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Business Wire
CEO Announces Retirement; Nebraska Book Company Names Current President and COO, Barry Major, as New CEO
LINCOLN, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NBC Acquisition Corp. and its subsidiaries, including Nebraska Book Company ("NBC" or the "Company"), an industry leader in solutions for the college bookstore marketplace, today announced the retirement of the Company’s C...
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UDaily
For the Record, May 11, 2012
12:57 p.m., May 11, 2012--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni. Recent honors, presentations, press, publications and service include the following: Progres...
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Elizabeth Warren and the Attack on Affirmative Action
You can tell Republicans are worried about freshman Scott Brown making it back to the Senate this fall because they’re playing to racial resentments in the high-profile Massachusetts race. And that includes Brown. It seems no number of answers from his e...
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PennLive.com
College leaders have agreed to level tuition in exchange for state aid restorations, lawmaker says
As a sweetener to the Senate Republican budget proposal, there is this: Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, R-Centre County, says that in exchange for level funding from the state this year, the leaders of the state's major public universities...
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The News & Observer
Crowded community colleges hit crunch time
MCT Nick Fasciocco, 26, practices on Thong Nguyen, 28, during Respiratory Therapy class at Delaware Community College. PHILADELPHIA -- – The community college is being asked to save America. But like a small-town fire department straining to contain a bi...
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The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Ivy Tech Muncie campus gets $1 million gift
Ivy Tech Community College’s launched its first major Capital Campaign for the Muncie Campus Wednesday with the announcement of a $1 million gift from the George & Frances Ball Foundation. The gift of $200,000 a year for five years was announced by Norma...
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Columbus Dispatch
Lawmakers near Cleveland schools overhaul
Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis' chief of staff is leaving the Athens campus at the end of May to join the Ohio Board of Regents. Rebecca Watts, who has been McDavis' special assistant and right-hand leader since 2008, will become associate...
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The Morning Call
Monday Morning Coffee: Lawmakers Return To Official Start Of Budget Season.
Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. When they return to work this afternoon, state lawmakers will begin the final push to approve a new state budget for the fiscal year that starts on July 1. Some parameters of the debate are already clear: Gov. Tom Cor...
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The Delaware County Times
CAMPUS: Lincoln University professor featured in Ebony magazine
Dr. James Wadley, associate professor and director of the Master of Human Services Program at Lincoln University, is featured in the May 2012 edition of Ebony Magazine. A marriage, family and sexuality therapist, Wadley discusses the impact of weight in...
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Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
DENNIS LENNOX: Fancy college degrees don't guarantee success
Thousands of Michigan’s best and brightest are graduating, but for many the prospects of post-collegiate life are bleak. Some will quickly surmise a return to campus for post-graduate study is necessary. Others will struggle endlessly to find a job. This...
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The New York Times
Obama Signs Order to Protect Veterans From College Recruiters
At Georgia’s Fort Stewart on Friday, President Obama signed an executive order to help protect military families and veterans from aggressive and deceptive recruiting by higher education institutions — especially for-profit colleges — seeking their milit...
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PennLive.com
For Class of 2012, the recession has been a teacher
For them, student loan debt is something to be feared, not taken in stride. Call them the Class of the Great Recession. This year’s graduating seniors entered high school in the fall of 2008, just as the economy was cratering, credit markets were tanking...
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Inside Higher Ed
Social Media Guidelines: My Top Picks
News, tips, and practical insights about technology for student affairs practitioners by Eric Stoller. When I search for "social media guidelines," sans quotes on Google, there are 41,200,000 results. Corporate sites, blog posts, higher education institu...
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The Rider News
Rider prepares for Middle States evaluation
Members of Rider’s administrative staff and University community members congregated in the Shapiro Board Room of North Hall on Tuesday morning to discuss and provide feedback on Rider’s Periodic Review Report (PRR). The report will be read and evaluated...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Letters to the Editor
Change of priorities for nuns Monica Yant Kinney’s “Vatican’s rebuke of nuns” (Sunday) was written with journalistic excellence. As a former nun (30 years), I recall the vision of Vatican II instructing my community to return to t...
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