Basically she died in front of her students.

As much as the university embraces adult re-entry students, it would be nice if more of the undergraduate classes were tailored a bit more toward older students.

Twenty-five thousand of the neediest students don't receive state aid. What we would like to see is that state grants are transparent for students so they can do their financial planning for college, and it can be transferred between institutions and that they are given to the neediest students.

I tell them I'm not. As long as I'm effective and the students consider me effective, I'm going to continue teaching. As long as a school bus comes riding by, I'll be willing to jump on it.

You have to do it student by student. There is no cookie-cutter way of working with these students. The trick is understanding what a student's specific needs are at any point in time.

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.