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University Chancellor Sells Tobacco Stock
Susan Desmond-Hellmann is selling her tobacco stock. Desmond-Hellmann is the new chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco...
Byrd, Longtime Senator and Earmark King, Dies at 92
U.S. Sen. Robert W. Byrd, whose nearly 60 years representing West Virginia made him Congress's longest-serving member and brought his...
Step Too Far on Textbook Costs?
With students, parents and politicians all frustrated by high textbook costs, recent years have seen many innovations as well as...
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
WASHINGTON -- The situation outlined by Miles J. Postema, vice president and general counsel of Ferris State University, sounded like...
Wall Street Reform and Student Loans
WASHINGTON -- Like many pieces of major legislation, the financial reform measure on which Congressional negotiators reached final agreement late...
Southern Accreditor Acts on Several Colleges
Signs of the economic downturn are evident many places you turn in higher education these days: in the exploding demand...
EXTRA: Anti-Bias Rules Upheld
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled today, 5-to-4, that public colleges and universities may require religious organizations seeking recognition or...
Competing Principles
A governance dispute between trustees and the faculty at City College of San Francisco has everyone at the college talking...