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Spanier Loses Appeal
Penn State's former president Graham Spanier loses appeal of his misdemeanor conviction for endangering the welfare of a child. He could spend up to 12 months in prison.
New Presidents or Provosts: Adventist U of Health Sciences, Bastyr U, Evergreen Valley College, Fort Lewis College, Hardin-Simmons U, Ithaca College, Mount Holyoke College, Otterbein U, U of Nottingham, Winston-Salem State U
Keith Aytch, interim president and vice president for academic affairs at Evergreen Valley College, part of the San Jose/Evergreen Community...
New Presidents or Provosts: Arkansas State U-Beebe, Heartland CC, Ridgewater College, U of Southern Indiana, U of Tennessee-Knoxville, U of Texas-San Antonio, U of Wisconsin-Superior, Utah State U, Utah Valley U
Keith Cornille, executive vice president/chief student services officer at Madison Area Technical College, in Wisconsin, has been named president of...
Feds Plan Accreditation Experimentation
Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.
A College President’s Twitter Strategy
A student newspaper at the University of British Columbia has criticized President Santa Ono for mixing policy statements with personal views on social media. The president has been uncharacteristically quiet in response.
New Presidents or Provosts: Ball State U, Hampshire College, Lake Superior State U, Long Beach CC, Mesa CC, Michigan Technological U, Owens CC, Phoenix College, Seminole State College of Fla., Thompson Rivers U, U of Maine, U of Northern Colorado
Brett Fairbairn, professor in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, has been chosen...
Opinion
An Inside Look at Why Accreditation Works
Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force.
DeVos Brought Back For-Profit Accreditor Her Own Department Faulted
Before education secretary restored federal recognition to ACICS, report by department staff failed the organization on numerous standards.