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Mary Jane Saunders received a warm welcome from faculty when she arrived at Florida Atlantic University in 2010, but the honeymoon appears to be over.

The Louisiana Board of Regents on Wednesday gave Southern University permission to drop its master of arts in mass communication degree in a budget-cutting move that provoked the ire of faculty when the idea was first floated months ago.

A UT Southwestern Medical Center department chairwoman in the crosshairs of a federal investigation into alleged billing fraud at Parkland Memorial Hospital will step down, according to an internal memo distributed to the medical school’s employees.

The president of Quinebaug Valley Community College announced this week he will resign.

Hendricks served as military commander

A University of Iowa hospitals IT employee defrauded her employer of more than $272,000 over a decade, according to a 206-page state audit released today.

A jury declared Wednesday that a conservative scholar who was passed over for a teaching job at the University of Iowa law school was not the victim of political discrimination.

Facing a $13 million deficit and an 11 percent drop in enrollment, Delgado Community College Chancellor Monty Sullivan on Tuesday announced freezes on travel, spending and non-essential hiring in an attempt to balance the budget. No pay cuts are planned, he said in an interview, but buyout packages to encourage early retirement are being considered.

Workers charged with felonies in alleged scheme to sell university scrap materials

A former top Yale administrator who oversaw medical billing has sued the university, charging that he was fired after more than 30 years because of his age.