All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 21 2022 // Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder recently sued leaders of the Richmond university where he works following a public personnel dispute in which Wilder had pushed for the firing of an employee he accused of threatening...
Jun 14 2022 // Strong winds and storms forced crowds who gathered in a rural Kansas field for a symphony performance to evacuate and damaged a sorority house at Kansas State University.About half a dozen tornado warnings were issued...
May 27 2022 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public. Texas Mutual—the state’s leading...
May 23 2022 // A federal jury in Minnesota has awarded a college student more than $111 million in damages after concluding negligent care of his injured leg following surgery led to a permanent disability.The jury verdict this week,...
May 16 2022 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit 12 women brought last summer against Liberty University, accusing the Christian institution of fostering an unsafe environment on its Virginia campus and mishandling cases of...
May 6 2022 // Suffolk University professors are bringing their expertise in behavioral economics to Gen Re through a new business relationship designed to benefit the reinsurer’s clients in the areas of underwriting, marketing,...
May 4 2022 // A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found Monday.George Huguely V is currently...
May 2 2022 // “Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.” – Robert Maynard HutchinsWhile this quote from...
Apr 22 2022 // A Southern California school district has agreed to pay $13.75 million to settle civil lawsuits over a worker who admitted molesting elementary school students.The agreement was announced by attorneys for 10 former...
Apr 18 2022 // An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment for a business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident that roiled the historic liberal arts school and...
Apr 13 2022 // The University of Southern California is suing two YouTube performers who the school says created panic after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels.Court documents obtained by the Los Angeles...
Apr 12 2022 // Austin, TX., April, 12, 2022 — The National Alliance of Insurance Education & Research welcomes Noelle Codispoti as Director of CISR High School Program. The Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) High...
Apr 11 2022 // Old school vs. new school. Every so often, a debate echoes down the corridor of time as the disrupters of the status quo burst on the scene with novel ways of doing things, while the established players cling to the tried...
Apr 5 2022 // Police in Vermont are investigating allegations of hazing involving the women’s rugby team at Norwich University, authorities said.Multiple law enforcement agencies went to a residence hall at the private military...
Apr 5 2022 // An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment for a business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident that roiled the historic liberal arts school and...
Mar 22 2022 // The University of Missouri System has paid a $1.57 million settlement to a white former employee who alleged she was removed from her job in favor of a younger, Black woman.Rachel Brown was 60 when she was removed from her...
Mar 17 2022 // A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing nine people, authorities said.The vehicles collided the night of March 15 in...
Mar 16 2022 // The state cannot be held liable for injuries sustained in a parking lot that is regularly used by people accessing a public building, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled.On March 15, in Klein v. University of Maine System,...
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
Mar 3 2022 // Gallaudet University and the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) announced that Gallaudet students will have expanded opportunities to gain practical work experience in municipal...