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Leadership & Policy

Antioch College Campus To Be Closed For 2008-2009 Academic Year

Antioch University’s trustees decided Friday that Antioch College in Ohio will suspend operations June 30 and remain closed for the 2008-2009 academic year.

February 24, 2008

Leadership & Policy

UC Berkeley Creates Multidisciplinary Chair For Equity and Inclusion

The University of California, Berkeley has created a new $5 million faculty chair to further extend the university’s campus-wide initiative for equity and inclusion.

February 19, 2008

Students

Stanford ‘Invests’ In Faculty Diversity

Stanford University has developed a $4.5 million program to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars on the academic profession to 36 doctoral candidates over the next four years as part of an effort to prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for a career in academia.

December 3, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Poll: Majority of Faculty Want Oral Roberts University President Gone

TULSA Okla. More than 80 percent of the faculty at Oral Roberts University do not want Richard Roberts to continue as president of the evangelical school, a new survey shows.

November 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

ORU President Says He Received Prophecy Telling of Troubles

TULSA Okla. Embattled Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts says he received a prophecy six months ago that troubles were looming.

November 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

ORU President Asks for Second Chance

TULSA Okla. The embattled president of Oral Roberts University asked for a second chance during an emergency meeting with the same faculty members who only days earlier gave him a vote of no confidence.

November 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Oral Roberts President Receives ‘No Confidence’ Vote

TULSA Okla. Embattled Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts, facing accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, has received a vote of no confidence by the tenured faculty at the evangelical university.

November 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Grassley Probes Three Oral Roberts Regents

TULSA Okla. An Iowa senator is investigating possible financial wrongdoing by six televangelists, including three who sit on the board of regents for Oral Roberts University.

November 6, 2007

Faculty & Staff

With Record-breaking Attendance, Annual SREB Conference Addresses Recruitment, Retention of Minority Faculty

ARLINGTON, VA. Hundreds of doctoral candidates, faculty and university administrators converged on Arlington, Va., last week for the 14th annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, a three-day conference on teaching and mentoring hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), an educational advocacy organization based in Atlanta.

October 28, 2007

Students

Va. Tech Starts Semester With New Crisis

BLACKSBURG, Va. A Virginia Tech campus still reeling from the deaths of 32 people at the hands of a student gunman last spring began its fall semester Monday amid another tragedy: a carbon monoxide leak at an off-campus apartment left five roommates hospitalized, two in critical condition.

August 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career Consultants

The usual requirements of a tenured faculty are essential, that is: scholarship and research, service, and teaching. Beyond the scholarly expectations, you must begin to acquire administrative experience in higher education as a way of demonstrating organizational leadership. The leadership position will provide opportunities for others beyond your department to see and appreciate your abilities. I would suggest that you also take some courses in higher education administration to provide a historical context, a theoretical framework, and an overview of the role of dean.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tenureless U: at Florida Gulf Coast University, tenure is out and multi-year contracts are in

FORT MYERS, Fla. The narrow band of habitable land between the Gulf of Mexico and Florida’s Everglades is where a band of 150 pioneers have staked their claims.

July 11, 2007