Kentucky Business School Backs Away From Naming Room for Ayn Rand
The University of Kentucky’s School of Business and Economics has renegotiated a 2004 deal that brought it a $2.5-million gift from a bank foundation in return for its promise to name a reading room...
View ArticleAngelo State U. Football Player Is Killed by Police in Dallas Suburb
Friends and teammates are mourning an Angelo State University football player who was shot and killed early Friday during an altercation with police officers in Arlington, Tex. Christian Taylor, a...
View ArticleCar Runs Into Oklahoma State U. Parade Crowd, Killing 4
[Updated (10/25/2015, 10:21 p.m.) with additional details.] Four people who were attending the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade died after a car ran into a crowd of spectators near the...
View ArticleDuquesne U. President Regrets Calling Off-Campus Students ‘Libertines’
Duquesne University’s president, Charles J. Dougherty, was laying out the university’s financial situation to faculty members when he tried to explain why the university had some 300 empty beds in its...
View ArticleAdjunct Union Files Complaint Over Northeastern U. Health-Plan Change
A change in Northeastern University’s health-insurance plan just before Christmas that adjunct faculty members say makes most of them ineligible prompted a union representing about 900 adjunct...
View ArticleAuthors Guild Takes Google Books Challenge to Supreme Court
The Authors Guild has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the organization’s decade-long challenge to Google’s Books program, which the guild says violates copyright law by making money for the...
View ArticleJudge Orders Release of Trump U. Sales ‘Playbooks’ and Other Documents
A federal judge in California overseeing a long-running class-action lawsuit against Donald Trump’s defunct Trump University ruled on Friday afternoon that 1,000 pages of internal company documents,...
View ArticleU. of Oklahoma Investigates Student’s Ties to Racist Messages at Penn
The University of Oklahoma said on Friday evening that it had temporarily suspended a student while investigating whether he was involved in using a group-messaging app to send a series of racist text...
View ArticleJurors Deadlock in Case of Shooting by U. of Cincinnati Police Officer
[Updated (11/13/2016, 6:57 p.m.) with a statement from the university's president.] Jurors in the case of a University of Cincinnati police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist near...
View ArticleAgriculture Dept. Removes Animal-Welfare Data From Website
A trove of information about animal welfare in university and government research laboratories, in zoos and circuses, and elsewhere disappeared from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website on...
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