Town / Gown

The University of Minnesota is hoping that what has stood between it and more business-backed research is the haggling.

Supervisors of the University of Louisiana system on Friday named Peter Fos as the next president of the University of New Orleans. The board voted unanimously to select Fos, a UNO alumnus, after a final conversation with him and one other finalist, Michael A. Wartell, chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Spokesman: Some lessons useful, but CU is unique

For all of its success as a center of commerce, Kendall Square in Cambridge remains something of an urban desert, with unused spaces and buildings isolated by wide streets, exaggerating the sense of emptiness.

On Tuesday, protesters wheeled blackboards and pianos onto Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. Thousands gathered near the famous steps for a day of teach-ins, music and speeches — one of the largest protests on the campus since the 1960s.

Activists on both sides of the campus gun-rights debate have converged on Virginia Tech's campus today.

With three residence halls scheduled to be closed next fall, a large number of returning University of Michigan students who would prefer dormitory housing will have to look off-campus.

Del Mar College officials want to build onto existing educational community partnerships with entities such as the CCISD and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi to add to its student base and aid the transfer of courses to local universities.

They’re here, they’re hungry and they need haircuts.

Top-tier universities both birthplace and target of occupiers