Read more professor stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/12209/professor.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:08:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69233/yale-professor-quizzed-over-missing-student.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Yale professor has been interviewed by police over the disappearance of graduate student Annie Marie Le, New York Daily News reports. Le was due to attend the professor's class on Tuesday but it was abruptly canceled and Le was found to be missing hours later. The cancellation so close...http://www.newser.com/story/69233/yale-professor-quizzed-over-missing-student.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 8:12:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68967/spitzer-wows-students-in-first-law-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe press was barred from Eliot Spitzer’s first lecture at City College of New York yesterday, but that didn’t stop one enterprising Daily News reporter from sneaking in. If he was expecting pearls of wisdom on Emperors’ Club hookers, he was disappointed. The disgraced governor began by nodding at the...http://www.newser.com/story/68967/spitzer-wows-students-in-first-law-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Sep 2009 10:39:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67520/germany-probes-100-profs-over-phd-bribes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAbout a hundred professors across Germany are under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes for doctoral degrees, the Local reports. Prosecutors say professors may have taken bribes as high as $28,000 through an intermediary firm to give PhDs to undeserving students. "It involves teaching professors from all subjects, from medicine...http://www.newser.com/story/67520/germany-probes-100-profs-over-phd-bribes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Aug 2009 18:28:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66273/another-harvard-prof-accuses-police-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAnother black member of Harvard's faculty has accused the Cambridge Police Department of racism, the Boston Globe reports. S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor, was arrested outside his home in 2006 on assault and battery charges. “I was polite, and yet police lied and said I was loud,...http://www.newser.com/story/66273/another-harvard-prof-accuses-police-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 12:48:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65411/cops-release-gates-arrest-tapes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn audio from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr, released today by Cambridge police, the arresting officer tells the dispatcher to “keep the cars coming” as he faces an “uncooperative” suspect, the Boston Herald reports. An earlier tape reveals the 911 call in the case, in which a Harvard...http://www.newser.com/story/65411/cops-release-gates-arrest-tapes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65119/gates-arrest-a-battle-of-egos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRacial profiling may have played a role in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., but fellow black scholar Boyce Watkins says there's no reason to feel sorry for Gates. At heart, the scene was likely “a battle of two egos,” Watkins writes in the Grio. “What is abundantly clear...http://www.newser.com/story/65119/gates-arrest-a-battle-of-egos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 8:58:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64968/keep-computers-out-of-class-prof-argues.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn SMU dean has a message for his fellow college professors: Ditch the PowerPoint. Jose A. Bowen isn't anti-technology, explains the Chronicle of Higher Education , he just thinks too many instructors rely on it as a crutch. He's challenging others to "teach naked," without computers in the classroom, that is....http://www.newser.com/story/64968/keep-computers-out-of-class-prof-argues.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 20:32:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63812/gonzales-lands-teaching-gig-at-texas-tech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt took a while, but Alberto Gonzales has a job again. Nearly two years after resigning as George Bush's attorney general, Gonzales has been hired by Texas Tech to teach a course this fall, reports the Austin American-Statesman . Gonzales will be a visiting professor in the political science department and...http://www.newser.com/story/63812/gonzales-lands-teaching-gig-at-texas-tech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 20:49:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62796/iran-arrests-70-profs-who-met-with-mousavi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIranian authorities arrested 70 university professors yesterday, after they met with Mir Hossein Mousavi, according to a dissident website, as the regime intensified its crackdown on demonstrators. The professors' whereabouts are now unknown, but hundreds of activists are now being held in a prison system notorious for torture and human...http://www.newser.com/story/62796/iran-arrests-70-profs-who-met-with-mousavi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Jun 2009 6:38:05 CDT