All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2018 // In early 2016, Zurich North America teamed up with William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Ill., to offer an apprenticeship in insurance program and now its first group of employee-students have graduated with a job at...
Dec 29 2017 // Bob Kelsey can’t afford a cancer drug that could save his life.The retired firefighter, 53, needs Revlimid to stay healthy. Celgene Corp. has raised the price 88 percent over the past seven years. The drug...
Dec 19 2017 // The president of Florida State University says he has no timetable yet for reinstating Greek activities on campus after they were suspended in November following the death of a fraternity pledge.John Thrasher told The...
Dec 19 2017 // Surveillance video shows that an intruder lit the fire that damaged a building at a Mississippi community college.The predawn Thursday blaze damaged more than half of Mississippi Delta Community College’s...
Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...
Dec 14 2017 // Three fraternities at a University of North Carolina campus have been suspended for hazing and other infractions. The Charlotte Observer reports that the UNC Charlotte’s Office of Student Conduct says Delta Chi,...
Dec 6 2017 // Pool Re and Cranfield University announced the appointment of Professor Andrew Silke as the professor of Terrorism Risk Management and Resilience at Cranfield University.This is a new position that will be co-funded by...
Dec 1 2017 // A woman who was hit by a car while protesting against President Donald Trump on a San Diego freeway is suing the driver, the city, the state and a nearby university.The San Diego Union-Tribune reported 19-year-old Maria...
Nov 30 2017 // A former Ohio State and NFL star is asking a judge to let him expand a class-action lawsuit over allegations that marketing campaigns for dozens of big-time colleges and universities improperly used the images of thousands...
Nov 29 2017 // Note: This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.Three years ago, a series of quakes rattled North Texas — and some residents’ nerves. Larry Walden, a Parker County commissioner, remembers a public...
Nov 28 2017 // Independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, based in Giddings, Texas, has been presented the 2017 Community Commitment Award by Baylor University’s Institute for Family Business.This distinction is awarded by...
Nov 22 2017 // It can happen in the branch office or the boardroom. Volkswagen did it to pass emissions tests. Wells-Fargo did it to squeeze more profits from their customers. Some school districts have it done it to boost their...
Nov 20 2017 // Rolling Stone is defending itself against a defamation lawsuit over a discredited article about a University of Virginia gang rape by arguing that members of a school fraternity knew about discrepancies in the...
Nov 16 2017 // A Georgia college is expanding its training program for commercial truck drivers as the U.S. faces a national trucker shortage. WALB-TV reports Albany Technical College plans to increase the number of seats in its...
Nov 14 2017 // On November 15, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation will join the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton to celebrate the Education Foundation’s surpassing $1 million dollars in scholarships...
Nov 6 2017 // A spokeswoman for Louisiana State University says three workers were injured when an “electrical issue” sparked a fire that prompted the evacuation of the university’s law school. LSU spokeswoman Alison...
Oct 4 2017 // Attorneys for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and athletes who played for the school argued in a state court on Friday whether a lawsuit filed against the school in connection with an academic scandal...
Sep 14 2017 // The Berkeley City Council this week gave police permission to use pepper spray to repel demonstrators attacking officers and others during violent protests of the kind that have repeatedly hit the city this year.The 6-3...
Aug 30 2017 // Workers in the hard metal industry are not at increased risk for lung cancer or any of 63 other potential causes of death, concluded the largest study on this population to date.The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School...
Aug 23 2017 // A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit on Aug. 21 against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her.The...