Latest Education Headlines
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Markel to be Honored as 2016 Insurance Leader Of The Year in New York
Dec 30 2016 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at the Markel Corporation will be honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance...
Pollution from New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College Lab Dump Worries Neighbors
Dec 27 2016 // Neighbors of Dartmouth College property where for years the Ivy League school disposed of mice and other small animals used in science experiments say they fear pollution from the site has contaminated their groundwater...
University in Ohio Agrees to Settle Student’s Sex Discrimination Suit
Dec 22 2016 // The University of Cincinnati has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a student who said she was told she had to sit and work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab. U.S. District Judge Susan...
Police Testify Driver in Deadly Tennessee School Bus Crash was Speeding
Dec 21 2016 // The 24-year-old driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children was speeding about 20 miles per hour over the 30 mile-per-hour limit, police testified Dec. 14, drawing tears from their families in...
Art University to Settle for $60M with San Francisco
Dec 20 2016 // The Academy of Art University in San Francisco has agreed to a $60 million settlement with the city aimed at bringing the school’s many illegally converted buildings into compliance with local rules. The San...
Appeals Court in Ohio Revives Claims in Notre Dame Concussion Suit
Dec 15 2016 // A state appeals court in Cleveland, Ohio, has ruled that the widow of a former Notre Dame football player can proceed with claims in a lawsuit that said her husband was disabled by and ultimately died from...
Allstate Continues Its Technology Drive, Invests in Autonomous Vehicle Research at Stanford
Dec 15 2016 // Allstate Insurance Co., the nation’s largest publicly-held personal lines insurer, is continuing its drive into new technology, agreeing to a multi-year research project with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at...
Texas Launches Study of High School Athlete Concussions
Dec 13 2016 // Texas is undertaking what state officials say is the nation’s largest effort to track brain injuries among young athletes. The University Interscholastic League, Texas’ governing body for public high school...
Suit Accuses California University of Mishandling Sex Assault Reports
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
School Bus Driver in Fatal Maryland Crash was Speeding, Had Prior Wrecks
Dec 9 2016 // The driver of a Baltimore school bus that careened into a transit bus, killing him and five others, was speeding, had a history of previous crashes and had a seizure the week before, national investigators said...
Rolling Stone Challenges Verdict in University of Virginia Defamation Case
Dec 7 2016 // Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator with their botched story about a gang...
Suit over Woman Shot by University of Arizona Officer Revived
Dec 6 2016 // A federal appeals court has resurrected an excessive-force lawsuit by a woman who was shot by a University of Arizona police officer six year ago as she held a knife in her hand outside her home. Amy Hughes had lost her...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners Insurance
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
Could POTUS Battle Trigger More Discrimination Suits?
Dec 5 2016 // Regardless of one’s political leaning, the 2016 presidential election offered bold dialogue. Many criticized the president-elect for brash comments and a disregard for political correctness. If recent news reports...
Lawsuit Alleges Inaction by Kansas State Officials Led to Another Rape
Dec 1 2016 // A female student contends in a court filing that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her. The accusations were levied in...
Emporia State University Wins Kansas ‘Don’t Text #Just Drive’ Contest
Nov 29 2016 // Emporia State University received the highest number of votes by percentage of students enrolled to win the initial “Don’t Text #Just Drive” fall contest, according to the Kansas Insurance...
23 Students Injured in Tennessee School Bus Crash
Nov 21 2016 // Twenty-three students were hospitalized after a Tennessee school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp Friday, but authorities said none suffered life-threatening injuries. The bus was one of three headed...
Trump Settles University Fraud Claims for $25 Million, Avoids Trial
Nov 20 2016 // President-elect Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims that his defunct Trump University cheated more than 6,000 students with false promises of teaching them his real estate secrets. The accord, announced...
President-Elect Trump Seeks Delay in Fraud Trial Over His Real Estate University
Nov 18 2016 // Donald Trump is pulling out the stops to stall a fraud trial over his defunct real estate “university” until he’s president. Having earlier persuaded a federal judge to delay the trial until after last...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners’ Insurance
Nov 17 2016 // Rutgers Law School’s Camden, N.J., location, in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally through its recently launched project. The Rutgers Center for Risk...
