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California Jury Rejects Graduate’s Suit Against Law School

SAN DIEGO ― A jury found Thursday that a San Diego law school did not mislead a graduate who sued on the grounds she was lured to the school by false promises that her degree would land her a job after graduating. The San Diego Superior Court jury rejected Anna Alaburda’s claim against the Thomas […]

March 24, 2016

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Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue

A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]

March 24, 2016

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University of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism

SAN FRANCISCO ― The University of California’s governing board adopted a statement condemning anti-Semitic behavior on Thursday, becoming the first public university system to do so since campaigns for academic and economic boycotts of Israel have taken root on many U.S. college campuses. The board also unanimously and without discussion adopted a companion report urging […]

March 24, 2016

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East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim

GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]

March 24, 2016

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U.S. Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. ― The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren’t taking classes through the school. The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell […]

March 23, 2016

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NRA Leader Praises Liberty U. for Allowing Concealed Carry

LYNCHBURG, Va. ― The CEO of the National Rifle Association is praising Liberty University for allowing qualified students to carry concealed handguns on campus. Wayne LaPierre said Liberty was one of the safest places in the country at the college’s regular three-times-weekly convocation on Wednesday. The News & Advance reports that LaPierre praised students who […]

March 23, 2016

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UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion

According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.

March 23, 2016

Students

University of California Approves Anti-Semitism Statement

SAN FRANCISCO ― A University of California committee agreed Wednesday to single out anti-Semitism as a form of intolerance that campus leaders should challenge but rejected a more far-reaching denouncement of arguments against Israel’s right to exist. A year in the making, the formal position opposing anti-Semitic behavior comes amid a wave of impassioned campus […]

March 23, 2016

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Report: Black Student Graduation Rates Improving at Slower Rate Than Whites

A recent report released by the Education Trust found that Black student graduation rates improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for White students.

March 22, 2016

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Baylor Professor Holds Infant for 55-Minute Lecture After Student’s Sitter Falls Through

When Baylor University professor Darryn Willoughby saw Katy Humphrey’s 4 1/2-month-old daughter starting to fuss in the front row of his class, he didn’t think twice about scooping up the little one and and cradling her during his 55-minute lecture. Humphrey, who is a wife and full-time mother, brought Millie to class earlier this month […]

March 22, 2016

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TANAYA M. WALTERS

TANAYA M. WALTERS has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark Atlanta University. She was dean of students at Johnson and Wales University in North Carolina. Walters earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Johnson and Wales.

March 22, 2016

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The Benefits of Campus Activism

Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.

March 21, 2016