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Fry elected Drexel’s next president | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/11/2010 – Philadelphia Inquirer

Fry elected Drexel's next president | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/11/2010 Philadelphia Inquirer Fry, 49, a former University of Pennsylvania executive who is in his eighth year as president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, starts at the ... and more
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Georgia State Dean Quits to Protest Merger Idea

Bart Hildreth, dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, said that he was told to resign for speaking out against the idea of merging the school with another college at the university, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Georgia's public colleges are currently in the midst of considering a range of proposals to deal with deep budget cuts that they face already -- and the prospect of still more on the way. A spokeswoman for the university said that while officials disagree with the former dean's characterization of events, they were not speaking out in detail out of respect for the confidentiality of personnel matters.
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Close Frat House until 2011, Says Fire Official

The University of Kentucky's fire marshal, Greg Williamson, said Monday he has recommended that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, the scene of an apparent prank involving fire early Saturday, be closed for the rest of this semester and through the next semester.
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Students Try to Convince Officials to Save UNR Ag College

Students in the University of Nevada, Reno College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources said they've moved past the initial shock and anger about plans to close the college and are working to get officials to reconsider.
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1,000 Attend VCU Forums about Cuccinelli Opinion on Protecting Gays

As lawmakers defeated a renewed effort yesterday to include sexual orientation in state anti-discrimination policies, about 1,000 students and faculty turned out at Virginia Commonwealth University to assail an attorney general's opinion that targets campus diversity policies.
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CU Regents Indicate They’ll OK 9 Percent Tuition Hike, Set March 29 Vote

The University of Colorado's regents Wednesday signaled they reluctantly will raise tuition by 9 percent for in-state students and 5 percent for new out-of-state students, but postponed a formal vote until later this month.
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Financial Affairs: Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever (Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend enough of their endowments for society's benefit to justify the tax exemption they get," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The events of the past two years are also raising a crop of provocative new endowment questions that deserve center stage in campus boardrooms and faculty senates. On the 'big question' front, one intriguing idea comes from the chancellor of the California State University system, Charles B. Reed, who has been pushing a proposal to reward institutions that enroll higher numbers of Pell Grant students with more federal money and withhold support from colleges whose Pell enrollments fall below 15 percent."
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Financial Affairs: Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever (Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend enough of their endowments for society's benefit to justify the tax exemption they get," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The events of the past two years are also raising a crop of provocative new endowment questions that deserve center stage in campus boardrooms and faculty senates. On the 'big question' front, one intriguing idea comes from the chancellor of the California State University system, Charles B. Reed, who has been pushing a proposal to reward institutions that enroll higher numbers of Pell Grant students with more federal money and withhold support from colleges whose Pell enrollments fall below 15 percent."
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Opinion: Will College Become a Luxury for the Few? (CNN)

"Rising student fees have placed barriers between thousands of eligible students and their dreams of higher education," writes Katynka Martínez, assistant professor in the department of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University, for CNN. "In addition, budget cuts and the subsequent elimination of course offerings have extended the number of years necessary to graduate. ... Younger generations in the U.S. have consistently achieved a higher level of education than the generation that came before.
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Israeli Ambassador Offers to Go Back to Irvine

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, says he hasn't given up on the University of California at Irvine. His appearance at Irvine last month set off a wide debate about civility and protest when his talk was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. Now Oren has published an open letter in the university's student newspaper offering to come back to Irvine. "I came to UCI for the opportunity to exchange ideas — a reasonable intention that was hijacked by a minority of students. The disruptive measures exhibited by these students only underscore the importance for dialogue, especially on the frontline of higher learning," Oren wrote
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