Elsevier, the journal-publishing giant, will not renew the contract of one of its journal's editors after the journal, which is not peer-reviewed, published a paper last summer saying that HIV does not cause AIDS, Science magazine reports. Elsevier told the editor of Medical Hypotheses, Bruce G. Charlton, on Monday that it would not renew his contract, set to expire at the end of this year, according to the magazine. Elsevier has also asked Mr. Charlton to put a peer-review system in place immediately or resign. Mr. Charlton, who teaches evolutionary psychology at the University of...

Despite the financial turmoil affecting athletics departments at many colleges, assistant coaches at some of the nation's largest football programs are expected to get big raises this year. Nearly a dozen football programs in the NCAA's Division I-A will spend at least 38 percent more on their defensive or offensive coordinators this year, according to USA Today. Last year, two assistant football coaches made more than $650,000: the University of Tennessee's Monte Kiffin ($1.2-million), now at the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas' Will Muschamp ($900,000). This year, six assistant coaches are...

A professor whose dismissal from Stillman College led the American Association of University Professors to censure the historically black institution last year has sued his former employer over his termination, The Tuscaloosa News, an Alabama newspaper, reported. Ekow Hayford, who was a tenured assistant professor of business at Stillman, is seeking back pay, punitive damages, and his old job back, the paper said. Mr. Hayford, who now teaches at Talladega College, said Stillman fired him in 2008 in retaliation for being a vocal critic of the institution's president, Ernest McNealey. The college said he had been dismissed for violating its ban on "malicious gossip and verbal abuse."

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today that John A. Fry, president of Franklin & Marshall College, would be named president of Drexel University on Wednesday. Mr. Fry, who previously worked in Philadelphia as an executive vice president at the University of Pennsylvania, will reportedly meet with staff members and key university officials tomorrow afternoon.

Mr. Fry's tenure at Franklin & Marshall has been marked by his ambition and his interest in shaping the campus and city around it. He led an effort to acquire and redevelop an old manufacturing plant and rail line for new sports fields and hospital facilities.

Mr. Fry's...

Phoenix -- Colleges should reach out to the veterans arriving on their campuses and help them make the transition from the combat zone to college, Eric K. Shinseki, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, told college leaders here today at the American Council on Education's annual meeting.

But admitting veterans with benefits from the new GI Bill is not enough, he said. Unless they graduate and go on to successful second careers, the United States and its taxpayers will not be getting a good return on the investment of those education benefits. "I'm looking at graduation rates," Mr. Shinseki said. "That's where my focus is."

Veterans especially need help in the first six months to a year, as they move from a high-stress, highly structured environment into a looser one at college. They may also suffer residual effects from combat that need...

In the latest round in the tug of war over Inca-era artifacts from Machu Picchu, the government of Peru has voluntarily withdrawn six of the 17 elements of its lawsuit against Yale University. The artifacts under dispute were gathered by a Yale-affiliated scholar during the 1910s and have been stored in New Haven, Conn., for nearly a century. The Associated Press reported today that Peru had withdrawn its claims that Yale has committed fraud and conspiracy. But it will still pursue the other, milder accusations in the lawsuit, including breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.

A recently hired maintenance worker at Ohio State University who had already received a poor performance evaluation shot two other workers, one of them fatally, and then killed himself early this morning, the Associated Press reported, citing the campus's police chief. The gunman, 51-year-old Nathaniel Brown, had been on the job since October. He arrived at work this morning, sometime before 3:30 a.m., armed with two handguns, and killed the building-services manager, Larry Wallington, age 48. An operations-shift manager, Henry Butler, 60, was wounded and is now in stable condition at the university hospital. The shootings took place adjacent to a classroom building, but no students or faculty members were injured, and classes are meeting today as scheduled.

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Five colleges were recognized today by Nafsa: Association of International Educators for their innovative efforts to bring a greater international focus to their campuses. This year's winners of the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization are Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Loyola University in Maryland, Northeastern University, and the University of San Francisco. Three other colleges were singled out for a particular international program: the Borough of Manhattan Community College (part of the City University of New York), the College of the Atlantic, and LaRoche College.

A dissatisfied student who was expelled for criticizing his private career college in front of prospective students will get his tuition returned, along with court costs and the maximum allowable damages, after winning his case in a small-claims court in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Expulsion of a student is a form of educational capital punishment," wrote the adjudicator in the decision, according to The Chronicle-Herald. The Centre for Arts and Technology, in Halifax, had kicked out Trevor Power for breaching a policy that barred students from making negative comments about the institution. The court ruled that the expulsion was unjust because students weren't given any information about the policy, and because it was not part of the contract that they signed upon enrollment.

Federal authorities have shut down a ring of sham test-takers, and arrested the ringleader, in a scam that allegedly allowed dozens of students from six Middle Eastern countries to obtain student visas to come to the United States even though they lacked the English-language skills to get the visas and could not handle the college work when they arrived. According to the Associated Press, the leader of the scam lacked a college degree himself but collected tens of thousands of dollars in fees to take tests, write papers, and pass courses at 10 public colleges in California over a seven-year period. A host of fake ID's helped the scheme work. The students now face criminal charges and deportation.