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 Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer A California university is attempting to counter its reputation with students as “boring” and “no fun” by encouraging beer drinking by students on campus. Whitson State University’s president is the newest member of the Amethyst Intitiative, a group of college CEOs lobbying to lower the drinking age. Whitson State’s new [...]

by Dash Phillips Freelance Writer Community-action group Union of Grayson Humanists (UGH) staged a protest recently outside of the gates of Grayson College after a staff member leaked the college’s rather curious admission criteria. For years, Grayson College has been on the top ten lists in Playboy and Seventeen magazines for having America’s best looking [...]

by Sasha Tremento Freelance Writer In what Barston College President Myron Pilsney calls a “win-win solution,” cutting costs but maintaining faculty morale, the college is promoting professors granted tenure directly to emeritus status. “It addresses the fiscal climate,” he told an uncharacteristically quiet faculty senate yesterday, “while maintaining morale. Tenure-track assistant professors have worked very [...]

After two years with no salary increases, employees at the University of Kansas-Smithfield, received notice that they would receive a holiday bonus of an enhanced job title. Human resources has received the following change requisitions: Admissions counselor Molly Slomba will now be the Vice Provost for Enrollment Formerly the Director of Student Leadership, Sylvester Fios [...]