Associated PressNews RoundupGeorge Mason University Naming its Law School for ScaliaARLINGTON, Va. ― George Mason University plans to name its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, following an anonymous $20 million donation from a Scalia admirer and a $10 million donation from the foundation of industrialist and philanthropist Charles Koch. The law school announced Thursday that its anonymous donor approached the […]March 31, 2016StudentsPitt Settles Locker Room Case with Transgender StudentJOHNSTOWN, Pa. ― The University of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit brought by a transgender student who said he was wrongfully expelled from its Johnstown campus after a dispute over his use of a men’s locker room. Television station WJAC first reported the settlement Wednesday between the university and Seamus Johnston. Settlement terms haven’t been […]March 30, 2016Leadership & PolicyWWU Trustees Pick OSU Provost as Only Finalist for PresidentBELLINGHAM, Wash. ― The Western Washington University board of trustees has picked the provost at Oregon State University as the preferred candidate to become the school’s 14th president. Sabah Randhawa is OSU’s second ranking administrator. He is in line to replace retiring WWU President Bruce Shepard. In addition to being the school’s chief academic officer, […]March 30, 2016StudentsChicago State Backs Off Request that Employees Turn in KeysCHICAGO ― Chicago State University backtracked Wednesday from a plan to collect keys from faculty and staff members, instead announcing that it would take an inventory of keys that might have to be collected should layoffs be necessary amid the state’s financial crisis. Administrator Aleshia Renee Terry had asked deans on Monday to begin collecting […]March 30, 2016StudentsFraternity Suspended at University of South CarolinaCOLUMBIA, S.C. ― The University of South Carolina says the Sigma Chi fraternity has been suspended temporarily from the Columbia campus. It’s the fifth chapter closed or suspended since fall 2014. The reason for the suspension has not been released. USC spokesman Wes Hickman told local media that the school has been told by the […]March 28, 2016StudentsFaculty Criticize UC Berkeley Over Sexual Harassment ClaimsBERKELEY, Calif. ― University of California, Berkeley faculty members are condemning the university’s handling of yet another sexual harassment case. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday that in a letter to Vice Provost Janet Broughton, tenured professors in Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian Studies department say they are frustrated that numerous complaints against an assistant […]March 28, 2016Leadership & PolicyCornell Taps Former Leader After President’s DeathITHACA, N.Y. ― Cornell University says Hunter Rawlings III will once again serve as interim president while the school seeks to replace its deceased leader. Rawlings is a 71-year-old professor emeritus of classics who was Cornell president from 1995 to 2003 and interim president in 2005 and 2006. He is taking the interim presidency again […]March 24, 2016StudentsEast Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault VictimGREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]March 24, 2016StudentsU.S. Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing FraudWEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. ― The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren’t taking classes through the school. The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell […]March 23, 2016StudentsNRA Leader Praises Liberty U. for Allowing Concealed CarryLYNCHBURG, Va. ― The CEO of the National Rifle Association is praising Liberty University for allowing qualified students to carry concealed handguns on campus. Wayne LaPierre said Liberty was one of the safest places in the country at the college’s regular three-times-weekly convocation on Wednesday. The News & Advance reports that LaPierre praised students who […]March 23, 2016Previous PagePage 140 of 569Next Page