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Strategic plans, which migrated to higher education from corporations, have quickly become de rigueur at colleges. The most successful plans share some important elements. Honesty, for one.

Pomona College has invested considerable time and effort in devising a strategy for spending wisely.

In an arrangement that raises questions about conflict of interest, the University of California at Irvine collects a bounty for sending students to an online for-profit institution.

Colleges struggle to find emergency-notification systems, whether high-tech or low, that quickly reach everyone on a campus.

Gifts to sports programs now account for more than one-quarter of all contributions to some colleges, cutting into the proportion given for academic purposes.

College police chiefs discuss the proper role of the Taser in campus law enforcement.

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BIOFUEL RESEARCH: The University of Tennessee plans to build an experimental ethanol refinery near its flagship campus.

KEEP THE MONEY: A former faculty member at Stanford University who made and lost a fortune has told the medical school that a multimillion-dollar donation still stands.

BUTT IN: The University of California's regents have decided that the system will continue to accept research money from the tobacco industry.

AN EXPECTED BLOW: Sierra Nevada College has been put on probation by its accreditor.

PEER REVIEW: The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is stepping down. ... The head of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency is leaving. ... The chairman of the anthropology department at Washington University in St. Louis will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. ... A Princeton University professor has been named poetry editor of The New Yorker.