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June 15, 2009, 12:14 PM ET
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In other news …
Elsa Murano, the first female and first Hispanic president of Texas A&M University, resigned abruptly on Sunday, just one day before the A&M System’s Board of Regents was meeting to discuss her job, The Chronicle reports. The University of Central Arkansas’s governing board voted last Thursday, by a margin of 5-2, to offer Allen C. Meadors, the longtime chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the job of UCA president, ArkansasOnline reports. The University of Wisconsin at Madison has picked Paul M. DeLuca Jr., vice dean of the university’s School of Medicine and Public Health, as its next provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, according to a university press release. The University of Minnesota is planning to cut a total of 1,240 faculty, administrative, and staff positions next year as part of an effort to plug a projected $95-million budget hole, Minnesota Public Radio reports. While many of the job cuts are expected to come from attrition and jobs left unfilled, UM President Robert Bruininks predicts that there will be at least 400 layoffs, MPR writes. The only good news: Student tuition will rise only $300 next year.
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