Leo Kolligian Dies At 90
Fresno native Leo Kolligian has died of leukemia at his Fresno home. Kolligian had practiced law for more than 50 of his 90 years and served on the UC Board of Regents for over 12 years. The main library in the UC Merced campus is named after Kolligian and his first wife, Dottie. UC Merced reports ...
Long Beach School District – Broad Prize Finalist
This year the Broad Prize for Urban Education has gone to the Long Beach Unified School District. The other four finalists for this prize are school districts in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, the Aldine Independent School District near Houston and the Brownsville Independent School District on the Texas-Mexico border. School districts cannot apply for the prize ...
New President At University Of California Berkeley
University of Texas Chancellor Mark Yudof has been appointed as the next president of the University of California Berkeley. Yudof will succeed the current president, Robert Dynes, who will leave his post before June. Yudof will be the first president to be elected for this position outside the university campus which has more than 220,000 students ...
Robert F. Goheen Dies At 88
Former Princeton University President Robert F. Goheen has died at the age of 88. Goheen revolutionized Princeton by allowing women to enroll and by doubling its size. Goheen, who was youngest president to assume the post since the Revolutionary War, changed the university fundamentally. Not only did he quadruple the university's budget, but also increased ...
