All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2015 // As the 2015 National Football League draft approaches, a lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London by former University of Southern California Trojans receiver Marqise Lee has placed a spotlight on sports disability...
Mar 19 2015 // The former North Carolina learning specialist who questioned literacy levels of Tar Heels athletes received $335,000 in the settlement to end her lawsuit against the school.Mary Willingham sued last summer, saying she was...
Mar 13 2015 // As the 2015 National Football League draft approaches, a lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London by former University of Southern California Trojans receiver Marqise Lee has placed a spotlight on sports disability...
Mar 9 2015 // By 2020, the entire insurance industry will have 400,000 positions to fill. About 120 academic programs exist worldwide offering courses, concentrations and majors in risk management and insurance. About 80 are located in...
Feb 25 2015 // College basketball’s tradition of storming the court after big upsets poses a potentially devastating liability threat to universities and athletic departments, personal injury lawyers said.Video showed coaches being...
Feb 24 2015 // A former janitor at Montana State University is suing the college over how he was treated by co-workers.Akram Zahran filed the lawsuit this past week in Gallatin County District Court against MSU, two co-workers and a...
Feb 16 2015 // Liam McGee, an Irish-born banker and insurance executive who guided Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. through a taxpayer bailout and shored up the company’s finances, has died. He was 60.McGee died Feb. 13 after...
Feb 12 2015 // The Obama administration won a reversal of a court ruling that would have shielded a Christian college in Pennsylvania from a provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring religious nonprofits to indirectly facilitate...
Jan 29 2015 // Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is considering banning hard liquor on campus as part of a series of measures to curb student alcohol abuse and sexual assault.President Philip Hanlon is expected to propose the...
Jan 26 2015 // The now infamous computer hacks infuriated consumers who had personal information compromised and Hollywood honchos who had embarrassing emails made public.But headline-grabbing computer intrusions are only a fraction of...
Jan 23 2015 // St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management (SRM) in New York hosted its 20th Annual Insurance Leader of the Year Award Dinner on Jan. 21 in honor of Mike McGavick, chief executive officer of XL Group...
Jan 15 2015 // With prospects of containing global warming slipping away, a team of scientists urged policymakers to redouble their efforts to rein in pollution, saying human activity risks turning even rich nations into a “danger...
Jan 8 2015 // Large employers are increasingly putting an end to their most generous health-care coverage as a tax on “Cadillac” insurance plans looms closer under Obamacare.Employees including bankers at JPMorgan Chase...
Jan 6 2015 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has produced a six-minute video highlighting the variety of job opportunities available in the insurance industry for recent college graduates and current undergrads.The video...
Dec 31 2014 // Harvard Law School was found in violation of Title IX, the law that prohibits gender discrimination in education, for its failure to respond adequately to sexual assault reports, the Education Department said.The law...
Dec 11 2014 // College sports’ governing body will consider limiting how much schools can contribute toward athletes’ insurance policies, according to its president.National Collegiate Athletic Association schools pay for...
Dec 9 2014 // The University of Virginia will lift a ban on its more than 30 fraternities and related activities, in place since Nov. 22, on Jan. 9, President Teresa A. Sullivan said.The reinstatement will be in conjunction with a new...
Dec 8 2014 // An anonymous college student said in a media report that she had been gang-raped at a fraternity house. She told the reporter that she was drugged and beaten around the face, legs and vagina, yet a university dean ignored...
Dec 5 2014 // Sixteen students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The ICT announced that the students attend St....
Nov 26 2014 // The U.S. Geological Survey is awarding a $2 million grant to the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis. The university said the three-year grant will help the center continue to...