Associated PressStudentsDorm Overcrowding Affects 500 Students at Georgia StateATLANTA — Georgia State University must find room for roughly 500 students as more have applied to stay on its Atlanta campus than there are places to live. Local news outlets report that according to the school’s website, the campus’s increasing popularity to live on has led to an unusual increase in the number of […]August 16, 2017StudentsCharlottesville Rally Participant Withdraws from Boston UniversityBOSTON — An 18-year-old student who attended the White nationalist rally in Virginia last weekend says he has withdrawn from college in Boston in part because of death threats. Nicholas Fuentes tells The Boston Globe he has received 15 death threats via email and social media. Fuentes said he considered leaving Boston University in January […]August 16, 2017Leadership & PolicyUNR Student Won’t Be Expelled for Role in Charlottesville ProtestRENO, Nev. — The president of the University of Nevada, Reno says a UNR student who gained notoriety for rallying with White nationalists in Virginia will not be expelled or lose his university job. Peter Cytanovic, who also goes by the name Peter Cvjetanovic, was photographed with a group of demonstrators on Friday carrying a […]August 16, 2017Faculty & StaffUniversity of Montana Lecturers Given 6-month Layoff NoticesMISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana has given about 40 non-tenured lecturers notice that their contracts won’t be renewed at the end of the fall semester. Provost Beverly Edmond told the Missoulian the letters were sent to meet university policy that lecturers with more than three consecutive years of service be given one semester’s […]August 16, 2017StudentsTroubled For-profit Law School in North Carolina ClosingCHARLOTTE, N.C. — The alumni association president of a troubled, for-profit law school in North Carolina says it’s closing immediately. Lee Robertson Jr. says Charlotte School of Law employees were notified Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, the 11-year-old school’s website had been taken down. Local media report the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted […]August 16, 2017News RoundupTexas Lawmakers Want A&M to Block White Nationalist RallyCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University has criticized the views of a White nationalist who is planning a “White lives matter” rally on campus next month, but lawmakers in the state Legislature are calling on the school to go farther and block the event entirely. A&M spokeswoman Amy Smith told The Battalion student newspaper […]August 14, 2017News RoundupLouisville Appeals ‘Draconian’ NCAA Penalties in Escort CaseLouisville said the NCAA “abused” its authority when it disciplined the school for a sex scandal that could result in the loss of its 2013 national basketball championship. The school also said in a 68-page appeal released Friday that the governing body imposed “draconian” penalties and ignored the school’s self-imposed discipline. Louisville banned itself from […]August 13, 2017News Roundup3 Dead, Dozens Injured, Amid Violent White Nationalist RallyCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.–A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation’s roiling racial and political divisions. The chaos […]August 13, 2017StudentsFlorida University Suspends Fraternity Amid Rape AllegationsORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida university has suspended a fraternity after a woman said she was raped during a party. Officials at the University of Central Florida sent letters to Alpha Tau Omega, accusing the fraternity of lying after the woman reported the rape to police last month. It’s unclear whether she’s a student. An […]August 10, 2017News RoundupIdaho State University President to Retire Next YearPOCATELLO, Idaho — Idaho State University President Arthur Vailas says he will retire next summer after more than a decade at the school. Vailas made the announcement Wednesday during a monthly meeting of the Idaho State Board of Education. The announcement came just three days after the university’s football booster club announced it would withhold […]August 10, 2017Previous PagePage 63 of 569Next Page