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Hope College's President James E. Bultman extends term
May 6, 2012Retiring Hope College President James E. Bultman will extend his term at the college for another school year as a committee searches for his replacement. Bultman was scheduled to retire on June 30. Hope College started the search process when Bultman announced his retirement a year ago. Hope's Board of Trustees concluded its spring meeting Friday, at which it received a report from its Presidential Search Committee, advising them the search should continue.
Cutbacks planned at Sweet Briar College
May 6, 2012Over the next two years, Sweet Briar plans to cut the equivalent of 11 full-time faculty positions, a mix of part-time and full-time employees, reducing the faculty size to 85 full time-equivalent positions. The college will eliminate the German and engineering management majors, along with a minor in law and society. Sweet Briar's central problem is that enrollment has fallen below the critical mass needed to support the college's programs and operations, president Jo Ellen Parker said. By expanding the student body and reducing the faculty size, Sweet Briar hopes to improve its financial outlook.
Q&A with incoming University of Tulsa president Geoffrey Orsak
May 6, 2012Geoffrey Orsak, 48, will become the 18th president of the University of Tulsa on July 1. The dean of the engineering school at Southern Methodist University had never been to Tulsa before the hiring process, but says he is quickly falling in love with the city. He sat for a 35-minute interview with the Tulsa World. Here are the highlights.
What's in a Name? For Yale in Singapore, a Whole Lot
May 6, 2012It was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in January 2009, that Richard C. Levin, president of Yale University, and Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National University of Singapore, began discussing what has become a deep-seated collaboration between the two institutions to create the first liberal-arts college in the island nation. But three years after that first handshake, Mr. Levin faces vocal campus resistance to the project, which is known as Yale-NUS College.
Paine facing millions in revenue shortfall, documents say
May 5, 2012According to documents obtained by the Augusta Chronicle, the private school had a $3.6 million shortfall as of March, which President George Bradley blamed on a drop to 800 full-time students - 50 below normal, state the minutes of a March 12 board of trustees executive committee meeting. Board Chairman Eddie Cheeks said at the meeting that the board had to make some decision as to how to remedy the situation. To meet payroll and projections through July, the school needs $4.8 million, the minutes indicate, but Paine also is looking at a cash deficit of almost $2 million as expenses surpass revenue through the same period.
Retired N.Y. college president to fill in at Bethune-Cookman University
May 5, 2012The Bethune-Cookman University board of trustees Friday approved Edison Jackson as interim president starting May 14, following the retirement of Trudie Kibbe Reed. Reed, the university's fifth president, retires after eight years as the president and the second woman leader after founder Mary McLeod Bethune. Jackson has a long history in higher education serving as president for 20 years of Medgar Evers College, one of 23 colleges in the City University of New York system, before retiring in 2009.
Car hits Urbana University president, his wife
May 4, 2012Urbana University's president and his wife sustained serious injuries after a vehicle struck them while they were walking and then fled the scene Thursday night. Stephen Jones, president of Urbana University, was at work Friday and talking with students. But he said he suffered a significant injury to his arm, and said his wife suffered a concussion, among other injuries. Jones will attend Urbana's graduation ceremonies today.
Coming Cuts
May 4, 2012It is certain that some faculty and staff members at National Louis University will lose their jobs as the university closes some departments, but the number depends on whom you ask. The university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors said Thursday that about 60 to 80 tenured and non-tenured faculty members would lose their jobs, which is about a fifth of the instructional staff at the institution. But Nivine Megahed, the university's president, said that the AAUP's numbers were inflated and might include faculty members who had been offered and accepted voluntary buyout offers.
Sending Catholics Running for Cover
May 4, 2012Vandy Catholic, an organization of 500 Catholic students at Vanderbilt University, will be moving its operation off-campus next year. The reason for the departure is the group's opposition to a longstanding nondiscrimination policy stipulating that all students are to be eligible for membership in registered student organizations. The question the Vanderbilt policy has raised among religious conservatives is whether such non-discrimination policies in reality constitute attempts on the part of left-leaning academicians to discourage religious organizations from operating on campus.
Faith Moves Off Campus
May 4, 2012Today, one in four Americans age 18 to 29 claims no religious affiliation. In this era, how does a Catholic college or university communicate to students the value of religion in society? We asked three presidents of Catholic colleges for their thoughts.
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