Latest Universities Headlines
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Storms Damage Kansas State University Sorority House
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...
Texas Mutual to Award $1.1M in Safety Education Grants to 11 Texas Colleges
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...
Minnesota College Student Awarded $111M in Personal Injury Case
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,...
Liberty University Settles With 12 Women Who Sued Over Sexual Assault Policies
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...
Gen Re, Boston’s Suffolk University Create Behavioral Economics Relationship
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,...
Jury Awards $15M in Wrongful Death of University of Virginia Lacrosse Player
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...
Logic & Language and Forms & Facts, Insuring College Students
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 Hutchins While this quote...
Appeals Court Upholds $25M Judgment Against College in Ohio
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...
University of Southern California Suing YouTubers for Pranks
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...
Police Investigate Allegations of Women’s Rugby Team Hazing at Vermont University
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...
Appeals Court Upholds $25M Judgment Against College in Ohio
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...
University of Missouri System Agrees to $1.5 Million Discrimination Settlement
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...
Bus Carrying College Golf Teams Crashes in Texas, Leaving 9 Dead
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...
University’s Governmental Immunity Extends to Parking Lot, Maine Supreme Court Rules
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,...
Online University Paying $22M in California Suit for Misleading Students
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...
District of Columbia Regulator Expands Internships to Gallaudet Students
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...
Supreme Court Denies Christian College’s Ministerial Exception From Lawsuit… for Now
Mar 1 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by a Massachusetts Christian college seeking a religious “ministerial exception” to help it avoid a discrimination lawsuit brought by a professor denied a...
Kansas University Settles Free-Speech Lawsuit
Feb 14 2022 // Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write. Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with...
Suit by 3 Students Alleges Harvard University Ignored Sexual Harassment
Feb 11 2022 // Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowed him to intimidate...
UCLA Settling Gynecologist Sex Abuse Lawsuit for $246M
Feb 9 2022 // The University of California has agreed to pay $246.3 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers and the university announced Tuesday. The settlement...
