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Students

Enrollment Up 24 Percent at College on Navajo Nation

Enrollment is up at the country’s first tribally controlled college.

October 8, 2015

Sports

Bryant U. Basketball Assistant Coach Chris Burns Comes Out

Division I men’s basketball has its first openly gay coach.

October 8, 2015

Students

DANIELLE WOZNIAK

DANIELLE WOZNIAK has been appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the College of New Rochelle in New York. She was the director of the School of Social Work at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Wozniak earned a bachelor’s from Miami University in Ohio, a master’s from Fordham University and a doctorate from the University of Connecticut.

October 8, 2015

Latinx

$5.3M in Grants Issued to Combat Native American Education ‘Crisis’

The Departments of the Interior and Education announced that $5.3 million in grants will go to Native American tribal organizations to help improve college readiness among tribal youth.

September 24, 2015

Students

Analysis: Scrutiny Adds Context to Graduation Rate of Pell Grant Recipients

An unprecedented look at Pell Grant graduation rates from 1,149 schools shows that, despite a large national gap, low-income students at some schools do as well as their classmates.

September 24, 2015

Sports

Rutgers Football Coach Suspended for Contact Over Player’s Academic Status

Rutgers University has suspended football coach Kyle Flood for three games and fined him $50,000 for contacting a faculty member over a player’s grade.

September 16, 2015

Latinx

U.S. News & World Report Sells Magazines, Higher Ed Goes into Despair

Not No.1 or No. 2? Forget About the Rankings Nonsense

September 13, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Saudi Businessman Gives $10M for Islamic Law Center at Yale

A Saudi businessman has donated $10 million to Yale Law School to establish what school officials hope will become the country’s top center for the study of Islamic law.

September 10, 2015

Students

MARION GILLIS-OLION

MARION GILLIS-OLION has been named dean of the School of Education at Fayetteville State University (FSU). She was the associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, SACS liaison, and director of self-study at FSU. Gillis-Olion earned a bachelor’s from Kean University (formerly Newark State College), and a master’s and a doctorate from The Ohio State University.

September 9, 2015

Students

New Analysis Calls for Increased Scrutiny of Accrediting Agency

The analysis states that, while ACICS’ performance is worse than that of its peers, its problems are “emblematic of larger structural flaws that exist in this national accreditation space.”

September 8, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Some Purdue Students Oppose Name Change for Tech College

Purdue University senior Austin Haberly doesn’t want Purdue Polytechnic Institute on his degree.

September 7, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Venus Williams Earns B.S. Degree

Tennis superstar Venus Williams, currently focusing on her game this week at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows, New York, recently added another achievement to her resume: a Bachelor of Science degree.

September 2, 2015