Latest Education Headlines
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Appeals Court Weighs Harvard University Use of Race as Factor in Admissions
Sep 16 2020 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday will consider whether Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants in a closely-watched case that could impact whether U.S. colleges can use race as a factor in...
Ex-Director Files Whistleblower Suit Against University Of New Mexico
Sep 14 2020 // The University of New Mexico retaliated against the director of Africana Studies for demanding that his program be elevated to a department and later removed him when the program got state funding for the change, according...
Data About 200K Nevada University Alumni, Donors May Have Been Stolen
Sep 14 2020 // University of Nevada, Reno alumni and donors may have had their information stolen in a data breach that occurred in May, university officials said. The school was told of the breach on July 16 by Blackbaud, a third-party...
Signs of Heart Damage After Covid Lead to Recommendation to Screen College Athletes
Sep 11 2020 // Doctors recommend cardiac screening tests for competitive athletes who have recovered from Covid-19 after a small study found heart damage in 1 in 7 college sports competitors, including in those whose coronavirus...
Ohio State University Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 10 2020 // Federal officials have sued Ohio State University (OSU) for alleged age discrimination after the university fired a human resources generalist in the College of Education and Human Ecology (CEHE) because of his age. In its...
S.D. Governor Disputes Report Tying COVID-19 Case Surge to Motorcycle Rally
Sep 8 2020 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has dismissed as “fiction” a recent study published by San Diego State University that ties the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August to a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and...
Computer Breach at Oregon University Exposes Personal Info of 1,700
Sep 8 2020 // The personal information of some Oregon State University students and faculty members may have been compromised during a computer security breach, officials said. A hacker accessed a computer server for the...
Former Washington State Student Sues School District Over Mass Shooting
Sep 7 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack. The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
Lawsuit: Oregon School District Failed to Investigate Teacher
Sep 2 2020 // A former student from Aloha High School is suing the Beaverton School District after a teacher was convicted of sending her sexually explicit photos and videos of himself. The suit, which asks for more than $2 million in...
University of Alabama COVID Cases Top 1K in First 2 Weeks of School
Sep 1 2020 // The University of Alabama reported Friday that an additional 481 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campus for the fall. The University...
Brown & Brown Cancels Deal After Ohio Agency Exec Pleads Guilty in College Scam
Aug 27 2020 // Daytona Beach, Florida-based insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has terminated its previously announced agreement to purchase the assets of HAUSER, an insurance and investment firm headquartered in Cincinnati,...
University of Alabama Reports More than 500 COVID Cases, City Closes Bars
Aug 27 2020 // The University of Alabama has recorded 531 cases of COVID-19 on campus since the fall semester began last week, according to numbers the university system released Tuesday as officials try to clamp down on student parties,...
New COVID Clusters Appear at One North Carolina University
Aug 26 2020 // East Carolina University reported new COVID-19 clusters at two more dormitories on Monday, two days before the school transitions to online instructions. The school issued an alert saying six positive cases had been...
Former Washington State Student Sues School District Over Mass Shooting
Aug 26 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack. The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
Former Oregon School District Student Sues, Says Principal Molested Him
Aug 25 2020 // A former student of the Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the district and former Deep Creek Elementary School principal Jeff Hays, saying he was sexually abused by Hays. The...
North Carolina Universities Move Classes Online After Campus Virus Outbreaks
Aug 24 2020 // East Carolina University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte are moving courses online in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the universities announced Sunday. ECU will move undergraduate courses online for...
University Insured Chinese Student Tuition Revenue Against Virus. Then COVID-19 Hit.
Aug 17 2020 // After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students. So, in 2017,...
Justice Department Alleges Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians, Whites
Aug 14 2020 // The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of U.S. civil rights law. The...
Appeals Court: Florida Public School Can’t Punish Student for Gender Nonconformity
Aug 14 2020 // xA Florida school district was wrong when it forced a transgender high school student to either use the girls bathroom or a single-stall gender neutral bathroom, a federal appeals court ruled. The ruling issued Aug. 7...
University of North Carolina Workers Complain of Unsafe Working Conditions in Lawsuit
Aug 14 2020 // Campus workers in the University of North Carolina system have filed a lawsuit saying working conditions are unsafe and that workers are reporting for work with inadequate protective equipment amid the COVID-19...
