By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A3 (Focus edition) If you want to understand Toledo’s downtown renaissance, just stand at the corner of Adams and Superior streets. Picture an intersection of only five years ago, with a symbol of urban decay on each corner: a Macy’s department store that had been empty for more […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The University of Toledo’s administration is hurting its academic programs by not hiring more tenure-track professors, according to a resolution passed by the faculty senate yesterday. Earlier this year, UT President Vik Kapoor had asked the senate’s executive committee to list its three biggest concerns about his […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Continuing a decade-long trend, enrollment at the University of Toledo is down 5.7 per cent from last year, a decline that could cost the university millions of dollars. But university officials say they are optimistic that growth in the freshman class this year soon will reverse the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 BANDON, IRELAND — When Fernand Auberjonois does his daily shopping around the narrow little streets of this Irish town, he gets a polite nod and a “yes, sir” from the girls who work in the shops. It’s to be expected: He’s 89, and at that advanced age, […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The University of Toledo’s faculty senate yesterday passed a resolution aimed at preventing the “morale list” controversy in the college of education from happening again. “This is a university-wide issue,” said Mary Ellen Edwards, the education professor who proposed the resolution. “There are ways to evaluate our […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A8 No lions or tigers or bears? Oh, my! As Seattle prepares to become the first major American city to ban circus animal acts, local animal-rights groups hope to fight a similar battle here. “I want to start talking to people to see if we can get a […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 In a shift that removes one of the final vestiges of former President Frank Horton’s administration, the University of Toledo has accepted the resignation of Dr. James Pope as dean of the college of business administration. Dr. Pope will return to teaching with the college’s faculty. Dr. […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 A Texas developer has secured land near the University of Toledo and is planning a large “luxury apartment” complex for students. JPI, Inc., of Irving, Tex., hopes to begin construction on its project, to be called Jefferson Commons, by May. University officials applauded the move, saying they […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 If the University of Toledo is to increase its enrollment, it will have to be done at the expense of other Ohio schools, President Vik Kapoor said yesterday. “The number of college students in Ohio every year is constant, and it’s going to stay constant,” he said. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 BOWLING GREEN — An administrator at the University of Iowa has been named the new provost and vice president for academic affairs of Bowling Green State University. Dr. John Folkins was named to the university’s top academic position Monday by BGSU President Sidney Ribeau. “I am pleased […]