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While the English Language Institute will remain open for at least one more year, faculty, staff and students are scrambling to make the most of the ELI’s services amid an uncertain future.

Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University ended the Faculty Senate, among other changes that drew faculty criticism. Now, the university president has written a blog post mulling firing certain dissenters.

West Virginia University administrators have now abandoned their proposed changes to how faculty members are evaluated, promoted and terminated, following faculty members’ vote last month in opposition. The University Assembly, which includes all WVU faculty members, has approximately 2,700 members. Of those, 715 participated in the vote, with 494 voting against a resolution

CANTON — The State University of New York has selected SUNY Canton Professor Maureen P. Maiocco, Ed.D., for induction into the Distinguished Academy. Maiocco received the title of Distinguished Teaching

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After many years of steady growth, 12 of the 16 universities in the UNC System saw their student populations decline this past fall. As enrollment shrinks, so will their budgets.

North Idaho College received an action letter of “show cause” Thursday from its accrediting organization.

Health-related research accounted for about 70 percent of research expenditures in FY 2022, according to a report on GW’s research enterprise.

Faculty senators will vote on proposed changes to the Faculty Organization Plan during the Faculty Senate meeting Friday.

NIC board of trustees voted unanimously Wednesday night to explore giving the student body president a seat at its table.