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#1 Bus Carrying School Band Members Crashes in New York, Killing 2, Injuring Dozens
Sep 22 2023 // Two people were killed and 40 others were injured when a bus carrying students to a band camp ran off a highway and rolled over in New York State Thursday. The governor of the state said preliminary indications are that a...
#2 Texas Universities Grapple with Implementation of Controversial DEI Ban
Sep 20 2023 // The Texas A&M University System issued staff guidance earlier this month on how to comply with the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, providing a first glimpse into how Texas universities...
#3 Supreme Court Rejects Use of Race in University Admissions
Jun 29 2023 // The US Supreme Court effectively barred universities from using race as a factor in university admissions, marking the start of a new era in higher education and rolling back decades of precedents. Voting 6-3 along...
#4 SE University VP Sentenced for Defrauding School in Website Design Project
May 3 2023 // A former Florida college administrator has been sentenced to one year and three months in federal prison for defrauding the school out of $155,000 during a website redesign project. Brian Carroll, 47, of New Market,...
#5 Tech Firm Behind Kentucky School Bus Route Snafu Had Problems in Ohio
Aug 17 2023 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The company behind a disastrous change to a Kentucky city`s school bus routes that resulted in more than a week of canceled classes had similar problems in two cities in neighboring Ohio last...
#6 NTSB Begins Investigation of Deadly Ohio Bus Crash Involving High School Students
Nov 16 2023 // ETNA, Ohio (AP) – A National Transportation Safety Board team was planning to start work Wednesday at the scene of a deadly highway crash in Ohio involving a charter bus filled with high school students that left six...
#7 College Claim: Years of Research Ruined Because Cleaner Turned Off Lab Freezer
Jun 29 2023 // More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, according to a lawsuit filed by the school. RPI is...
#8 University Employees Say They Were Fired for Using ‘He/Him,’ ‘She/Her’ in Emails
May 23 2023 // Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work...
#9 University of Delaware Settles Class Action Over COVID Campus Shutdown
Jun 20 2023 // The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus shutdown in 2020 and the halting of in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to court papers that were...
#10 Virginia High School Admissions Case May Prompt Next Affirmative Action Ruling
Jul 5 2023 // A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling...
#11 Students Criticize NC University’s Response to Active Shooter Emergency
Sep 5 2023 // CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher...
#12 ChatGPT-Wary Universities Scramble to Prepare for New School Year
Aug 15 2023 // ChatGPT set the academic world ablaze after it was introduced in November, when the AI chatbot suddenly gave students a hard-to-detect shortcut for completing essays and assignments. Nine months later, as a new school year...
#13 Appeals Court Upholds Revised Admissions Policy at Elite Virginia High School
May 25 2023 // A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. The 2-1...
#14 Its Basketball Players Are Not Employees, Dartmouth College Argues
Oct 11 2023 // Dartmouth College lawyers argued last Thursday that the Ivy League school’s basketball players should not be considered employees because they are unpaid members of a money-losing program whose need-based...
#15 Biden Administration Opens Investigation Into Harvard University’s Legacy Admissions
Jul 27 2023 // Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University`s policies on legacy admissions. Top colleges` preferential...
#16 First Hazing Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Female Northwestern University Athlete
Jul 25 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – The hazing scandal at Northwestern University has widened to include a volleyball player who on Monday became the first female athlete to sue the university over allegations she was retaliated against by...
#17 University of Penn Sued by Students Claiming Antisemitism on Campus
Dec 6 2023 // The University of Pennsylvania was sued by a pair of students who claim the campus was a hotbed of antisemitism even before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Penn became the third major US college, after New York University...
#18 Football Player with Down Syndrome Sues Ohio College for Discrimination
May 17 2023 // An Ohio man who was the first person with Down syndrome to play and score a point in a college football game is now suing the school, its president and several staffers. Caden Cox alleges he was the target of disability...
#19 University of California Files Lawsuit Against Lloyd’s of London Over Refusal to Reimburse Cyber Insurance Costs
Jun 30 2023 // The Regents of the University of California sued Lloyd’s of London, arguing the company refused to reimburse the university system for the costs of data breaches covered in a cyber insurance policy. The dispute is...
#20 School District and Satanic Temple Reach Agreement Over After School Satan Club
Nov 22 2023 // An eastern Pennsylvania school district has reached a settlement with The Satanic Temple in a lawsuit that alleged the district discriminated against students by barring one of the group`s After School Satan clubs from...
