College Leader Takes Over Effort to Train New Campus Chiefs

The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 21, 2013

Juniata College President Thomas R. Kepple Jr. is about to take the reins at one of the country's few organizations that specialize in training potential college and university presidents: American Academic Leadership Institute.

Fisk University Begins ‘Renaissance’ With Revamped Board of Trustees

Diverse Magazine

May 20, 2013

Fisk University, asserting it has begun “a renaissance” of the historic institution, has overhauled its board of trustees, putting more members with extensive business and financial experience in key positions as it seeks to preserve its accreditation.

Three Out of 2U

Inside Higher Ed

May 17, 2013

Despite a year of considerable hype as leading colleges and universities created online partnerships to try to redefine higher education, a recent spate of strong faculty reactions make clear that tradition will not change easily or silently, especially at institutions with a strong history of faculty influence. The decisions by the three universities (Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester) offer a spectrum of reactions to a new wave of online learning and the companies that are trying to drive that change.

Hiram College president Tom Chema to exit post

Crain's Cleveland Business

May 16, 2013

Hiram College president Thomas V. Chema announced that he will step down at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year. He has led the small private college since 2003. Hiram said it has launched a national search for Mr. Chema's replacement. The next president is slated to begin July 1, 2014. Prior to his arrival at Hiram, Mr. Chema served as a partner at Arter & Hadden LLP in Cleveland.

Yale faces $165,000 fine after university 'fails to report' four sex offenses

New Haven, conn., Register

May 15, 2013

Yale University faces a $165,000 fine for “very serious and numerous” violations of the law requiring Yale to report incidents of crime on campus. The U.S. Department of Education, in an April 19 letter to President Richard Levin, charged that Yale did not report four “forcible sex offenses in its campus crime statistics,” two each in 2001 and 2002. Yale admitted the omission in 2004 and said it had implemented corrective action.

Wofford College announces its new president

Associated Press

May 15, 2013

Trustees voted Tuesday to name Nayef Samhat the private college's new leader. Samhat has served as provost and a political science and international studies professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, for the past four years. He will replace Benjamin Dunlap this summer. Dunlap, who has been Wofford's president since 2000, will take a yearlong sabbatical, then return as a humanities professor.