Employee Morale

Amid a growing controversy about the fate of its nationally regarded book publishing venture — and the dismissal of the director who built it — the University of New Orleans issued a statement about UNO Press on Monday.

The University of Virginia Faculty Senate has asked the school’s governing board to do more to help rebuild the trust that was shattered by the failed attempt to oust President Teresa A. Sullivan.

Ivy Tech Community College has given its interim chancellor of the college's Central Indiana region a more permanent status.

The University of Virginia’s chief operating officer has resigned.

Penn State will offer confidential counseling sessions next week for university employees affected by the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

The regents tie the figure to limited budget growth.

The director of UNO Press, the University of New Orleans’ ambitious, nationally regarded book publishing venture, will lose his job in the current round of state-mandated budget cuts for public universities in Louisiana.

The University of Virginia is being sued by the family of a literary journal managing editor who committed suicide in 2010.

To cut about $2.6 million from Southern University at New Orleans' budget, Chancellor Victor Ukpolo announced plans to lay off employees, cut back on maintenance and energy use, and let vacancies go unfilled. Jobs of tenured and tenure-track faculty members arel not at risk "at this point," he said.

Jackson Community College is dissolving its campus security department and privatizing the service in hopes of saving about $300,000 in this year’s budget.