The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor Carlos Santiago is presenting his $50 million plan for the School of Freshwater Sciences and an expansion of the Great Lakes Research Center to the UW Board of Regents Dec. 10.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The Board of Regents oversees the administration of the Prelacy-affiliated Armenian schools.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Board of Regents approved an agenda for the 2010 session of the Kentucky General Assembly today during its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting. The agenda supports the vision, mission and strategic goals of KCTCS, along with the 2...
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Board of Regents approved an agenda for the 2010 session of the Kentucky General Assembly today during its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting. The agenda supports the vision, mission and strategic goals of KCTCS, along with the 2008-2020 Plan for a Competitive Commonwealth that is designed to transform the state’s economy...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The proposed partnership between the University of California and Los Angeles County to open a new hospital in South Los Angeles moved closer to reality with the recent unanimous approval of the UC Board of Regents. The County Board of Supervisors' ratification, by acclamation, this week the agreement to provide urgently needed inpatient and emergency services to residents of South...
Progressive Alaska (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
--- by E. Ross Bent Alaska and the UA student, staff and faculty group asking the Board of Regents to add sexual orientation to the UA non-discrimination policy both got an unusual Facebook friend request the day after Thanksgiving: from Dave Bronson, of the anti-gay Alaska Family Council. Why did Bronson ask to friend us three days before the regents meeting at UAA, when it was...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Applicants will need to take four math courses and take math as seniors in high school Students applying to the state university system will have to take four math courses and take math their last year in high school under new admissions requirements passed Friday by the Board of Regents.
The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Buffalo Board of Education and its Superintendent of Schools, Dr. James Williams, last evening did their best imitation of famed boxer Roberto Duran, when he got pounded in his 1981 rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard for the middleweight title. "No Mas!" when it comes to charter schools.At Dr. Williams' request, the board voted 6-2 on a resolution to submit a letter to the state...
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Nevada Board of Regents is scheduled to discuss whether to extend an exemption more employees from furloughs in the Nevada System of Higher Education during a two-day meeting convening Thursday in Las Vegas.
Tuttle SVC (Free subscription) | yesterday
To the Board of Regents and Commissioner Gist, I am writing in support of the students, teachers and other members of the Hope High School community who spoke at the December 3rd meeting of the Board of Regents. Their concerns speak directly to the credibility and integrity of the Board's ongoing and future reform initiatives. In a letter to his fellow Regents...
The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week the Buffalo Board of Education, at the request of its Superintendent, Dr. James Williams, approved a resolution requesting the state Board of Regents impose a moratorium on new charter schools.Today's Buffalo News publishes a response from me critical of the board and superintendent. I also posted a lengthier critique on The Chalkboard (here).Buffalo has...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... crops, soil science and horticulture at what was called then the College of Agriculture. The UC Board of Regents voted in July to grant special honorary degrees to hundreds of men and women who had to quit their studies at UC campuses as a result of the executive order that sent Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals to internment camps. Among those still alive who will be honored...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... crops, soil science and horticulture at what was called then the College of Agriculture. The UC Board of Regents voted in July to grant special honorary degrees to hundreds of men and women who had to quit their studies at UC campuses as a result of the executive order that sent Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals to internment camps. Among those still alive who will be honored...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... SDSU. President David Chicoine could probably get by with a 100% cut to his $300K salary from the Board of Regents, since he can supplement his income with the $400K in benefits he gets from serving on the corporate board of Monsanto . Does Burg have a winner here? Do state employees at the bottom of the totem pole need a pay boost? Should we ask the state's upper management...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Brooklyn Dreams Charter School opens in Flatbush, P.S. 217 will suffer, parents say.Brooklyn Dreams, which was approved by the State University of New York (SUNY) Charter School Institute and is currently awaiting the state Board of Regents’ final...
