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Today's News$200-MILLION GIFT TO COLLEGEThe philanthropist Robert A. Day has given Claremont McKenna College a $200-million gift, but some faculty members are not happy about its focus. The donation will be used to create the college's first graduate program, in finance.
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INSTITUTIONAL WHIPLASH
The University of California at Irvine hired, rejected, and rehired a dean for its new law school in short order, raising questions about outside political interference.
A small team of dedicated volunteers has cut a deal with Stanford to care for the campus's longtime population of feral cats. DISCRIMINATION REDUXTo infer anything about a person's character or sensibility on the basis of physical racial characteristics is legally suspect. Yet that is what "diversity hiring" practices require us to do, writes Jennifer Delton. GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICYIs it a conflict of interest, or just plain stupid, to share tricks of the trade with another nonprofit group? NotesCALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: A new nonprofit group wants big donors to be more "hands on" in negotiating their gifts to higher education. IN BRIEF: A roundup of higher-education news. |
Face Value: Fund-Raising and Alumni Blog
Consumer watchdogs say there is some truth behind a fictional TV show's portrayal of universities' ties to oil companies California Polytechnic State U. announces a $60-million donation Issues in Depth Executive compensation Campus architecture Tuition and fees For-profit higher education The 2007-8 Almanac of Higher Education Databases College licensing revenues College fund-raising campaigns Gifts and bequestsEndowments at 765 institutions Pay and benefits for college presidents, 1993-present Faculty salaries since 1999 Tuition and fees Campus architecture Also of Interest Largest private gifts to higher education Median salaries of college administrators
Updates on billion-dollar campaigns at 26 universities
Index of For-Profit Higher Education
Inventions: Two undergraduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grew mushrooms to create an environmentally friendly insulation for the construction industry. (7/13/2007)
Bond-rating update for August 2007 Facts and figures on higher-education finances |