All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 10 2014 // Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are launching a new program to help businesses in the San Diego region tackle distracted driving.The program, funded by the California Office of Traffic...
Nov 9 2014 // Dr. Lars Powell has been named the inaugural director of the newly-created Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama.Powell is a professor of finance and holds the Whitbeck-Beyer...
Nov 9 2014 // Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying it failed to provide him and other athletes a quality education by guiding them toward sham classes.Online...
Nov 7 2014 // The University of Minnesota sued the four largest wireless carriers in the United States over alleged patent infringement.Complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota contend that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and...
Nov 6 2014 // Two men have been charged with felony theft after more than 130 calculators worth about $17,000 were stolen from a Central Texas school.Round Rock police spokeswoman Angelique Myers on said investigators are seeking three...
Nov 3 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a South Texas school district, according to district court records in Cameron County.The Brownsville...
Nov 3 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college.University System...
Nov 2 2014 // Three one-time Tennessee Temple University employees have sued the school for alleged racial discrimination.The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Emmanuel Awotula, Dennis Clark and Jeffrey Davis filed a lawsuit in...
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer.Staley had been heading north on...
Oct 23 2014 // The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says federal emergency officials should recover nearly $13 million in Hurricane Katrina recovery aid awarded to Tulane University in Louisiana.The report...
Oct 21 2014 // Pace University in New York City held a conference Monday titled “Summit on Resilience: The Next Storm.” The event brought together corporate and foundation leaders and government representatives, providing a...
Oct 20 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college.University System...
Oct 16 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a southern school district, according to state district court records in Cameron County.The...
Oct 16 2014 // There could be as many as two dozen people in the U.S. infected with Ebola by the end of the month, according to researchers tracking the virus with a computer model.The actual number will probably be far smaller and...
Oct 15 2014 // A Utah school bus driver was arrested Monday on suspicion of DUI after driving erratically and nearly hitting a car on a busy stretch of highway while taking 67 elementary-school students on a field trip, authorities...
Oct 14 2014 // The parents of slain Auburn University student Lauren Burk are asking the Alabama Board of Adjustment to award them $1 million because they say Auburn did not provide adequate security. Jim Burk and Viviane Guerchon told...
Oct 13 2014 // The business of Florida’s 12 public universities is supposed to be public like any other state agency. Salaries, contracts, policies and other university business records are supposed to be subject to Florida’s...
Oct 10 2014 // Allowing more students and faculty at colleges and universities to carry guns on campus would be a serious mistake and jeopardize the public’s safety, the University of Oklahoma president told members of a state...
Oct 8 2014 // A January hearing is set on a proposed settlement of hundreds of lawsuits against Mountain State University.Media outlets reported that a three-judge mass litigation panel gave preliminary approval to the settlement Monday...
Oct 6 2014 // Former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings has reached a $320,000 settlement in her lawsuit against the University of Tennessee and athletic director Dave Hart.Jennings’ lawyer, David Burkhalter, released a...