...
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by Greg Cruey on January 10, 2008
Kentucky is facing hard times, and according to University Business it looks like the University of Kentucky may share in those hard times - at least over the next year. At the end of his first month...
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by Greg Cruey on January 04, 2008
Proposition 300, an Arizona ballot referendum that passed in November of 2006, has led to 119 students being reclassified from in-state to out-of-state status for tuition purposes, according to the...
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by Greg Cruey on December 26, 2007
I'm not much into marijuana, but I personally think hemp would be a marvelous cash crop for many farmers in America. So I was pleased when I read recently that a federal judge had given a short...
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by Greg Cruey on December 24, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education has picked up a story that's likely to generate some heat in the Mountain State. According to a story in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, West Virginia University...
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by Greg Cruey on December 21, 2007
The University of Missouri has picked a new president: former Sprint CEO Gary Forsee. Frosee was the unanimous choice to lead the university's four campuses, according to the Associated Press. He...
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by Greg Cruey on December 15, 2007
Several sources are reporting that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) has placed Texas Tech on probation for "insufficient reporting of general education data," as the...
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by Greg Cruey on December 14, 2007
The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis is moving, according to BizJournal. The law school's new address will be in the old Customs House and Post Office building in the...
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