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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Jill Biden Shines a Global Spotlight on American Community Colleges
Speaking at a Unesco conference in Paris, the vice president’s wife stressed the importance of two-year institutions to the nation’s educational goals.
Connecticut Public Colleges Lose 200 Professors to Early Retirement
Administrators are scrambling to plug holes in their course schedules for fall, with most expecting to do so by hiring more adjuncts or increasing class sizes.
U. of Georgia Paid 2 Fraternities $2.4-Million to Relocate, Contracts Show
The two were among five with houses on property where the university plans to build new academic facilities.
New Allegations in Admissions Controversy at U. of Illinois Suggest Ex-Provost Played a Role
Linda P.B. Katehi, the incoming chancellor of the University of California at Davis, has insisted she knew nothing of the admission of politically connected applicants at Illinois.
Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
The foundation will be forced to issue fewer scholarships in the 2010-11 academic year because of a diminished endowment, a university official said.
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February 2, 2007
U. of Michigan Settles Decade-Old Lawsuit Over Admissions Preferences
The lawsuit that led the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the University of Michigan’s point-based system of undergraduate admissions preferences for certain minority groups was settled this week. According to The Ann Arbor News, the university agreed to pay $10,000 to each of the two white plaintiffs who sued in 1997 on the grounds that the university’s admissions system discriminated against them. In a 2003 ruling, the Supreme Court found the preferences to be unconstitutional and ordered the case returned to a lower court for proceedings to determine what damages the plaintiffs were entitled to. Under this week’s deal, which a judge approved on Wednesday, the plaintiffs — Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher — agreed to drop their claims against the university.
The deal also decertifies the case as a class action, potentially sparing the university an onslaught of lawsuits by thousands of other white students who were denied admission while the point-based system was in place.
Quite a lot has changed on the affirmative-action front since 2003. At the same time it struck down the undergraduate-admissions system, the Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that the Michigan law school’s form of affirmative action was acceptable, a decision that made it appear that the practice had won new life. But Michigan voters last fall overwhelmingly approved a new constitutional amendment that bars all affirmative-action preferences in public higher education, and the University of Michigan says it is complying with the measure. Among the leaders of the campaign to enact that amendment was Ms. Gratz.
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