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Students

Trump Pays $25M to Settle Trump University Cases

SAN DIEGO — President-elect Donald Trump has paid $25 million to settle three lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University, signaling that a judge’s approval of a settlement agreement remains on track for March 30. Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC paid the money into escrow ahead of Wednesday’s deadline, said plaintiff attorney Jason Forge, who represented people […]

January 19, 2017

Students

Bowling Green State University President Won’t Support ‘Sanctuary Campus’

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — The president of a northwest Ohio college says she won’t support making it a so-called “sanctuary campus” to help protect immigrant students potentially facing deportation because she’s worried about jeopardizing the school’s federal funding. The Blade reports Bowling Green State University President Mary Ellen Mazey announced Tuesday she wouldn’t go against […]

January 19, 2017

Students

Outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary to Join Columbia University Faculty

NEW YORK — Columbia University says outgoing Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will join its School of International and Public Affairs faculty as a visiting professor. Columbia said Thursday that Lew will lecture, teach graduate students and work with faculty on the subjects of international economics, fiscal and trade policy, and other public policy issues. Lew […]

January 19, 2017

Students

Lumina Foundation Awards $716,700 Grant to Morgan State

In an effort to bolster retention and increase graduation rates at Black colleges, the Lumina Foundation has awarded a grant of $716,700 to Morgan State University to implement initiatives that will increase completion rates and improve outcomes for historically underserved students. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Student Success Project, is a three-year $1.5 […]

January 19, 2017

Students

Portland CC Supports Students Who’ve Been in Foster Care

At Portland Community College (PCC), administrators and faculty are looking for ways to meet the needs of some of the most vulnerable students on campus, including students who have previously been in the foster care system.

January 18, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Expert: HBCUs’ Leadership Instability Unnerving for Potential Benefactors

The announcement this week by Morehouse College that it was parting ways with its president after four years on the job adds additional grief for the larger community of HBCUs in America, say higher education advocates.

January 18, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Janet Napolitano Hospitalized Due to Side Effects of Cancer Care

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and governor of Arizona, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and was hospitalized after suffering complications, the school system said. The UC Office of the President said Napolitano, 59, was diagnosed last August but did not say what […]

January 18, 2017

Students

University of Wisconsin Suspends Fraternity for Serving Minors

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee suspended a fraternity chapter Tuesday amid allegations members provided alcohol to minors and sang a song glorifying multiple sexual assaults. The university said in a news release late Tuesday that the Committee on Student Organization had voted to suspend the Sigma Chi chapter until March 1. The […]

January 18, 2017

Students

Talladega College Marching Band Heads to Trump Inaugural after Raising $620K

TALLADEGA, Ala. — The Talladega College Marching Tornadoes got a big send-off Wednesday as it left to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade Friday in Washington. Some alumni criticized the trip and did’t want students at the historically Black college founded by former slaves performing for Trump. Some alumni didn’t want the school being […]

January 18, 2017

Students

University of North Carolina: Job Candidates Say No, Citing Bathroom Law

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Academics being recruited by North Carolina’s public university system have ruled out moving to the state because of a law limiting legal protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people. That’s according to University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings, who also told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday she’s unaware […]

January 18, 2017

Students

DeVos Calls for Higher Ed Reset at Factious Hearing

In a contentious Senate confirmation hearing in which Democrats cast her as unqualified to be secretary of education but Republicans and supporters portrayed her as a much-needed change agent.

January 18, 2017

Students

Morehouse Students, Faculty Shut Out of Process of Ousting President

Student and faculty trustees at Morehouse College decry lack of input in board of trustees’ decision over the weekend not to renew the contract of President John Wilson.

January 17, 2017