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Community Colleges

Rochester Community College President Resigns Under Fire

by Associated Press ROCHESTER, Minn. — The embattled president of Rochester Community and Technical College has resigned. Leslie R. McClellon issued a statement Thursday saying the current environment at the college is not healthy for students and it’s not good for the community. McClellon had been under fire from faculty, staff and students who had been […]

Wheaton College Professor Put on Leave for Wearing Hijab

CHICAGO ― A professor at a suburban Chicago Christian college who has been placed on administrative leave after donning a headscarf to demonstrate solidarity with Muslims said Wednesday that her actions are demonstrations of her own faith. Larycia Hawkins, who is a Christian and an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, a private […]

Lawsuit Alleges Hazing Led to University Student’s Suicide

ALTOONA, Pa. — The family of a Penn State-Altoona student who jumped to his death off the roof of a New York hotel sued the university and a suspended fraternity alleging that he killed himself because of hazing. The suit alleges that Marquise Braham “had been hazed for months” by members of the Phi Sigma […]

Leadership & Policy

WVSU President Brian Hemphill Named President of Radford

RADFORD, Va. ― West Virginia State University President Brian O. Hemphill has been named president of Radford University. Radford’s Board of Visitors announced Hemphill’s appointment on Wednesday in a news release. Hemphill will succeed Penelope Kyle, who is retiring. Hemphill’s appointment is effective July 1, 2016. He has served as West Virginia State’s president since […]

Faculty & Staff

University of Missouri Teaching Waivers Scrutinized

by Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. — A new report shows that almost 40 percent of tenure-track faculty at the University of Missouri received waivers that allow them to reduce their teaching load during their final academic years. According to the report, the majority of the waivers were for research purposes. The second-highest number of waivers […]

Faculty & Staff

Jewish Man Says Christian School Didn’t Hire Him Over Faith

by Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland man says a small private Christian college in Portland discriminated against him by refusing to hire him because he’s Jewish. In a lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Noel M. King says he applied for an adjunct professor of psychology position at Warner Pacific College in […]

Student Won’t Receive Degree Despite Disability Accommodation

A nursing student who failed a mandatory test four times in a required course despite disability accommodation isn’t entitled to her bachelor’s degree, a federal judge in Covington, Kentucky, has ruled.

Northern Indiana College Granted Waiver From LGBT Law

by Associated Press MISHAWAKA, Ind. — A northern Indiana school is among the more than two dozen religiously affiliated colleges nationwide to receive exemptions from a federal law that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and employees from discrimination. Bethel College President Gregg Chenoweth told the South Bend Tribune that the waiver doesn’t mean […]

Winthrop Drops Name of White Supremacist from Award

ROCK HILL, S.C. ― Winthrop University’s top academic award will no longer bear the name of avowed segregationist and former South Carolina governor “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Media outlets report the university’s president Dan Mahony told faculty, staff and students in an email Friday that the university will discontinue the 75-year-old Tillman Award. Instead, the students […]

2 Top U. of Louisville Officials on Leave in Ongoing Investigation

LOUISVILLE, Ky. ― Two top University of Louisville officials have been placed on leave in an ongoing investigation. The Courier-Journal reports in an email Wednesday, President James Ramsey announced that Dr. David Dunn and Priscilla Hancock will be on leave effective immediately. Dunn is the executive vice president for health affairs and Hancock is the […]

No Disciplinary Action Taken after Alleged Racist Frat Party

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ― No disciplinary action will be taken against any students or student groups at Yale University involved in allegations of racism at a fraternity party held by Sigma Alpha Epsilon in October. At the party in question, students complained that the fraternity denied entrance to minorities. Men at the door were […]

African-American

Man sues College of Charleston Citing Racial Discrimination

CHARLESTON, S.C. ― An employee at the College of Charleston has filed a federal lawsuit against the school, saying it failed to respond to complaints that his supervisor used the N-word and drew a racially insensitive picture of a black man while on the job. The Post and Courier reports Frederick Fortner, a Black man, […]

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