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Students

Former Rutgers Football Players Accused of Sexual Assault

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A Rutgers University student is alleging in a lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by two Rutgers football players during her freshman year last fall. The complaint says Marques Ford and John Bowers sexually assaulted the victim at an on-campus apartment that housed several football players on Nov. 14, 2015. It […]

November 22, 2016

Students

Diverse Conversations: Colleges Can Maintain Diversity in Trump-led America

Colleges, our nation’s hotbeds for diversity progress, can take some actions to ensure that they are just as inclusive and progressive in four years as they are today.

November 21, 2016

Students

Oberlin College Employee’s Home Vandalized; Possible Hate Crime

OBERLIN, Ohio —Police say someone vandalized the home of a faculty member at a northern Ohio college and left what appeared to be an anti-Semitic note, and the case is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Oberlin Police Chief Juan Torres tells WJW-TV the homeowners are Jewish and the note implied a reference to […]

November 21, 2016

Students

Salt Lake Tribune to Request BYU Police Records in Court

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City newspaper is suing for access to records from Brigham Young University’s police department. The Salt Lake Tribune plans to argue in court Monday that BYU Police are subject to as much public scrutiny as any other public law enforcement agency in Utah because the state granted the […]

November 21, 2016

African-American

Turn the Page from November 8, 2016

We can lament, cry and whine all we want to about this election, but it is too late. We had the chance and the opportunity, but we didn’t seize the moment.

November 20, 2016

Students

Trump Agrees to $25M Settlement to Resolve Trump University Lawsuits

SAN DIEGO —President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting. The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in one […]

November 20, 2016

Students

University of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student Protections

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]

November 20, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Gender Bias Suit Against Slippery Rock not Reinstated

A tenure-track history faculty member whose contract wasn’t renewed after one year has lost his bid to revive a gender bias suit against Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

November 17, 2016

Students

Trump has Undocumented Students and Their Families Scrambling

By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced.

November 17, 2016

Students

College Students Protest Donald Trump’s Deportation Plans

College students at campuses around the United States marched and rallied Wednesday, urging administrators to protect students and employees against immigration action under a Donald Trump presidency. Rallying supporters on social media with the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, organizers said actions were planned at more than 80 schools, including Vermont’s Middlebury College, where about 400 people gathered, […]

November 17, 2016

Students

For-profit Colleges Decry ‘Demonization’ by Obama Administration

As speculation continued over how a Trump administration might treat for-profit colleges, supporters and critics of the institutions sparred Thursday over whether the institutions got a bum rap under the Obama administration.

November 16, 2016

Students

Experts: Trump’s Election May Slow Influx of International Students at U.S. Colleges

In the midst of concerns about President-elect Donald Trump, survey suggests that students who feel less welcome here may choose to study elsewhere.

November 15, 2016