All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2014 // Columbia University and Barnard College mishandled incidents of sexual assault and misconduct on campus, according to a complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. Education Department by 23 students.The complaint alleges...
Apr 25 2014 // The University of California has agreed to pay $10 million to a former surgical chairman who says he was the victim of retaliation after pointing out conflicts of interest at UCLA’s medical school.The Los Angeles...
Apr 24 2014 // Campus police at the University of Kentucky say new surveillance cameras are helping them fight crime.UK Police Chief Joe Monroe told WKYT-TV that the school has 400 cameras installed so far and another 1,600 are planned....
Apr 17 2014 // Twenty four insurance and risk management students at five Texas universities were recently awarded academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend Huston-Tillotson...
Apr 9 2014 // A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report says overall crime on college campuses has dropped by more than 11 percent.The Chattanooga Times Free Press cited the data in reporting that the number of assaults and thefts were...
Apr 4 2014 // Oregon State University has paid $1,000 plus $100,000 in legal fees to a former student to settle a lawsuit over the confiscation of distribution boxes for a conservative-leaning student newspaper.The Oregonian reported...
Apr 1 2014 // Mississippi lawmakers have extended trade-secret protections to universities and community colleges by exempting materials tied to any commercial, scientific or technical research from the state’s Open Records Act...
Mar 27 2014 // Early this month, JPMorgan Chase & Co. stopped managing an investment account for a prominent client: the charitable foundation of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the nation’s largest fraternities.The bank was...
Mar 24 2014 // There’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on at the University of Nevada, Reno.UNR’s seismic-simulation facility became the largest in the United States and second largest in the world in March with an...
Mar 21 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association is expected as early as April to reach an agreement to boost safeguards for athletes who get concussions while playing college sports.Driving the deal is 59-year-old Seattle...
Mar 10 2014 // Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the largest U.S. fraternities and the deadliest, said it would ban pledging, citing the toll that hazing has taken on its recruits and its reputation.SAE announced yesterday what it called a...
Mar 7 2014 // The Travelers Cos., in partnership with InVEST, a nationwide school-to-career nonprofit program, is helping to improve insurance and financial literacy in students and attract young talent for the insurance...
Mar 4 2014 // There’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on at the University of Nevada, Reno.UNR’s seismic-simulation facility became the largest in the United States and second largest in the world this week with an...
Feb 24 2014 // A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled against the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Ind., in a case over parts of the federal health care law that forces it to provide health insurance for students...
Feb 18 2014 // Portland State University in Oregon will pay $161,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against disabled students who have service animals.Deaf student Cindy Leland and the Fair Housing Council of Oregon filed...
Feb 6 2014 // Record-setting winter weather in the United States has led to lots of road condition advisories, but could there also be a slip and fall alert?By analyzing various conditions – like snow, wind speed, temperature – into...
Jan 17 2014 // St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management (SRM) held its 19th annual “Insurance Leader of the Year” awards dinner Wednesday before a crowd of more than 1,400 in New York City.(Left to right)...
Jan 16 2014 // In a ground floor lab of the New Engineering Building at the University of Florida, radiologist Keith Peters and mechanical engineer Ghatu Subhash are building the football helmet of the future.They’ve spent several...
Jan 8 2014 // West Virginia University is being sued by a former auditor who claims he was fired for complaining about wrongdoing at the school.R. Michael Kennedy-Chuey’s federal lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for wrongful...
Jan 8 2014 // The University of Arizona will conduct two research studies on ways to improve mine safety using $1.3 million in grants from a mine safety foundation. The two grants announced Monday will pay for a risk management study by...