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Previous daily news updates MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2000 Among the top stories: Support for campus diversity does not mean support for preferences, survey finds ... N.C.A.A. rejects call to move Final Four from Georgia over Confederate symbol in state's flag ... 3 police officers are awarded $4-million in race-bias suit against Cal State U. at Fresno ... Egyptian authorities release sociologist at American University in Cairo ... Colombian rebels free scientists and students who were held as hostages. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2000 Among the top stories: Clinton announces new benefits for student-loan borrowers ... Education Dept. proposes to exempt public colleges from rules on extending student-aid eligibility to branch campuses ... Northeastern University gets 25% more freshmen than it expected ... Students from Central African Republic end takeover of embassy in Moscow ... New Zealand university investigates enrollment of doctoral student linked to neo-Nazi groups in Germany ... American Sociological Association to honor 9 scholars at meeting in Washington. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2000 Among the top stories: Top 2 officials to step down at fledgling Colorado Institute of Technology ... Arctic is warmer than it has been in 400 years, study finds ... Federal agencies award $5.5-million for women's health research. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2000 Among the top stories: Study finds tobacco use by nearly half of U.S. college students surveyed ... Men's Health ranks best and worst colleges for male students ... U. of South Pacific reopens 2 months after political turmoil caused shutdown ... 4 libraries announce major acquisitions. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2000 Among the top stories: Gore's pick for running mate is supporter of science research, critic of political correctness ... Investigators dismiss accusations of sex bias at Florida State U.'s law school ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 6 colleges. MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2000 Among the top stories: Carnegie issues broad changes in system of classifying colleges ... Bookseller to pay $15.5-million settlement in fraud lawsuit by states ... Macedonia allows creation of private university for ethnic Albanians. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 2000 Among the top stories: George W. Bush accepts G.O.P. nomination, lays out plan for schools ... Contract of former president of Central Missouri State U. is voided in narrow vote ... 14 new chief executives announced. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2000 Among the top stories: Republicans rediscover an old foe: political correctness in the academy ... Education Dept. issues proposed rules on student-loan forgiveness and defaults ... Researchers map genome of bacterium that causes cholera ... Russia's largest bank offers the country's first student loans ... Zimbabwe closes 3 colleges after students protest end of meal subsidies ... National Science Foundation awards $49-million for science and engineering research. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2000 Among the top stories: Economics trumps social issues as students rally behind Republican speakers ... Billionaire pledges to raise $91-million to establish center to study early learning ... Fraternity reaches $2-million settlement in student's death at U. of Texas ... Ivy League strips Brown U. of recruits and eligibility for championships ... Yemen's leading university is accused of maintaining an illegal prison ... African students free official they detained in protest at embassy in Moscow. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2000 Among the top stories: Republican platform calls for limiting use of student fees for political causes ... Urban colleges must work for the betterment of their communities, panelists agree ... Sallie Mae takes control of USA Group, a major player in the student-loan industry. MONDAY, JULY 31, 2000 Among the top stories: Federal program to encourage doctors to work in poor areas runs out of money ... U. of Phoenix chief takes a new post in the company ... U. of Hawaii criticized after athletics officials attribute logo change to dislike of gay symbol ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 9 colleges. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2000 Among the top stories: U. of Florida researchers come up with a new way to rank universities, without a No. 1 ... Senate-House conferees approve more money for N.I.H. and Pell Grants ... Education Dept. proposes ways to forgive loans to students victimized by trade schools ... Most student borrowers pay off loans within 4 years, study finds ... Ecology society honors researchers, graduate students, and others ... 9 new chief executives announced. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2000 Among the top stories: Judge has authority to reinstate fired U. of Arizona professor, state appeals court rules ... Federal student-aid office plans first step to streamline computer systems ... Turkmenistan's president calls for stiffer admissions standards ... Updates on 6 capital campaigns. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2000 Among the top stories: Use of race in admissions at U. of Georgia is struck down by federal judge ... Bush's running-mate choice may offer a new forum for Mrs. Cheney's strong views on academe ... Nigerian faculty members threaten strike over government support for higher education ... South African university starts postdoctoral fellowship to compete internationally for scientific talent. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2000 Among the top stories: Administrative costs' share of federal research spending at colleges is not rising, White House says ... Number of people getting high-school-equivalency diplomas rose 4.5% in a year ... Big study of college endowments will be conducted online ... Georgia governor who created scholarships is named to Senate ... Humanities endowment awards $18.9-million in grants to scholars and universities. MONDAY, JULY 24, 2000 Among the top stories: Congress gives colleges a billion-dollar bonanza in earmarked projects ... Senate committee passes measure to extend AmeriCorps program for 5 more years ... Research suspension at Tulsa medical campus of U. of Oklahoma results in resignations ... U. of Nebraska wins battle with shopkeeper over right to "Husker" name ... Students and faculty members protest closure of U.S.-style university in Azerbaijan ... NACUBO recognizes 7 universities for innovations and improvements. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2000 Among the top stories: U.S. medical schools should raise enrollments to fill residencies, physician argues ... Physicists discover a new fundamental particle ... Saint Joseph's U. in Beirut becomes center for anti-Syrian activism in Lebanon ... Complaint by scholar at U. of Hong Kong sparks debate over academic freedom ... Federal agency gives $2.1-million to support library projects. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2000 Among the top stories: Older adults are eager to learn but are weary of classrooms, report says ... Accreditor puts Newberry College on probation for financial and planning problems ... Britain announces new funds for universities to recruit professors and low-income students ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 14 colleges. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2000 Among the top stories: General Motors files court brief defending affirmative action at U. of Michigan ... Senate approves increases for cultural endowments ... Emory U. settles with ex-professor whom it had accused of vandalism ... Panel calls for major reorganization of South Africa's university system ... 3 scholars to receive Freedom Forum journalism-teaching awards. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2000 Among the top stories: Iowa State U. Press will become part of international scientific publishing house ... Professor accuses college of applying "loyalty oath" in shelving his course proposal ... Hoping to create U.S.-style hub of learning, Singapore gives its universities more autonomy. MONDAY, JULY 17, 2000 Among the top stories: Newspaper raises questions about Republican donor's landing of U. of California contract ... Senate votes to kill estate tax; measure could reduce gifts to colleges ... Pomona College professor wages hunger strike, says race bias cost him tenure ... U. of Toronto announces largest fund-raising campaign by Canadian institution ... Report documents drop in government support for universities in New Zealand. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2000 Among the top stories: Florida judge upholds plan to end use of race in university admissions ... Colleges should recruit aggressively to diversify ranks of scientists, report says ... Indiana U. is urged to defend free speech in wake of threat to critic of coach. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2000 Among the top stories: U. of California scholar's use of public resources to fight tobacco is legal, court says ... Judge orders trial to determine damages in U. of Colorado's patent suit against drug company ... Governors announce 3-year focus on higher education ... Oxford University Press hires Pfund away from New York University Press ... Bowdoin College sues former controller on accusations of embezzlement ... Iranian court acquits former police chief charged in attack on U. of Tehran dormitory. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2000 Among the top stories: New human-research office suspends studies at Tulsa medical campus of U. of Oklahoma ... States are urged to create agencies to govern links between colleges and schools ... Mounting debt and dwindling enrollments force Vermont's Trinity College to close. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2000 Among the top stories: Federal judge blocks unapproved use of state funds by 2 black colleges in Mississippi ... East Timor plans to open a national university this fall ... 9 new chief executives announced. MONDAY, JULY 10, 2000 Among the top stories: College's fraternity rule does not violate antitrust laws, federal judge rules ... Human-rights groups warn of dangers to Afghan academics in exile in Pakistan ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 10 colleges. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2000 Among the top stories: Study finds 8-percent gender gap in faculty merit raises at Cal State U. ... Former pharmaceutical chief is named to head Educational Testing Service ... Colleges can tell parents about students' alcohol or drug use, Education Dept. says ... Little is changed in latest draft of Education Department guidelines on standardized tests ... Muslim and Christian groups trade blame for destruction of university in Indonesia ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 8 colleges and 1 association. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 2000 Among the top stories: Facing lawsuits, U. of Georgia suspends scholarship for black students ... Britain plans to spend $1.2-billion to improve science laboratories and stipends ... Updates on 8 capital campaigns. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2000 Among the top stories: University can be held liable for actor's onstage stabbing, Texas Supreme Court rules ... Duke U. business school forms company to provide custom educational services to industry ... Whitman Education Group will pay $7.3-million to settle students' class action ... Belarussian language is threatened by a lack of higher education in that tongue, group says ... Australia and Indonesia agree to expand higher-education cooperation. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2000 Independence Day holiday. MONDAY, JULY 3, 2000 Among the top stories: U. of Oregon to settle with professor who says motherhood cost her tenure ... Senate approves increases for Pell Grants and N.I.H.; Clinton vows veto ... State appeals court gives hope to U. of Illinois graduate assistants' labor-union effort ... 5,000 experts agree: H.I.V. causes AIDS, and arguments to the contrary will cost countless lives ... Community college association elects a new president ... Arizona, U.C.L.A., and Texas Tech are fined for using ineligible basketball players ... Police detain sociologist at American University in Cairo ... Junta in Myanmar permits colleges to reopen. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2000 Among the top stories: Supreme Court declines to hear Title IX appeal on the elimination of men's teams ... U. of Texas System is first public university to win highest bond rating from top 3 agencies ... Students need meningitis information and access to a vaccine, C.D.C. panel concludes ... Violent clash at university in Sudan leaves 1 student dead and others injured ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 7 colleges. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2000 Among the top stories: Lawmakers and college officials urge Congress to sharply raise spending on education ... Advanced Placement scores are inflated, Yale professor says ... Columbia U. to build apartment-school complex to draw professors with families ... University group calls for testing of researchers who work with human subjects ... U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities settles bias suit brought by gay employee ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 7 colleges. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2000 Among the top stories: A.C.L.U. lawsuit charges that Michigan's merit-scholarship program is discriminatory ... Donor pledges $80-million to translate genomic map into cures for disease ... Expanding its reach in higher education, Kaplan buys Quest, a chain of commercial colleges ... College Board parts ways with the head of its for-profit Web site after just 3 months ... Hebrew U. of Jerusalem accedes to religious activists and turns over ancient bones for burial ... In Russia, a student's impertinent letter to the president costs her a career in medicine. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2000 Among the top stories: The race to map the human genome is largely complete, competing teams announce ... Education Dept. fines Mount St. Clare College for withholding crime data ... M.I.T. professor says Pentagon sought to silence his criticism of antimissile program ... Eckerd College president to retire after endowment is found to be short $19-million ... Study says law schools favor white applicants over their minority peers with the same grades ... Oxford, angry over criticism of admissions policies, rules out honorary degree for Tony Blair. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2000 Among the top stories: Gore calls for $2.3-billion technology-training program ... California lawmakers approve 19% increase for higher education, but governor may pare measure ... Flooding devastates North Dakota State U. ... Foundation plans to spend $150-million to improve training of school leaders ... Enrollment in degree programs at U. of Phoenix grows by 22% ... Computer scientist, biologist, philosopher win Kyoto Prizes. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2000 Among the top stories: Report warns that drop in science enrollments poses threat to U.S. economy ... Senate panel votes increases for cultural endowments and tribal colleges ... House backs funds for N.S.F. and NASA, but none for AmeriCorps, ensuring a veto ... Most Americans favor cutting men's sports to add women's, poll finds ... New Zealand scholar wins a key point in defamation suit brought by former Prime Minister. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2000 Among the top stories: Physicians who prescribe religion misuse medicine and spirituality, article suggests ... Presidential summit focuses on helping disabled youths make transition to college and careers ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 6 colleges. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2000 Among the top stories: Anti-sweatshop group votes to require members to demand locations of apparel factories ... George W. Bush proposes $1-billion program to increase Pell Grants for math and science students ... Head of human-research office recuses himself from investigation of study he helped oversee ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 7 colleges. TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2000 Among the top stories: Underage students can get alcohol easily and cheaply, Harvard study finds ... Black colleges in Mississippi are ordered to give priority to recruiting white students ... Canadian group lifts limits on athletics scholarships to better compete with U.S. colleges ... 10 new chief executives announced. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2000 Among the top stories: House votes to freeze spending on cultural endowments ... N.L.R.B. lets stand decision allowing professors at a private college to unionize ... Ethicists wary of Boston U.'s role in venture to sell analyses of Framingham heart study ... Security breaches could cost U. of California its Los Alamos contract, energy secretary says ... Texas A&M; University will suspend its annual bonfire till 2002 ... U. of Michigan to divest itself of tobacco stocks ... Appeals court denies workers'-compensation claim by paralyzed athlete ... Stanford U. removes ads from football stadium and basketball arena ... Peru plans university in the Amazon with environmental focus ... More Asian universities join boycott of magazine's rankings. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2000 Among the top stories: In a merger of student-loan giants, Sallie Mae plans to buy much of USA Group ... President unveils effort to double the number of Hispanic college graduates ... U. of Illinois at Chicago trustees favor stealth candidate for chancellorship, sources say ... 10 new chief executives announced. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2000 Among the top stories: Sallie Mae is poised to acquire another major lender, sources say ... Company will offer free SAT-preparation courses on the Internet ... Death threat spurs critic of Bob Knight to take unpaid leave from Indiana U. ... House votes increases for Pell and N.I.H., but veto threat looms over GEAR UP funds ... China tests database to crack down on counterfeit college degrees ... New degrees, majors, or programs announced by 10 colleges. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2000 Among the top stories: MacArthur Foundation names 25 fellows ... House seeks investigation of Education Dept.'s susceptibility to fraud ... U.S. workers value general skills over specific ones, survey on education finds ... U. of Tennessee restructures tutoring program for athletes ... Program will enroll students simultaneously at rival North Carolina universities ... Beaver College to change its name and seek university standing ... British minister seeks to create body to investigate college students' complaints ... 11 chief executives announced. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2000 Among the top stories: House votes to require colleges to identify sex offenders ... Mix-up forces cancellation of English-language test for 18,000 students in Asia ... 19 countries in Indian Ocean region start new student-exchange program ... Six universities and a library group are honored for controlling costs. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2000 Among the top stories: Student borrowers get more time to take advantage of low interest rates ... 3 institutions are added to A.A.U.P. censure lists, and 2 are removed ... A.A.U.P. approves statements on graduate students, faculty workload, and Catholic colleges ... Clinton, in final commencement speech as president, extols his administration's record ... Champlain College decides to drop all 3 of its intercollegiate sports teams. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2000 Among the top stories: Appeals court rejects student newspaper's challenge to ban on alcohol ads ... Gates Foundation awards scholarships in new program for minority students ... 10 new chief executives announced. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2000 Among the top stories: Vatican backs rules for Catholic colleges that spur concerns about academic freedom ... 2 Detroit Catholic colleges will join forces, with help from pizza magnate ... House panel votes less for science than Clinton sought, and nothing for AmeriCorps ... Spring commencement speakers are announced by 3 colleges. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2000 Among the top stories: Academics and industry issue pact to guide the evolution of scholarly publishing ... Director is named for office that will assume monitoring of human-subjects research ... U. of Melbourne is criticized over public stock offering of spinoff I.T. company ... 11 new chief executives announced. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2000 Among the top stories: Anti-terrorism panel advises government to track foreign students in the U.S. ... Britain's elite universities exclude many low-income students, report says ... Education Dept. awards $43-million to support technology in the classroom ... 10 new chief executives announced. MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2000 Among the top stories: Arrests at U.S. colleges surge for alcohol and drug violations ... College guides to acknowledge that institutions may pay for favorable coverage ... U.S. universities form network to support persecuted foreign scholars ... Protesters block faculty vote on fate of narrative evaluations at Santa Cruz ... U. of Toledo president is ousted after months of turmoil ... 4 Russian universities receive $1-million grants to support science research ... 10 new chief executives announced. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 Among the top stories: Book that challenges office hierarchies costs the author his day job ... N.C.A.A. punishes Cal State-Northridge for football violations ... Updates on 6 capital campaigns ... Spring commencement speakers are announced by 11 colleges. THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000 Among the top stories: Asian-American scholars call for U.S. lab boycott to protest treatment of Los Alamos scientist ... Blue-ribbon panel on college-sports issues will reconvene this fall ... U. of Cambridge may end Shakespeare requirement for students of English ... Spring commencement speakers are announced by 13 colleges. Browse earlier months' news Browse 1999 news Browse 1998 news Browse 1997 news Browse 1996 news