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The University of Alabama's board of trustees voted Thursday to appoint the first permanent female president in the school's 181-year history.
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If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses.
If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses.
If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses.
Big 12 leaders will meet Thursday, trying to find ways to stabilize the conference, including changing the leadership.
There was talk of solidarity, plans for stability, expressions of encouragement.
Turned away by the Pac-12, the Big 12's most powerful members are trying to find ways to live together again after weeks of hurtling toward a break up.
The Southeastern Conference cleared the way for Texas A&M to join its ranks _ with a wrinkle.
The Southeastern Conference cleared the way for Texas A&M to join its ranks _ with a wrinkle.
The Texas A&M System board of regents has called a special meeting Monday that includes an agenda item about conference alignment. The session comes amid speculation that Texas A&M is leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.
Pat Knight sat in the Texas Tech locker room and lauded his bosses for the way they let him go after three disappointing seasons.
Pat Knight is telling The Associated Press he's glad his firing from Texas Tech was handled professionally, unlike what happened when his famous father was ousted at Indiana in 2000.
A $500,000-per-year pay raise recently awarded Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville through 2015 has angered some university faculty members, who have been asked to take a pay freeze in 2011.
Mr. Bailey announced Wednesday he was resigning after less than two months in the job, citing his wife's health.
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"My son is 4 years old and this is going to be his generation's reality," said Guy Bailey, who works as a social media supervisor for Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta.
