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Two University Alumni Make $43.9M Gift to Law School

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. — Two University of Virginia School of Law alumni have made a $43.9-million donation to the school, the largest gift in its history. The Daily Progress reports Martha and Bruce Karsh announced they will donate the money Thursday. The gift includes $18.9 million in matching funds from the university’s board of visitors, which will […]

More Colleges Host Women as Grad Speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]

School Officials Recommend Revoking Cosby’s Honorary Degree

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Officials with the University of Maryland, College Park, have recommended revoking Bill Cosby’s honorary degree after the comedian’s sexual assault conviction. University spokeswoman Katie Lawson tells The Baltimore Sun the decision by the school’s committee on honorary degrees will be sent to the University System of Maryland office for Board of […]

Big Jump in Job Program for Foreign Graduates of US Colleges

WASHINGTON— A program that allows foreign students to stay in the United States for temporary employment after graduation has expanded significantly over a dozen years as technical companies stepped up hiring of science and engineering majors, according to a report released Thursday. The study by Pew Research Center in Washington comes as colleges and universities […]

University of California Nurses, Cooks Strike for Third Day

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and other medical staff joined walkouts by service workers again Wednesday, forcing medical centers to close and reschedule thousands of appointments and surgeries. The three-day strike was called last week by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 when the union and […]

Amid #MeToo, More Colleges Host Women As Graduation Speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]

David Hogg Is Postponing College to Push Gun Control

PARKLAND, Fla. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg says he wants voters to know which lawmakers are backed by the National Rifle Association before the mid-term elections. The #NeverAgain leader and high school senior says he’s postponing college for a year to engage in gun-reform activism, focusing mostly on getting students and others registered […]

African King to Give Commencement Speech at Ohio University

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — An African monarch with a special connection to a small Ohio university will visit to give the school’s commencement speech. The Springfield News-Sun reports Lesotho’s King Letsie III will travel to Springfield to speak at Wittenberg University Saturday. Wittenberg history professor Scott Rosenberg has taken hundreds of students on service trips to […]

Mexican Authorities Dispute U.S. College Student Was Murdered

BOSTON – The family of an American college student who died on spring break in Mexico says he was murdered, but Mexican authorities say that’s untrue. The Mexican government told The Boston Globe Monday that Amherst College senior Andrew Dorogi was found dead on train tracks in Mexico City on March 15. The government says […]

Charles Steger, Former Virginia Tech President, Dies at 70

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger Jr., who led the institution through a period of great change and faced both criticism and praise for his leadership during a 2007 mass shooting, has died, the university announced Monday. He was 70. Steger, a Virginia Tech graduate who spent most of his professional […]

Community College Classes Resume After Shooting Threat

HOUSTON – Houston Community College Central Campus will reopen for business as usual Wednesday after it was closed Monday and Tuesday while authorities investigated a shooting threat made on social media over the weekend. Finals will resume as scheduled with the exception of the Monday, May 7, exams, which are postponed to Friday, and the […]

University Pulls Convicted Sex Offender’s Artwork from Show

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Maine university has removed artwork from a campus gallery upon learning the artist of the three works is a convicted sex offender. The University of Southern Maine removed the works by Bruce Habowski when a relative of one of his victim’s called to complain. The Portland Press Herald reports a […]

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