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Job Cuts at 2 More Private Colleges
Layoffs and job eliminations continue to grow. Northland College, in Wisconsin, announced that 13 faculty and staff members were losing...
3 Colleges Will Merge Public Safety Departments
Smith, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire Colleges plan to merge their public safety departments, The Republican reported. The move is expected...
Adjuncts Vote to Unionize at Michigan State
Non-tenure track faculty members at Michigan State University have voted to unionize, 240-113. The new bargaining unit, affiliated with the...
Gee Quits Board of Controversial Energy Company
E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, has resigned as a board member of Massey Energy, a company that...
How Colleges Use FERPA to Keep Athletics Secrets
A six-month investigation by The Columbus Dispatch has found that colleges and universities use "wildly different legal interpretations" of the...
Ronald Takaki, Pioneer in Ethnic Studies, Dies at 70
Ronald Takaki, a long-time professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley and a pioneer in the...
In Global Recession, Global Ed Still Growing
At international educators' conference, panelists discuss the impact of the financial crisis on student mobility.
Suit of Armor
As top administrators at Gustavus Adolphus leave positions mysteriously, faculty want review of new president -- and get warned by board chair of possibility of being sued.