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Suffolk University extends president’s contract

Two days after critics assailed its president’s outlandish compensation, Suffolk University extended the contract of David Sargent until 2013 Wednesday, in a deal that will pay him between $700,000 and $800,000 a year. Nicholas Macaronis, chairman of ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chronicle of Higher Education,  Harvard University,  John Quinn (politician)

Law school takes on its detractors

NORTH DARTMOUTH - The law school’s reputation is under siege, the morale of its faculty and students battered. Critics allege dismal bar exam passage rates and undistinguished faculty make Southern New England School of Law unworthy of affiliation with ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Robert Ward

Amid tumult, a degree of stability

Last September, Boston University was the first local college to sound the alarm on an impending financial crisis that would soon penetrate much of academia: President Robert Brown curbed spending, froze staff hiring, and halted construction. As the ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Brown,  Harvard University,  Daniel Webster,  Standard Poor's,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

At MIT, a new focus on generating 'people'

CAMBRIDGE - The students practice networking and hone “elevator pitches,’’ entrepreneurial ideas summarized in under a minute. They don blindfolds for team-building activities. Failure is met with candid critiques about their leadership styles. This ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Harvard University

Fear of college

In the public mind, “college” evokes images of storied institutions like Harvard or Amherst, with students and professors engaged in passionate debate within ivy-covered brick buildings bordering a leafy quad. But for half of today’s college students, ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

A better diet, under wraps

NORTH ANDOVER - Colleges trying to encourage a well-balanced diet have a message for students sizing up that all-you-can-eat smorgasbord in the dining hall: What you don’t know can help you. More than a dozen Massachusetts colleges have recently ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Babson College,  Tufts University,  Aviva,  Harvard University

UMass pushes for law school

University of Massachusetts officials have revived a controversial plan to open a public law school in the southeastern corner of the state as soon as next year, in a proposal that is likely to cause a new round of sparring in the politically charged ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jack Wilson,  Deval Patrick

UMass to recruit from the outside

AMHERST - Massachusetts’ financially strapped flagship university plans to aggressively recruit out-of-state students, who pay twice as much in tuition and fees as state residents, to help fund an ambitious effort to boost the college’s academic ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Harvard University

Harvard buys Updike archive

Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a Harvard library card and frequently visited the campus to research the contemporary culture that ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  John Updike,  Leslie A Morris,  Kurt Vonnegut,  Joyce Carol Oates

Blacks’ fight for tenure roils Emerson

In its 129-year history, Emerson College has granted tenure to just three black professors. Two of them had to sue for the distinction. Last year, when two more black scholars were up for tenure, school administrators denied them both, despite approval ...

From TRACY JAN, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

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