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The university faces pressure not to hire a controversial Columbia professor and to grant tenure to a popular assistant professor.

Trinity International University, in the Chicago suburbs, evacuated its minority students from campus Thursday, after three students received threatening letters, local television stations reported. According to the reports, the FBI has joined local authorities in investigating.Drexel University has announced plans to create a new law school.

A poll of non-union faculty members suggests potential to expand collective bargaining at colleges and challenges facing organizing drives.

A faculty review at North Dakota State U. found no basis for charges against a historian.

For the last three years, Thomas A. Hamilton has increasingly become a minority of one on the seven-member Board of Trustees of  St. Clair County Community College, regularly challenging policies adopted by the two-year institution's president and questioning whether the board is fulfilling its obligations to oversee and assess her performance.

Middlebury College, a liberal arts institution in Vermont, is negotiating to take over a graduate school in California.

At a Congressional hearing, debate about whether federal aid drives tuition higher, and warnings for colleges.

Presidents say longstanding classroom practices may need to change if colleges are to succeed in educating more minority students.

The number of Ohio legislators who do not have a college degree has risen to 31 today from 5 in the late 1990s, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The article quotes some lawmakers and policy makers as saying they think that trend is at least partially responsible for Ohio's lukewarm financial support for higher education in recent years, but the degree-less legislators scoff at that argument.