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.

    

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Harvard Endowment to Have “Better Year” as Markets Recover March 18, 2010 Harvard University's endowment, which lost more than $10 billion last year, will likely benefit from recovering markets this year, President Drew Faust told reporters today in Shanghai.  Faust said Harvard Management Co. Chief Executive Officer Jane Mendillo, who manages the $26 billion endowment, has adjusted her investment strategy to cope with the global financial crisis, a shift that should pay off for the wealthiest U.S. school as markets rebound.

University of Redlands names former leader Appleton as interim president March 18, 2010 The University of Redlands announced James R. Appleton as interim president Wednesday morning following the resignation of former President Stuart Dorsey on Tuesday.  The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved Appleton's appointment Tuesday morning, said board member Carole Beswick.  Beswick said it made sense to appoint Appleton, who served as university president from 1987 to 2005 and had been functioning part-time as the school's chancellor.

Investors Buy Private Dana College in Neb. March 17, 2010 Dana College will soon join the handful of private colleges that have been sold in recent years and converted from nonprofit organizations to for-profit corporations.  Since 2004, 10 other private, nonprofit colleges have been sold and converted to for-profit enterprises, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. But that remains just a fraction of the nation's 1,600 private, nonprofit colleges, said group spokesman Tony Pals.

It’s the Bricks That Make Butler Basketball Special 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.

A Private College Goes For-Profit 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.

University of Redlands president quits over budget cuts 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.

Erskine College legal battle changes course with new lawsuit 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.

After 3 Suspected Suicides, Cornell Reaches Out 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."

Fledgling University of Miami online high school doubles students, tops 300 March 16, 2010 The University of Miami's online high school, soon to mark its first birthday, has a lot to celebrate, including doubling its enrollment and earning accreditation.  The curriculum offers 120-plus courses, including electives such as essentials of business, digital arts and financial literacy, plus interactive clubs such as science and social studies clubs and writing and math labs.  Classes are offered for fulltime students seeking high school diplomas and part-timers looking to take classes and transfer them to their host high school.

Taking a Look at Poverty From an Affluent Suburb March 14, 2010 As Elmhurst College is revealing with missionary zeal, DuPage County, Ill., is a case study in the often-hidden poverty around us.  S. Alan Ray was clueless about the county and the college before he applied to be president of the liberal arts institution affiliated with the United Church of Christ.  But his due diligence and vision convinced the trustees, and as president at the helm of the battleship that is any college, Mr. Ray is trying to steer Elmhurst down a path of service.

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