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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
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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May 26, 2006
Admissions Rarity: U. of Delaware Drops Early Decision
The University of Delaware will discontinue its early-decision admissions program this fall. In a message sent on Friday to an admissions e-mail list, Louis L. Hirsh, Delaware’s director of admissions, said his staff had concluded that early decision had “significant drawbacks” for applicants that outweighed its benefits.
“Families with financial need and students with outstanding academic records are at a disadvantage since early-decision programs force them to make a decision without being able to compare other colleges’ financial-aid and scholarship awards,” Mr. Hirsh wrote. “We found it equally troubling that, even though we assured them otherwise, many students still felt pressured into applying early decision because they believed that it would enhance their chances of gaining admission.”Relatively few colleges have dropped early-decision programs once they have established them. One of the few was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which ended the practice in 2002 (The Chronicle, May 3, 2002).
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