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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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Connecticut Public Colleges Lose 200 Professors to Early Retirement
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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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July 20, 2007
Education Conservancy Plans Forum on College Rankings
Critics of commercial rankings of colleges and universities may want to mark September 25 on their calendars. That’s when the Education Conservancy plans to sponsor a daylong conference on developing alternatives for providing students and families with information about colleges. The event follows up on a meeting last month at which the presidents of a group of liberal-arts colleges asked the conservancy’s director to help develop an alternative tool for comparing colleges.
Yale University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions will play host to the conference, in New Haven, Conn. Organizers plan to invite education leaders, including college presidents, the heads of associations, and researchers, who might help ponder how a national, Web-based information system would work, what data it would include, and who should design and finance it, among other questions.
The conference, called “Beyond Ranking: Responding to the Call for Useful Information,” is by invitation only. Those interested in attending may contact Lloyd Thacker, the Education Conservancy’s director, at lthacker@educationconservancy.org —Eric Hoover
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