February 2008 - Posts

• Cuomo's Latest Targets Include Universities' Deals With Credit-Card Providers

  One of the New York attorney general's latest investigations is of the deals between credit-card companies and colleges. A college that is part of his inquiry questions his authority over institutions outside his state. Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• California State U. Appeals Ruling in Sex-Discrimination Case, Despite Reduced Award

  The university system took the action even though the former women's baskeball coach who sued it has agreed to a reduced award. Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• NCAA Places Texas Christian U. on Probation for Rules Violations

  The university's failure to adequately monitor the men's tennis program allowed coaches' impermissible phone calls to recruits to go undetected, the association found. Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Spellings Seeks to Reassure Colleges as Pheaa Joins Student Lenders Who Are Scaling Back

  The education secretary will write to colleges this week in the wake of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency's withdrawal from the federally guaranteed loan market. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Financial Woes in Florida Could Lead to Deeper Budget Cuts for State's Public Colleges

  A total of $2-billion in proposed budget cuts in Florida is expected to create what higher-education officials are calling an "unnatural disaster" for public colleges there, which are already running lean. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• N.J. Plan Suggests That Colleges May Be Spared the Worst of Budget Cuts in Some States

  Higher education takes a hit in New Jersey's latest budget, but other agencies fared worse. Education leaders say lawmakers are starting to recognize that colleges are engines for reviving state economies. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• As Economy Slumps, More States Make It Easier for Colleges to Spend Endowment Assets

  A growing number of states are loosening laws on endowment spending for colleges and other nonprofit groups. A report about how to account for that spending, however, could increase scrutiny of colleges' finances. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Israeli Policies Prevent Gazans From Studying Abroad, Report Says

  Palestinian students in Gaza are being denied the right to university study because of Israeli travel restrictions, according to a new report from a human-rights group in the territory. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Video of Racial Degradation Roils South African Campus

  An online video of white male students serving dog food to black women causes an uproar on a South African campus already torn by racial tension. Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Latest Attack on a California Scientist Who Uses Animals in Research Signals Shift in Tactics

  Six masked attackers assaulted the husband of a University of California at Santa Cruz researcher at her home. The incident reflects an escalation of violence by animal-rights extremists. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Educators Exchange Strategies for Creating the Global Community College

  Community-college leaders discuss study abroad and international-student recruitment at the annual meeting of Community Colleges for International Development. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• In Rare Move, Professors at Michigan Technological U. Vote to Drop Their Union

  More than five years' worth of conflict among faculty members and administrators flashed into public view last week when professors voted out the union that had represented them for just over three years. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Chronicle Tech Forum: Ohio U. President Talks About Network Breaches and Their Aftermath

  Roderick J. McDavis discussed his university's recent information-technology problems, and what was done to fix them, at The Chronicle's Technology Forum. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Canada's Budget Includes Need-Based Grants, but No Increase for Student Aid

  The budget left higher-education officials with mixed feelings. While it includes money for some new programs, existing problems, such as more core funds for universities and colleges, were ignored. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Professors React to Southern Methodist's Agreement on Bush Library and Think Tank

  Provisions in the agreement, which was publicly released by Southern Methodist University on Monday, made some professors think that the university would not cede too much control to the think tank, while others were not so sure. Read More... Posted Feb 26 2008, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News