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4/24/2013
Construction workers dug up several skulls and limbs near Loma Linda University, but an investigator from the coroner's office who looked at the remains determined that they didn't belong to victims of foul play.
4/24/2013
Indiana University is teaming with Internet2 for a $2 million cybersecurity initiative. The collaboration will focus much of its efforts on security of high-performance computing and networking systems.
4/24/2013
Gov. Paul LePage’s budget proposal for the two years starting July 1 calls for no funding increase for the University of Maine System. Meanwhile, university system reserves have doubled in four years — to $177 million. Over a 12-year period, the reserves are up more than 300 percent.
4/24/2013
What has motivated some institutions to develop shopping-cart functionality for their giving websites, and how did they make it happen? The first step in offering this kind of experience is making it a priority. Next steps involve getting the job done right.
4/24/2013
Public university students in Florida next year will be able to start working toward college degrees without actually going to college, under a law Governor Rick Scott signed in front of educators and business lobbyists.
4/24/2013
Brownback — the conservative leader of an increasingly conservative Republican Party in Kansas — is campaigning across the state to drum up support for funding higher education with a sales tax extension.
4/24/2013
Concealed handgun permit holders would be able to lock their handguns in their cars when they park on college campuses under a sweeping gun rights measure that passed the House Judiciary A Committee Wednesday.
4/23/2013
A final version of Senate Bill 177, that gives more affordable college education to veterans, passed both the Senate and House of Representatives Tuesday and now moves to the governor’s desk for signature into law.
4/23/2013
The Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2013, which creates a new competitive Campus Fire Safety Education Grant Program at institutions of higher education, will increase fire safety awareness among college students and help improve their fire training.
4/23/2013
The governor's blueprint includes 10% increases in the number of transfer students from community colleges and the percentage of freshmen graduating within four years.
4/23/2013
With Boston in lockdown, area universities that would have welcomed prospective students had to recruit in creative ways.
4/23/2013
Following the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent several seemingly typical days on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before the FBI released photos of him as a suspect, according to friends and school officials.
4/23/2013
Within hours of last Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, a pair of college students had already scraped together a plan to raise money for victims and their families.
4/23/2013
Faced with declining faculty ranks in recent years, the University of Illinois plans to hire 500 new professors over the next five to seven years.
4/22/2013
Legislation that broadens the state’s Right to Know Law requirements on Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln universities won the House State Government Committee’s approval.

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