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Students

University of Texas Survey: 1 in 7 Female Students Raped

AUSTIN, Texas — Nearly 15 percent of female undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin reported being raped in a survey released by officials at the 50,000-student campus Friday. The survey comes at a time when Baylor University and state lawmakers are facing a widespread sexual assault scandal involving football players at the nation’s […]

March 26, 2017

Native Americans

Law School Program Provides Free Wills to Native Americans

UPPER FRUITLAND, N.M. — A University of Denver program is helping Native Americans draft wills, helping overcome a cultural aversion to discuss death. About 20 law students from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law visited the Upper Fruitland Chapter of the Navajo Nation to help tribe members draft wills, The Daily Times reported. […]

March 26, 2017

International

China Blocks Outspoken Academic from Returning to Australia

BEIJING — The lawyer for a professor at an Australian university says the academic has been prevented by Chinese authorities from returning to Sydney because he’s suspected of endangering national security. Chen Jinxue, lawyer for Feng Chongyi, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, said Sunday that border officials at an airport in […]

March 26, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Report: Cal Leader Got Fitness Freebies

BERKELEY, Calif. — The outgoing leader of the University of California’s Berkeley campus improperly accepted free benefits, mostly related to personal fitness, an investigation found. A report released Friday was heavily blacked out, but the readable portions said Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks didn’t pay for $5,000 worth of a gym membership and 48 personal training […]

March 26, 2017

Students

Ball State University Enrollment Spikes Due to Autism Degree

MUNCIE, Ind. — Enrollment in Ball State University’s Teachers College has hit a record high due to demand for analysis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder. The Teachers College expected 150 students at most when it began offering an online-only master’s degree in applied behavioral analysis with an emphasis in autism six years ago, The […]

March 26, 2017

Students

Anti-rape Signs at University of Minnesota Spur Mixed Reactions

MINNEAPOLIS — Residents at of a student co-op at the University of Minnesota say signs they’ve been placing in their front yard about rape culture are drawing concern from fraternity members and gratitude from sexual assault survivors. The signs carry phrases such as “frat boys: stop raping people,” the Minnesota Daily reported. The Interfraternity Council […]

March 26, 2017

Students

Texas A&M Tightens Policy on Who Can Sponsor Outside Speaker

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University has tightened its policy on who can sponsor outside speakers on campus after a December visit by white nationalist Richard Spencer caused unrest on the campus. The new policy puts campus facilities off limits to outside speakers or groups with no affiliation to the university. The (Bryan-College Station) […]

March 23, 2017

Women

Susan Duncan Named University of Mississippi Law School Dean

OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Mississippi School of Law has a new dean. After a national search, the university says it has chosen Susan Duncan of Louisville, Kentucky, for the top post. She is scheduled to start Aug. 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Education. Duncan joins […]

March 23, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Gordon College Professor Says Promotion Denied Over LGBT Stance

WENHAM, Mass. — An associate professor at a Christian college in Massachusetts says in a complaint against the school she was denied a promotion for denouncing its LGBT policies. The Salem News reports that Gordon College social work professor Margaret DeWeese-Boyd says in the complaint filed Wednesday with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination she was […]

March 23, 2017

Students

Perry Blasts Election of 1st Openly Gay Texas A&M Student President

AUSTIN, Texas — Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal, is inserting himself into an unusually small political dispute: an election for student body president at Texas A&M. In an op-ed submitted to the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor suggested that his alma mater’s first openly gay president may have […]

March 23, 2017

News Roundup

Bill Inspired by Snooki Caps N.J. Public University Speaker Fees

TRENTON, N.J. — A bill inspired by former “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi to cap what state public universities can pay to speakers was approved by lawmakers Thursday and now heads to the governor’s desk. The Democrat-controlled Assembly unanimously passed the legislation to cap the spending of state money at $10,000. The legislation is […]

March 23, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Fisk University Names Kevin Rome President

Fisk University named Kevin Rome as its 16th president, filling the historically Black institution’s executive position on a non-interim basis for the first time since September 2015.

March 23, 2017