All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 30 2020 // A tornado ripped through northeast Arkansas on Saturday, leaving six people hurt after hitting commercial and residential areas in the college town of Jonesboro.The six people reported injured were taken to a local...
Mar 25 2020 // A small community college in northeast Kansas directed its coaches to recruit more white athletes and targeted black prospective students with excessive scrutiny such background checks before offering scholarships,...
Mar 20 2020 // A student accused of setting an off-campus fire is the only suspect in about 20 fires set on the campus of the University of South Carolina Upstate, police said.Brandon Michael Burt, 19, of Suwanee, Georgia, was booked...
Mar 19 2020 // A new apprenticeship program aimed at attracting and developing talent in the independent agency system is being rolled out by an insurance education organization that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.Invest, the...
Mar 13 2020 // Indiana State University has won first place in Selective Insurance’s Collegiate Competition. Second place was claimed by Middle Tennessee University, while Appalachian State University placed third.The month-long,...
Mar 10 2020 // A month-long attack on the computer networks at Kentucky’s largest university system prompted officials to conduct a major reboot of the networks Sunday, officials said.Officials believe the prolonged cyberattack was...
Mar 9 2020 // Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr....
Mar 6 2020 // Three former athletes at the University of Michigan have filed lawsuits against the school, alleging that a late doctor sexually assaulted them while the men were members of the football and hockey teams in the 1980s.The...
Feb 28 2020 // A former senior associate athletics director at Arizona State has filed a $1.5 million claim against the university over his firing last December.David Cohen said in his claim – which is the precursor to a lawsuit –...
Feb 26 2020 // A student who has celiac disease says in a lawsuit that a Maryland state university deliberately served her food containing gluten.The lawsuit from Allegany County native Hannah Smith said the University of Maryland,...
Feb 20 2020 // The University of Arkansas and a former student reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit alleging school officials acted with “deliberate indifference” after she reported being sexually assaulted by another...
Feb 18 2020 // A risk professional is no longer merely someone who just focuses on protecting assets, according to Ward Ching, a managing director of the Western region at Aon.Ching not only sees a growing need for risk professionals to...
Feb 10 2020 // The California State University system and Cal State San Marcos agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit challenging their refusal to use student fees to fund a pro-life speaker on campus, according to a newspaper report...
Feb 3 2020 // Teams of students from seven universities throughout the U.S. today begin a month-long collegiate competition in which they will run virtual insurance agencies in a computer-simulated environment.The competition, called...
Jan 28 2020 // Two construction workers, participating in the renovation of Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, were injured Saturday when beams fell on a piece of equipment they were operating.Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue...
Jan 23 2020 // A former criminal justice professor at New Mexico State University says he lost his job in retaliation for reporting misconduct at his department.The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Francisco Alatorre last month filed a...
Jan 17 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused to shield state-run universities from having to appear before a federal administrative body to defend the validity of patents they own.The justices turned down an appeal by the University of...
Jan 14 2020 // A former Southern Arkansas University student has settled a lawsuit with the university in Magnolia alleging SAU acted with “deliberate indifference” when she reported being sexually assaulted in 2015.The...
Jan 14 2020 // National insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, has acquired Academic HealthPlans Inc. (AHP), a Grapevine, Texas-based provider of health insurance plans that colleges and universities make...
Jan 14 2020 // A nonprofit flood risk research organization is offering the first publicly available flood risk model that predicts the probability of flooding for homes and properties across the United States.Brooklyn, N.Y.-based First...