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Business schools step up recruiting as enrollments fall

November 8, 2010

NEW YORK (USANN4)--The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. business schools are increasing their international recruiting efforts. That’s because most of them are facing a decline in applications from...

Southwestern College Foundation spending questioned

November 5, 2010

  Staff Report SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE -- Adela C. Garcia, a former president of the Southwestern College Foundation says that since she left, the organization has diverted money from scholarships for...

Controversy lingers at SDSU over community college admissions policy

November 4, 2010

Staff Report SAN DIEGO -- The bill has been signed into law but controversy still continues at San Diego State over legislation by Assemblyman Marty Block easing transfers from community colleges to the...

Gaza fundraiser at Rutgers stirs controversy

November 4, 2010

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (USANN4) -- Student organizations at Rutgers University in New Jersey are in a dispute over a controversial fund-raiser.   The event this week was originally intended to raise funds...

AAUP protests LSU plans to drop German and Latin professors

November 3, 2010

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (USANN4)--A professors’ association wants Louisiana State University to drop plans to lay off 14 foreign-language instructors.   The school informed the instructors that their...

UC Berkeley charges over $50,000 yearly to students from out of state

November 2, 2010

BERKELEY, California (USANN4)--For the first time, a public university is joining the $50,000-a-year club.   The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that 100 institutions are charging $50,000 or more...

Man faces death penalty in sexual assault and murder of Northern Illinois University freshman

November 1, 2010

DEKALB, Illinois (USANN4) -- An Illinois man is facing the death penalty if convicted of the murder of a college freshman.   William Curl is accused of killing Northern Illinois University freshman...

Wind gusts preceded tower toppling at Notre Dame

October 29, 2010

NOTRE DAME, Indiana (USANN4)-- Notre Dame’s athletic director says a gust of wind preceded an accident that left a junior film student dead.   Declan Sullivan was filming football practice from a hydraulic...

Toy rifle prompts scare on Texas A&M campus

October 29, 2010

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (USANN4)--A man with a replica weapon triggered a scare  Thursday at Texas A & M University.   A partial lockdown and campus-wide alert system went into effect after a bus...

Public college tuition rising across the country

October 28, 2010

NEW YORK (USANN4)--College costs continue to climb.   The College Board reports that in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities are up almost eight percent from a year ago.  ...

Student photographer killed as tower blows over in high wind

October 28, 2010

NOTRE DAME, Indiana (USANN4)-- Investigators are looking into an accident at the University of Notre Dame which killed a student.   Twenty-year-old Declan Sullivan died after the tower from which he...

Central Washington University bans alcoholic energy drinks

October 26, 2010

ELLENSBURG, Washington (USANN4) -- Another university has banned so-called alcoholic “energy drinks.”   The announcement by Central Washington University came following the hospitalization of nine...

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