Five are inaugurated in the past week and four are approved by boards, with all promising to put students first.

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to revoke the degrees following a recommendation by the school's honorary degree committee after a "comprehensive and objective review" in December.

Barry Mehler, a history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., told his students he didn't want to know anything about them, not even their names and that he would randomly predetermine their grades, no matter how hard they worked.

The first woman president at Amherst retires; Columbia College names its 18th president