All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...
Aug 31 2018 // The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday backed a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, throwing its support behind a case that could impact the use of race-based college...
Aug 30 2018 // A Southern California school district agreed to pay more than $15 million to settle lawsuits by eight former students who say they were sexually abused by teachers and staff members, attorneys announced this week.The three...
Aug 28 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...
Aug 23 2018 // More than 400 students are missing class this week after a fire damaged their high school in Alabama.News outlets report that Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery caught fire early Saturday. Montgomery...
Aug 22 2018 // The University of Texas agreed to pay $600,000 to settle former women’s track coach Bev Kearney’s race and gender discrimination lawsuit, according to documents released Monday.Kearney and the school agreed to...
Aug 21 2018 // Of all the horrific details contained in the Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, one sentence stands out: “The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid...
Aug 20 2018 // Republican Rep. Matt Manweller is suing Central Washington University and the investigator it hired to look into allegations of inappropriate conduct. Manweller, a political professor at the college since 2003, was fired...
Aug 20 2018 // The parents of a Louisiana State University freshman who died of alcohol intoxication last year after an alleged fraternity hazing filed a federal lawsuit against the university board, the fraternity and several of the...
Aug 20 2018 // Enrollment in courses eligible for the Kansas Insurance Certificate Program at several Kansas higher learning institutions is rising, according to the state insurance department.The department says around 500 students have...
Aug 20 2018 // What is the best part about working in insurance?For a group of millennials speaking with Insurance Journal at a July roundtable, the answer was simple. “The people,” roundtable participants agreed.At the same...
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Aug 17 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Bellevue College claiming the school, and by extension Washington state, fostered a hostile work environment by failing to protect her from a former dean.SeattlePI.com reported the...
Aug 13 2018 // Officials say a school bus taking families home from a picnic crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, sending dozens of people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says the bus was...
Aug 8 2018 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Kansas school district alleging it paid a female principal less than it paid the man she had replaced and less than the man who succeeded her. A complaint filed...
Aug 6 2018 // Risk management services firm, Hanover Stone Partners, has tapped Ellen Shew Holland to lead its newly established national higher education practice. She is based in Dallas.Shew Holland will lead a practice that will...
Aug 1 2018 // Two more women have filed federal lawsuits alleging that a New Jersey university is partly to blame for sexual assaults after they say school officials turned a blind eye to an unsanctioned fraternity known for underage...
Jul 30 2018 // A Dartmouth College student who was seriously injured during baseball practice is suing the Ivy League school.In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Colton French said he was pitching to a batter in a narrow indoor area enclosed by...
Jul 30 2018 // A jury awarded $1.25 million to a former Columbia University finance professor whose senior colleague sent dozens of emails disparaging her to industry professionals after she lodged a harassment complaint against him.The...
Jul 26 2018 // A federal jury will decide what really happened between a former junior finance professor and the tenured Columbia Business School staff member she said sexually harassed her — and whether the university did enough...