DePaul denies controversial professor
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A DePaul University professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust to get compensation payments has been denied tenure after a drawn-out public fight.
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As a medical student, Dr. Bruce Psaty angered some professors when he refused to kill and dissect a dog. Fellow students ostracized him when he declined to attend banquets paid for by drug companies.
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Ohio University&#8217;s provost upheld the firings of two IT managers blamed by the school&#8217;s CIO for a series of security breaches, even though a grievance committee said they should be rehired.
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A black professor who accused Massachusetts Institute of Technology of racism in denying him tenure ended a 12-day hunger strike on Friday, saying his protest brought attention to race issues.
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As the University of Colorado tries to determine whether it can fire a professor who likened Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, another professor has claimed she was removed from her post because of her political views.
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The president of Eastern Michigan University has been fired, months after school officials publicly ruled out foul play in the death of a student who had been raped and killed in her dorm room.
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The graduate student who posted a fake boarding pass generator isn't
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The Supreme Court rejected the claim by a high school football powerhouse in Tennessee that its coachâs recruiting violations were a form of free speech.
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A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service.
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DePauw University announced Monday it has severed ties with the Delta Zeta sorority, where a mass eviction of members left people questioning whether looks and appearance were valued more than academics and other contributions.
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Former LSU women's basketball coach Pokey Chatman was not allowed to be alone with her players after an assistant reported alleged improper conduct to the university in February, a school official said.
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Controversial statements by Harvard's president have added fuel to a debate that scientists say has no definitive answers.
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A lawyer who represented Kia Vaughn, a junior on the Rutgers womenâs team, complained to the university that Coach C. Vivian Stringer pressured Vaughn to drop a lawsuit against Don Imus over his sexist and racist remarks about the team. Vaughn dropped her slander and defamation suit in September against Imus, who called Rutgersâs players ânappy-headed hosâ after the team lost in the N.C.A.A. finals.Vaughn had filed the lawsuit against Imus and CBS in August, saying his comments during his radio show damaged her reputation. In a Sept. 4 e-mail message and an Aug. 17 letter sent to university officials before the suit was dropped, Vaughnâs lawyer, Richard B. Ancowitz, said that Stringer and others put pressure on his client and other players not to seek legal action against Imus. Vaughn said Wednesday that no one pressured her and that she wanted to âfocus on school and basketball and everything else.â.
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Officials at Eastern Michigan University violated federal law when they publicly ruled out foul play in the death of a student who actually had been raped and killed in her dormitory room, a U.S. Department of Education review concluded.
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In a Sept. 21 story about minority hiring for college coaching jobs, The Associated Press reported erroneously the ethnicity of St. Peter's College coach Chris Taylor. He is black, not American Indian.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania attorney generalâs office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees - including an MBA awarded to a cat.
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College sophomore Charis Bridgman tends to keep quiet in class if she thinks her professor might disagree with her Christian-influenced ideas. The 19-year-old says schools such as her Otterbein College in suburban Columbus should be a place for open discussion, but she feels some professors make students afraid to speak up.