Inspired by the new all-star selection process in the National Hockey League, faculty at Landry College have voted to adopt a draft-style promotion process. Prior to the change, faculty were put through a rigorous selection process that included an extensive evaluation of their scholarship and teaching evaluations. Committees spent hours in emotionally and intellectually grueling [...]

by I.M. Knott-Tawkin Freelance Writer In a continuing effort to balance the state budget, incoming Governor Jane Kossack has announced a new cost-cutting benefit available to the state’s higher education institutions. The “adjunctivan” will circle the state, bringing qualified faculty members to remote locations, much as the bookmobile used to bring books to rural areas. [...]

In an effort to engage students in the behind-the-scenes governance practices of the university, DelMonte College hosted Board of Trustees Bobblehead Day last Friday. “We sent out emails announcing that the first 1,000 students to attend the voting session for the campus’s amendment to tenure practices would receive a free Marsh Chaumbers figurine!” announced DelMonte’s [...]

by Monty Tufnel Freelance Writer Dr. Leland Popovich, world renowned university and college change agent, and currently president of Smothers College, announced today that Ruth Fillmore would be his new employment representative. Prior to his presidency Popovich worked for five years with the firm Frost & Young, the nation’s oldest executive placement service. Fillmore, part [...]

by Erica Price Freelance Writer Headlines of budget cuts, hiring freezes, and elimination of academic and co-curricular programs paint a desperate picture of Porter State College in Waterville, Maine. As a result, President Avery Michaels knew she had to start paying closer attention to the impact of these cuts on campus life. Declining quality of [...]

by AJ Marshfield Freelance Writer As Angela Hammond stared out the window of her office onto the cold, bleak, gray campus, she heaved a heavy sigh. “There’s just nothing funny. Nothing.” Hammond, one of the top freelance contributors to the popular CronkNews.com, has hit an icy, slushy, annoying wall of writers’ block. “Typically I block [...]

by Barbara P. Murphy Freelance Writer A recently formed bargaining unit at South Springfield State University known as the Core Residential Administrative Network Coalition, which represents staff members who live full-time in campus-owned apartments, added another inequality to their growing list of complaints: snow days. South Springfield closed last Tuesday as a result of 2.5 [...]

by Hannah Q. Scott Freelance Writer Some colleges have removed Coca-Cola products from dining halls, others have stopped selling big-name sportswear in student stores, but Stanley College has taken these moves to a whole new level. After divesting from all investments in South Africa during the fight against apartheid in the mid 1980s, and removing [...]

by Evan Brews Freelance Writer Officials at Harthington University in rural Utah have begun to undertake a study to assess the positive economic impact of having Four Loko as the sole beverage option on the cash-strapped, liberal arts campus of 500 students. Original estimates show that switching all campus beverage options to Four Loko could [...]

by Irma Pelt Senior Staff Writer Recognizing the ever-growing trend of graduating students to be coupled before leaving college, one Mississippi university is hoping to capitalize on the movement by incorporating a Ring By Spring requirement for the class of 2015. “The pressure to be engaged by graduation was actually greater than the pressure to [...]