All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2008 // Injured workers would have a wider choice of doctors and greater access to new medical technology. Businesses would face less government red tape.To people who have experienced a job injury claim handled by the Ohio Bureau...
Sep 30 2008 // Thousands of people in the St. Louis area are still coping with the destruction and inconveniences left behind after the area was hit by flash flooding on Sept. 14.Hundreds of homes have been condemned pending repairs and...
Sep 19 2008 // Hawaii Pacific University has instituted a graduate program in insurance and risk management.According to Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt, “HPU’s graduate insurance program is the first in the West....
Sep 18 2008 // Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that inadequate size guidelines for all-terrain vehicles may be a contributing factor to a recent string of injuries and deaths. The study results announced Sept. 17 found...
Sep 5 2008 // A center that studies emergency responses to disasters like the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina is opening at a Manhattan college. The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is named after a...
Sep 5 2008 // A man who set fires on the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) campus in 2005 causing millions of dollars in damage has been released from prison, surprising university officials who did not expect his 30-year sentence to be...
Sep 2 2008 // The site of a former hardware store is now home to the University of Iowa’s theater performance, music and ceramics classes, a move that reflects the possible confusion after flooding pushed a slate of old classes...
Sep 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but...
Aug 29 2008 // DeKalb, Ill.-based Northern Illinois University (NIU) officials say the school has added 16 full-time security officers.NIU Lieutenant Todd Henert says the Public Safety Department now has 59 full-time officers. NIU Police...
Aug 28 2008 // Officials at Miami University are investigating two fires they say were deliberately set in a dormitory on the Oxford campus. University police say the fires were discovered early Tuesday, August 26 in basement...
Aug 25 2008 // The Mississippi College Board gave the University of Southern Mississippi approval to spend $27.5 million to rebuild its Gulf Coast campuses devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.The money will be a combination...
Aug 22 2008 // The Derek Hughes/ National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Ltd. Educational Foundation scholarships went to two University of Alabama student.Recipient Aldrich Callins of Birmingham, Ala. has attended...
Aug 20 2008 // Americans continue to overwhelmingly reject an ongoing push to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. According to a Nationwide Insurance survey, 72 percent of adults think lowering the drinking age will make alcohol...
Aug 19 2008 // An “early offers” program in which medical malpractice and product liability lawsuits could be quickly settled would improve a tort system that is often slow, expensive and unfair, according to a new book...
Aug 14 2008 // A school bus accident in Alabama’s southern Dale County sent sixteen students to hospitals with minor injuries.Dale County School Superintendent Phillip Parker said the mishap occurred Aug. 12 around 3:30 p.m. on a...
Aug 4 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...
Aug 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...
Jul 30 2008 // The federal government approved $5.7 million in disaster assistance funding for two Tennessee institutions that suffered tornado damage, Gov. Phil Bredesen said.These grants are part of the federal Public Assistance...
Jul 28 2008 // A privately owned fraternity house at West Virginia University has been condemned for unsafe living conditions by the Morgantown, W.Va. Fire Department.The Tau Kappa Epsilon house was shut down last week after inspectors...
Jul 28 2008 // Former South Dakota teacher and coach Andy Tate wants the Mitchell School District’s insurance to cover the $25,000 in legal bills he spent to defend himself in a lawsuit brought by a former student.Brittany Plamp...