Academic Leadership

Is Education Chief Smarter Than An 11Th-Grader?

Jason Glass retakes the ACT after a testing skeptic challenges Iowa officials to tackle a college readiness exam.

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Training Programs Based On Employment Needs On The Rise At Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Chase Abnet grew up watching his father climb tall power-line poles to bring back the lights during a blackout. By the time he was 15, his dad was teaching him how to climb them too.

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CU-Boulder Committee Proposes New College Of Media, Design And Arts

A University of Colorado committee tasked with looking into the future of the Boulder campus' journalism and information programs has proposed the creation of a new College of Media, Design and the Arts.

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Lawmakers Tweak Remedial Education Measure

Bill To End All Non-Credit College Classes Loosened To Allow One Semester; Professors Warn That Students Will Suffer

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Legislation Proposing Separating UAH, UAB from UA System Comes With Confusion

The months-long issues between the University of the Alabama System and the Huntsville community didn't fade without a final dose of miscommunication.

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Williston State University Looks At 4-Year Program

North Dakota University System Chancellor Bill Goetz advocated strongly Thursday for a proposal to add an applied management program at Williston State College that would be the first four-year degree offered by the school.

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Academic Freedom "Insecure" At 2 State Universities in La., Education Group Finds

Claiming that Southeastern Louisiana University and Northwestern Louisiana University disregarded their own guidelines for eliminating about 30 programs and dismissing about 20 tenured professors, the American Association of University Professors concluded in a report Thursday. As a result, the group concluded, academic freedom at those campuses "will in all likelihood remain insecure."

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University Of Utah Trustees Approve Dental School

University of Utah trustees on Tuesday approved a School of Dentistry, the first new college at the U. in years, along with a related four-year doctoral program, all funded by $37 million in private pledges. The school will enroll its first cohort of 20 dental students in fall 2013.

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