Business demand edge out minorities

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The rate of increase in the number of minorities and women serving as presidents of universities in the United States is slowing as an increasing number of schools are turning to non-academics to take on a job that is becoming increasingly complicated, according to a report by the American Council on Education. The report revealed that while the typical president of an American university is a married, 57-year old white male with a doctoral degree who has held his office for 6.6 years, 15% of presidents now come from outside higher education, almost twice as many as three years ago.

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Harvard report supports Summers' reforms

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It has been concluded by a group of Harvard University professors that President Lawrence Summers was right when he restructured the various fiefdoms at the university into a more centralised system. Dr Summers was forced out of office by faculty angered at his efforts to regulate the independent undergraduate college and graduate schools of the university.

Evaluation, Harvard University, Summers, Lawrence H.

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Bad scholarship or the wrong kind of politics?

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American academics believe the firing of Ward Churchill, professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, for alleged academic misconduct is part of a government effort aimed at restricting freedom of speech in universities.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, University of Colorado, Scholars, Freedom of expression, Churchill, Ward

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