All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2012 // The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania said this week it has established a new Wharton/Penn Risk and Insurance Program (WPRIP). The program’s goal is to promote and disseminate cutting-edge research on...
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case.In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
May 16 2012 // A federal judge sided with Georgia State University on a range of copyright infringement claims filed by three publishing houses in a ruling that administrators said could set an important precedent for how educational...
Apr 24 2012 // Ken Kobylowski, acting commissioner for New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, is teaching teenagers about the importance of financial literacy. Ken Kobylowski, acting commissioner for New Jersey Department of...
Apr 24 2012 // The Idaho State Board of Education has decided to keep its requirement that full-time public college and university students have health insurance.The Lewiston Tribune reported that the board on Wednesday decided to reject...
Apr 20 2012 // A New Jersey board of education says it wasn’t its decision to enter a $4.2 million legal settlement with a former student who said he wasn’t adequately protected from a bully.The Ramsey Board of Education...
Apr 19 2012 // With its latest round of scholarships, the Insurance Council of Texas’ (ICT) annual funding for students enrolled in insurance and risk management classes in Texas universities has topped the half million dollar...
Apr 16 2012 // The California Supreme Court ruled that a public school district may be vicariously liable for the negligent hiring, retention and supervision of a guidance counselor who allegedly sexually abused a student.And that ruling...
Apr 11 2012 // Davenport University in Michigan announced it is introducing a new risk management and insurance specialty within its Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program beginning in the fall of 2012.Farmers...
Apr 10 2012 // Dartmouth College is spending the next five years helping China improve its health care system through a partnership that officials say could pay off at home as well.China announced in 2009 it would pour $124 billion into...
Apr 9 2012 // A young entrepreneur from the suburbs is planning to start a private bus line in downtown Detroit, Mich.The Detroit News reports Andy Didorosi is set to open the Detroit Bus Co., a private company with three full-size...
Apr 6 2012 // The Minnesota Legislature has selected an insurance agency owner to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents.Thomas Devine was elected a regent during a recent joint House-Senate convention. He...
Apr 5 2012 // Endurance Specialty Holdings said Michael Angelina, its chief risk officer and chief actuary, will be leaving the company to take a university post in Philadelphia. Michael Angelina Angelina will assume the position of...
Apr 3 2012 // As Americans grow more aware of the risk of brain injury tied to football – the country’s most popular sport – players and coaches are experimenting with the latest technology in a bid to make the game...
Mar 27 2012 // A New York court sided with a law school in a case that alleged that the school misled its students about post-graduate employment prospects.The Supreme Court of the State of New York dismissed last week a lawsuit brought...
Mar 16 2012 // Westwood College has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit the state of Colorado filed alleging the school misled prospective students about its costs and how successful alumni are in finding jobs in their fields...
Mar 15 2012 // Lawmakers in Iowa have sent to the governor a bill increasing penalties for failing to heed school bus warning devices.Kadyn’s law is named after Kadyn Halverson, a 7-year-old girl who was killed in May when she was...
Mar 14 2012 // The California Supreme Court ruled that a public school district may be vicariously liable for the negligent hiring, retention and supervision of a guidance counselor who allegedly sexually abused a student.And that ruling...
Mar 13 2012 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, based in Columbus, Ohio, has awarded $31,700 in scholarships to 26 students at seven colleges and universities. The scholarships support students studying risk management,...
Mar 5 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that. Work...