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Get Ready for July Madness
There are no brackets to guide you through it, but July is the prime month for presidential transitions at private colleges. To keep up on who's going where, visit our Comings and Goings page, with up-to-the-minute news of the many appointments now being made.
NAICU Launches 2020 Initiative
NAICU and the Council of Independent Colleges have launched "Building Blocks to 2020," recognizing and encouraging private college and university efforts to help the nation reach President Obama's 2020 college education goal. For details, or to sign up your institution to participate, go to www.naicu.edu/2020.
Beyond the 2010 NAICU Annual Meeting
The NAICU Annual Meeting may be over, but you can still benefit from many of the sessions and speakers. We've assembled speech texts and PowerPoints for many of the sessions, available on our 2010 Annual Meeting Presentations page.
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Not Fair, Your School Is 20 Times as Big
Wall Street Journal - Column
March 18, 2010
By giving each team a score based on where it ranks in number of undergraduates per player and where it is seeded in the tournament, you get a sense of the most impressive résumés, pound for pound. No. 7-seed Richmond jumps to No. 1 overall by this measure thanks to its undergraduate-to-basketball-player ratio of 173-1, second smallest in the field. Butler, St. Mary's and Wofford round out the top four.
Washington Post - Column
March 18, 2010
How does one fulfill -- or know when one has fulfilled -- Obama's goal of "college and career readiness" for every child by 2020? That gauzy goal resembles the 1994 goal that by 2000 (when, Congress dreamily decreed, every school "will be free of drugs and violence") every child would start school "ready to learn." Is "college and career readiness" one goal or two? Should everybody go to college? Is a college degree equivalent to career -- any career? -- readiness?
Inside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece
March 18, 2010
How can Haiti hold on to the already fragile strings of democracy without all of those public spaces? Which to re-build first? Can Haitian civil society and its struggling democracy really weather such a blow? The questions and challenges are baffling. But from the perspective of a university president, the questions and issues are even more disturbing.
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After 3 Suspected Suicides, Cornell Reaches Out
New York Times
March 17, 2010
The university is on high alert about the mental health of its students after the apparent suicides of three of them in less than a month in the deep gorges rending the campus. The deaths, two on successive days last week, have cast a pall over the university and revived talk of Cornell's reputation - unsupported, say officials - as a high-stress "suicide school."
University of Redlands president quits over budget cuts
Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.
March 17, 2010
Stuart Dorsey, an economist who has headed the private liberal-arts college since June 2005, informed the college's board of trustees of his decision in the morning and then announced it to a large 4 p.m. meeting of faculty and students. His resignation comes as the college plans to cut $7 million from its budget for the next fiscal year. The university also faces declining enrollment and could possibly eliminate some faculty.
A Private College Goes For-Profit
Inside Higher Ed
March 17, 2010
Dana College, in Nebraska, announced Tuesday evening that it is being sold to a new for-profit company. The sale comes just a year after another Lutheran institution, Waldorf College in Iowa, was sold to a for-profit entity. But while Dana's purchase is similar, it may differ in other ways. The new owners say that their goal is to build the traditional liberal arts mission through on-campus programs, and not to use the college and its accreditation as a base for online operations.
Erskine College legal battle changes course with new lawsuit
Greenville, S.C., News
March 17, 2010
After the initial lawsuit was filed, the Erskine board's Executive Committee voted that it agreed with the lawsuit, which claimed that the synod's action was a violation of Erskine's bylaws, but voted to withdraw the suit "for the unity, peace, purity and prosperity of the church." Then two of the trustees who were ousted and another representing the Erskine Alumni Association, along with the alumni association, filed another suit that makes the same general arguments - and also asks the court to rule that the college, through its board, owns Erskine's building and grounds.
It’s the Bricks That Make Butler Basketball Special
New York Times
March 17, 2010
Hinkle Fieldhouse is all decidedly, wonderfully old school, even for an old school, founded in 1855. One of the best men's college basketball programs in the country lives here, as no-frilled as the famous barn in which it plays. There is something different about Butler University. It stands out amid a college basketball landscape where bigger and newer and brasher are confused for success. Butler commands attention simply because it wins, quietly.
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