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Lawsuit Accuses Yale and Others in Woman’s Tailgating Death
Yale University, one of its fraternities, the City of New Haven, the truck-rental company U-Haul, and others were sued on Friday by the family of a woman killed by a truck carrying beer kegs in an...
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FBI Probes Whether Fired Rutgers Basketball Assistant Attempted Extortion
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into extortion allegations against the fired player-development assistant who publicized videos of Mike Rice, the former Rutgers University basketball...
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U. of Texas President Offers Limited Support for $10,000 Degree
Gov. Rick Perry’s challenge to Texas’ state universities to offer a $10,000 undergraduate degree attracted support on Friday from an unlikely source—William C. Powers Jr., president of the University...
View ArticleCoeducation Critics Demand That Wilson College Trustees Rescind Decision
Lawyers representing a group of Wilson College alumnae have sent the Pennsylvania institution’s trustees a letter demanding that the board rescind its January decision to admit men to all of the...
View ArticleWildfire Closes Channel Islands Campus of California State U.
An uncontained wildfire near the Ventura County communities of Camarillo and Thousand Oaks forced California State University-Channel Islands to close on Thursday after heavy smoke began drifting...
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At Least 5 State Universities in Pennsylvania Allow Guns on Campuses
After Pennsylvania officials warned last year that campuswide gun bans might be unconstitutional, some of the 14 institutions in the State System of Higher Education adopted policies permitting...
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New Rutgers U. Basketball Coach Never Graduated
Eddie Jordan, the new men’s basketball coach at Rutgers University, never graduated from the institution—never mind what his official university bio says about his having received a degree in 1977. The...
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Professor Creates Research Endowment With His Unused Sick Leave
Marion R. Hansen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, will retire from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology next month after 28 years. But he is determined to make sure...
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Nursing Students Sue Community College for Losing Accreditation
Eight current and former nursing students filed suit on Friday against Doña Ana Community College and its parent institution, New Mexico State University, after the Las Cruces college’s nursing program...
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Man Arrested After Parachuting From Ohio State U. Radio Tower
The Ohio State University police filed trespassing charges against James Allen Hare, 22, on Friday after he scaled a fence topped with razor wire, climbed the ladderless 893-foot-tall broadcast tower,...
View ArticleWilson College Details Unusual Loan-Buyback Program
Wilson College has released details of an unusual debt-buyback offer that is one of the keys to a plan its trustees adopted in January in an effort to attract more students and keep the tiny...
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$14-Million Fund Recalls Yale U. Student Killed in Lab Accident
A Yale University fund announced on Friday will memorialize Michele Dufault, an astronomy and physics major killed in 2011 when her hair got caught in a lathe in chemistry-laboratory machine shop. The...
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Georgia Settles Dispute With Virginia College Over ‘Regents’ Name
Georgia’s Board of Regents and Regent University, a Christian institution in Virginia, have settled a trademark-infringement lawsuit brought by the university after the Georgia board chose “Georgia...
View ArticleKenyon College Student Is Killed in Protests in Egypt
A 21-year-old Kenyon College student died Friday during violent anti-government protests in Alexandria, Egypt. The student, Andrew D. Pochter, was in Egypt teaching English to schoolchildren as an...
View ArticleFired U.C. Davis Police Officer Seeks Workers’ Compensation
California has received a workers’-compensation application from the former University of California at Davis police officer who was fired after pepper-spraying students during a peaceful protest on...
View ArticleJudge Turns Down Bid to Subpoena E-Mails From Advocacy Group
A federal magistrate judge has rejected an effort by the Department of Education’s inspector general to subpoena more than two years’ worth of e-mails from an advocacy organization founded by Robert M....
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Agencies Say Lenders Need to Work With Student Borrowers
Three federal agencies that regulate banks have issued a joint statement telling lenders they should “work constructively” with borrowers who are having trouble paying back private student loans. The...
View ArticleNew Iranian University Will Focus on Technology
The outgoing president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will establish a new technology university in Tehran once he leaves office, the Associated Press quotes an Iranian Web site as saying. The report...
View ArticleFacebook Remarks Cost Willamette U. Fraternity Its House
Willamette University will evict members of the Sigma Chi fraternity from their campus house and prohibit the group from recruiting new members for violating the university’s student code of conduct,...
View ArticleMIT Acted Reasonably in Swartz Case, Says Its Report
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday released the findings of an investigation it had commissioned into its involvement in the prosecution of the open-access activist Aaron H. Swartz,...
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