Town / Gown

10 officers involved with Saturday night call involving 2 carloads of players

A month hardly goes by without some scandal at a North Dakota institution of higher learning appearing on the front pages of the state’s newspapers. And, after the roughing-up in the last session of the Legislature, higher education can’t afford any more scandals.

In the scattered towns of central Pennsylvania, Penn State football is as much an industry as a devotion, fueled by the hundreds of thousands of fans who converge here on fall weekends and spend on hotels, meals, drinks and a mind-boggling array of Nittany Lions memorabilia.

Thomas College and the Maine Development Foundation are announcing a partnership that will provide workers in some Maine businesses with special rates to apply to the Waterville school and discounts for its courses.

Last fall, when Gov. Dannel P. Malloyannounced his intention to have Jackson Laboratory build a genetics research lab on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus, the proposal moved swiftly, despite objections from some elected officials.

Virginia Tech has given a boost to plans to open a public science and math boarding school in Hampton Roads.

Zoning board approves special use permit for campus

A select board member in Killington has proposed giving free tuition to families who relocate to the resort community and send their children to college in the town.

The city’s biggest taxpayer is also its largest employer, members of the Board of Aldermen learned at a meeting held at the Dixwell Yale Community Learning Center where Yale University Office of New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development made a lengthy presentation to the 20 plus aldermen who attended the meeting.

When the Texas A&M University System announced that its flagship would gain $260 million in new revenue and savings in the next 10 years by outsourcing its building maintenance, landscaping and dining services, Chancellor John Sharp said the plan was an unprecedented way to raise money in financially struggling higher education.