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(03/27/06 5:00am)
As statistics show disturbing trends in college completion rates and poor performance by graduates on basic college-level skills tests, the U.S. Department of Education is looking for a way to measure how well universities are teaching their students.
(03/23/06 5:00am)
CourtTV host Catherine Crier, AU's Vice President of International Affairs Bob Pastor and Kay Cole James, former director of the Office of Personnel Management discussed proposals for election reform yesterday at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga. The forum, which also included former President Jimmy Carter, was filmed for broadcast on CourtTV this summer.
(03/09/06 5:00am)
Security officers entrusted with guarding the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters on Nebraska Avenue across from campus have raised questions of safety at the base.
(03/06/06 5:00am)
In a meeting with U.S. Senate Finance Committee staff and governance experts on Capitol Hill Friday, Student Government President Kyle Taylor said most of the AU board of trustees cannot be counted on to reform AU's governance because they stood by former President Benjamin Ladner after reports found he misused university money.
(03/02/06 5:00am)
A nearly completed review of AU's internal financial controls, commissioned months before former President Benjamin Ladner was ousted for misusing university funds for his personal expenses, has so far found the controls satisfactory, according to Don Myers, vice president of finance and treasurer.
(02/20/06 5:00am)
The staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee asked several past and present AU trustees, students and officials to attend a meeting on Capitol Hill March 3 as part of its investigation into financial mismanagement at nonprofits, according to those who have been invited.
(02/13/06 5:00am)
AU gave former President Benjamin Ladner $18,000 for items he left in the university-owned Glenbrook Road residence to save the school the cost of buying new furnishings, according to David Taylor, the president's chief of staff.
(01/30/06 5:00am)
The AU board of trustees announced last week that students could join some of its committees as non-voting members, but not the influential Trusteeship and Compensation committees, which decide who can join the board and how much money executives will make. Student leaders said the move is a good first step, but it doesn't go far enough.
(01/30/06 5:00am)
John Schol, bishop of the Baltimore-Washington conference of the United Methodist Church spoke last night in the Kay Spiritual Center and said that as a member of the AU board of trustees, he plans to forge closer connections to students, faculty and administrators.
(01/26/06 5:00am)
Students will serve as non-voting members on many of the AU board of trustees' committees, but not on the pivotal Trusteeship or Compensation committees, which decide who will join the board and how much the president will be paid, student leaders said last night.
(12/12/05 5:00am)
Al Checcio, vice president of university relations, will leave AU this month after helping launch the school's most ambitious fundraising campaign ever and doubling the percentage of alumni who donate to the university.
(12/01/05 5:00am)
AU will hand over dozens of documents to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee today, including information on how the trustees decided ousted President Benjamin Ladner's salary, as part of the committee's ongoing probe into mismanagement among nonprofit organizations.
(09/29/05 4:00am)
After dozens of students rallying for President Benjamin Ladner's resignation surrounded both doors of the room where members of the board of trustees were meeting yesterday, about 20 were invited in to discuss Ladner's poor spending discretion and the board's lack of oversight and transparency.
(09/26/05 4:00am)
AU is not a bastion of liberal thought, but rather a place of intellectual diversity, according to professor and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Allan Lichtman at a forum Thursday.
(09/26/05 4:00am)
"... As a condition of his employment, Ladner is required to accept lodging on University property. He shall have full use, possession, and enjoyment for himself and his family of a residence house to carry out his duties as President. All costs for maintenance, repair, insurance, utilities, telecommunications, dining, housekeeping services, and residence staff will be paid for or provided by the University. The residence will be furnished as Ladner and the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board agree. It is expected and required that the residence will be used on a regular basis throughout the year by the President for entertaining and other purposes in the interest of the University. ...
(09/26/05 4:00am)
President Benjamin Ladner would resign if allegations he misspent more than $500,000 of AU's money were true, but said "emphatically that they are not," in an interview yesterday.
(09/22/05 4:00am)
An investigative report questioned President Benjamin Ladner's spending of more than a half-million dollars on vacations, parties and food, the Washington Post reported. Ladner was also operating under a second contract negotiated a few years after he arrived at AU in 1994, unknown to many board members.
(09/19/05 4:00am)
President Benjamin Ladner's personal chef was laid off in the past few days and his social secretary was moved to work with Chief of Staff David Taylor about two weeks ago, Taylor said.
(09/15/05 4:00am)
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(09/15/05 4:00am)
Acting President Neil Kerwin said he would not comment on the investigation into President Benjamin Ladner's spending at a forum yesterday, but he did discuss changes in the academic calendar, recent criticism of the library and other issues.