All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2016 // College students will be working to gauge the impact of climate change along the South Carolina coast, one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation.The Sun News reports that Coastal Carolina University has received a...
Sep 23 2016 // A former driver for Uber and Lyft has been charged with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern California investigators said that there are likely more victims.An 18-year-old college student...
Sep 20 2016 // Yale University denies it was trying to make an example of former basketball captain Jack Montague when it expelled him over a sexual assault allegation.The school filed its formal response late Friday to Montague’s...
Sep 14 2016 // A school district in Minnesota has agreed to pay $50,000 to a female employee and reclassify her position to resolve federal charges of equal pay discrimination.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said...
Sep 12 2016 // The state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has awarded two Ohio universities with money to research occupational health and safety.The grants support research in how injuries can prevented in the workplace and ways to...
Sep 12 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by three former University of Oregon basketball players who were suspended after being accused of an off-campus sexual assault.The Register Guard reported that U.S. District...
Sep 9 2016 // The University of Texas has asked the state Supreme Court to block a sex and race discrimination lawsuit filed by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney, who was forced out in 2013 after the school learned about a...
Sep 8 2016 // University of Alaska officials say someone used an employee’s credentials to hack into a network drive that contained private information like Social Security numbers of more than 5,400 students at the Mat-Su...
Sep 7 2016 // No more beer pong for fraternities and sororities at the College of Charleston, at least for now.The South Carolina college announced this week it is suspending alcohol at all functions for Greek organizations after a...
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...