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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...
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...
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...
Mother of University of Iowa Student Who Died in Freezing Temps Sues
Aug 10 2020 // The mother of an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death in January 2019 is suing the school for negligence. Michael Belz, of Cedar Rapids, was caught outside of his residence hall on the night of Jan....
Family of Teen Who Died at Washington University Fraternity Files Lawsuit
Aug 10 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says were a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to...
Lawsuit Accuses Utah State University of Discrimination in Student Expulsion
Aug 10 2020 // A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Utah State University of unlawfully discriminating against and expelling a student with Down syndrome during her first term. Emily Arthur was in the Aggies Elevated program which...
Family of Teen Who Died at Washington University Fraternity Files Lawsuit
Aug 3 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says was a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to...
Lawsuit Accuses Utah State University of Discrimination in Student Expulsion
Aug 3 2020 // A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Utah State University of unlawfully discriminating against and expelling a student with Down syndrome during her first term. Emily Arthur was in the Aggies Elevated program which...
U.S. Appeals Court Says Jury Should Decide Kent State Ex-Player’s Lawsuit
Jul 27 2020 // A federal appeals court has ruled that a jury should decide on a former university softball player’s charge that her coach violated her First Amendment rights after a sexual assault on campus in Ohio. A three-judge...
Lawsuit Claims UT-Austin Unfairly Denied Admission to White Students
Jul 24 2020 // A national organization has filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin on behalf of two white students who were denied admission, marking the third time the school has been sued by this group over an...
Former Athlete, Others Sue University of Nebraska over Assault Claims
Jul 24 2020 // A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln volleyball player and eight other women have sued the university, alleging it did not properly investigate complaints of sexual assault and harassment. The complaint filed in U.S....
Former Comptroller Pleads Guilty to Stealing $259K from Louisiana Community College
Jul 21 2020 // The former comptroller for a community college in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $250,00 from her employer. Carol Bates, the former comptroller for Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC), pled guilty...
Indiana Court: Insurers Off the Hook for Covering NCAA Athlete Aid Suit
Jul 21 2020 // An Indiana appeals court has sided with a group of insurers, saying they are not required to provide $25 million in excess coverage for an underlying lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over...
University Researchers Claim Air Filter ‘Catches and Kills’ the Coronavirus
Jul 10 2020 // Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a “catch and kill” air filter that they say can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19, killing it instantly. Zhifeng...
In Reversal, Georgia Universities to Mandate Masks
Jul 10 2020 // Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges will mandate campus-wide mask wearing after the state university system reversed itself on Monday. The University System of Georgia had previously told schools they...
U. of California, San Francisco, Paid $1.14M After Ransomware Attack
Jun 29 2020 // The University of California, San Francisco paid criminal hackers $1.14 million this month to resolve a ransomware attack. The hackers encrypted data on servers inside the school of medicine, the university said Friday....
