Associated PressSportsUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette Appeals Verdict in Football Coach’s FiringThe University of Louisiana at Lafayette is appealing a jury decision that the university must pay fired football coach Jerry Baldwin $2 million in damages after the panel determined race was among the reasons for his 2001 dismissal.July 13, 2008HomeSpending Scandal at Texas Southern Ends QuietlyStudents at Texas Southern University often have to work their way through college, and most of them need financial aid to follow in the footsteps of alumni Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland at the historically Black, open-enrollment university.July 10, 2008HomeHigh Gas Prices Fuel Boom in Online ClassesLaurel Ranticelli considered driving 40 miles round-trip to take education classes at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst.July 9, 2008HomeCell Phones Only, PleaseConsumers are moving away from being tied-down by landlines. And so too are universities as more students carry cell phones. Many schools — including the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay and Madison and Marquette University — are eliminating landlines in most or all of student rooms this fall. Landlines have been slowly disappearing from […]July 9, 2008SportsRodriguez agrees to settle, pay WVU $4 millionFormer West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez agreed to pay a $4 million buyout clause and settle a lawsuit that the university filed after he broke his contract in December.July 8, 2008HomeOhio Offers In-State Tuition to All VeteransOhio now allows out-of-state veterans to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities.July 8, 2008LatinxTuition Break for Some Kansas Undocumented Immigrants StandsCritics of a law giving some undocumented immigrants a tuition break at state universities and colleges are promising to keep challenging it, despite a recent legal setback from the U.S. Supreme Court.July 8, 2008StudentsDrinking Games Prove Deadly to College StudentsOn the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches.July 7, 2008Community CollegesTuition Break for Some Kansas Undocumented Immigrants StandsCritics of a law giving some undocumented immigrants a tuition break at state universities and colleges are promising to keep challenging it, despite a recent legal setback from the U.S. Supreme Court.July 6, 2008StudentsCommuter Colleges Go Residential, Gain EnrollmentThe neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day.July 2, 2008Previous PagePage 308 of 569Next Page
