Recently added articles from University Business:

Are loyalty oaths really necessary?(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)

Jun 01, 2008; Goral, Tim ... WENDY GONAVER LOST HER TEACHING job at California State University, Fullerton in May because she refused to sign a state-mandated loyalty oath for all state employees. Gonaver, a practicing Quaker and pacifist, believes the oath is an infringement on her religious beliefs and her rights to ...

Taxing conversations.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; McClure, Ann ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST CONGRESS STARTED INQUIRING about how endowments at higher ed institutions are managed and about the relationship between those endowments, tuition, and fees. Now the state legislature in Massachusetts has approved a study to investigate applying a ...

California students take the lead in protesting funding cuts.(BEHIND the NEWS)

Jun 01, 2008; Herrmann, Michele ... HIGHER ED OFFICIALS IN California aren't the only ones worried about how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed $1 billion cut will impact the state's three-tiered college system educationally and financially. Students have big concerns as well--and they have taken them to the streets. ...

Between the lines.(BEHIND the NEWS)(The Last Lecture)(Brief article)(Book review)

Jun 01, 2008; Herrmann, Michele ... The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow Hyperion, 2008; 206 pp.; $21.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SHORTLY AFTER RANDY PAUSCH DELIVERED his "last lecture" at Carnegie Melton University (Pa.) in September 2007, his talk became an ...

Wesleyan U students establish endowment.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Wesleyan University )(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; Herrmann, Michele ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STUDENT ASSEMBLIES HAVE had partial involvement with endowments, such as voicing opinions on how and where to invest and spend. Students at Wesleyan University (Conn.) have taken a step further by establishing their own endowment, perhaps the first college ...

Sound bite.(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; Crawford, Susan P. ... 'Publishers have created a marker for course materials that is very similar to the market for luxury ...

Welcome to Streamlined.

Jun 01, 2008; Hatton, Dean ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Greetings. Welcome back to Streamlined. Higher One, in concert with University Business, is proud to present this series of publications designed to inform college and university administrators about new and innovative methods of streamlining ...

One card yields many benefits at Sam Houston State: University makes life easier for students with Higher One Bearkat OneCard.

Jun 01, 2008 ... For students at Sam Houston State University, a slim wallet-size card is the key to getting financial aid refunds, a paycheck from a campus job, access to the dorm, a good book, a good meal and more. The Bearkat OneCard from Higher One is truly the one card that students need at ...

Higher One gives Webster University the benefits of electronic refunds without the worries of storing banking data.

Jun 01, 2008; Fredrick, Vickie ... Vickie Fredrick is associate vice president for finance at Webster University in St. Louis. The university was looking to distribute refunds electronically but did not want to obtain and store student banking information itself, so it turned to Higher One. Ms. Frederick and her colleagues, ...

$6,771.(DATA POINT)

Jun 01, 2008 ... $6,771--FY 2007 per student state and local appropriations for education in ...

Going from utility to university.(PEOPLE WATCH)(Judith Johansen becomes president of Marylhurst University )(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; Herrmann, Michele ... THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT Marylhurst University (Ore.) didn't have to look far for a successor to Nancy Wilgenbusch, who is retiring after almost a quarter century as president. In fact, their selection lives so close to the institution, she even walks her dogs there. That person ...

Procuring local produce.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; McClure, Ann ... AN IMPEDIMENT TO INITIATIVES FOR EATING LOCAL AT HIGHER ED institutions is often credibility, something Paul Wigsten, the newly minted farm liaison at the Culinary Institute of America (N.Y.), doesn't have to worry about since he's a farmer himself. In addition to meeting with ...

Contest: innovative mobile apps.(BEHIND the NEWS)

Jun 01, 2008; Ezarik, Melissa ... AT&T IS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE BEST new mobile applications that enhance academic performance, build campus community, or help to improve campus security operations. Where better to look for creative application developers than on campus? The Big Mobile on Campus Challenge is ...

VoIP use grows at colleges and universities.(BEHIND the NEWS)

Jun 01, 2008; Goral, Tim ... ALTHOUGH A NEW SURVEY SAYS A GROWING NUMBER OF COLLEGES and universities have signed on to Voice-over-IP technology, it continues to see limited use on the average campus. The survey, by ACUTA, the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, showed that 66 ...

$14.5 million.(DATA POINT)

Jun 01, 2008 ... $14.5 million--Donations from those working in education to the ...

Adopting diversity.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008 ... EFFORTS TO INCREASE DIVERSITY on campus are as varied as the institutions that run them. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Officials at Georgetown College (Ky.), a small, co-ed liberal arts institution with a current minority enrollment of 7 percent, have come up with a new ...

Help Roanoke pick a mascot.(BEHIND the NEWS)(Brief article)

Jun 01, 2008; Goral, Tim ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] QUESTION: WHAT IS A MAROON? a. It's a color somewhere between red and brown. b. It's one-fifth of a popular recording act. c. It's the name given to 18th-century slaves who escaped to the West Indies. d. It's ...

Keeping costs down: strategies that could work.(STATS WATCH)

Jun 01, 2008 ... WITH 60 PERCENT OF COLLEGE finance officers reporting that they spent more time in the past year compared to the previous one thinking about affordability and accessibility, and the vast majority expecting tuition rate increases to continue outpacing inflation, it's no surprise that these ...

The windfall gift: what large gifts mean for endowment managers and other campus leaders.(ENDOWMENT MANAGEMENT)

Jun 01, 2008; Logue, Ann C. ... IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR, SO we're hearing a lot about income and wealth inequality in the United States. The rich seem to be getting richer, in part because a few sectors of the economy are creating incredible wealth for those who participate in them. These people want their wealth to have ...

College search gone bad: top 10 search marketing mistakes made by colleges and universities.(VIEWPOINT)

Jun 01, 2008; Noaman, Abu ... JUST HOW POPULAR IS ONLINE search? More than 113 billion core searches were conducted in the U.S. in 2007, according to comScore, which maintains databases that provide real-time measurement of the internet's use. That's about 310 million searches per day. No wonder Merriam-Webster's ...