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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.
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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 10, 2008
Iran Replaces Tehran U.'s Leader After Student Protests
Iran’s government has replaced the president of Tehran University, a conservative Islamic cleric whose controversial appointment in late 2005 prompted student protests and concerns over academic freedom, after allegations of mismanagement, the Associated Press reported, citing an announcement in the state news media.
The former university chief, Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani, has been replaced by Farhad Rahbar, a professor of economics, the government-owned newspaper IRAN reported on Saturday. The announcement came after several student demonstrations over the past two weeks, in which protesters accused Mr. Zanjani and his administration of mismanagement and providing students with poor food and transportation. The minister of higher education, Mohammad Mahdi Zahedi, said Mr. Rahbar had been chosen because he was “capable, intelligent, a team-worker, persevering, and caring,” but provided no details of why Mr. Zanjani was being replaced.
Iran’s hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appointed Mr. Zanjani in November 2005, reversing a precedent in which university leaders had been chosen by university members. A cleric had never before held the position. Even as Mr. Zanjani was being installed as president, hundreds of students protested the “undemocratic way” in which he had been appointed, according to news reports at the time. —Charles Huckabee
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