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Governor Brown’s proposed 2011-2012 budget cuts $500 million in state funding for U. California
$500 million in state funding will be cut from U. California’s budget if a new proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown is enacted. Under Brown’s plan, student and family contributions to the UC would exceed investment from the state for the first time in history.
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Obama nominates Ohio State’s Sullivan for assistant secretary of commerce
President Barack Obama nominated Kathy Sullivan, director of OSU's Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy, for an assistant secretary of commerce position, one of 41 presidential nominations sent to the Senate Wednesday for confirmation.
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2 Utah employees placed on leave after leaking security protocol
The U's administration placed two U safety employees on paid leave after they publicly announced certain security protocols concerning firearms. These are protocols that police use when they find themselves in a situation—protocols that are not publicly known.
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Summers to resume teaching at Harvard
Former Harvard U. President Lawrence H. Summers will resume teaching and research at the Kennedy School this month after serving as a top economic adviser at the White House for two years.
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Family angered by Ohio U’s letter
A computer glitch in Ohio University's Institutional Research data system brought an unwelcome surprise late October to the family of Andrea Robinson, a freshman who died of bacterial meningitis last year.
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U. California executives threaten legal action in demands for increased retirement benefits
A group of high-paid U. California executives are petitioning for increases in retirement benefits that amount to tens of millions of dollars, threatening legal action if the UC Board of Regents do not fulfill an agreement made more than 10 years ago. Of the 36 executives who signed a Dec.
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Sabbaticals under fire at public universities
Of the 3,340 full-time and 760 part-time faculty members in the U. Minnesota system, 104 went on sabbatical and 83 went on semester leave from 2009-10.
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Charges filed against former U. Kansas athletics officials
The former director of ticket operations at U. Kansas, Kassie Liebsch, resigned Thursday after the U.S. Attorneys General Office federally charged her and four other former Kansas Athletic officials with the “misappropriation” of tickets valued from $3 million to $5 million.
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Column: Florida’s flat tuition proposition a folly
How many credit hours are you taking this semester? Twelve? Fifteen? Eighteen? How would you feel if U. Central Florida decided to charge a flat tuition rate for full-time students no matter how many credit hours they were enrolled in?
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