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New Rules Governing Misconduct Claims at Louisiana’s Colleges Enacted
Aug 12 2021 // Louisiana’s top higher education board on Aug. 10 enacted the rules governing how college campuses must respond to and report sexual misconduct and harassment complaints, with training for school administrators...
Suit Accuses Brown University of Failing to Protect Women From Sexual Misconduct
Aug 11 2021 // Brown University has systematically and repeatedly failed to protect women from rape and other sexual misconduct, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently by four current and former female students. The...
University of Vermont Health Network Reveals Cause of 2020 Cyberattack
Aug 5 2021 // A cyberattack that crippled the computer systems of a hospital network affecting six hospitals in Vermont and New York last fall happened after an employee opened a personal email on a company laptop while on vacation, a...
University of Louisville Approves $800,000 Settlement with Former President
Aug 4 2021 // The University of Louisville and its investment foundation on Monday agreed to an $800,000 settlement stemming from a long-running and expensive legal battle with the school’s former president, closing a turbulent...
Virginia Judge Upholds Liberty University’s Suit Against Falwell
Aug 2 2021 // A Lynchburg judge has upheld most of a lawsuit Liberty University filed against its former leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., after an acrimonious parting last year. The lawsuit survived its first round of legal challenges Friday...
University Study Poses Possible Future for Western Wildfires as a Decade-Long Burst, Followed by Gradual Decline
Jul 28 2021 // Newswise — In recent years, wildfires on the West Coast have become larger and more damaging. A combination of almost a century of fire suppression and hotter and drier conditions has created a tinderbox ready to ignite,...
Lawsuit Against Liberty University Alleges Mishandling of Sex Assaults
Jul 22 2021 // Twelve women filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Liberty University, accusing the Christian institution of a pattern of mishandling cases of sexual assault and harassment, and fostering an unsafe campus environment. The...
Federal Judge Backs Indiana University Vaccine Mandate for Employees, Students
Jul 20 2021 // A federal judge is allowing Indiana University to continue with its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all students and employees. A ruling from a judge in South Bend has rejected a request from eight IU students who sought...
Ex-Liberty University Exec Files Lawsuit Alleging Racial Discrimination
Jul 9 2021 // A former NFL player hired last year to help lead diversity initiatives at Liberty University is suing the school, alleging racial discrimination in his demotion and subsequent firing. The federal lawsuit filed Friday by...
COVID-19 Vaccines Promise Long Lasting Immunity: Washington University Research
Jun 29 2021 // The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employed a technology that had never before been used in FDA-approved vaccines. Both vaccines performed well in...
Training on Louisiana Sex Misconduct Rules for Colleges to Begin Soon
Jun 21 2021 // Louisiana’s college administrators will start receiving training this summer on new requirements for how sexual misconduct claims must be handled and what safety measures must be enacted, the state’s higher...
Supreme Court Could Add Harvard Case on Race in College Admissions to Agenda
Jun 15 2021 // With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. The justices could say...
FBI Working with Iowa College on Data Security Breach
Jun 10 2021 // The FBI is now working with Iowa’s Des Moines Area Community College on a data security breach that has led to days of the school being shut down. The security incident closed the college on Friday and forced it to...
Falwell Says Liberty University Lawsuit Is Excuse to Shame Him
Jun 9 2021 // Jerry Falwell Jr. is asking a court in Virginia to dismiss a lawsuit Liberty University filed over his headline-grabbing departure last year as leader of the evangelical school his father founded. Falwell claims in a court...
Lawsuits Over University of Delaware COVID-19 Shutdown Can Proceed
May 20 2021 // A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss two lawsuits filed against the University of Delaware by current and former students who argue that they are entitled to refunds for services they didn’t receive when...
University of Hartford Wins 2021 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management Challenge
Apr 30 2021 // During the RIMS LIVE 2021 Virtual Conference finale, RIMS CEO Mary Roth and RIMS President Ellen Dunkin announced the University of Hartford student team as the winner of the 2021 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management...
Floor Collapses During Huge Party Near University of Georgia
Apr 19 2021 // At least 25 people were hurt when a floor collapsed during a massive party at a two-story house near the University of Georgia. Athens Clarke-County police said the incident happened around 1 a.m. Friday in Athens. Police...
Liberty University Sues Jerry Falwell Jr., Seeking Millions in Damages
Apr 19 2021 // Liberty University has filed a civil lawsuit against its former leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking tens of millions in damages after the two parted ways acrimoniously last year. The complaint, filed Thursday in Lynchburg...
People Moves: INSURETrust Adds 3 College Grads; Moore Opens Agency in Miss.; XS Promotes Dunn
Apr 13 2021 // INSURETrust of Hires 3 College Grads to Georgia Team National insurance wholesaler INSUREtrust has hired several recent college graduates to its team Georgia. Bayley Holbrook Bayley Holbrook has joined the team as an...
Insurance Community University’s Zangwill-Infantino Looks Back on the Last 10 Years in Insurance Education
Apr 5 2021 // The past 10 years in insurance education have seen quite a change, with more and more continuing education being done online in an increasingly diverse and complex insurance marketplace. Laurie Zangwill-Infantino WCIP,...
