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Community Colleges

Education Company Settles with Justice Department

An education company will pay about $1.3 million under a civil settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations it employed unqualified instructors at its Texas campuses.

January 6, 2015

Students

Let’s See Leniency for Oregon Duck ‘Satirists’

Oregon player chant deserves applause not discipline.

January 4, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Second Review Sought in Case Against Professor

A northwest Missouri prosecutor is seeking another court hearing in a case against a former university professor who was arrested on drug charges after he posted insensitive remarks on Facebook.

January 1, 2015

Faculty & Staff

China Leader: More Party Control Over Colleges

China’s president has called for the Communist Party’s leadership over the country’s universities to be enhanced in a continuing tightening of ideological controls across a wide range of society.

December 30, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Ex-University of Southern California Professor Fined for Grant Application Lie

A former University of Southern California math professor has been ordered to pay $300,000 in fines and restitution for lying about his employment on a grant application he made to the U.S. Department of Energy.

December 22, 2014

Home

University of Iowa Defends Suing Worker’s Transfer

Officials are defending their decision to reassign an employee who is suing over claims that she suffered employment discrimination because of her conservative views.

December 18, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Drug Evidence Against Professor Ruled Inadmissible

A Missouri appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that evidence of a marijuana-growing operation found in a university professor’s home can’t be used against him because of an invalid search warrant.

December 16, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Others in Higher Ed Should Take High Road on Cosby

Despite hundreds of thousands donated, University of Massachusetts becomes latest to distance itself from the embattled entertainer.

November 30, 2014

Students

Court Rejects Fired Iowa Professor’s Appeal

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― An appeals court upheld the firing of a University of Iowa radiology professor Wednesday, rejecting claims that he did not receive a fair hearing.

November 26, 2014

African-American

New Jersey Looks at ‘Yes Means Yes’ College Policy

You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level. She seems to be throwing all the right signals.

November 23, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Marion Barry, The People’s Choice

The former city councilman and four-term mayor was nothing short of a living, breathing testament to fortitude.

November 23, 2014

Students

University of Virginia Suspends Fraternal Activities Amid Investigation

The University of Virginia on Saturday suspended activities at all campus fraternal organizations amid an investigation into a published report in which a student described being sexually assaulted by seven men at a fraternity in 2012.

November 23, 2014