All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 1 2016 // State officials in New York are marking the start of fall college classes with a series of campus fire safety inspections.Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said Friday personnel from the Division of Homeland Security and...
Aug 31 2016 // The University of Colorado has paid a former business school staffer $40,000 to settle a federal gender discrimination complaint. The Daily Camera reported that Robin Miglarese, the former associate director of operations...
Aug 31 2016 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department is advocating that families sending students to college get the right insurance coverage for their children.“We recommend that when college students and their families prepare...
Aug 31 2016 // Donald J. Trump and his now-defunct real-estate university lost another legal attempt to block former students from suing as a group in a California case accusing the Republican presidential candidate of fraud.Trump...
Aug 30 2016 // U.S. public universities are increasingly turning to public-private partnerships to develop student housing and other campus projects, sometimes using the structure to transfer borrowing and liability risks to the private...
Aug 26 2016 // The InVEST Program has named Tammy Land, executive director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD) with the Dach Award.The Dach Award honors an insurance industry volunteer who has made tremendous...
Aug 26 2016 // Their son is gone.Luke Beardemphl, a standout Tacoma, Washington soccer player during his years at Stadium High School, died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But Luke’s...
Aug 25 2016 // Authorities say a large fire has damaged at least 28 buses belonging to the Puyallup School District in Washington on Aug. 24Puyallup police tweeted that sounds of explosions were coming from the fire and that roads in the...
Aug 24 2016 // The police chief of a California school district has sued his employers, claiming he faced a hostile work environment after blowing the whistle on alleged misuse of a criminal database by district employees.KBAK-TV...
Aug 22 2016 // In 2015, two researchers remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee being driven by a reporter who documented how the researchers controlled everything from the car’s radio and media console to its brakes and steering.For Dr....
Aug 22 2016 // Oregon State University is moving ahead with plans to build a $50 million expansion to house its marine science initiative in a tsunami inundation zone in Newport despite warnings from a state geologist that the site could...
Aug 18 2016 // Columbia University was accused on Tuesday of mismanaging its retirement plan in a federal civil lawsuit that alleges $100 million in damages.The suit is the latest to target a major university’s retirement plan...
Aug 18 2016 // The ridesharing service Uber plans to return to two Alabama cities this week as students return to college campuses. Local media report that city officials in Auburn and Tuscaloosa have approved ordinances in recent weeks...
Aug 16 2016 // Committing to a few extreme physical fitness events every year keeps Sean Kevelighan honest.“That, for me, is the incentive to insure that I keep my training going. It’s really good for your health, obviously,...
Aug 16 2016 // The Eugene School District in Oregon has been hit with a $2.5 million lawsuit by a former administrator alleging he faced retaliation and pressure to resign after complaining of illegal practices within the district. The...
Aug 8 2016 // Oregon State University is moving ahead with plans to build a $50 million expansion to house its marine science initiative in a tsunami inundation zone in Newport despite warnings from a state geologist that the site could...
Aug 5 2016 // As a new school year approaches, billboards are going up in Kentucky to remind motorists to watch out for stopped school buses. The state Department of Education says about 45 billboards will warn of the danger of passing...
Aug 3 2016 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s pretrial bid to throw out a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars.U.S....
Aug 1 2016 // The sexual assault scandal that took down Baylor University’s president and revered football coach also found a problem with a bedrock of the school’s faith-based education: a student conduct code banning...
Jul 29 2016 // Frostburg State University says it will work to raise awareness of risks to student-athletes as part of a $50,000 state settlement in the 2011 death of a school football player.The university said in a statement that the...