All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2018 // West Virginia University says it has banned five fraternities from campus for at least 10 years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi and Theta Chi can no...
Oct 1 2018 // Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants.A Boston federal judge’s rejection Friday of requests by both sides for...
Oct 1 2018 // An industry publication recently published an article that said insurance is “the new kale” because the one-time ignored garnish today is sought after as a healthy must-have in the form of everything from...
Sep 28 2018 // Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a panel to explore possible reforms to state gun laws.A Republican, Kasich wanted to be sure its members clearly...
Sep 24 2018 // An athletic trainer at a Montana high school sexually abused at least 18 student athletes decades ago under the guise of boosting their athletic performance, according to a newly filed lawsuit.The deception was aided by...
Sep 21 2018 // Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them.New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays off, especially when...
Sep 18 2018 // Complaints of sex discrimination made against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by nine female athletes include allegations by some of the women of inappropriate behavior by the university’s president and...
Sep 10 2018 // Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving.Sean-Paul...
Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016.The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...
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...