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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent'
Peter P. Smith's career in and out of higher education has not followed the straight and narrow. Amid forays into...
College Bars Students Who Committed Sex Crimes With Children
Lake Michigan College has barred enrollment on any of the community college's campuses of students who have been convicted of...
Medical Schools Expand -- and Contract
Economic realities shrink classes at a few U.S. medical schools, undercutting push to increase physician work force.
Baylor Will Receive $200M Bequest
Baylor University today will announce a pledge of a $200 million bequest that will finance research related to aging in...
U. of Florida Police Officer Shoots Grad Student
A police officer at the University of Florida shot Kofi Adu-Brempong, a 35-year-old doctoral student in geography from Ghana, Tuesday...
Racist Fliers at 2 Wisconsin Colleges
Officials at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and St. Norbert College are investigating "white pride" fliers that turned up...
Towson Fires Adjunct for Racial Remark
Towson University fired an adjunct last week after he called himself, in class, a "nigger on a corporate plantation," The...
Community College Ends Religious Recruiting
Northwest College, a community college in Wyoming, announced Tuesday that it will no longer recruit students based on their religion...