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#1 When 2025 Arrives, So Will the End of the Amateur Athlete in College Sports
Dec 30 2024 // When the page turns on 2024, it will be time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that...
#2 Hotter Summers Making High School Football a Fatal Game for Some Players
Sep 23 2024 // BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old...
#3 How a Small South Dakota College Became a Hub for Cyber Job Creation
Jul 31 2024 // MADISON, S.D. (AP) — A seed planted by South Dakota legislative and higher education leaders four decades ago has blossomed into one of the nation’s top high-tech universities located in a small city in the rural...
#4 Judge Dismisses Most Claims in Lawsuit Alleging Hair Discrimination at Houston High School
Aug 8 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who alleged that school officials committed racial and gender discrimination when they punished him...
#5 Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. Settle Legal and Personal Disputes
Aug 1 2024 // Four years after Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as the head of Liberty University amid a series of personal scandals, he and the evangelical school founded by his father have announced a settlement of “all outstanding...
#6 Lawsuit Targets Universities for Allegedly Favoring Wealthy in Admissions
Dec 26 2024 // Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools. Georgetown’s...
#7 Fraternity Members Charged in Death of Southern University Student
Mar 14 2025 // Two more arrests have been made in connection with the death of a 20-year-old Southern University student who was repeatedly punched during an off-campus fraternity hazing ritual, Baton Rouge police announced. Kyle...
#8 University to Pay $9 Million Over Campus Shooting That Killed 3, Wounded 2
Jun 4 2024 // The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families...
#9 Kansas School District Was Discriminatory in Discipline: DOJ
Jul 5 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Educators in Kansas’ largest public school district discriminated against Black and disabled students when disciplining them, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which announced an...
#10 Social Media Giants Avoid School Districts’ Addiction Claims
Jun 10 2024 // Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies won the dismissal of novel claims in hundreds of lawsuits brought by school districts seeking to recover costs for addressing the negative impacts of students’...
#11 University Student Sues Sorority and Landlord Over Fall From Window
Sep 4 2024 // A Northeastern University student and her parents are suing a sorority, its chapter president and a landlord after the student fell from a window and suffered critical injuries at a party. Sarah Cox, then a junior at the...
#12 New York School District Sues Two Insurers Over Coverage for Child Victim Claims
May 8 2025 // A Long Island school district is accusing two insurers of ducking their responsibilities to defend and indemnify it against lawsuits by former students claiming they were sexually abused by an elementary school teacher...
#13 Uvalde Approves $2M Settlement for Families of Elementary School Shooting Victims
Apr 28 2025 // City leaders in Uvalde, Texas, approved a $2 million settlement for families of the victims of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, marking the first time one of the myriad lawsuits has led to financial...
#14 New Orleans to Pay $20M to School District to Settle Long-Running Suit
Nov 21 2024 // The New Orleans City Council and Orleans Parish School Board announced Monday that they have found a partial solution to the NOLA Public Schools district’s estimated $36 million budget gap. The school board will...
#15 Northwestern University Finalizing Settlement Over Football Hazing Scandal
Apr 10 2025 // Former Northwestern University football players are finalizing an agreement with the school to settle lawsuits alleging hazing and abuse that led to longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald’s firing, a school spokesman and...
#16 SEC Charges AI-Based Startup With ‘Old School Fraud Using New School Buzzwords’
Jun 14 2024 // The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week charged Ilit Raz, CEO and founder of the failed artificial intelligence recruitment startup Joonko, with defrauding investors of at least $21 million. According to the...
#17 Mississippi Senate’s University DEI Ban Goes to Negotiations With House
Feb 13 2025 // The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Thursday that would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the state’s universities, a priority elevated by Republican President Donald Trump. Senate Republicans...
#18 Four Killed in Georgia High School Shooting; Suspect in Custody
Sep 5 2024 // Four people were killed and nine others injured after a teen gunman opened fire at a high school in Winder, Georgia, an old railroad town northeast of Atlanta. The identities of the victims haven’t been released, but...
#19 Vermont School District Settles With US Over Racial Harassment Allegations
Jan 13 2025 // A Vermont school district’s inadequate response to serious and widespread harassment of Black and biracial students has led to a settlement agreement with the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said...
#20 Explosion in Manhole at Texas Tech University Prompts Campus Evacuations
Mar 13 2025 // Several buildings at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated Wednesday night after officials said an explosion in a manhole near a substation caused multiple fires that could be seen emerging from underground...
