In a statement released Wednesday, Liberty University confirmed Jeremy Cole Whorley is a university employee and is enrolled in the online Masters of Business Administration Program. Whorley, 29, was arrested Tuesday and charged with 10 counts of possession of child porn, according to the Lynchburg Police Department. According to a search warrant filed last week, Kilpatrick often communicated with who he believed to be a 13-year-old female "while at work in his office." https://www.greensboro.com/news/crime/liberty-university-employee-student-charged-with-having-child-porn/article_e2aa6e12-a438-51fe-9608-266b8692c617.html 4B540440-DFC6-45AC-AFC7-A30FDB11E6D4 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:33:23 -0500 A federal grand jury in New York investigating corruption in college basketball requested records from Maryland regarding an unidentified former player, assistant coach Orlando "Bino" Ranson and Silvio De Sousa, a recruit who ultimately attended Kansas. Maryland released copies of the subpoenas Friday, along with a statement asserting the university had already sent back all relevant records and had found no evidence of any violations of NCAA rules or federal laws by any Maryland coaches, employees or players. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/maryland-basketball-subpoenaed-in-college-basketball-corruption-probe/2018/07/06/82520ecc-812b-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html?utm_term=.78ea00b0923b 5494E1EC-25A4-46E4-BD2F-1E95F90CFD58 Fri, 6 Jul 2018 09:32:16 -0500 The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Marquette University was out of line to discipline a tenured professor for something he wrote online that resulted in threats against another instructor, reversing a lower court decision. The ruling hands a victory to advocates of a broad definition for academic freedom, though the court's focus on what it determined were flawed disciplinary proceedings at the university may have implications for other private employers outside academia. https://www.wsj.com/articles/wisconsin-high-court-backs-marquette-professor-in-academic-free-speech-case-1530891600 1670F5FB-BCCA-498B-86D7-3A54D43348A1 Fri, 6 Jul 2018 08:42:42 -0500 A McGill University professor is suing a colleague and former student for $600,000 in response to what he calls a "smear campaign" in which the two allegedly advocated against his tenureship amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim, a professor in the university’s Institute of Islamic Studies, claims his former student, Sarah Abdelshamy, and colleague, Pasha Khan, ruined his reputation and refused him his right to privacy. The lawsuit claims that both Abdelshamy and Khan held a "vendetta" against Ibrahim with the goal of ruining "all future employment possibilities for him." https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-university-professor-sues-former-student-colleague-for-600000 63FF6CF7-9304-443E-B486-7ADA359499A6 Thu, 5 Jul 2018 09:44:07 -0500 A former employee at Delgado Community College in Louisiana has been accused of soliciting bribes from students in exchange for granting them financial aid. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports 32-year-old Davin Thomas was charged with solicitation of a bribe by an agent of an organization receiving federal funds in federal court Tuesday. Court records show Thomas worked as financial aid assistant director for processing and systems from November 2013 until August 2016. http://www.wbrz.com/news/ex-college-employee-accused-soliciting-bribes-from-students/ 86F3876E-42A7-4C34-A813-31469C9E3610 Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:23:09 -0500 A former Utah State University student who was raped at a fraternity house has agreed to a $250,000 settlement that will also require the school to increase its oversight of its Greek system. The agreement announced Thursday for now marks the end of one of several high-profile sexual assault and harassment cases at the northern Utah school, which has been criticized for how it has handled allegations. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/07/05/utah-state-university/ 5E75430D-7451-41C4-AABA-3125D3FD4FD1 Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:11:27 -0500 A federal lawsuit is accusing the University of Minnesota of trying to suppress the views of a conservative speaker, Ben Shapiro, who appeared on campus in February. The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday by Shapiro and two conservative groups, claims that the U barred him from speaking at a 1,000-seat venue on the Minneapolis campus and restricted him to a "remote" location half its size because it feared protesters would try to disrupt the event. http://www.startribune.com/conservatives-sue-university-of-minnesota-over-shapiro-speech-restrictions/487275401/ 3AD04064-2DAA-4801-B341-972134464AC7 Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:47:22 -0500 A new chief compliance officer at Michigan State University will function as a checker to make sure the university is following legal and ethical regulations. The position -- which is expected to be filled this week, at least on an interim basis -- is part of a new effort by the scandal-plagued school to reform, interim President John Engler told the Free Press. The position is part of a new Office of Enterprise Risk Management, Ethics and Compliance. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/07/02/new-msu-official-compliance-culture/746204002/?elqTrackId=7f5f77b087ee4be69fc12758eec00ed9&elq=f3d05c034f4c4a2587ab936924b91cbb&elqaid=19635&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9042 1BA71D6F-045F-4E01-AE74-AA58CA133F47 Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:36:26 -0500 A Butler woman was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges of illegally obtaining and disclosing health information of another person. Linda S. Kalina, 61, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with six counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the health information of another individual. According to the indictment Kalina, while employed as a patient information coordinator by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and then by the Allegheny Health Network, wrongfully obtained health information, in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), from March 30, 2016, through Aug. 14, 2017, relating to 111 individual patients. http://www.butlereagle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180629/NEWS12/180629928/0/ 4D39256F-1A5F-4D17-805D-845FC6338B47 Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:21:58 -0500 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill violated federal law in its handling of sexual harassment and sexual violence complaints, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education found. The United States Department of Education notified on Monday four former students and a former administrator who had filed a federal complaint more than five years ago, alleging UNC had failed to maintain compliant policies and grievance procedures that provided for the prompt and equitable resolution of sexual harassment and sexual violence complaints, and that the University failed to equitably respond to complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence. http://abc11.com/investigation-unc-violated-title-ix-in-handling-of-sexual-violence-cases/3656640/ 6B29ED09-15BD-4678-8F5C-BF1340430A95 Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:15:40 -0500 Allegations of sexual abuse carried out over decades by team physicians at Michigan State and Ohio State are sending ripples through university athletics departments, with some schools exploring whether more oversight is needed for figures in such powerful positions. The scandals involving former Michigan State team doctor Larry Nassar, who was also a physician for USA Gymnastics, and Richard Strauss, a former Ohio State doctor, reveal how the trust and intimacy granted to team physicians can also provide cover for sexual predators. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-college-sports-doctors-nassar-strauss-20180624-story.html F5661763-7D01-4125-A331-37A4D622D18B Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500 A former pension manager barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission helped convince his former colleague -- the man who oversees the University of Michigan's endowment -- to pour nearly $100 million into funds he represented. U-M's entanglement with the unregistered broker, which has not previously been reported, is seen by some critics as an example of what has long worried the university's watchdogs: a lack of sufficient oversight and robust due diligence to avoid conflicts of interest at one of the nation's largest college endowments. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/22/university-michigan-donor-endowment-broker/656708002/ 73C6DD25-1979-4AB5-8346-FB81F98B29D4 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:24:16 -0500 A former part-time Angelo State University adjunct instructor pleaded "no contest" Wednesday, June 20, 2018, to charges he solicited prostitution after answering a personal ad on the website Backpage. In January, Michael Edward Hettick, 56, and two other men were arrested on suspicion of Class B misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution, punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a fine up to $2,000. https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/21/former-angelo-state-university-professor-pleads-prostitution-case/722838002/ 18DFDDB1-6859-4F69-BB53-E14C6AFCBED1 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:00:15 -0500 The University of Washington has settled a lawsuit with the UW College Republicans club over $17,000 in security fees the university planned to charge the club for holding a rally Feb. 10 with the conservative group Patriot Prayer. The College Republicans argued that the security fee unconstitutionally infringed upon their First Amendment freedom of speech rights by making it unaffordable for them to host events that could lead to violent protests. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-to-pay-127000-in-legal-fees-in-settlement-with-college-republicans-over-free-speech/ 1F181E3B-6F5F-46A1-82BD-326B7FE005D3 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:16:41 -0500 The University of Michigan is pushing back against a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the school’s "Bias Response Team" and policies that allegedly chill campus speech. In a court filing on Friday, the university said the lawsuit, filed last month by the watchdog group Speech First, presented a "false caricature" of school’s conduct code and how it is implemented. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/18/university-of-michigan-pushes-back-against-free-sp/ B29CE76A-8788-4CC0-B249-6636B273DCA3 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:15:28 -0500 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating an alleged identity theft ring run out of a home in Rancho Penasquitos. A federal search warrant obtained by NBC 7 shows the Chinese National living there was paid thousands of dollars to get Chinese students admitted into California Universities. According to the search warrant filed in federal court Wednesday, the subject of the investigation helped Chinese students get into the U.S. illegally and enroll into state schools by having imposters with fake ID's take entrance exams for them. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/DHS-Investigating-Identity-Theft-College-Admissions-Fraud-Ring-485728801.html FF40F545-6D15-4603-BF7A-5924C3CDC5AF Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500 Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like "positive personality," likability, courage, kindness and being "widely respected," according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university. Asian-Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, according to the analysis commissioned by a group that opposes all race-based admissions criteria. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollment-applicants.html 5E838598-D51D-4075-9A24-F49F5CE82849 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:31:00 -0500 A federal judge has ordered the University of Michigan to "immediately" release to a student his transcripts pending the outcome of a sexual assault investigation. U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow issued the order Thursday, 10 days after the engineering student sued U-M, claiming the university is interfering with his future by placing a hold on his transcripts while it investigates claims that he sexually assaulted a female student in his dorm room last fall. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/15/michigan-student-transcript-sex-assault/703685002/ 4647006E-23B1-4D6E-8499-6A87E93DD7EB Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:57:01 -0500 An Elon University student is suing the university alleging unfair treatment when it suspended him over a fight with the son of a major donor who, the suit says, got a much lighter punishment. The suit was filed this week in Alamance County Superior Court by Elon student Samuel Shaw. Shaw is suing the university for breach of contract and is seeking at least $25,000 in damages. https://www.greensboro.com/z-no-digital/elon-university-sued-over-treatment-of-donor-s-son/article_2566b401-44f9-5af6-85d5-4e17e6cbec64.html D7F65E01-A197-415C-9423-87F93C7B0D64 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:19:37 -0500 A university teaching assistant who gained prominence after being disciplined for showing students a TV clip of a controversial professor discussing gender-neutral pronouns is suing the school. In an unproven statement of claim filed this week, Lindsay Shepherd says Wilfrid Laurier University behaved negligently, leaving her unemployable in academia. The suit, not tested in any court of law, names the school in Waterloo, Ont., two professors, and a manager of the university's diversity and equity office. It seeks a total of $3.6 million in various damages. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/lindsay-shepherd-wilfrid-laurier-university-lawsuit-1.4704724 6DE2B830-ACAD-4BF2-A99A-9DDE5AA37BCB Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:11:07 -0500 A UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professor is receiving backlash for humiliating a student and releasing the student’s private information on a public question-and-answer forum this past weekend. Rundong Zhong, an international student and Math/CS major, posted a question on Piazza, a commonly-used forum that allows classmates and professors to address questions students may have. Zhong asked if he could put "funny stuff" on a website project for the class. In response, CSE Professor Susan Marx said that she would reprimand the tutor who approved of Zhong’s cat homepage idea. She also publicly revealed his academic status and devalued the community college he previously attended. http://triton.news/2018/06/cse-professor-publicly-humiliates-student-class-forum/ 5D2DC488-4B89-4CEA-A55C-31F62F38353D Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:14:20 -0500 Former Colorado State University assistant professor Christina Boucher wants her lawsuit against the university alleging retaliation for reporting sexual harassment to be decided at trial. Boucher said prior to reporting the alleged harassment, she had positive evaluations and feedback from colleagues and collaborators. But after reporting the harassment allegation, she said her evaluations came back negative, and the person accused of harassment was still allowed to evaluate her performance. She alleges that she was then removed from tenure track and forced to leave the university. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/06/12/former-csu-professor-timesup-recipient-wants-go-trial-over-alleged-retaliation-sexual-harassment/695440002/ 4E141750-DD05-482E-A4F4-137A29483BBE Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:53:05 -0500 The University of St. Thomas is defending its decision not to issue a campus wide alert after firing a UST Police officer for alleged misconduct. On Friday, Eyewitness News reported that the UST terminated a police officer for possible sexual assault of a young woman after conducting a traffic stop. When we questioned UST officials on why there was no security alert issued, the university responded with a terse statement saying basically the location of the alleged assault means it was not subject to the Clery Act, which requires universities that participate in federal student aide to report crime incidents that happen on or near the campus. http://abc13.com/univ-of-st-thomas-defends-not-issuing-alert-on-alleged-sex-assault/3592046/ 12A59529-D013-4792-A9ED-AC32F9B5D6FC Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:42:51 -0500 The woman who made up rape allegations against two Sacred Heart University football players pleaded guilty on Tuesday to lying to police. Nikki Yovino, 19, of South Setauket, N.Y., reportedly made up the allegations in order to gain the sympathy of another student she wanted to date. As part of a plea bargain, the young woman will be sentenced on Aug. 23 to "three years, suspended after she serves one year in prison and followed by three years’ probation," the CT Post reported. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/woman-pleads-guilty-to-making-up-rape-allegations-against-two-college-football-players.html 075E95FB-CD94-463A-ACFD-230BC2968D77 Wed, 6 Jun 2018 16:48:10 -0500 A man who lives near the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, from which 11 animals were recently stolen, was arrested Tuesday afternoon in connection with the theft, and the investigation is ongoing. Meanwhile, several of the animals have been recovered and returned to the zoo. They appear to be in good condition. Sedrick Tyrezi Price, 20, is charged with grand theft, according to a SFC Police Department arrest report. The value of the animals was between $10,000 and $20,000. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/man-charged-theft-zoo-animals-santa-college/lKPXsm07bAgA6ioVFqz3iP/ EF2D0D2B-D06C-435E-AE0A-FA14399E4CA8 Wed, 6 Jun 2018 16:42:57 -0500 An 18-year-old charged in a campus sexual assault last year while he was a Waldorf University student has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Sean Patrick Perkins, of Olathe, Kansas, entered a written plea of guilty in Winnebago County District Court June 1 to serious misdemeanor assault. Police charged Perkins with sexual abuse after he was accused of raping a Waldorf student in her dorm room Nov. 12. In Iowa law, rape and sexual assault is charged as sexual abuse. http://globegazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kansas-man-charged-with-sexual-assault-at-forest-city-university/article_909862d6-0b90-5c5b-b482-a03fb2cf0b8b.html 8D6BBF3E-7D47-4ECF-99FD-D1EBF6930D0C Tue, 5 Jun 2018 16:46:06 -0500 Hundreds of images of child pornography were found on a computer and iPhone owned by a West Chester University student, federal officials said Friday. Ryan Davis of Thornbury was arrested and charged by indictment with transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography. Details of the investigation into Davis’ activities were scant in the indictment, but list a number of dates in February 2016, march 2017, and August 2017 when he had images of minors engaged in sexual activity on his electronic devices. Some of those incidents took place while Davis, known by the screen name "davis_rad," was on West Chester’s campus. http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20180601/west-chester-university-student-charged-in-child-porn-case BFC852CB-51A2-4135-81ED-A025A207E2C0 Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:52:23 -0500 Is it possible for two people to simultaneously sexually assault each other? This is the question--rife with legal, anatomical, and emotional improbabilities--to which the University of Cincinnati now addresses itself, and with some urgency, as the institution and three of its employees are currently being sued over an encounter that was sexual for a brief moment, but that just as quickly entered the realm of eternal return. The one important thing you need to know about the case is that according to the lawsuit, a woman has been indefinitely suspended from college because she let a man touch her vagina. What kind of sexually repressive madness could have allowed for this to happen? Answer that question and you will go a long way toward answering the question, "What the hell is happening on American college campuses?" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/title-ix-is-too-easy-to-abuse/561650/ 23D726AB-A5A9-4C0B-9DD4-28260B369A78 Fri, 1 Jun 2018 09:16:06 -0500 A federal lawsuit against Northwestern University and former star professor David Protess over one of the most controversial wrongful conviction cases in Illinois history has been quietly settled. Alstory Simon accused Protess and his team of conspiring to free death row inmate Anthony Porter and convict Simon for an infamous 1982 double murder. Protess, 72, taught investigative reporting at Northwestern's journalism school and founded the Medill Innocence Project, which under his tutelage contributed to the exoneration of 11 wrongfully convicted men, five of whom were on death row. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-alstory-simon-lawsuit-settlement-20180601-story.html D3271B41-CD9C-412C-87A3-9048CA974257 Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:49:17 -0500 Overturning a federal judge’s ruling, the Ninth Circuit held Thursday that police at a California university used an appropriate amount of force while dispersing protesters from their encampment. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled that University of California, Berkeley police officers who were sued for using excessive force on demonstrators during an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011 acted appropriately and are entitled to qualified immunity. https://www.courthousenews.com/occupy-protesters-lose-case-against-campus-cops/ 9738F624-4188-4F68-A6A7-CD1FC411005F Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:30:24 -0500 A North Idaho College professor was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly filming his roommate and former student with a hidden bathroom camera. Jon A. Downing, 35, was charged with two counts of felony video voyeurism after a man reportedly found a pinhole-style video camera hidden in a shared bathroom wall. The roommate said he was a former student of Downing, a chemistry professor who has also been a faculty adviser of the NIC Gender and Sexuality Alliance, formerly known as the NIC Gay-Straight Alliance. Downing is also being investigated for an unrelated Title IX complaint, according to NIC, which said it couldn’t share details of the case. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/31/north-idaho-college-professor-faces-charges-of-fel/ D28E00EC-BCFE-4790-8EA8-8AAC0CF8EDFF Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:26:27 -0500 The Trump administration plans to shorten the length of validity for some visas issued to Chinese citizens, the State Department said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump works to counter alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by Beijing. The changes begin June 11. The State Department said that under the new policy, U.S. consular officers may limit how long visas are valid, rather than the usual practice of issuing them for the maximum possible length. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ap-sources-us-impose-limits-chinese-visas-55518143 BAC77B09-ED27-419E-88B7-D2C115A332C0 Tue, 29 May 2018 08:45:29 -0500 A federal District Court judge in Chicago has dismissed claims by participants in two Northwestern University 403(b) plans that the university violated its fiduciary duties under ERISA due to its management of investment choices and fees. The original complaint was filed in August 2016. Among the allegations, participants said Northwestern violated its fiduciary duties by keeping what plaintiffs alleged was an underperforming, high-fee CREF Stock Fund from TIAA-CREF. http://www.pionline.com/article/20180525/ONLINE/180529869/judge-dismisses-fiduciary-breach-lawsuit-against-northwestern-university CC784722-0997-42BA-ACB7-07C84C25B1FC Fri, 25 May 2018 10:48:30 -0500 The University of Chicago has agreed to settle a retirement-plan lawsuit for $6.5 million, becoming the first of about 20 prominent universities facing allegations over 403(b)-plan mismanagement to take such a step. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit, Daugherty et al v. The University of Chicago, in May 2017. They claimed the university caused its plan participants to pay excessive record-keeping and investment-management fees, depleting their retirement savings. http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20180524/FREE/180529945/in-a-first-university-of-chicago-settles-403-b-lawsuit-for-6-5 6BE233CB-EEB6-4B77-8E2B-7F4C34C9E697 Thu, 24 May 2018 11:36:39 -0500 The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state can't criminally charge public college students for having and using marijuana on campus if they have a medical marijuana card. The high court said a 2012 law banning medical marijuana on college campuses violated the Arizona Constitution's protections for voter-approved laws. The court also vacated a marijuana possession conviction for the student, Andre Maestas, who fought the law. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2018/05/23/medical-marijuana-allowed-college-campuses-arizona-supreme-court-rules/634146002/ 1F2CCEBF-0249-4CF2-88EB-450954501FF4 Wed, 23 May 2018 13:27:03 -0500 Tuskegee University assistant football coach Ramone Nickerson, 33, has plead guilty to possession of a firearm during a drug deal. U.S. Attorney Louis Franklin previously said Nickerson's alleged actions were a concern due to his work with Tuskegee University's football team. Franklin said evidence will show Nickerson was involved in drug activity at the distribution level. http://www.wsfa.com/story/38258135/tuskegee-university-coach-pleads-guilty-to-possession-charge 18A812CE-B87B-4E80-AFF7-4DD3C1D3C46D Wed, 23 May 2018 13:22:18 -0500 University of Kentucky officials are trying to fire a tenured professor because they say he made students buy his book for classes he taught and then kept the proceeds without telling administrators. The move against journalism faculty Buck Ryan -- who was sanctioned for inappropriate behavior in 2016 -- is nearly unprecedented for tenured faculty in the last 50 years at UK, and will be a test of UK’s tenure policies and procedures. http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article211274104.html F1ECDE4E-CBDC-417C-83C0-207DC20B945B Thu, 17 May 2018 10:01:40 -0500 The University of Denver has agreed to a $2.66 million settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of seven female law professors who say they were illegally paid less than male colleagues. According to the lawsuit, the mean salary of female professors at the Sturm College of Law was nearly $20,000 lower than male professors in 2013. The agreement requires the school to create a password-protected site listing faculty salaries, position, date of hire and demographics. Names will not be included. http://kdvr.com/2018/05/17/university-of-denver-reaches-2-66-million-settlement-in-equal-pay-suit/ E4452425-2941-496E-94B5-93B8B6048A21 Thu, 17 May 2018 09:50:59 -0500 Michigan State University will pay $500 million to settle lawsuits brought by 332 victims of Larry Nassar, the former associate professor and doctor who sexually abused hundreds of young girls and women. The terms of the settlement include $425 million paid to current claimants, and $75 million set aside in a trust fund to protect "any future claimants alleging sexual abuse by Larry Nassar," according to a joint statement from plaintiffs' attorney John Manly and Michigan State University. Michigan State University is expected to pay the $500 million out of pocket and then sue their insurance company to get the money back, according to a source with knowledge of the settlement. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/larry-nassar-michigan-state-settlement/index.html?no-st=1526507095 B204DB37-D336-4B4A-91DF-EFB12D2A54BD Wed, 16 May 2018 16:48:12 -0500 For nearly 30 years, the University of Southern California's student health clinic had one full-time gynecologist: Dr. George Tyndall. Tall and garrulous, he treated tens of thousands of female students, many of them teenagers seeing a gynecologist for the first time. Few who lay down on Tyndall's exam table at the Engemann Student Health Center knew that he had been accused repeatedly of misconduct toward young patients. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-misconduct-complaints-20180515-story.html B6E1E8F2-DB37-4DB2-8407-7787CA2F9E65 Wed, 16 May 2018 16:03:54 -0500 A tenured East Tennessee State University professor could face consequences after an internal investigation found he crossed the line with a student, according to a newly released university discrimination and harassment complaint investigation. The investigation found Associate Professor and Accountancy Department Assistant Chair Dr. Anthony Masino created a hostile environment and retaliated against a woman he started dating while she was a student in his class. The investigation found Dr. Masino repeatedly shared personally identifiable, private and defamatory information about the student with other students, faculty and staff. http://www.wjhl.com/local/report-etsu-professor-created-hostile-environment-retaliated-against-former-student/1178729520 61B6A853-AA5C-428F-B831-2A066CB53E04 Tue, 15 May 2018 15:15:22 -0500 A controversial wolf researcher will accept a $300,000 settlement to leave Washington State University, the school said. Robert Wielgus, director of the Carnivore Conservation Lab, sued the Pullman school for infringement of his academic freedom. Wielgus angered ranchers with his research of wolf behavior. He concluded the state’s policy of killing wolves that preyed on cattle was likely to increase cattle predation because it destabilized the structure of wolf packs. https://apnews.com/29dee958499f42c7bfd2882d5ca6bef0 872E87E1-F231-4E7E-93BE-103746CEA2B2 Tue, 15 May 2018 15:10:58 -0500 The animal rights activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is suing Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young, alleging that the university blocked the group on Facebook and calling the move a violation of the First Amendment. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the lawsuit Monday on behalf of PETA, said it believes Texas A&M has deleted or blocked comments PETA tried to post to the university’s Facebook page. https://www.statesman.com/news/local/peta-sues-texas-president-says-university-blocked-them-facebook-over-dog-research-comments/1Hd5h2mKExlDiouh1dwFmM/ A3A58168-F7F4-4277-969E-57B60CA6B173 Mon, 14 May 2018 16:02:37 -0500 A former Carroll University instructor has been found guilty of disorderly conduct on allegations he harassed staff there about this termination, which led to his calling indicted Florida high school shooter Nikolas Cruz "his hero." A psychological evaluation found that Timothy Hoeller, 57, who, according to court records suffers a bipolar mental disorder, was competent to proceed with the Waukesha County criminal charge against him. Hoeller was hired in January 2017 as an adjunct instructor to teach a physics class and and lab, according to court records. Carroll terminated him in April. He is under court order to stay away from campus. https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/waukesha/news/waukesha/2018/05/14/fired-carroll-university-instructor-guilty-harassing-scaring-staff/607716002/ 1FE4FE70-3FDC-49A7-A8FC-2ED1828A9A2E Mon, 14 May 2018 13:50:43 -0500 A University of Colorado police officer accused of stalking a Boulder campus dispatcher pleaded guilty to first-degree official misconduct on Monday. Sgt. Michael Dodson, 60, was sentenced to 18 months of probation and 100 hours of community service as part of the deal, according to Catherine Olguin, spokeswoman for the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/14/university-of-colorado-police-michael-dodson-stalking/ D56C3F09-EBCE-441B-AF0C-9D8B52B30C58 Mon, 14 May 2018 13:49:17 -0500 One of the ringleaders of an unauthorized fraternity operating last year off campus at The College at Brockport pleaded guilty Friday to four criminal charges related to hazing. Leo Woon Keul Chai appeared before Village Justice Christopher R. Martin and entered guilty pleas to charges of first-degree hazing, third-degree assault, intent to cause physical injury and torturing/injuring or failing to feed an animal. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/05/11/former-brockport-college-student-pleads-guilty-hazing/557828002/ 4F6BA32F-8A8B-449B-A95B-EF4076294E91 Fri, 11 May 2018 17:29:27 -0500 When investigators reported in 2015 that 10,000 migrant construction workers employed at New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi had not been paid money they were owed, and were subject to substandard working conditions, the university vowed to reimburse the workers and provide regular updates on its compliance with labor standards. Three years later, thousands of workers may still be owed millions of dollars. And until this week, the university had not released a compliance report. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/nyregion/nyu-abu-dhabi-report.html 8F59E815-2E23-496C-A471-41C798BB9BD5 Thu, 10 May 2018 17:31:07 -0500 A Court of Queen's Bench judge has rebuked the University of Regina for falsely alleging its carbon capture business partners had committed fraud. In 2012, the university sued HTC Pure Energy and the South Korean-based Doosan group of companies, alleging the two companies had secretly entered into an agreement to commercialize the university's carbon capture technology in exchange for payment, but failed to pay royalties to the U of R. For years HTC and Doosan have been been arguing that the university was falsely alleging fraud in its lawsuit. They said the university knew about the payment all along. And in an October ruling, Justice Kalmakoff agreed. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/u-of-r-rebuked-by-judge-for-falsely-alleging-its-carbon-capture-partners-committed-fraud-1.4652469 6744A0DE-7515-44B6-ACE9-7CBCD1577077 Thu, 10 May 2018 21:58:06 -0500 Three teenagers have been arrested in connection to calling 911 and falsely saying there was an active shooter on the campus of West Hills College in Lemoore. Earlier today law enforcement placed the college on lockdown after receiving a report of an active shooter situation. Police say they tried to call back the number, but there were no answers. http://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/three-teenagers-arrested-for-false-active-shooter-report-on-west-hills-college-campus/1168399989 CE7295C8-3897-4351-816C-55E58B8E5113 Wed, 9 May 2018 18:23:56 -0500 Professors and staff members at Massachusetts colleges can be sued if they fail to act after learning a student was considering suicide, according to a ruling issued Monday by the state’s highest court that for the first time outlines the institutions’ legal duty to prevent students from killing themselves. While the decision created new liability for colleges and universities, Justice Scott L. Kafker’s ruling did not eliminate all legal protections for schools, professors, and support staff. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/07/supreme-judicial-court-rules-colleges-mass-have-legal-duty-prevent-students-from-committing-suicide/uSyZabmRAoAKQ2FNUEeskK/story.html B5E734C3-A0EE-4808-88DE-3D281091B0B8 Mon, 7 May 2018 15:34:33 -0500 A senior manager at Rio Salado College is resigning after an investigative report concluded that he touched female employees' breasts and buttocks, stared at them inappropriately and made sexually suggestive comments. The report by the Maricopa County Community College District, obtained by The Arizona Republic under the Arizona Public Records Law, said the investigation substantiated many of the complaints made by "several women" against LeRodrick Terry, Rio Salado's vice president of student affairs. Terry has denied the allegations. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/05/04/rio-salado-college-exec-resigning-after-harassment-allegations/582233002/ AE0914BE-9DA0-4756-B3D4-A62D0AC425D5 Fri, 4 May 2018 15:02:08 -0500 Ottawa police said Friday morning they’ve laid an additional 43 charges of sexual assault and 40 charges of voyeurism against a Chelsea doctor who used to work at the University of Ottawa Health Services Clinic. Dr. Vincent Nadon had previously been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault and voyeurism earlier this year. The initial charges stemmed from a complaint made to police in January by a woman in her 20s, who had been seen by Nadon during an appointment at the university clinic’s Rideau location earlier that same month. https://globalnews.ca/news/4186807/ex-university-of-ottawa-doctor-sex-assault-voyeurism-charges/ 85343AA0-A1EB-443E-A34D-932212A45B26 Fri, 4 May 2018 11:57:20 -0500 An 18-year-old woman was charged Thursday with filing a false police report in reference to a Coker College student’s arrest last weekend for allegedly raping another student in the bathroom of the school's dorm. Online records from the Darlington County Detention Center state Lauren Emily Pearson was booked at 7:20 p.m. Thursday night for filing the false report. Hartsville Police Lt. Mark Blair indicated Pearson allegedly lied about the sexual assault that led to the arrest of 19-year-old Cesar Antonio Lopez, who was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping. http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/38110562/woman-charged-with-filing-false-police-report-tied-to-alleged-rape-at-coker-college 12D382B6-DD06-460C-B031-3C125B2C967F Thu, 3 May 2018 15:46:44 -0500 An Ohio-based watchdog group has accused the University of Rochester of killing or mistreating dozens of animals in University of Rochester Medical Center labs. Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), a nonprofit group that monitors U.S. research facilities for animal abuse and violations of laws, on Thursday claimed it has uncovered animal deaths, animal abuse and research malfeasance, which may have involved more than 100 animals. The group also alleges that the university attempted to cover up the incidents, which reportedly occurred in 2016 and 2017. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/05/03/university-rochester-allegations-lab-animal-abuse-animal-rights-group/576337002/ 2834A050-FF00-49BE-AA5E-EB1910AA6818 Thu, 3 May 2018 12:03:42 -0500 The student newspaper at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, says its editor's finals-themed column was "light-hearted." But some are calling it pornography. The column, which The Foghorn News stands by, was titled "Finals aren't the only thing going down," and was published Monday. Finals at Del Mar started on Thursday. The accompanying images have become a hot topic of conversation around the college, as at least one professor has suggested that printing them along with the column could leave Young and the Foghorn susceptible to charges of disseminating pornography to a minor, since the Del Mar campus is also home to Collegiate High School. http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article210365754.html 425F6E1D-C5B8-49DC-90AA-9CED7F0B8D18 Thu, 3 May 2018 11:38:20 -0500 Allegations of sexual harassment, intimidation, lewd behavior, and racist comments are the subjects of two federal lawsuits filed against Columbia International University's president and his son following the president's tenure at an Ohio university. In those two federal suits, Dr. Mark Smith and his son, Doug Smith, are named as defendants alongside several senior members of Ohio Christian University's staff while Dr. Smith was president. According to one suit, the plaintiff, Cynthia Dove, alleges Doug Smith made numerous sexually charged and racist comments while the two worked together in the school's IT department. http://www.wistv.com/story/38094773/anti-semitic-remarks-a-slut-test-and-intimidation-alleged-in-federal-suits-against-christian-university-president-and-son D429C58A-B023-4ED5-AFD9-0BE6C21D4552 Wed, 2 May 2018 16:35:58 -0500 University of Illinois at Chicago officials told faculty, staff and students Tuesday that research misconduct by Dr. Mani Pavuluri, one of the campus’ star faculty members, was an anomaly and that there are no systemic oversight problems at the institution. The message came after a ProPublica Illinois investigation revealed that the National Institute of Mental Health recently ordered the university to repay $3.1 million in grant money it received to fund one of Pavuluri’s studies on bipolar disorder among children. The federal agency demanded the refund in November after finding "serious and continuing noncompliance" by the UIC psychiatrist, as well as failures by a university institutional review board, a faculty panel responsible for reviewing research involving human subjects. https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/uic-university-illinois-chicago-mani-pavuluri-defende-misconduct-handling/ 53C56B37-A054-4A72-9A0F-A720A8B87333 Wed, 2 May 2018 16:32:45 -0500 Nevada State College President Bart Patterson has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Patterson, 56, was arrested at 9:45 p.m. Friday near Green Valley Parkway and Warm Springs Road in Henderson after he was involved in a single-car crash. He was driving home from a charity event. https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/nevada-state-college-president-bart-patterson-faces-dui-charge/ D7AF2EEB-2723-41C4-B1F2-846681494ACB Tue, 1 May 2018 14:25:45 -0500 The director of the Office of Student Conduct at Central Connecticut State University was placed on administrative leave after being charged with kidnapping and strangulation. On Monday, CCSU officials said Christopher Dukes was placed on administrative leave and notified that he is not allowed access to campus at this time. http://newsok.com/article/5592981 A0D30006-FD2C-44EA-B5F1-17D67248ECB9 Tue, 1 May 2018 14:23:03 -0500 Roman Fryderyk Urban went from visiting math professor at Purdue University to unemployed over the course of three days and two public intoxication arrests. Forty-eight-year-old Urban appeared confused when he showed up an hour early Friday morning to teach his linear algebra class, according to a student who was there. https://www.jconline.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/01/visiting-professor-dismissed-after-public-intoxication-allegations/566732002/ 3A444482-620A-46B4-A3DC-9A12E6B0B6F2 Tue, 1 May 2018 14:21:48 -0500 Two prominent women on University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s senior leadership team received settlements totaling nearly $300,000 in 2016 after a sexual harassment scandal that ousted former athletic director Norwood Teague, according to newly released documents. Teague resigned from the university Aug. 6, 2015, amid reports that he had drunkenly groped and sexually harassed two women who were not publicly identified at the time. . http://www.startribune.com/u-of-m-paid-nearly-300k-in-sexual-harassment-settlements-related-to-former-athletic-director-norwood-teague/481160281/ F02C1C13-0766-4790-B43B-2B22623B9761 Tue, 1 May 2018 14:09:51 -0500 A former Virginia Tech student is suing the university for violating his rights. This comes after police arrested him on charges of having an assault weapon. Yunsong Zhao claims Virginia Tech, the campus' police department and Blacksburg police targeted him because of his national origin and his interest in guns, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/new-river-valley/former-virginia-tech-student-files-lawsuit-against-university-police-departments-over-his-arrest 441EAD99-08FA-4190-A99B-A5DDC18B4F9E Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:04:58 -0500 A fraternity member at George Mason University has been charged with distributing the LSD a fellow student took before crashing through a fifth-floor window in his dorm and plunging to his death in September, according to court records. Alejandro Porrata, 19, of Annandale, Virginia, was indicted by a grand jury in January after the death of Tristan Tanner Medina, 19, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Medina's mother said both were members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. http://www.richmond.com/washingtonpost/uncategorized/george-mason-university-fraternity-member-charged-with-distributing-lsd-to/article_319c4215-d8f8-5286-8d39-defd508d52be.html 1989F963-AC11-4DB3-AF0D-4CBA3B2FC61C Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:11:25 -0500 Two former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh administrators face felony criminal charges in connection to an ongoing financial scandal surrounding several high-profile building projects. Former Chancellor Richard Wells and former Vice Chancellor Tom Sonnleitner were charged Thursday in Winnebago County Circuit Court. It is the first time anyone has been criminally charged in connection to the situation that led to the bankruptcy of the university's private foundation. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/04/26/felony-charges-filed-against-former-uw-oshkosh-chancellor-vice-chancellor/553584002/ 9140FACB-8AD5-400B-86F0-DD1516F29264 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:06:43 -0500 The University of Louisville and the University of Louisville Foundation filed suit today against former President James Ramsey and other former Foundation officials alleging breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent appropriations and improper diversion of funds for personal gain. The suit filed in Jefferson Circuit Court claims that during the period from 2008 to 2016, Ramsey and others conspired to divert millions of dollars from the Foundation’s endowment into speculative and unauthorized ventures, putting the Foundation at risk. http://uoflnews.com/post/uofltoday/uofl-foundation-file-suit-against-ramsey-former-administrators/ D9876DA2-129B-49DB-9DC9-8C60C7B559BF Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:57:56 -0500 Twelve Colorado State University graduates filed a lawsuit against CSU after the university halted efforts to secure accreditation for a landscape architecture master's degree program seven years after its launch. The lawsuit alleges that CSU broke its contract with students, costing them money through tuition, moving and living expenses, and debt amassed during their time in the program as well as earnings, earning capacity and opportunities because the program never gained accreditation. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/04/24/colorado-state-university-student-lawsuit-accreditation-masters-degrees-landscape-program/542001002/ 08A8FF06-D783-4950-9585-10A1341D59E9 Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:24:25 -0500 The Florida Virtual School today sued Arizona State University, and an affiliated online school, claiming trademark infringement. The virtual school -- Florida’s online public school -- says that the Arizona school is improperly using the name Florida Virtual School in its paid online advertisements. That means someone searching in Google for Florida Virtual School would get, as the first item in their search results, an ad that reads, "Online High School|Florida Virtual School|asuprepdigital.org." ASU Prep Digital is an online school affiliated with Arizona State but doing business in Florida and competing for online students against Florida’s school, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Orlando. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/school-zone/os-florida-virtual-school-trademark-arizona-20180424-story.html D3A811F4-2F69-4F3B-8F1F-E10BFB5AD2CB Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:13:55 -0500 A controversial Ohio college professor who has been accused of being an ISIS sympathizer was suspended and banned from campus after he was slapped with federal charges. Julio Pino, a Kent State University associate history professor known for his fiery anti-Israel rhetoric, became the focus of a 2016 FBI investigation after he was accused of using his position on campus to influence students to support the Islamic State, FOX 8 reported. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/24/kent-state-professor-charged-with-lying-to-fbi-banned-from-campus.html 7B80B641-05CA-4848-B551-DDD8DF2E4DEB Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:33:53 -0500 Ten local residents were arrested Tuesday on charges of distributing drugs including LSD, opioids and cocaine after a monthslong investigation by the Williamsburg Police Department and the Tri-Rivers Drug Task Force, police said. Most of those arrested are students at the College of William & Mary, police said. One of those arrested -- Gi Sang Yoon, 40 -- is a visiting assistant professor of immunology in the college’s biology department, according to the William & Mary website. The investigation began when information was received about unreported sexual assaults because of increased drug activity on or around the campus, police said. https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/04/17/10-arrested-in-drug-investigation-at-william-mary-police-say/ 32142A77-0A63-4978-B2E4-D94422C5DAC2 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:03:27 -0500 An assistant baseball coach for Texas Southern University has been suspended after he was arrested as part of a Houston police crackdown on sex trafficking. Ehren Moreno was among 122 suspects arrested by HPD in the first three months of 2018. His arrest was announced with the others on Thursday. http://abc13.com/tsu-assistant-baseball-coach-suspended-after-arrest/3337656/ 72FE8992-F096-4B95-AB9D-43F1974BF06A Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:55:36 -0500 A federal appeals court panel has refused to revive a lawsuit by a Lafayette College professor who was fired for harassing two female students who accused him of sexual harassment. The dismissal of Andrew Kortyna from his physics professorship is justified and "any college would have done the same," Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote in the opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. It was his retaliation against his accusers, not the sexual harassment allegations, that got Kortyna axed. http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/lafayette_prof_who_harassed_fe.html 96D675F7-B894-4856-9D47-1E6B72CE4997 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:54:08 -0500 Four Mississippi State University students were arrested after police said they broke into the Mal Moore Athletic Facility and stole memorabilia last week. The University of Alabama declined to answer questions about the investigation Wednesday, including what was stolen and whether the items have been recovered. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20180411/ua-athletic-complex-burglarized-msu-students-charged 0FFFA8F2-32FF-47E6-962C-AFDF47BB4899 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:02:06 -0500 Ao "Olivia" Kong excelled at the University of Pennsylvania but started falling behind in her classes after an illness in 2016. Her stress increased and her mental health plummeted as she tried without success to drop one of her six classes to keep up her grades in the competitive Wharton School of business. She sought help through the university's counseling system and repeatedly told officials she was suicidal, according to a family attorney. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/04/olivia_kong_university_pennsyl.html 1869FDA3-D42C-418F-8727-65AD03D1F9FF Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:33:47 -0500 A woman who attends Michigan State University filed a federal lawsuit against the school Monday alleging that three former men's basketball players sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment in 2015 and that she was discouraged from reporting what happened. The woman and players are not named in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. It seeks compensatory and punitive damages. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-state-university-lawsuit-accuses-male-basketball-players-of-rape/ 48A8B6C9-DC94-466B-A845-1D7F9C807E7A Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:24:24 -0500 Brandeis University has fired its head men’s basketball coach over complaints of discrimination and unprofessional behavior, according to a letter posted Thursday on the school’s website. President Ronald D. Liebowitz said in the letter that last year several students filed "serious discrimination complaints" about the coach, alleging racially biased harassment, among other charges. Liebowitz did not identify the coach. But a spokeswoman for the Waltham school confirmed the coach was Brian Meehan, who was hired in 2003. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/05/brandeis-fires-men-basketball-coach-after-discrimination-complaints/lWe8TSPhuYuEIzcIpVJc8I/story.html 7C8E450B-1D57-451B-9DE9-710D81BC8582 Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:00:13 -0500 University of Idaho has put Athletic Director Rob Spear on paid administrative leave for 60 days while it investigates failures in reporting sexual assault complaints in 2012 and 2013, the university announced Tuesday. Students have called for Spear’s firing in the wake of a March 8 Idaho Statesman report that he failed to properly report sexual harassment complaints against a football player in April 2013. https://www.idahopress.com/sports/colleges/idaho/u-of-i-athletic-director-put-on-paid-administrative-leave/article_db64ba6d-2a8c-5e2f-9d37-49b2e32665f3.html B8D1A334-4996-433A-9E00-DD6494671D5F Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:39:15 -0500 A former Ball State instructor of mathematical sciences was found guilty of four counts of child exploitation and four counts of possession of child pornography Monday. Brian Siebenaler was originally arrested in 2016 on 36 preliminary charges -- 22 counts of possession of child pornography and 14 counts of child exploitation -- after an investigation assisted by the Indiana State Police Cyber Crime Unit. University Police Department detectives were notified by Ball State's Information Technology Services that "suspicious activity" was observed on a university computer in an open classroom in the Robert Bell Building. http://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2018/04/news-professor-porn-found-guilty 3A97B45C-09DC-498F-BB02-EA1279C34644 Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:37:18 -0500 A former Ole Miss student has filed a federal lawsuit against the university and the state College Board alleging he was a victim of gender discrimination from his long-term suspension for what he calls a false sexual misconduct allegation. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Jackson, uses the pseudonym Andrew Doe for the expelled student. His lawsuit seeks a jury trial for damages as well as an injunction to prevent the university from including the discipline in his school records. https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/04/02/ole-miss-student-files-lawsuit-against-university-over-sexual-misconduct-allegation/473703002/ F1827C47-2F34-4FC1-B1E8-C4DCE4A8AD0C Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:34:47 -0500 The University of Iowa has been ordered to pay a Cedar Rapids contractor nearly $21.5 million following a yearslong legal battle over its work on the new Stead Family Children’s Hospital and Hancher Auditorium. Documents made public this week show an arbitration panel issued the final award March 5 in Modern Piping Inc.’s favor, noting the contractor "incurred substantial expense in performing additional work for which Iowa was clearly responsible to pay." That cost far exceeded the project’s original $270.8 million budget due in part to the UI’s ill-advised choice for project delivery and contracting strategy, according to a 2015 internal audit reviewed by The Gazette. http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/panel-orders-university-of-iowa-to-pay-millions-in-childrens-hospital-dispute-20180330 9F6D29D4-4F5D-41DE-B31C-0E596D10C589 Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:15:53 -0500 A former Iowa State University lecturer, who was arrested last year for public intoxication during a class he was teaching, has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, court records show. Gordon Branch Knight, 56, was fined $200 plus court fees and ordered to obtain a substance abuse evaluation, records filed in mid-March show. In late November, Iowa State campus police were contacted by a university official who had received an anonymous report that Knight was slurring his speech during his class lecture, police have said. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/03/30/iowa-state-university-intoxicated-lecturer/474071002/ FC37B472-5054-4C79-8BF5-C427D7E33248 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:55:39 -0500 A Michigan State University official who oversaw a clinic where former sports doctor Larry Nassar worked is facing criminal charges for allegedly inappropriately touching a student and storing nude photos of female students on his work computer. William Strampel, who was dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine until late last year, was charged Tuesday with a felony, a high court misdemeanor and two misdemeanors. He is due to be arraigned in the afternoon. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dean-william-strampel-michigan-state-university-arrested-larry-nassar-probe-arraignment-today/ 4E406E70-2CB4-4EB2-AB25-660D99AFDDA4 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:00:29 -0500 California colleges can be held liable if they fail to protect students from foreseeable acts of violence, the state Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a lawsuit filed by a UCLA student who was stabbed by a classmate. Student Katherine Rosen filed a lawsuit against the University of California regents and several UCLA employees after she was slashed across the throat and stabbed multiple times by classmate Damon Thompson on October 8, 2009. Rosen says school officials failed to warn students that Thompson was potentially violent following months of reports about his paranoia and threatening behavior. After Rosen filed her lawsuit in 2010, an appeals court panel ruled in October 2015 that a public university has no duty to protect its students from the criminal acts of other students. Rosen appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which unanimously overturned the lower-court decision, allowing Rosen’s lawsuit to move forward. https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/university/california-supreme-court-colleges/ E5339A93-8923-40E6-9541-C69AB780D56A Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:08:17 -0500 An assistant equipment manager at Georgia is facing four felony charges and one misdemeanor for, among other charges, allegedly placing a hidden camera in the Bulldogs' locker room shower. Kevin Purvis, 37, was arrested and booked into Athens-Clarke County jail on Friday night and charged with three counts of felony eavesdropping or surveillance, one felony possession of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor charge of possession of less that 1 ounce of marijuana, according to records. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/hidden-shower-camera-leads-to-firing-arrest-of-georgia-equipment-manager/ 51138616-839C-4317-B75B-077EEC6E9447 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:20:09 -0500 A University of Oklahoma instructor has been charged in a statutory rape case involving a high school student. The Norman Transcript reports that Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn filed two felony second-degree rape charges against 27-year-old Kyle Trent Podrecca on Friday. He's accused of allegedly having sex with a former student that he tutored. The university says that Podrecca "has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation." https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2018-03-22/university-of-oklahoma-instructor-charged-with-rape-of-teen 976C9FE0-099B-4237-95ED-8DCD287A5E51 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:22:52 -0500 Four days before a Kansas State University graduate was due in court on charges that he sexually assaulted an unconscious man at a campus fraternity last fall, he sexually assaulted a University of Missouri-St. Louis student at gunpoint in an on-campus apartment, prosecutors allege. Devonta Bagley, 23, of Belton, Missouri, is jailed on $500,000 bond on charges of sodomy, armed criminal action and burglary in the Missouri case, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/2018-03-22/man-charged-in-rapes-at-umsl-kansas-state-fraternity D5300FF1-0AA9-48F9-BAD7-2E31532E3A62 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:21:06 -0500 A University of Iowa student has been charged in a reported sexual assault in the Burge Hall dormitory. Cannon Allen, 19, performed a non-consensual sex act on a victim in Burge Hall dormitory either Nov. 12 or Nov. 13 of last year, University of Iowa police say. He continued to perform the act on the victim after the person had verbally withdrawn consent, police say. Allen was arrested Tuesday and has been charged with 3rd degree sexual abuse. https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/03/21/university-iowa-student-charged-sexual-abuse-reported-dormitory-assault/444768002/ B0781D47-CB87-49E2-B621-A52A85BAD6EB Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:29:58 -0500 Federal agents arrested a Tuskegee University assistant football coach Wednesday on drug distribution and gun charges. Ramone Nickerson, 33, is charged with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. He's accused of selling cocaine and marijuana in the Tuskegee area. http://www.wsfa.com/story/37777146/tuskegee-university-coach-arrested-on-drug-distribution-gun-charges A0210187-FAB5-497B-9C65-D51156B3A5F2 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:28:49 -0500 A woman suing Cerritos College’s administration is accusing college leaders of negligence and other misdeeds by failing to warn her that a college football player -- recently convicted of raping the plaintiff -- had pleaded guilty to a prior rape before enrolling at the college. A Los Angeles County jury convicted the football player, 22-year-old Kishawn Holmes of Hemet, of forcible rape on Thursday. Facts of the case provided by a Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office statement match events described in the complaint filed against Cerritos College leadership, and attorney Allegra Rineer said the criminal and civil cases involve the same victim, identified in the civil complaint only as Jane W.J. Doe. The case names Holmes as well as the Cerritos Community College District and Cerritos College Dean of Student Services Elizabeth Miller as defendants. https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/03/19/rape-victim-accuses-cerritos-college-leaders-of-negligence/ 3FBC7807-4F15-4237-8623-77C15FBF4B28 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:10:13 -0500 Former Central Florida kicker Donald De La Haye is suing the school. Before embarking on its undefeated season, UCF had a bit of preseason drama with De La Haye. The kicker has a popular YouTube channel that documented life as a student-athlete. De La Haye made money from some of the videos, which caught the attention of the school’s compliance department. Over the course of two months, the saga ended with De La Haye ineligible, off the team and without a scholarship. Now, per the Orlando Sentinel, he has filed a federal lawsuit that argues his rights were violated. https://sports.yahoo.com/former-ucf-kicker-lost-scholarship-youtube-videos-sues-school-234710655.html D9D97658-94DA-4E4D-BF4B-3B3DB634548F Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:58 -0500 A former Wheaton College football player is suing the school and seven ex-teammates, alleging campus officials knew about the team’s hazing tradition and did nothing to prevent an attack in which the player said he was kidnapped, beaten and left half-naked on a baseball field. The lawsuit, filed early Friday in DuPage County, has been expected since September, when five football players were charged criminally in connection with the March 19, 2016, incident at the small Christian liberal arts college. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-wheaton-college-hazing-lawsuit-20180315-story.html C3530DF6-7319-4612-BFE8-DF227F69EC11 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:48:37 -0500 A San Jose State student suspected of sexually assaulting two men in his on-campus housing unit was arrested earlier this month, the university announced. The university issued a campuswide release Wednesday regarding the arrest. SJSU officials said that Luis Venegas, 21, a fourth-year student at the university, was arrested March 5 on suspicion of sexual assault, assault with the intent to commit sex crimes, false imprisonment and sexual battery, according to university officials. The sexual assaults reportedly occurred in Campus Village A, a university housing complex where Venegas had been living, according to university police. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/15/san-jose-state-student-arrested-on-suspicion-of-sexual-assaults-on-campus/ 8EAF43F8-3C9D-413A-9312-E358B807F5AE Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:43:47 -0500 The director of performance for the University of Michigan athletic department resisted police, grabbed a security guard's throat and bit a lab technician after his arrest March 5 on suspicion of drunken driving, a police report states. Fergus Connolly, 40, also told an officer he would "put him in a wheelchair," according to the police report. An Ann Arbor police report obtained through the Freedom of Information Act details the allegations against Connolly: that he crashed an SUV - one that may have been a university vehicle - while drunk driving, was combative, shouted profanities, refused a preliminary breath test and denied he was drunk. http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/03/michigan_football_staffer_accu_1.html 545F87A0-4132-478B-9149-175B5913A1AD Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:22:12 -0500 A former student of a Southern California college, who's facing felony charges for allegedly carving swastikas and racial slurs into the hoods of two campus security vehicles, is now suing the college, claiming it discriminated against him because of a mental disability. The Orange Coast College student, identified as Robert McDougal, 22, allegedly vandalized the vehicles after being suspended by the college for two years for causing a disturbance in a classroom and shouting a racial slur at a security guard, the Orange County Register reported. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/14/student-accused-carving-swastikas-racial-slurs-files-lawsuit-against-college.html 83B8378E-FCD4-49AB-BC9F-C4AEBDE5B75A Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:17:57 -0500 A former University of Missouri-St. Louis student has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a current student inside his on-campus apartment at gunpoint early Sunday. St. Louis County police arrested Devonta Bagley of the Kansas City area on Tuesday. He has been charged with one count of sodomy or attempted sodomy, burglary and two counts of armed criminal action. He is being held on $500,000 bail. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-student-charged-in-sexual-assault-of-male-umsl-student/article_64723e9b-859e-5297-b53d-9185c938a5d4.html 00A648FF-105D-4BDD-8EC5-8B2B45646991 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:12:53 -0500 A professor accused of sexual assault in 2013 has lost his employment, said UCLA officials in a statement Monday. The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion released a statement on its website stating history professor Gabriel Piterberg has also been denied emeritus status and future employment with the University of California. The office added Piterberg will no longer have access to office space on campus. Two of Piterberg’s graduate students accused him of making unwelcome sexual advances and forcing his tongue into their mouths in 2013. http://dailybruin.com/2018/03/12/university-removes-history-professor-gabriel-piterberg-from-employment/ D58FAC57-D677-439E-ABD2-B7D5492919BE Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:38:42 -0500 A former student at Concordia University Chicago filed an updated civil lawsuit against the former head baseball coach and the school Thursday, a move that comes two months after the coach was convicted of criminal sexual assault. The new complaint accuses the university of negligence and failing to protect its student-athletes. Former Concordia head baseball coach Spiro Lempesis was found guilty at a December bench trial of sexually assaulting a teen who later became one of his players at the River Forest university. That player is the plaintiff in the civil case. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-concordia-sex-abuse-lawsuit-20180308-story.html AAF8282A-F4D3-4A00-A52A-ED72FC965304 Thu, 8 Mar 2018 08:53:32 -0600 A Texas appellate court on Tuesday said a trio of high-ranking Texas Tech University officials can’t avoid a professor’s lawsuit alleging he was demoted and faced other retaliation after giving a speech about academic tenure.Reversing a trial court’s determination that it lacked jurisdiction over the retaliation claims brought by Texas Tech professor James C. Wetherbe, a Seventh Court of Appeals panel held that Wetherbe’s speech involved a matter of public concern. Because Wetherbe alleged he faced retaliation in response to constitutionally protected speech. https://www.law360.com/articles/1019567/texas-court-revives-prof-s-suit-over-anti-tenure-speech BB17785B-A97C-4E08-9D07-16D21F962C8D Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:10:21 -0600 A second former female dean at the University of Arizona has joined a federal lawsuit that claims the women were underpaid by tens of thousands of dollars compared to their male colleagues. Janice Cervelli, former dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, alleges the university refused to give her a single pay raise while she served as dean from 2008 to 2016. During the last two years of her employment, she claims she earned $80,000 less per year on average than males who performed similar work. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/03/07/university-arizona-former-dean-gender-pay-gap-janice-cervelli-patricia-maccorquodale/404535002/ 042101E4-3625-446C-B729-53FA782AB1E7 Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:15:50 -0600 For two years, professors at PSU's Graduate School of Education conducted a research project using unwitting K-12 students as subjects. The university has since acknowledged it failed to inform parents of the research and did not get their permission to access the student data. University officials say they are still examining whether any laws were broken. http://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2018/03/07/portland-state-university-researchers-may-have-violated-federal-law-by-using-the-personal-data-of-thousands-of-portland-area-k-12-students/ 3FE9077C-4921-49BC-BB7E-24EB641C2B6A Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:51:06 -0600 A Yale student who had been suspended by the university was found not guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a fellow student, in a rare college rape accusation to be tried in the courts. The verdict laid bare seemingly gaping divides in the national reckoning around sexual consent and assault. But unfolding as it did in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the fierce, unresolved debate over whether campus rape cases are best handled by universities or law enforcement, Mr. Khan’s trial also took on political significance, with defense lawyers accusing Yale of making Mr. Khan a scapegoat for its own poor handling of previous sexual assault claims. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/nyregion/yale-student-not-guilty-saifullah-khan.html 665504AA-E97E-4E0A-A83B-61CB91071AB9 Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:42:49 -0600 University of San Diego men's basketball coach Lamont Smith has had all potential charges of domestic violence against him dropped after a review from the District Attorney in San Francisco. Smith was arrested at Oakland International Airport on Feb. 25 after a woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, alleged Smith abused her the night prior. San Diego was in town for its regular-season finale against the University of San Francisco. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/domestic-violence-charges-dropped-against-san-diego-coach-lamont-smith/ BCAD8E71-85BB-4A4C-B9C5-0C1119F29543 Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:35:00 -0600 The Florida Legislature has passed sweeping higher education changes. The measures would permanently increase funding to the Bright Futures Scholarship, eliminate free speech zones and address university performance-based funding. A controversial provision added by the House would remove public university and college campus free speech zones. The measure would instead make all outdoor public areas available for free speech. It would also allow state universities and colleges to be sued if students or others intentionally try to disrupt or hinder a campus speaker. http://news.wfsu.org/post/lawmakers-pass-major-changes-higher-education 0BCC22C4-E997-4A9D-A212-97866A0634ED Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:46:37 -0600 The donation to the University of Chicago in 2015 was as generous as it was ambitious: the Pearson Family Members Foundation pledged an eye-popping $100 million to establish a center devoted to finding new ways to resolve global conflicts. Nearly three years later, that donation is in disarray. The foundation, led by Thomas Pearson and his brother Timothy Pearson, is suing the university to recoup the $22.9 million it has already handed over, saying the university’s leaders have failed to demonstrate they are using the landmark gift for its intended purpose. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-university-of-chicago-donation-lawsuit-20180305-story.html 699195AF-611B-40BB-9F2D-AEDA254A01FA Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:30:24 -0600 The University of Delaware is not liable for the death of a drunk student who attended an off-campus party and was later hit by a truck and killed, a judge has ruled. The parents of Ethan P. Connolly, a 19-year-old sophomore, sued in August 2014, claiming the university, the sorority that planned the party and other groups were liable for Connolly's death. Superior Court Judge Ferris Wharton ruled in favor of the defendants last week, ending the lawsuit. https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/03/05/university-delaware-not-liable-drunk-students-death-judge-rules/394804002/ D4B767B2-4AB3-445D-86E3-F5C10D15DA08 Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:27:57 -0600 The Marian University police chief has been arrested for an OWI. Chief Scott Ralph, 48, was arrested after Brownsburg officers were dispatched to a White Castle. Police said the caller noticed what looked like an off-duty police officer intoxicated in the drive-thru lane. Ralph is charged with Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated and operating a vehicle while endangering others. Authorities said more charges could come. Marian University has placed Ralph on leave effective immediately. http://fox59.com/2018/03/02/marian-university-police-chief-arrested-for-owi-placed-on-administrative-leave/ FAA23E58-3B83-413D-B14A-C4EB4C95C9DD Fri, 2 Mar 2018 12:05:59 -0600 A former medical resident is accusing a prominent University of Rochester Medical Center faculty member of raping her repeatedly and attempting to involve her boyfriend in murdering his ex-wife, part of an explosive lawsuit in state Supreme Court. The accuser, Katia Kaplan-List, was a medical resident doing a rotation in pediatric radiology at Strong Memorial Hospital, where she encountered Johan Blickman, vice chair of URMC's department of imaging sciences and a professor in pediatrics. The lawsuit does not allege that URMC ignored any complaints, but states that it "had a duty to protect (Kaplan-List) from injury" while she was a student there. It requests $30 million in damages. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/03/01/johan-blickman-urmc-sued-raping-drugging-student/380584002/ D0F9F4BE-62BB-402C-B109-126244FAFC54 Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:05:07 -0600 A new Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary breach lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia names as defendants Georgetown University and several officials tasked with overseeing the university’s defined contribution (DC) retirement plans. Matching almost verbatim the charges filed previously against many large universities’ 403(b) retirement plans, plaintiffs here suggest that instead of leveraging the Georgetown plans’ substantial bargaining power to benefit participants and beneficiaries, defendants failed to adequately evaluate and monitor the plans’ expenses and caused the plans to pay unreasonable and excessive fees for investment and administrative services. https://www.planadviser.com/georgetown-university-targeted-familiar-erisa-breach-allegations/ AB4BE3CC-279C-4A69-8A7F-AF3C2705CCF6 Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:07:14 -0600 University of Texas President Gregory L. Fenves and his wife flew multiple times at university expense on premium class rather than economy in violation of university policy, according to an audit report by the UT System. Asked whether he planned to pay back the difference between economy class and the premium fares, the UT president replied: "I’ve not been asked to pay it back." However, UT spokesman Gary Susswein said Fenves would reimburse the university $27,000, the difference between economy and business class. http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/audit-president-fenves-flew-premium-violation-rules/EOC6OylpHP02c7CRwhzQON/ 2E83A8B6-BD5E-41FC-8A28-055CBC38834E Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:51:58 -0600 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos today announced a new Title IX directed investigation into Michigan State University's (MSU) handling of reports of sexual violence against former employee, Dr. Larry Nassar. "This new Title IX investigation will look at systemic issues in the University's handling of sex-based incidents involving Dr. Larry Nassar," said Secretary DeVos. "Our Office for Civil Rights team will be in East Lansing shortly where they will join the Federal Student Aid team already on site. FSA is currently performing a Clery Act compliance examination regarding MSU's reporting of crimes committed on campus. https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-launches-new-directed-investigation-msu-title-ix-compliance 85CDD908-C5EA-4052-AB5C-DE4F7DB47CF0 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:55:22 -0600 The University of San Diego men's basketball head coach Lamont Smith has been placed on leave following an arrest Sunday on suspicion of domestic violence. Police responded to a hotel in San Francisco after a report of a domestic disturbance around 12:20 am on Sunday and "made contact with an adult female who appeared to have injuries and stated the she was assaulted," according to a statement from the San Francisco police. "Considering the serious nature of the charges, (Monday) morning we placed Coach Smith on administrative leave until further notice," the University of San Diego said in a statement. "The university has initiated an investigation." https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2018/02/25/university-san-diego-basketball-coach-lamont-smith-arrested/371974002/ 8BF5BB67-7592-4273-9BA6-9F955D07BC57 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:21:04 -0600 Financial records, documents and wiretaps tied to prominent former NBA agent Andy Miller and featuring his former associate, Christian Dawkins, have provided a detailed window for authorities into how the college basketball underworld operated, sources with knowledge of the ongoing federal investigation have told Yahoo Sports in recent days. Sources familiar with the probe told Yahoo Sports that there’s a surprising level of specificity in the documents, bank records and wiretaps involving Miller’s business. https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-spreadsheets-wiretaps-bank-records-detail-payment-scheme-hoops-corruption-case-001618078.html 0952DA39-3566-4261-AA71-DDD81B1DE9BB Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:54:49 -0600 A neurologist who had pleaded guilty to groping women at a Philadelphia clinic was arrested on Tuesday on charges he repeatedly raped a patient in New York City. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, who worked in Mercer County until late 2015, was taken into custody and will be arraigned in New York on multiple counts of rape and other sex crimes, police said. Cruciani pleaded guilty to assaulting seven patients in 2016 while he was chairman of Drexel University's neurology department. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/neurologist_charged_with_raping_new_york_city_woma.html EEE6C0D8-0A2B-4092-88B6-FE849815E27B Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:44:21 -0600 A professor at a Pennsylvania university is facing felony charges for possessing child pornography. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General says 57-year-old Scott Lowe, a professor at Bloomsburg University, was arrested Thursday on four counts of sexual abuse of children for the possession of child pornography. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says Lowe had pornographic photos on the computer in his university office. The photos were discovered after a routine audit of all Bloomsburg University computers. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/02/16/bloomsburg-university-professor-child-porn/ AD30FDA0-4E79-40FE-9B2E-6269DB7333D1 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:56:14 -0600 Arkansas State University may file a lawsuit against the University of Miami over a football game that was cancelled during the 2017 season. A letter released to Region 8 News from A-State indicates Miami must pay the Red Wolves $650,000 by Thursday, Feb. 15. The amount was based on a contract signed between the universities in 2013. http://www.kait8.com/story/37484717/a-state-to-sue-miami-if-payment-not-made-for-cancelled-game 68D1322A-60E0-46DF-900A-A6832C04AAAA Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:14:20 -0600 A former Coastal Carolina University football player is suing the university because of the way they handled a rape allegation made against him in 2016 by a CCU cheerleader. John Doe states after a second, unnecessary, student conduct board hearing regarding allegations, his education and varsity football career were "stopped dead in its tracks" and he lost a full tuition athletic football scholarship for the 2017 through 2020 Coastal football seasons and academic years. He was also permanently expelled from Coastal, according to the lawsuit. http://wpde.com/news/local/former-coastal-carolina-university-football-player-sues-university-over-lost-scholarships 2E23236C-BD04-4F58-A476-148B754C826A Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:17:54 -0600 Michigan State University can't be held responsible for emotional distress suffered by a student sexually assaulted on campus or from the victim seeing the attacker again on university grounds, lawyers from MSU argue in recent court filings. The lawyers also argue that the university taking a long time to discipline the attacker and not following its own rules for handling sexual assault accusations is not proof that the university was "deliberately indifferent" to Title IX requirements, which mandate that universities investigate all sexual violence and harassment allegations. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/02/13/lawyers-msu-not-liable-distress-caused-letting-sex-assault-attacker-back-campus/332544002/ 081131E9-7825-43E4-9ED9-9BDE16B369C8 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:16:27 -0600 A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended that a student accused of sexual assault at James Madison University be awarded nearly $850,000 after he successfully sued the institution.The student, called John Doe in court filings, sued the university in 2015 after he was found responsible for sexual assault. A university panel initially considered him not responsible, but his accuser, called Jane Doe in court documents, appealed that decision -- John Doe was then suspended until the spring 2020 semester and barred from campus. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/02/13/student-accused-sexual-assault-wins-big-court 73778F84-D1E5-471E-BD1D-05D3961A88E6 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:28:43 -0600 A former University of Michigan doctor has been jailed on child pornography charges after getting targeted in a broader probe: The federal government says he was having sex with a "vulnerable" female patient in his clinic, gave her pain pills that she didn't need and talked to her about his other teenage patients' "hot" bodies. According to a criminal complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court, Mark Hoeltzel, a former pediatric rheumatology specialist at the University of Michigan, had a 2-year-long sexual relationship with a female patient who was referred to him when she was 17 for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. She also had a mental health diagnoses, court records show. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/02/12/ex-um-doctor-jailed-child-porn-charges-fbi-says-he-had-sex-patient-his-office/329809002/ A73C1D74-0EA5-49DD-ADF6-37915831B079 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:50:20 -0600 The Education Department confirmed Monday it is no longer investigating civil rights complaints from transgender students barred from school bathrooms that match their gender identity, a development those students say leaves them vulnerable to bullying and violence.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said states and individual school districts should be able to determine how to accommodate transgender students. They argued that Title IX did not obligate schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/12/education-department-will-no-longer-investigate-transgender-bathroom-complaints/?utm_term=.32df5995217f B76BD9DA-C200-477D-960E-AD249B69E531 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:22:42 -0600 A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of a male student who blames gender discrimination for an Ohio university’s finding that he violated its sexual-assault policy. A three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court’s dismissal of several claims against Miami University and school officials, but found that the student presented enough factual allegations to support a "reasonable inference" of discrimination. Miami and other U.S. universities have been accused in other cases in recent years of violating male students’ rights as the schools step up efforts against campus sexual assaults amid pressure by federal education authorities. https://www.wcpo.com/news/education/higher-education/miami-u-news/court-rules-in-favor-of-male-miami-university-student-in-sexual-assault-case D7A741A4-34C0-4CDD-9D42-0F0E2CB0C05B Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:53:05 -0600 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Wednesday offered the state’s historically black colleges and universities up to $100 million to resolve a 12-year-old lawsuit over inequality in public higher education. But the proposal may not be enough to satisfy the coalition of alumni from Maryland’s historically black institutions who filed the lawsuit in 2006 to dismantle what they say are vestiges of racial segregation. The group has accused Maryland of insufficiently funding historically black colleges and allowing other state schools to duplicate their programs, placing pressure on enrollment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/02/07/maryland-offers-100-million-to-settle-decade-long-case-involving-historically-black-schools/?utm_term=.ad7f2109e2c6 58C99D60-DE14-4961-9C03-E332A489D852 Wed, 7 Feb 2018 20:39:39 -0600 The University of Washington College Republicans group is suing the university after being asked to pay $17,000 in security fees for a conservative rally planned for this weekend. The "Freedom X" law firm, representing the College Republicans pro-bono, filed a complaint Tuesday evening calling the university’s policy unconstitutional and a tax on free speech. The College Republicans’ invited guest this Saturday is Oregon activist Joey Gibson of the Patriot Prayer group. http://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/uw-college-republicans-sue-school-over-security-costs-for-conservative-rally/281-515551931 F1F7B07B-6B95-495B-BB12-1EB994AA81A8 Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:53:09 -0600 Graduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University last year -- an episode Yale officials called "disturbing" and "inexcusable". The selfie was taken in June at the Yale School of Medicine during the 2017 DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, which focused on dental-related facial deformities. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/05/yale-dental-students-selfie-severed-heads DBA3FDE6-83FF-426D-9FCC-C707E586ED21 Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:16:07 -0600 A former William & Mary professor who was charged with several counts of harassment by computer has filed a lawsuit alleging the college "silenced" him when he attempted to speak out about student mental health. David Dessler, 62, a former tenured government professor at William & Mary, alleges the college silenced him from discussing student mental health issues starting in fall 2015, after a string of four student suicides during the previous school year, according to court documents. https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/01/02/former-william-mary-professor-files-discrimination-lawsuit-against-college-nws/ 68691053-0FC2-4358-A1CB-EC9759F65C65 Fri, 2 Feb 2018 12:26:31 -0600 University of Montana women’s soccer coach Mark Plakorus, whose resignation was announced Tuesday, was asked to leave after a UM investigation found he used a university-issued cell phone to text escort services during recruiting trips to Las Vegas. UM Athletic Director Kent Haslam said Thursday that he and Senior Associate Athletic Director Jean Gee looked through Plakorus’ phone records after players’ complaints that their coach was texting them excessively and at inappropriate times, among other things. http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-women-s-soccer-coach-fired-after-texts-to-vegas/article_00330f39-ef73-5629-b3a0-5efb9c90f507.html#tracking-source=home-top-story D02A6516-65A4-403C-80C6-A82651783639 Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:24:36 -0600 A month after a federal judge ruled that James Madison University violated the due process rights of a student suspended for sexual misconduct, attorneys are filing motions to prepare for a February hearing. In December, U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon ruled that John Doe, the accused, didn’t have a fair chance to respond to evidence, was hampered by rules prohibiting contact with witnesses and was not allowed to appear at the appeal board hearing. http://www.dnronline.com/update/new-judge-rules-jmu-violated-student-s-due-process-rights/article_557d3444-e30c-11e6-be41-273a737c3b43.html 73731BE8-AE8F-4112-A864-D68F65539A59 Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:10:05 -0600 Michigan State University administrators have long claimed, to the federal government and public, that they have handled sexual assault, violence and gender discrimination complaints properly. But an Outside the Lines investigation has found a pattern of widespread denial, inaction and information suppression of such allegations by officials ranging from campus police to the Spartan athletic department, whose top leader, Mark Hollis, announced his retirement on Friday. The actions go well beyond the highly publicized case of former MSU athletic physician Larry Nassar. http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22214566/pattern-denial-inaction-information-suppression-michigan-state-goes-larry-nassar-case-espn A41B8C54-B76F-4DD1-BEA6-1CA2208AC5CF Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:04:41 -0600 A young woman and her family say they are outraged by Butler's reaction in 2016, after the then 18-year-old woman said she was forcibly raped by a man twice her size. The woman, who is now 20, has filed a civil rights complaint, claiming the university failed to inform her of her options in accordance with federal law. As a result, she said, evidence was destroyed, denying her the opportunity to effectively seek criminal charges against her alleged attacker, who had a prior report of sexual misconduct. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/01/29/am-beyond-angry-ex-butler-student-says-school-mishandled-her-rape-allegation/1048160001/ 4F9E80F0-6EE5-45C7-90CC-C8D6BC7528D5 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:03:11 -0600 A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a civil rights lawsuit by a former financial official at West Chester University who claims she was fired for being honest. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit made that call in concluding the university, one of its vice presidents, and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education are legally immune from Colleen M. Bradley's complaint. Bradley contended she was let go for repeatedly pointing out what she believed were unethical manipulations of the university's and PASSHE's budgeting processes. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/01/pa_university_budget_official.html 6540D286-4126-4BEF-9357-C6CDBB024EFB Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:39:17 -0600 A special prosecutor will investigate Michigan State University "from the president's office down" over how former MSU sports physician Larry Nassar could have sexually abused girls and young women for nearly 20 years without university action, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said Saturday. The investigation began last year, Schuette's office said, but the scope and makeup of the probe wasn't announced until Saturday, during a week in which Nassar was sentenced to state prison and two top officials stepped down. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/us/michigan-state-attorney-general-nassar-investigation/index.html FF2DC8C6-AE72-41D6-9022-C6A2AD271596 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:07:20 -0600 In law, courts occasionally decline to find a defendant at fault not because the defendant "didn’t do it" but rather because the plaintiff--the person who is accusing the defendant of wronging--has "unclean hands." Unclean hands may become an important dynamic in the NCAA’s investigation into Michigan State. The school may have violated NCAA rules in connection to Larry Nassar’s sexual assaults. Should the NCAA seek to punish Michigan State, the school could argue that the NCAA is in no position to evaluate wrongdoing or to assign blame. The NCAA, Michigan State could insist, has unclean hands: it is implicated in the same scandal and thus has an inherent conflict of interest. https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/01/28/mark-emmert-ncaa-michigan-state-investigation-larry-nassar 94B5232C-23AD-4AEE-8E27-F88C88D512D5 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:01:13 -0600 A former professor at Weber State University is suing the Ogden school for how it handled an allegation of sexual harassment from a student in his class. Although pages of emails and other electronic messages were used as evidence in the case, Jason Fritzler, who taught microbiology before resigning last year, maintains he didn’t and couldn’t have sent the messages to the student, his attorney Brian Jackson told The Salt Lake Tribune this week. Fritzler alleges the sexually charged messages were fabricated, and denies the female student’s assertion that they had sexual relations on several occasions. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/01/27/trove-of-sexually-charged-messages-are-at-the-heart-of-weber-state-universitys-investigation-into-a-professor-but-the-professor-says-they-were-fabricated/ 5CCD3C47-DD35-4E97-8A66-A48700D8581E Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:08:52 -0600 The University of Michigan fired a doctor after he was accused of having sex with a young patient. Mark Franklin Hoeltzel worked as a pediatric rheumatologist at the University of Michigan Hospital. He's now under investigation by university police. Hoeltzel first got into trouble in 2004 after exchanging flirtatious social media messages with an 11-year-old girl he'd examined at a U of M arthritis camp. https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/police-investigating-after-university-of-michigan-doctor-fired-for-alleged-sexual-misconduct B412056E-4957-4432-AC94-0EDD118A7503 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:11:36 -0600 A Bellarmine University student filed a lawsuit claiming the university punished him for filing a sexual harassment complaint against a professor. Attorney Josh Engel said the unnamed student was in an inappropriate six-month relationship with a professor and the two exchanged sexually provocative text messages. When the student ended the relationship, he claimed the professor kicked him off an important research project. http://www.wave3.com/story/37355605/bellarmine-sued-by-student-claiming-he-was-punished-for-filing-sexual-harassment-complaint ECDE4687-E1DD-4D49-96E8-5386A06D43E7 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:48:47 -0600 A former Oakland University professor has been found guilty of three drug-related counts after he was accused last year of operating a drug house. Joseph Schiele was charged with seven different counts, including possession with intent to deliver, felony firearm and operating a drug house. According to court transcripts, a 22-year-old female college student told the court she visited the professor's home "at least 30 times" for "partying," "drinking and doing drugs" ... "usually cocaine and ketamine." https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/former-oakland-university-professor-found-guilty-of-running-drug-house-possessing-ketamine 40428AAE-8441-42DD-A677-790ECB647374 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:48:56 -0600 The N.C.A.A. sent a letter of inquiry to Michigan State University, formally opening an investigation into how the university handled the case of Lawrence G. Nassar, the doctor who sexually assaulted scores of female athletes. Dr. Nassar spent decades on the faculty at the university and treated its athletes, as well as members of the United States national gymnastics team. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/sports/michigan-state-ncaa-investigation.html?mtrref=www.google.com E501D636-8393-4DDB-AB0F-7F37D4E97F75 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:02:30 -0600 The University of Arizona officially fired basketball coach Emmanuel "Book" Richardson. Richardson is appealing his termination notice from the school. Along with three assistant coaches from other programs, Richardson is facing up to 60 years in prison and one and a half million dollars in fines if he's convicted on bribery and other charges connected to basketball recruiting. The FBI has been investigating the criminal influence of money on coaches and student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate basketball governed by the NCAA since 2015. https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/ua-fires-fbi-charged-assistant-basketball-coach-richardson BD4DF025-CCA8-48FB-8CE3-3439E8D5A600 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:11:32 -0600 Southern Illinois University’s medical school has halted all herpes research, one of its most high-profile projects, amid growing controversy over a researcher’s unauthorized methods offshore and in the U.S. SIU’s ethics panel launched a "full" investigation Dec. 5 of the herpes vaccine experiments by university professor William Halford, according to a memo obtained by Kaiser Health News. Halford, who died in June, had injected Americans with his experimental herpes vaccine in St. Kitts and Nevis in 2016 and in Illinois hotel rooms in 2013 without routine safety oversight from the Food and Drug Administration or an institutional review board, according to ongoing reporting by KHN. Some of the participants say they are experiencing side effects. https://khn.org/news/university-under-fire-for-off-the-grid-herpes-vaccine-experiments/ E3F2A31F-F92D-4FF1-9ABF-460138CD6AE2 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:38:11 -0600 A former dean of the University of Arizona is suing in federal court, claiming she was underpaid by tens of thousands of dollars compared to her male colleagues. Patricia MacCorquodale, former dean of the school's Honors College, alleges that she was dramatically underpaid for two decades. And when university officials removed her as dean in 2016, she was replaced by a male who made nearly $70,000 more than she did. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/01/22/university-arizona-sued-gender-discrimination-former-dean-who-alleges-she-underpaid-compared-male-de/1054784001/ F0502626-D266-4F05-BBFC-720BC81B7CE7 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:41:20 -0600 The woman who accused former Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez of sexual harassment has filed a second notice of claim against Rodriguez, his wife and the University of Arizona seeking $8.5 million. In the first claim, filed Dec. 29 with the Arizona Attorney General's Office, the woman, Rodriguez's former administrative assistant, alleged Rodriguez ran a hostile work place. She said Rodriguez forced her to keep an extramarital affair secret while also groping and attempting to kiss her, among other actions that made her feel uncomfortable. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/22170484/woman-files-claim-more-allegations-former-arizona-wildcats-football-coach-rich-rodriguez 6964F60F-780A-4AAF-8F16-56E33E2263F8 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:47:08 -0600 A former Dartmouth College student has sued the school, saying he was unfairly expelled after a female student filed a physical assault complaint against him. "John Doe" says in the New Hampshire federal lawsuit that Dartmouth's investigation was biased. It says the woman's complaint was filed in 2016 after what she described as a consensual sexual encounter. Doe says he was incapacitated by alcohol and unable to consent; he accused her of physical and sexual assault. http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Expelled-student-sues-Dartmouth-after-complaint-filed-469978103.html 8FB9B7CA-7650-4FEB-B036-A965FF6362C4 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:33:30 -0600 At least 14 Michigan State University Officials were notified of sex abuse allegations against faculty member Larry Nassar, who also served as USA Gymnastics national team doctor, in the two decades before his shocking arrest -- but the school repeatedly missed opportunities to stop him, according to a damning report. The Detroit News investigation, which drew information from university records and victim accounts, reported current MSU President Lou Anna Simon was among those notified. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/18/michigan-state-university-officials-knew-nassar-sex-abuse-allegations-but-failed-to-stop-him-report-says.html CB4EC671-A97B-4FF8-94F8-A99B7D14F19E Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:52:00 -0600 Police in Florida issued arrest warrants for nine men on Tuesday in connection with the November hazing death of a 20-year-old Florida State University student, authorities said. The suspects, all between the ages of 20 and 22 years old, face charges of college hazing causing injury or death in the case of Andrew Coffey, a FSU fraternity pledge who died of alcohol poisoning on Nov. 3, the Tallahassee Police Department said in a statement Tuesday. http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-charge-florida-state-university-students-hazing-death/story?id=52399535 AD127428-3FA2-48FD-9C0B-8B1E41BFE0A0 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600 The University of Iowa is caught up in a legal fight with a conservative Christian student group that denied a leadership position to a student who is gay. The case pits a university policy barring discrimination based on sexual orientation against the religious beliefs of a 10-member group called Business Leaders in Christ. The group sued after the state's flagship university in Iowa City revoked its campus registration in November. The group says its membership is open to everyone but its leaders must affirm a statement of faith that rejects homosexuality. The university says it respects the right of students, faculty and staff to practice the religion of their choice but does not tolerate discrimination. http://www.omaha.com/news/iowa/lawsuit-pits-gay-rights-against-religious-freedom-at-university-of/article_8b61d5b9-a1bd-50fc-bf07-050bfd4c1fc4.html 42D93BCA-26FF-4A14-A977-E9F0C6B5DF5D Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600 An 18-year-old former University of Maryland employee has been charged with writing racially charged words on a men’s bathroom stall in the Ellicott Dining Hall in October, according to University of Maryland police. Terrell Demonte Alexander of Lanham was charged Wednesday with two counts of malicious destruction of property for the incident that occurred at the College Park campus between Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, and on Nov. 3. ''We take incidents of hate-bias in our community very seriously, which is reflected in the extensive effort to identify the individual responsible,'' said University Police Chief David B. Mitchell. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-hate-related-vandalism-20180112-story.html 94A0D5A3-C0D8-478C-B83F-9F7C9AC8BA6D Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600 A suburban Chicago college student is suing her school for allegedly violating her free-speech rights by prohibiting her from handing out flyers from a socialist group that read, "Shut Down Capitalism." It says the public community college violated Salazar's rights by limiting political expressions to a small campus "free speech zone." School policy includes requirements to get prior approval of flyers, and other restrictions. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2018-01-11/illinois-college-sued-over-free-speech-zone 407D552D-88C6-423B-96B6-4E9B68403BAD Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:07:44 -0600 Police are investigating a rape that allegedly happened at the University of Kansas Hospital. The suspect is a Raymore man who is currently at the Wyandotte county jail. Prosecutors have charged Joshua Johnson, 35, with a single count of rape. The charge stems from an investigation led by the University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department. https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/rape-investigation-at-the-university-of-kansas-hospital 30B092F0-598A-43D8-85AE-9CE484A969A6 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:48:46 -0600 Four New York City men were given jail sentences Monday in the death of an 18-year-old fraternity pledge during a 2013 hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, with a judge saying she believes they succumbed to "brainwashing" and "indoctrination" that is rampant at fraternities around the nation. Baruch College freshman Chun "Michael" Deng was blindfolded, forced to wear a heavy backpack and then repeatedly tackled as part of the fraternity's Crossing Over initiation ceremony. He was knocked unconscious and later died at a hospital. Police charged 37 people with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to hazing to third-degree murder. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-01-08/4-men-frat-face-sentencing-in-baruch-college-hazing-death 8AFD5571-0EDB-4A0A-BB94-3F40925BBF70 Mon, 8 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600 A former Houston Community College trustee has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting cash bribes of more than $225,000 to use his trustee position to steer business contracts to the school. http://www.statesman.com/news/local/houston-college-trustee-gets-months-for-taking-bribes/5UVqBJHOhAETUJRqzNTGIJ/ 66074350-FE97-4991-9F7A-816BED81F04C Mon, 8 Jan 2018 13:47:55 -0600 Mike Leach’s war against Texas Tech is headed back to court, this time to gain access to records related to his firing from the university in 2009. Leach, now the head football coach at Washington State, hired an investigative firm in Houston last year to dig up information on Texas Tech officials and pressure them into paying him the $2.4 million he says he is still owed by Tech. But that firm, Dolcefino Consulting, says Texas Tech has refused to comply with its requests for public records related to his firing. On Sunday, the firm filed a lawsuit against Tech that seeks a court order forcing Tech to comply. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/01/07/mike-leach-texas-tech-feud-new-lawsuit/1010374001/ 9406F7D0-A967-4534-AB78-69D90450FCF1 Sun, 7 Jan 2018 13:58:15 -0600 West Virginia Wesleyan College has settled a lawsuit with its former vice president of student development for $250,000. The agreement with Julie Keehner was reached in early December, according to court records. In the suit, Keehner had alleged the college violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act by compensating male employees in a senior administrative role at the college at a higher rate, despite her having more experience. The suit also alleged that the college terminated Keehner in whole or in part based upon her age. She was 60 at the time. https://therecorddelta.com/article/wvwc-settles-suit-for-250000 4ED6B910-FD53-451E-8659-5900DDF09987 Sun, 7 Jan 2018 09:01:09 -0600 A doctor at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has been placed on leave amid allegations he raped two patients when he worked at the Cleveland Clinic in northeast Ohio. A USA TODAY investigation published Friday outlined the sexual assault allegations against Dr. Ryan Williams while he was employed at the Cleveland Clinic. After leaving the clinic, he joined the Wexner Medical Center August 1, 2017. http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180105/ohio-state-suspends-surgeon-after-rape-allegations-published B4A39EBA-D267-4715-8CEF-91FC06C97917 Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:55:13 -0600 An executive for the University of Wisconsin System arrested for first-offense drunken driving while out of town for a regents meeting in October expects to plead guilty, pay a fine and lose her driver's license for six months, according to her attorney. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2018/01/05/uw-system-presidents-chief-staff-arrested-drunken-driving-while-out-town-regents-meeting/1005343001/ 862F3A68-8619-473A-A621-981A2D99674E Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:41:28 -0600 The Arizona Wildcats on Tuesday fired football coach Rich Rodriguez after six seasons in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation the university began investigating in October and a recent notice of a hostile-workplace lawsuit to be filed against the school. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/arizona-fires-rich-rodriguez-amid-sexual-harassment-allegation/story?id=52109067 64036412-9F64-43E0-B25F-C8FDCB9B0B41 Wed, 3 Jan 2018 08:04:23 -0600 A man prosecutors say was found with hundreds of images of child pornography in his Carthage College dorm room has reached a plea deal in the case against him. 21-year-old Austin Szczodrowski on January 2nd pleaded guilty to four counts of possession of child pornography. He’ll be sentenced on March 26th. The images are believed to have been downloaded using the campus internet. http://fox6now.com/2018/01/02/carthage-college-chemistry-student-found-with-hundreds-of-child-porn-images-in-dorm-room-pleads-guilty/ 07955320-726E-4EC1-93D7-A499066F04E5 Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:30:54 -0600 Shortly after midnight on Oct. 18, 2013, 19-year-old Ethan P. Connolly, a sophomore at the University of Delaware, was fatally hit by a truck while walking across Del. 896. In a lawsuit, his parents want a New Castle County Superior Court judge to hold the university, the sorority and those that hosted the party liable for his death. http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/01/02/suit-claims-university-sorority-and-party-host-liable-students-2013-death/991431001/ 765D9E95-2797-49C8-B2DE-EBC888F5A09A Tue, 2 Jan 2018 08:00:46 -0600 Police charged two Santa Fe men Monday with stealing four company vehicles from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus. Police say Robert Noedel and Nestor Rodriguez, both 26, managed to drive at least three of the four vehicles off the campus during the night before a college security guard noticed one of the vehicles in question on a neighboring street and called police. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/two-arrested-on-suspicion-of-stealing-vehicles-from-college-campus/article_1314ca54-e01e-59b4-8f82-d03178ebb572.html F03594A0-71DE-4D55-99EB-1A8FAE1ADC7D Mon, 1 Jan 2018 08:02:25 -0600 Dean A. Tupper, a former employee of Stonehill College in Easton, was arrested Friday and charged in connection with an accidental shooting at the school in October, according to a statement from the Bristol County District Attorney’s office.On Oct. 11, Tupper, 57, allegedly shot his co-worker, Dave Pigeon, in the Plumber’s Shop of Stonehill College’s Clock Farm, which is across the street from Stonehill’s campus, according to the release and police reports. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/01/former-stonehill-college-employee-arrested-accidental-shooting-school/HGgr8c4ze6I2VfeueTW2PL/story.html 6E8AE7B4-5264-408D-99F7-EBC20128FE9D Mon, 1 Jan 2018 08:03:22 -0600 A Roanoke College coach faces drug-related charges, according to court documents. On Tuesday, Dec. 12 police arrested and charged David Sampson with a felony and misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance. As 10 News previously reported, Roanoke College strength and conditioning coach Sampson was found with multiple steroid-related supplies in his office and home earlier this year. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/roanoke/roanoke-college-teacher-arrested-for-felony-drug-charges 44B3A39B-A3A4-480B-93BE-F345B1C482FC Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:03:45 -0600 South Carolina State University and two university-related groups will pay nearly $438,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed after a student shot and killed a member of the school's football team. The lawsuit alleged the university knew that sophomore Justin Singleton had a history of violent conduct but allowed him to continue as a student at the school where his mother worked. https://www.postandcourier.com/news/s-c-state-university-settles-lawsuit-after-football-player-killed/article_b5446ba8-e2b7-11e7-a985-838c7feda0af.html E918C932-31B8-4A98-B9CE-CA75D9ABB39E Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:56:02 -0600 The University of Louisville has filed a counterclaim to former basketball coach Rick Pitino's lawsuit and is seeking monetary damages from vacated games and bonuses. The counterclaim noted that the NCAA ordered the school to return money it received for some basketball tournaments. The counterclaim filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court said the school also wants any bonuses and other compensation "wrongly paid" to Pitino for the tournament appearances. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21761934/louisville-files-counterclaim-rick-pitino-lawsuit D36E8FB2-EAA3-4F75-93D2-CBCEED6706FA Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:00:33 -0600 Radford police have arrested 17 men after an alleged hazing incident. The incident happened September 14 in the 1200 block of Downey St. A college student and potential pledge was branded at a rogue fraternity party near Radford University. According to search warrants, the male student was forced to drink a large amount of liquor, then was burned after he passed out. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/new-river-valley/police-arrest-17-in-connection-to-radford-university-hazing-incident 7E12CE1A-7050-452F-B436-541251166424 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:09:51 -0600 Oberlin College has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the institution from Gibson’s Bakery, which is asking for more than $200,000 in damages stemming from a November 2016 incident in which a student attempted to steal wine from the shop and a community uproar followed. Gibson’s suit names the college and Meredith Raimondo, vice president and dean of students, as defendants. The complaint accuses the college of libel, slander, interference with business relationships, interference with contracts, deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring and trespass. http://www.chroniclet.com/Local-News/2017/12/13/Oberlin-College-files-motion-to-dismiss-Gibson-39-s-lawsuit.html C1F18D24-3259-4F44-9988-19E356D98260 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:08:57 -0600 A former Mercyhurst University official has been indicted on charges he falsely claimed on a visa form that a student had been accepted to a Mercyhurst master's degree program. He is now employed as the associate director of Gannon University's office of global admissions and outreach. The defendant, 47-year-old Daniel Cabanillas, of the 4100 block of West 38th Street, is charged with two felony counts of visa fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Erie announced Tuesday. The indictment charges Cabanillas submitted false information indicating an individual, identified in court records as H.V., had been admitted to Mercyhurst's master's program in data science. He knew that H.V.'s acceptance letter into the program was fabricated, according to the indictment. http://www.goerie.com/news/20171213/ex-mercyhurst-official-indicted-in-visa-fraud-case 29846B33-BFFA-4E31-9DDD-A984B5C5FB20 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 UConn police have charged a Quinebaug College adviser with attempted theft and disorderly conduct after Lucian Wintrich's contentious speaking engagement late last month. Catherine Gregory, 33, of Willimantic, was charged with attempted sixth-degree larceny and disorderly conduct. She was arrested over the weekend. She is accused of stealing Wintrich's speech from the lectern during his engagement last month at UConn. An ensuing scuffle led to charges for Wintrich, a conservative commentator. http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-catherine-gregory-lucian-wintrich-uconn-event-arrest-20171211-story.html B2CF6827-BDC9-4B2B-8DBB-D2AD764FFAF4 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:51:20 -0600 Two Pittsburg State University employees were arrested Thursday night, on breach of privacy and stalking charges. According to a release from the Pittsburg Police Department, Peter A. Rosen, 47, of Pittsburg, an associate professor and chair of Accounting and Computer Information Systems, was arrested after the PPD served a search warrant at 2305 S. Joplin, Apt. 17, in Pittsburg. According to the release, the ''warrant pertained to the illegal videoing, and the subsequent dissemination of that video, of another identifiable person who is nude or in the state of undress.'' http://www.morningsun.net/news/20171208/two-psu-profs-arrested-for-stalking-breach-of-privacy---pair-have-been-suspended-university-working-with-law-enforcement 611CBE11-6B23-4590-92C7-F4F83E8832BA Sat, 9 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Law enforcement has arrested the man who allegedly posed as an rideshare driver to pick up young women, including University of South Carolina students, and held them against their will. Farris Kaloti, 28, was arrested in a suburb of Miami Thursday, according to a report verified by Jeff Stensland, USC’s Director of Public Relations. Kaloti was arrested by the Pinecrest Police Department on two outstanding arrest warrants, one for assault and the other for domestic violence, both unrelated to any incident involving USC students, according to USC. http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article188669889.html F1330D9D-7FE2-46DD-B804-162410470A8B Fri, 8 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Larry Nassar -- the disgraced ex-gymnastics doctor accused of assaulting more than 140 women and girls, including several Olympic stars -- was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison on pornography charges. Nassar, who's pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual assault, was sentenced in a separate case Thursday in which he was found to have received and possessed 37,000 images of child pornography and attempted to destroy pictures to avoid charges. Federal Judge Janet Neff said Nassar, 54, ''should never again have access to children.'' http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/07/larry-nassar-gymnastics-doctor-for-olympics-michigan-state-university-sentenced-for-child-porn.html 8ADC4467-BF68-4CF6-987F-87837DD724E0 Fri, 8 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A burglary investigation led to the arrest of college professor on child pornography charges. California State University, Bakersfield professor Theodore Ishida was arrested Friday after an investigation into the burglary of his home found that he possessed child pornography, which he downloaded to his personal computer from a CSUB computer. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/professor-arrested-possession-child-pornography-article-1.3686465 60CE4C75-50A3-453D-A16E-D3A70B47527B Fri, 8 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 An employee at California State University, Bakersfield has pleaded no contest to a felony count of grand theft of property and a misdemeanor count of embezzlement. Angela Mora was charged after $44,000 was taken from the university’s Wells Fargo account. http://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/csub-employee-takes-plea-in-case-of-missing-university-funds FCB266DC-B6FA-448B-9EEB-D3A6080C8F9A Fri, 8 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Northwestern University is being sued by a student who contends that the university denied him his right to due process when it concluded that he had sexually assaulted a fellow student and then kicked him out of school last year. Filed in federal court in September, the suit argues that Northwestern’s sexual misconduct policies so heavily favor accusers that respondents have little ability to defend themselves. He contends that Northwestern’s procedures denied him a fair hearing and that the punishment ruined his reputation and career prospects. Neither student is named in the lawsuit. The case is just one of many across that nation that have put universities in the midst of a roiling debate over how to handle allegations of sexual misconduct in higher education. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-northwestern-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit-20171207-story.html 0C0568ED-43C6-4EFA-993B-591B59BD93F4 Thu, 7 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A Broomall man is found guilty of several charges that were filed against him after he was caught secretly videoing people inside a bathroom at Villanova University. Vincent Kane celebrated his 20th birthday with an appearance before Delaware County judge James Bradley, who found Kane guilty of 10 counts, including child pornography and invasion of privacy. The investigation started when police say Kane’s phone was found recording in a unisex bathroom in a Villanova dorm. Investigators say they found a drive hidden in Kane’s closet with more than 51,000 similar images or videos. http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/12/04/vincent-kane-guilty-child-porn/ C10FA875-E23C-49AE-B7FD-34F84E516B54 Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Former University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is asking for more than $35 million in a federal breach of contract lawsuit filed Thursday against the school's athletic association. Pitino was fired in a unanimous vote by the University of Louisville Athletic Association board on Oct. 16. The move came in connection with a national college basketball recruiting scandal, part of which federal investigators said included a scheme to pay the families of Louisville recruits. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2017/11/30/rick-pitino-files-federal-lawsuit-against-university-louisville-athletic-association/910604001/ 3EB19A69-01F1-45A4-9159-E76A4B1622C3 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A sixth woman has accused Howard University of mishandling a sexual assault allegation, becoming the latest to raise concerns about how the institution has dealt with such cases in recent years. The woman's allegations are detailed in court documents, which seeks to expand a federal lawsuit against the university to include her case. Months ago, five other women sued Howard, accusing the Northwest D.C. university of a ''discriminatory and retaliatory response to multiple complaints of sexual assault and harassment.'' The women, all Howard students or former students, are identified in court documents as Jane Does 1 through 6. They allege the sexual assaults were perpetrated by male Howard students and employees, and happened between 2014 and 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/11/30/howard-student-accuses-university-of-botched-investigation-into-sexual-assault-allegation/?utm_term=.3407d26b2018 8491C779-366C-41BD-9D0B-B3F48A3863FE Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A conservative commentator who was arrested at the University of Connecticut and charged with breach of peace following an altercation blamed some UConn students for being ''violent and disruptive.'' Lucian Wintrich’s Tuesday night speech titled ''It's OK To Be White'' was repeatedly interrupted by people in the audience booing and chanting before coming to an abrupt end when a woman appeared to take paperwork off the lectern he was using and then began to leave. http://time.com/5040548/conservative-speaker-uconn-arrested-altercation/ D6DBDF86-FCC5-4761-8158-C2CBE1B7EB21 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Another high-profile instance of sexual harassment has rocked a major institution -- this time Princeton University in New Jersey. And students say administrators didn't act transparently or strongly enough when disciplining the alleged perpetrator, a decorated professor. A Title IX investigation, first revealed by HuffPost, found electrical engineering professor Sergio Verdu guilty of sexually harassing one of his student advisers. Yeohee Im told HuffPost Verdu touched her thigh and stomach and invited her to watch sexually explicit films at his house. https://whyy.org/articles/sexual-harassment-allegations-roil-princeton-university/ 479E073B-91E5-4B20-BEF2-96B152935DF3 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A former Penn State student believes the university discriminated against her based on her race when it decided to suspend her. Grace Simms, who is black, said in a lawsuit that the university discriminated against her due to her race in the aftermath of an incident with two other students. Simms, who attended Penn State Altoona, recently filed a lawsuit for in excess of $75,000 against the university, and employees Jay Burlingame and Robert Matchock, who the suit says played roles in the disciplinary actions against Simms. The lawsuit said Simms was the target of cyberbullying in March 2016 by fellow student Sarah Ismail, who was not named as a defendant in the suit. Ismail, according to court documents and the university's directory, has not faced any charges related to the incident and is an active student. http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article186643153.html 70854A98-1742-4FDC-AFB0-3FECB4667E72 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:22:14 -0600 Larry Nassar pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he molested numerous girls as a doctor for the U.S. national gymnastics team. While he pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual assault, he admitted responsibility in many more cases, some of them involving girls who went on to become Olympic stars. His guilty plea has renewed calls for more information about what Michigan State University knew about the accusations against Nassar, who was director of sports medicine at the university at the same time he worked for the U.S. gymnastics team. Some of the women who were Nassar's victims charge that Michigan State either covered up accusations against him or looked the other way, allowing his abuse of girls to go on longer than it might have otherwise. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/27/guilty-plea-former-team-doctor-renews-scrutiny-michigan-state 08DD124D-C1E9-4B67-AE75-C8EC625941F2 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:21:09 -0600 A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has charged a former engineering professor at Virginia Tech in an indictment returned yesterday, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced. Yiheng Percival Zhang, 46, of Blacksburg, Va., is charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, three counts of making false statements within the jurisdiction of the United States, and three counts of making false claims to the United States. http://www.nbc29.com/story/36906517/doj-former-virginia-tech-professor-charged-in-federal-indictment 666EF9E6-7653-4FAD-BCC8-F182135658F1 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A national Asian-American fraternity has been found guilty of criminal charges stemming from the 2013 hazing death of a college student in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Pi Delta Psi Inc. was convicted Tuesday of five felonies and two misdemeanors, including aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter, in the death of Chun Hsien "Michael" Deng. Blindfolded and wearing a backpack, Deng was forced to walk in the backyard in the early morning hours through a line of fraternity members who allegedly pushed, shoved, and tackled him in an attempt to bring him down, court records show. Deng fell several times and suffered multiple blows to his body, including his head, according to a forensic pathologist, court documents state. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/baruch-college-fraternity-found-guilty-2013-fatal-hazing-case-n823256 495B17D2-5EEF-473B-B026-7BCE92F9968A Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 The Justice Department is actively investigating Harvard University's use of race in its admissions policies and has concluded the school is "out of compliance" with federal law, according to documents obtained by CNN. The Justice Department's battle with Harvard potentially sets the stage for the first major legal test of affirmative action policies under the Trump administration. Last year, the US Supreme Court ruled that race can be one among many factors universities use in making admission decisions. http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/politics/harvard-affirmative-action-justice-department/index.html 67B0AA83-E93B-4ECA-80BB-260D309568B0 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A Pennsylvania neurologist pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor charges of groping seven patients in 2016 at a Philadelphia clinic. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani is the former chair of neurology at Drexel University. The university fired him in March following an internal investigation. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/21/former-head-of-neurology-at-drexel-university-pleads-guilty-to-groping-patients 7B5139AB-AA02-40AB-B864-0D7F2B83727D Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 The only time university endowments pay taxes is when they invest in debt-financed financial firms such as private equity funds and hedge funds. These investments are considered a business activity unrelated to their tax-exempt missions. As The New York Times reported, large numbers of universities have adopted an offshore scheme that allows them to avoid even those taxes. The universities assign entities called ''blocker funds'' legal responsibility of otherwise taxable investments. These entities are incorporated in zero-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Consequently, wealthy universities have settled en masse on a strategy for reaping Wall Street-sized investment gains tax free. https://www.icij.org/blog/2017/177/universities-colleges-offshore-leaks-database/ EAFE154A-EB4D-42E8-9299-6E0B65C1E71E Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 A group of college athletic administrators say they're extremely concerned that a proposed measure in the House's tax bill that passed Thursday will greatly impair college sports funding. In the proposed measure, Section 1306 would cut deductions associated with charitable contributions for tickets. Not allowing fans to deduct for donations that give them the right to buy tickets would immediately cost college programs hundreds of millions of dollars, according to athletic directors who spoke with ESPN. http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/21437392/college-administrators-worry-funding-new-tax-plan B194791B-69EF-4821-BD60-F7A46E4C4A2C Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:18:36 -0600 Rutgers University has fired its women's swimming and diving coach amid mental and verbal abuse allegations. Petra Martin's dismissal came Thursday after athletic director Patrick Hobbs met with the team on Wednesday. Hobbs told NJ.com: "We both agreed that it was in the best interests of the program." He declined to address specifics and said the university hasn't finalized details of Martin's salary for the remaining three years of her contract. http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/21443902/rutgers-scarlet-knights-swimming-coach-fired-amid-emotional-abuse-claims 68474E9B-C7F5-4F2B-BB94-335995676360 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:16:42 -0600 Prosecutors on Monday charged 12 more Pennsylvania State University fraternity members in connection with fraternity pledge Tim Piazza’s hazing death, after recovering footage they say had been deleted from a frat house security camera. In addition, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller accused one member of the now-defunct Beta Theta Pi fraternity -- Braxton Becker, 20, of Niskayuna, N.Y. -- of deleting the video in an attempt to stifle the investigation. The charges -- felony counts against five new defendants and misdemeanors against seven others -- significantly broadened what was already one of the largest hazing prosecutions in the nation’s history and drew renewed attention to Piazza's Feb. 4 death after a booze-fueled fraternity initiation ritual. http://www.philly.com/archive/jeremy_roebuck/penn-state-hazing-death-piazza-case-new-details-20171113.html 6FA1F657-6DB2-4C20-8BC1-5585A3E02CE0 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Three freshmen on the UCLA men's basketball team accused of shoplifting in the Chinese city of Hangzhou could be months away from returning home while the legal process in their case plays out. ESPN, citing a source with firsthand knowledge, reported Wednesday that LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were released on bail after being questioned about stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store near the team hotel. ESPN's LA-based reporter Arash Markazi is covering the team from China. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/08/sport/ucla-arrest-reports-china/index.html 1A3EA14F-E2BD-4DDC-95AB-313CF83118C0 Thu, 9 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Further allegations emerged Wednesday that now-fired University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino not only knew about a plan to send payments from Adidas to the family of top Cardinals recruit Brian Bowen, but agreed to actively participate in it. This from newly released evidence in an unsealed indictment in the college basketball fraud and bribery case. Pitino has steadfastly denied he had any knowledge of the plot. Louisville fired the Hall of Fame coach last month anyway. https://sports.yahoo.com/indictment-alleges-rick-pitino-knew-plan-pay-louisville-recruit-participated-001215792.html D9052106-F513-4923-88BD-9E294451C1FC Wed, 8 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Three Dartmouth College professors whose research included studies of sexual desire and attractiveness have been put on paid leave while a criminal investigation of alleged sexual misconduct is carried out, the authorities said Tuesday. Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald of New Hampshire said his office was part of a joint criminal investigation by five law enforcement agencies into allegations of ''serious misconduct'' by the professors, all male tenured faculty members in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The professors' access to the Dartmouth campus has been restricted. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/dartmouth-professors-sexual-misconduct.html BF7478CC-CB68-4F34-99B1-888153117D5D Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 An associate and organizer of campus tours for white nationalist Richard Spencer sued Ohio State University in federal court on Sunday after school officials refused to rent campus space for Spencer to speak. The lawsuit comes after an attorney for the university sent a letter Friday to Spencer associate and Georgia State University graduate student Cameron Padgett that said while the school ''values freedom of speech,'' the request to rent space for Spencer represents a ''substantial risk to public safety.'' http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-state-sued-refusal-white-nationalist-speak-50645877 E237A447-B291-4C39-B332-477DD5DE758B Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 West Virginia mascot Troy Clemons was arrested for DUI, according to court records. The Monongalia County Sheriffs Department arrested him on Oct. 27. He was arraigned in Monongalia County Magistrate Court and released on a personal recognizance bond. According to his criminal complaint: A deputy stopped Clemons for speeding on Stewartstown Road. He failed field sobriety tests, and a preliminary breath test showed a .126 blood alcohol content, above the .08 legal driving limit. http://www.dominionpost.com/Clemons-arrest 90DDC077-297B-4259-A9C9-F1A02E4CAE0C Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Auburn police have arrested a woman for stealing drugs from Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. The arrest is a result of an investigation that began in early October when the thefts were reported to Auburn Police Division by the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine on Wire Road. The thefts of various types of controlled substances occurred over a period of several weeks. http://www.wtvm.com/story/36695659/woman-26-arrested-for-stealing-drugs-from-au-college-of-veterinary-medicine 089DFC70-34CA-450E-9B0E-9A8F5F3C7289 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A ruling by Kentucky's attorney general says the University of Louisville violated the state's open records law by denying a newspaper's request for emails on the former university president's hard drive. http://www.kentuckynewera.com/technology/article_08bbb0c3-383b-5c3d-a456-16c16cb5bfac.html EBD8F23D-F7C5-444C-B9CE-3B9A39FD905D Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A Methodist University professor was arrested this week on charges of possessing child pornography. Steven Phillip Brey, 53, of 5720 Danville Drive in Fayetteville, was charged with 18 counts of second-degree exploitation of a minor. Brey was arrested after the Cary Police Department received a tip about the case. Although Brey is a Fayetteville resident, Cary police were able to make the arrest because an internet crime does not have to take place within a department’s jurisdiction. http://www.wral.com/methodist-university-religion-professor-charged-with-sexual-exploitation-of-minors/17050087/ 9EF174DD-F6FF-45A5-A02E-46D01F2E4529 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A 24-year-old student was charged with making a terroristic threat after allegedly posting on social media she was going to shoot people at Saginaw Valley State University, school officials say. Rebecca Merriweather, a Detroit-area resident, was arraigned Monday, Oct. 23, on one count of making a terrorist threat or false report of terrorism, a 20-year felony. http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/10/woman_charged_after_saying_bla.html 5A408984-3D7D-4995-9454-D0F52E356393 Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 An Ohio college student has pleaded guilty in the stabbing death of his roommate that police say happened after they argued over fast food. University of Akron student Kendal Scheid pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Duncan Unternaher. Police say the friends were drunk and got into an argument about fast food they were eating at their apartment last December. http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20171023/university-of-akron-student-pleads-guilty-in-roommates-stabbing-death 25C87A86-22C1-406D-9F6B-5F63DBD02185 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A St. Louis Community College professor was grabbed from behind by an officer, pulled to the ground, handcuffed and arrested at a college system board meeting after trying to object out of turn to rules laid out for the meeting. The college released video of the incident involving adjunct math professor Steve Taylor, who says he spoke out of turn after the board threatened to kick out anyone who clapped. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/st-louis-college-prof-grabbed-arrested-at-board-meeting/2017/10/21/79254d1e-b68d-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.0de422561213 56B6A909-C28E-48CB-ABA1-42A9C008EB25 Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to universities that are part of a federal investigation into bribery, fraud and corruption in NCAA men's basketball as the scandal continues to overshadow the upcoming season. Oklahoma State University, Auburn University and former University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino all have confirmed receiving subpoenas. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/10/20/federal-grand-jury-issues-subpoenas-colleges-ncaa-basketball-fraud-investigation/782718001/ 0E50D76F-6164-4A5F-A306-133B437D66C3 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 A University of Missouri graduate has been charged with driving onto the school's basketball court this summer and causing more than $100,000 in damage. Investigators say the man drove a Volkswagen Passat through a closed gate on the south side of Mizzou Arena. He then then entered the basketball arena by driving up a ramp and through a loading dock door. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20171017/man-who-drove-through-mizzou-arena-charged-with-four-felonies 345D1D56-408B-4F74-9FFB-EF6165E397F1 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 The weight of an NCAA investigation was lifted from the shoulders of the University of North Carolina athletes, faculty, staff and fans on Oct. 13. But the media, and the collective college sports community, had few kind words in the wake of the ruling. The NCAA was considering questionable classes that enrolled many scholarship athletes and allegedly helped keep student athletes eligible. The NCAA ruled that ''while student athletes likely benefited from the courses, so did the general student body. Additionally, the record did not establish that the university created and offered the courses as part of a systemic effort to benefit only student athletes.'' http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article179133761.html B12F22D6-9E3C-4942-B4D7-46D009502926 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 The National Collegiate Athletic Association will not punish the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after it created fake courses in which students were given credit despite never attending classes, and no faculty members ever taught them. The association announced on Friday it couldn't conclude that the ''paper classes'' in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies benefited just the athletes and thus they weren't considered a violation of NCAA rules. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/13/breaking-ncaa-finds-no-academic-fraud-unc 02278E45-CA3F-4A2D-885D-DB808A2B04B9 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:33:25 -0500 Louisiana police have announced arrest warrants for 10 people accused of a role in forcing a university student to drink himself to death last month. All the suspects are affiliated with the social club that police say 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver was attempting to join when he died. One Louisiana State University student is charged with negligent homicide and nine others are charged with hazing. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41588051 9ED1B831-723A-4D7D-B733-0F9149B5FD3E Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Police have confirmed alleged shooter Hollis Daniels has been taken into custody after reportedly killing a Texas Tech Police officer during a shooting that left the university campus on lockdown on Monday night. Officers were reportedly performing a wellness check on Daniels while on campus when, upon entering his room, officers reportedly found evidence of drugs along with drug paraphernalia, according to a statement by Texas Tech spokesman Chris Cook. When Daniels was brought into the department for questioning, he reportedly pulled a gun and shot an officer in the head before fleeing on foot. It is unclear if Daniels had the weapon on him upon entering the campus police station. http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/news/crime-and-courts/2017-10-09/texas-tech-student-accused-shooting-killing-officer CCFB1B69-9E29-4679-AE46-8FE1BD86F8C6 Mon, 9 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Police are investigating a Louisiana State University student's death as a possible fraternity hazing incident, university officials said Thursday. Maxwell Raymond Gruver, an 18-year-old LSU freshman from Roswell, Georgia, died Thursday after he was taken to a Baton Rouge hospital to be treated for an unspecified "medical emergency," university spokesman Ernie Ballard said. http://abc13.com/lsu-investigates-possible-hazing-in-student-death/2417678/ FB870CD4-0DA2-482C-AEC8-D4C5B2872F8B Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500 The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would file a statement of interest in a campus free speech case. The case was originally filed by students against Georgia Gwinnett College, claiming that the institution had limited expression with its free-speech-zone policy. Mr. Sessions said the department would file more statements in the weeks and months to come. http://www.chronicle.com/article/Sessions-Justice-Dept-Will/241298 80B5DF25-B244-4F39-B121-3B9A86672A7E Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:22:09 -0500 A new State of Texas law prevents most registered sex offenders from residing in dormitories on private or public campuses. The law codifies a policy already in place at many of Texas' biggest schools. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/09/25/books-sex-offenders-kept-out-campus-dorms/ 3BDFFC55-8C0B-4A9A-BA6B-6BC805FF68D2 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:56:24 -0500 The U.S. Department of Education has rescinded two pieces of Obama-era guidance that told colleges how they should handle issues related to campus sexual assault, and has replaced them with new interim guidance. The interim guidance gives colleges the discretion to use a ''clear and convincing'' standard of evidence, which is higher than the preponderance standard directed by the Obama administration. http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/education-dept-replaces-obama-era-title-ix-directives-with-new-interim-guidance/120249 08134A4B-0011-496D-8A5C-37A1D1A36722 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:16:20 -0500 Eight months after a freshman athlete at Wheaton College was allegedly abducted from a dormitory - physically assaulted and threatened with sexual assault in an alleged hazing incident -- administrators at the Christian school in Illinois concluded that the statements of the alleged attackers about the incident were ''more credible'' than those of the alleged victim, according to a confidential document obtained by ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/US/documents-show-wheaton-college-doubted-story-alleged-hazing/story?id=50023705 1A649D75-A4BE-465D-832C-5AAF44D456D0 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Western Governors University was ineligible to participate in federal student-aid programs, according to an audit conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, and the department should require it to return more than $700 million. The audit includes several findings. The big one .... is that it didn't follow requirements that distance-education programs be designed to provide students with "regular and substantive interaction" with their instructors. http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/241263 DBFF2E27-2C2F-4496-AEC9-8F4BD9B7CC52 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Four University of Utah students who were literally caught red-handed 15 minutes after allegedly spray-painting two red ''U'' logos and a white smiling face on the cougar statue at Brigham Young University’s football stadium almost got away with the rivalry-inspired act of vandalism, according to a report filed by BYU police. However, the students -- two males, 18 and 20, and two females, 18 and 19 --returned to the scene of the crime to get selfies and other photographs of their artwork and were arrested by police in the early morning hours of Sept. 9, the day of the BYU-Utah football game. http://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2017/09/20/four-u-of-u-students-charged-with-criminal-mischief-after-byus-cougar-statue-is-vandalized/ 2345F86C-C1CF-4BBD-970E-99C0F21DFB8E Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Despite higher education's reputation as a bastion of political correctness, Indiana universities are defending a host of lawsuits brought by black employees who say they were denied opportunities because of their race. Some say they were denied merit raises or tenure. Others say they were ignored by bosses, belittled by them and snubbed by them. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2017/09/18/how-diverse-higher-ed-lawsuits-allege-racial-discrimination-indiana-colleges/519442001/ 979C1055-95D6-4355-85D2-D5791F3F0B7D Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:15:27 -0500 Two men who worked for a company that runs the Auburn University transit system have been charged in the alleged rape of an 18-year-old student on one of the buses. James Don Johnson Jr., 32, of Auburn, Alabama, and Tony Martin Patillo, 51, of Columbus, Georgia, were arrested Saturday, the Auburn city police department announced Monday. Each is charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy in the Friday night attack. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/auburn-university-student-alleged-rape-men-charged-tiger-transit/ 71AC691B-C9E8-4AB6-8F41-51DBD4B5A6B2 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:42:26 -0500 The Evergreen State College professor at the center of campus protests this spring will receive $500,000 in a settlement that was announced Friday. Bret Weinstein and his wife, Heather Heying, resigned from their faculty positions effective Friday. The couple filed a $3.85 million tort claim in July alleging the college failed to "protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence," according to the claim. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/evergreen-professor-at-center-of-protests-resigns-college-will-pay-500000/ 639E23AB-0EB2-4804-94E5-C17F13BA2150 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:59:53 -0500 The University of Oregon agreed to pay a $90,000 settlement to fired Oregon Bach Festival Artistic Director Matthew Halls this week, in the midst of a public relations disaster over his abrupt termination in August. The $90,000 payment to Halls, almost equivalent to one year’s pay from the UO to him under his terminated contract, resolves a dispute about how much the UO owed him after ending his contract without cause on Aug. 24. http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35956880-75/university-of-oregon-agrees-to-pay-michael-halls-90000-halls-agrees-not-to-disparage-uo.html.csp 283BAA74-4B4D-4C60-8DB4-848BB055C8E6 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:17:02 -0500 Garrett College, Allegany College of Maryland and Frostburg State University now require incoming full-time students to complete an education program in relation to heroin and opioids as part of a new Maryland law. The Start Talking Maryland Act of 2017 became law July 1. It requires schools to offer drug education that includes the dangers of heroin and other opioids starting as early as third grade. https://www.ems1.com/opioids/articles/295030048-Md-college-students-must-now-complete-heroin-education-program/ 455F9008-4A78-4192-9233-B83A641ABB0B Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:22:05 -0500 A group of faculty members and one former graduate student at the University of Rochester filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint on Sept. 1 against the university for allegedly failing to address years of rampant sexual misconduct by a male professor.  The 113-page EEOC complaint, which was filed by eight complainants, details years of alleged sexual harassment by Florian Jaeger, a brain and cognitive sciences professor at the University of Rochester. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/11-women-accuse-university-of-rochester-professor-of-sexual-harassment_us_59b7decfe4b09be416581b4c 0A184FAC-5692-43A7-A7CE-4A6E6EFD347A Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:56:02 -0500 The Department of Justice has for months been investigating how Utah State University responds to reports of sexual assault. In a January letter released by USU on Tuesday, the department’s civil rights division said it had learned of allegations regarding how the school has handled "numerous reports of student-on-student sexual assault." The department said its investigation was focusing on cases between 2013 and 2016. http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/12/department-of-justice-investigating-how-utah-state-university-responds-to-reports-of-sexual-assault/ 5CB5BBFB-A8E8-4D7A-9874-6A3CA02C9767 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:06:01 -0500 Kyle Carrington, a former Liberty University football player, has filed suit against LU, its spokesman Len Stevens and the accuser who made sexual assault allegations against him. With his lawsuit filed Monday in Lynchburg Circuit Court, Carrington becomes the third former football player to sue Liberty, Stevens and the accuser over sexual assault claims made last year that were investigated by the Lynchburg Police Department. No charges were filed in the case. http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/update-third-lawsuit-filed-against-liberty-university-over-title-ix/article_23f42ee0-9721-11e7-bf66-3733fde42ab3.html FB79E235-F845-4125-B02D-658710A1DB94 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:20:36 -0500 More than 30 people were arrested early Thursday evening in Harvard Square during a rally by educators to protest President Trump’s decision to phase out DACA, the program that protects young immigrants who came to the United States as children. The protesters were taken into custody around 5 p.m. because they were blocking Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick said. They were charged with either disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/09/07/over-arrested-harvard-square-during-daca-protest/oBqP8z2LZ9yAAU9bDwy9IJ/story.html B4692E7D-ABA2-4B9D-BAC2-466DEED92538 Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:25:31 -0500 Galen Suppes, a former MU chemical engineering professor, was ordered to pay $600,000 in damages after a 12-person jury voted in favor of the UM System Board of Curators on Wednesday in an intellectual property lawsuit. The jury found him liable for two of the three claims alleged by the curators: that he was in violation of his contract with the UM System and for working in competition against the system. https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/former-mu-professor-must-pay-in-damages-to-university/article_824a5312-935b-11e7-bbf4-4f67fc42c62b.html 9E0EAA73-2F6C-4760-9DF2-E7892E047584 Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:24:48 -0500 Baylor University and an alleged victim of a gang rape by then-football players at the school agreed to a settlement Tuesday in a Title IX lawsuit the woman filed in January. This is the fourth Title IX lawsuit Baylor has resolved related to its sexual assault scandal. The school has also reached settlements with at least three other alleged victims of sexual assault who did not file lawsuits. Baylor still faces six active Title IX lawsuits. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/baylor-alleged-gang-rape-victim-reach-settlement-in-title-ix/article_da7a083d-42be-570d-adb8-a1a87d4681b6.html 7C1CB7A6-7EA0-4CE2-B587-E2768AC9F6AA Tue, 5 Sep 2017 07:55:02 -0500 Michigan State University is being sued by the organizer of white supremacist Richard Spencer's speaking tour. The suit, filed in federal court late Sunday night, alleges MSU violated Spencer's First Amendment rights when it denied him permission to speak on campus. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/09/03/msu-sued-richard-spencers-white-supremacist-group-refusing-space-campus/630355001/ BB727C87-0349-4F30-A4CE-573E658B059D Sun, 3 Sep 2017 07:52:26 -0500 As the Florida State University football team was marching to a national title in the fall of 2013, the school was investigating allegations of academic favoritism involving a half-dozen of its leading players, including one who scored the winning touchdown in the championship game. The inquiry, previously unreported, stemmed from a complaint by a teaching assistant who said she felt pressured to give special breaks to athletes in online hospitality courses on coffee, tea and wine, where some handed in plagiarized work and disregarded assignments and quizzes. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/sports/ncaafootball/florida-state-football.html?_r=0 CF7123BE-8A33-4979-942E-1A366E04864F Fri, 1 Sep 2017 08:08:44 -0500 A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed a $1 million award to a nurse who said her due process rights were violated when she was fired from a nurse anesthetist training program for refusing to take a drug test. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a ruling that held Geisinger Medical Center, hospital employee Arthur Richer and Bloomsburg University chair of nursing Michelle Ficca liable in the case. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-geisinger-idUSL2N1LG2KL 1DFEAA2D-A15B-4BD4-86B3-104FEC76D628 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:54:10 -0500 Auburn has released another statement following the allegations stemming from an ESPN article where a former Auburn softball player claims members of the Auburn coaching staff committed abuse, sexual harassment as well as a potential cover-up by the school. The statement, released Sunday afternoon: "ESPN has written an important story about our softball team. It’s a serious matter. As a university that cares deeply about our student-athletes, we have taken this seriously since the first concerns were raised." https://www.seccountry.com/auburn/auburn-releases-another-statement-regarding-auburn-softball-allegations E021092E-70CC-420C-A76B-99EEC96F560A Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:32:49 -0500 Clemson University will pay the family of Tucker Hipps $250,000 and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity must educate others about what happened to him, according to court documents and the terms of settlements made public Thursday that end the civil lawsuits filed after his death. Hipps, a 19-year-old Clemson University sophomore and fraternity pledge, was found dead on Lake Hartwell near the S.C. 93 bridge on Sept. 22, 2014, hours after going on a run with about 30 members of the fraternity. http://www.independentmail.com/story/news/2017/08/17/clemson-university-statement-signals-end-lawsuit-filed-tucker-hipps-family/575906001/ 353F8573-46CC-4ED7-8731-3FC4FB5AD7DC Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:21:01 -0500 The first woman to file a Title IX lawsuit against Baylor, alleging the university failed to adequately respond to her report of being sexually assaulted amid a string of recent cases, has resolved her lawsuit against the school, former head football coach Art Briles and ex-athletic director Ian McCaw. Former Baylor student Jasmin Hernandez reached an undisclosed financial settlement after a daylong mediation Saturday, her attorney, Alexander Zalkin, said Tuesday. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20354780/former-baylor-student-settles-title-ix-lawsuit-university-art-briles-ian-mccaw 079728D8-3E9B-467B-BA7C-8574F42A6260 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:44:44 -0500 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with David Daleiden, represented by Thomas More Society attorneys, in a case against University of Washington research lab employees and abortion facility personnel who wanted heavy redactions in public documents detailing their work "procuring, processing, and transferring the organs and tissue of aborted human fetuses, in connection with the school’s taxpayer-funded Birth Defects Research Laboratory." https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/08/16/federal-court-sides-with-daleiden-in-fetal-tissue-investigation-n2369427 DEADAD6B-B83C-4829-B43A-F128F3B343DF Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:53:08 -0500 The University of Minnesota followed both the law and its own policy when it suspended 10 Gophers football players following allegations of sexual assault last fall, a review by two outside attorneys has found. The report, released Wednesday, blamed much of the turmoil surrounding the high-profile case on "weak leadership" of the coaching staff and the influence of unnamed "third parties." http://www.startribune.com/university-of-minnesota-followed-law-rules-in-suspending-10-football-players-review-finds/440720013/ 6A2C0BA0-9280-4D53-AFAE-DA1C01326EE5 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:53:44 -0500 When a professor was pulled out of a lecture and suddenly stopped teaching his other classes, Alex Nemec, a student journalist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, filed records requests to find out why. Nemec has encountered two hurdles to accessing records, the first imposed by the University and the second by the professor himself. http://www.splc.org/article/2017/08/student-journalist-challenges-university-of-wisconsin-for-records-in-investigation-of-professor AF4841DE-C5B6-456A-BB89-9A1A13DAC4F2 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:40:00 -0500 Earlier this year, a 21-year-old woman claimed she was attacked and raped in a Delta College parking lot. After a lengthy police investigation, the woman confessed to fabricating the incident. Now, she's facing a felony charge. Mary T. Zolkowski on Monday, Aug. 14, voluntarily appeared in Bay County District Court for arraignment on one count of false report of a felony. The charge is punishable by up to four years of imprisonment and a $2,000 fine. http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/08/woman_who_claimed_she_was_rape.html 8B10443D-F8FC-4621-B6C9-437459D582E4 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:49:41 -0500 The parents of the 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student who died in Rome last year filed a federal civil lawsuit against the university where their son was about to take classes there for failing to warn him about recent deaths of young adults that occurred near the campus. The lawsuit’s complaint, filed Monday by Nick and Jodi Solomon of Spring Green, claims that John Cabot University was negligent and acted with reckless indifference when it failed to warn their son, or anyone from UW-Madison, that four young adults had died of suspicious circumstances within 350 yards of the campus between 2014-15. http://www.twincities.com/2017/08/14/parents-of-uw-madison-student-killed-in-rome-sue-host-university/ 0EE0CDF0-BFE5-4E8D-B9BE-E1526F2A9D5F Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:06:32 -0500 Kent State has fired head football strength and conditioning coach Ross Bowsher after determining that he provided the school with false information about certification necessary to hold his position. This was uncovered by the university as part of a review following a CBS Sports investigation that was unable to find certification for Bowsher, who was in charge of a June 13 workout at which 19-year-old football player Tyler Heintz died. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/kent-state-fires-strength-coach-in-charge-during-death-for-falsifying-certification/ BEE812E7-07A0-4B1D-9360-748FEC86964C Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:41:57 -0500 A jury ruled Friday against two former players on the Pepperdine University women’s basketball team who claimed they faced discrimination from their coach in 2014 because they were dating. The jury said there was not enough evidence to determine that the university targeted the plaintiffs, Layana White and Haley Videckis, based on their sexual orientation. But the case marked one of the first times that a discrimination claim based on sexual orientation went to trial under the landmark Title IX law. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-anti-gay-discrimination-20170812-story.html 46B353A6-AD74-44DE-A288-72F7B77A18A0 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:55:37 -0500 While not conclusive, report says former general counsel may have withheld documents. A University of Florida investigation found evidence that former UF General Counsel Jamie Keith may have altered documents, withheld public records and improperly billed the university for outside legal advice. The investigation by the UF Office of Internal Audit determined it could not draw conclusions in three of the allegations because the probe ended with Keith’s resignation in May. http://www.gainesville.com/news/20170811/public-records-appear-to-have-been-altered-by-keith-uf-audit-finds 47955C50-602F-4683-93AF-6778870EEA6E Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:02:22 -0500 The city of Sioux Falls and a local university deny allegations that an alleged safety net failure at a battling cage resulted in a former collegiate baseball player being struck in the head with a baseball. According to court documents, Jordan Jeske alleges that the incident occurred on Sept. 22, 2014, when he and another member of the University of Sioux Falls baseball team were practicing at Harmodon Park. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2017/08/11/city-university-deny-allegation-lawsuit-filed-former-usf-baseball-player/558790001/ 57FECDCC-2FF0-4126-9D69-F0F23625952F Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:39:38 -0500 Brandon Dumas, the recently fired vice chancellor of Southern University, filed suit against his former employers Thursday morning -- less than a month after his termination amid questions about his potential involvement in a sex tape that was widely circulated among campus faculty and alumni. In his suit, Dumas claims that the Southern University Board of Supervisors did not follow proper procedures when it effectively voted to uphold a decision to fire him, and he argues that the board action should be voided. http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_64233320-7de6-11e7-9107-3faf5392cd27.html 6C8A6C28-8802-4C14-9E08-ABB9F6958D16 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:51:59 -0500 A former University of Central Arkansas professor has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. Professor Noel Campbell pleaded guilty to 186 counts of possession/viewing sexually explicit conduct involving a child. The punishment range is from 3 to 10 years and/or a $10,000 fine for each count. Campbell was suspended April 2015 after an IT person at the college told police she found child pornography on a state-issued computer. http://katv.com/news/local/former-uca-professor-pleads-guilty-to-186-child-porn-charges 1D07C1E2-9BC8-44EB-A794-243F4FE89677 Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:50:17 -0500 Two members of the University of Washington men’s rowing team have been accused of sharing video and photos of themselves having sex with drunken female students, according to charging papers. John C. Young and Tyler Minney, both 19, were each charged Wednesday with one count of disclosing intimate images for allegedly distributing to classmates a video of both men having sex with a "highly intoxicated" freshman student without her consent. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/ex-uw-rowers-charged-with-circulating-sexually-explicit-videos-of-drunken-women/ B2455C5D-43AB-4906-8D54-A1736A38393F Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:55:38 -0500 A University of Washington researcher who, according to a UW investigation, sexually harassed women who worked in his lab, and asked employees to solicit a prostitute for him, has been fired. Michael Katze was fired by the university for "conduct counter to the core values" of the UW, according to a university statement. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-researcher-michael-katze-fired-after-sexual-harassment-investigation/ E780C979-874C-4DBB-BB8A-D67BB398AF1E Thu, 3 Aug 2017 08:13:35 -0500 Louisiana has become the first state to prohibit all public universities from asking applicants about their criminal history. By some estimates, as many as 70 to 100 million Americans have some kind of criminal record. And the proportion is far higher in some minority communities. The so called "ban the box" movement is intended to open opportunities to these Americans by preventing discrimination on the basis of one's past. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/22/533833428/louisiana-is-first-state-to-ban-public-colleges-from-asking-about-criminal-histo 4941D756-0157-4B80-98B3-6AFB863D0483 Thu, 3 Aug 2017 09:03:27 -0500 A Roanoke College coach is under investigation after a search warrant finds multiple steroid-related supplies. According to a search warrant from Salem Circuit Court, officers found steroids in Roanoke College strength and conditioning coach David Sampson's home and campus offices. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/roanoke/roanoke-college-coach-under-investigation-after-steroid-supplies-found 0291E306-6D82-49B1-97DD-235FB49F2F55 Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:09:51 -0500 A prize-winning orchestral conductor has pleaded no contest to felony crimes involving a 15-year-old. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Carlos Espinosa-Machado previously worked in Kansas and Missouri but is currently employed by Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. He pleaded Tuesday in Douglas County Court to indecent liberties with a child and furnishing alcohol to a minor, both felonies. http://wncn.com/2017/08/02/nc-college-professor-pleads-no-contest-in-sex-case-involving-teen-girl/ C985E5ED-3ACE-4680-B354-D69726DFA3CB Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:09:09 -0500 A Caltech astrophysics professor found by an internal investigation to have harassed two female graduate students has resigned, the university announced. Christian Ott, who campus officials determined committed "unambiguous gender-based harassment" of the students, will resign effective Dec. 31, Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Provost Edward M. Stolper wrote in a letter to students and faculty on Tuesday. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caltech-professor-resigns-20170802-story.html 3B6E1768-CA4F-4808-B4C3-A656A60B125B Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:59:39 -0500 A Northwestern University associate professor and a University of Oxford employee are wanted in connection with the stabbing death of a man in a Near North Side apartment, according to public records. A Cook County judge issued arrest warrants Monday for Wyndham Lathem, 42, and Andrew Warren, 56, in the death of 26-year-old Trenton Cornell-Duranheau last week, records show. Lathem is an associate professor at Northwestern's Department of Microbiology-Immunology at the Feinberg School of Medicine http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-state-street-stabbing-20170802-story.html BFB17BA1-C34D-4146-BFF5-909E1B1DEBDB Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:10:32 -0500 The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html 685A9945-FE4D-41C8-8CA4-5A0E690A4ABF Tue, 1 Aug 2017 08:15:47 -0500 Justin X. Carroll, a former dean of students and interim athletic director over his 36-year tenure at Washington University, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel to a count of access with intent to view child pornography. Carroll was indicted in January. Federal agents tracking a group of people sharing child pornography online identified Carroll as one of the participants by tracing internet protocol addresses to computers at Washington University and Carroll’s home in University City, prosecutors have said. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ex-washington-university-dean-of-students-pleads-guilty-to-child/article_b971ab84-ac6e-558f-b10c-044fa22bf20b.html A5BE5D3B-99F1-4459-93DE-AEE9E1079812 Tue, 1 Aug 2017 08:27:45 -0500 A Wright State University education professor resigned in May amid a four-month university investigation into accusations that he raped one student and sexually harassed other students. The university’s Office of Equity and Inclusion launched the investigation of Jason Fruth, 37, on Feb. 19 after a graduate student filed a complaint claiming she had been raped by the professor, WSU investigative records obtained by the Dayton Daily News show. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/wright-state-professor-resigns-while-under-investigation/9T3eAT9kYwMEeittAHDwNJ/ CE4CF022-1D16-4E83-9FE8-7B26E56DDFAE Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:09:37 -0500 The girlfriend of former USC kicker Matt Boermeester said Sunday that the Title IX investigation that led to his removal from the school's football team was "horrible and unjust" to her and Boermeester. Zoe Katz, 22, a senior, said in a two-page statement her attorney emailed to The Times that Boermeester "has been falsely accused of conduct involving me." Katz confirmed that the statement was hers. Her attorney, Kerry L. Steigerwalt, said that USC alleged that Boermeester shoved Katz outside her home. http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-matt-boermeester-removed-unfairly-girlfriend-says-20170730-story.html 4B4E0B4C-8DDC-4FCE-B813-A2DD2B0DFB9C Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:08:18 -0500 A lawyer for Bret Weinstein has filed paperwork indicating that the professor plans to sue The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Joe Shaeffer with MacDonald Hoague & Bayless in Seattle filed a tort claim on July 5 with the state Department of Enterprise Services Office of Risk Management, according to documents obtained by The Olympian. The narrative states that college officials didn’t take steps to alleviate "the racially hostile and retaliatory work environment and make the campus safe" for Weinstein and others. http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article163629668.html 11EA2B6F-ECB6-43AC-9E8A-0909FC35DE7E Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:03:37 -0500 A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for infringing on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent licensing arm, more than doubling the damages initially imposed on Apple by a jury. U.S. District Judge William Conley in Madison added $272 million to a $234 million jury verdict the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation won against Apple in October 2015. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ip-apple-patent-idUSKBN1AB023 F43711B7-81E5-4EE2-AD68-EC7651F6866F Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:19:24 -0500 A hearing for a lawsuit in which NIU is being sued for a temporary restraining order by the former College of Law dean is scheduled for Sept. 1. Eric Dannenmaier, former College of Law dean, sought a temporary restraining order against NIU to block officials from releasing information regarding an investigation into complaints of sexual harassment made against Dannenmaier by two former employees. http://northernstar.info/news/administration/former-law-dean-sues-niu/article_8ddfd3c0-7040-11e7-807a-07f7a3d3af85.html 6CC53483-2D89-4988-98CF-FB7889D27159 Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:10:54 -0500 A former Catholic University student is suing the university, claiming the administration was biased in favor of his female accuser in a sexual assault case. The student, identified in the complaint as John Doe, says the university violated Title IX, the law that prohibits gender discrimination at federally funded institutions, by showing favor to the woman who charged him with sexual assault (identified in the court filing as Jane Doe). http://wamu.org/story/17/07/20/former-student-sues-catholic-university-sex-assault-investigation/ 7B9D49B0-0785-41B6-95AF-C55C582693AB Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:25:35 -0500 A one-minute call made from the University-issued phone of Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze to a number associated with a female escort service was raised as a potential issue in the back-and-forth between the university’s legal counsel and the attorney for former Rebels football coach Houston Nutt, according to records and correspondence obtained by USA TODAY Sports. Ole Miss announced Thursday evening that Freeze had resigned, hours after the school said it would provide a written statement to USA TODAY Sports regarding the phone call. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2017/07/20/ole-miss-coach-hugh-freeze-called-number-tied-escort-service/498056001/?siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-6IGw218G8tSA0_yiBbV5oQ CB0B712F-D4C9-4BA3-8BE5-0970A49B9472 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:58:05 -0500 In USC’s lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. The dean of the Keck School of Medicine was a renowned eye surgeon whose skill in the operating room was matched by a gift for attracting money and talent to the university. There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician. During his tenure as dean, Puliafito kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html FF00407D-B317-4FFC-88E9-BC4AD8FC5167 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:49:57 -0500 Columbia University has settled a lawsuit filed by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation. A university investigation in 2013 found Paul Nungesser, an international student from Germany, not responsible of sexual misconduct stemming from allegations by fellow sophomore Emma Sulkowicz. CNN does not usually name individuals in sexual assault cases, but in this instance, both parties have spoken publicly about their experience. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/16/us/columbia-university-mattress-project-lawsuit/index.html 97ED4344-C4CB-465E-B985-92F6B83C3363 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:27:41 -0500 Here's a sentence I never expected to type, and one you probably never thought you'd read, but former Ohio State linebacker Chris Spielman has filed a lawsuit against Ohio State. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Spielman's lawsuit is over a marketing program that has been using the images of Ohio State athletes without their permission, and without paying them for it. He's filing the lawsuit on behalf of himself as well as current and former Ohio State players. http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/former-linebacker-chris-spielman-suing-ohio-state-over-player-likeness-usage/ D2317795-5694-40B0-AC15-6F6FB598749A Fri, 14 Jul 2017 07:53:19 -0500 A fairly simple, straightforward investigation has turned into a full-on scandal at Ole Miss. One notice of allegations turned into two. There was a NFL Draft night fiasco featuring a gas mask. Coach Hugh Freeze has been charged with violating the NCAA's coaching responsibility bylaw. http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/how-ole-miss-sloppiness-turned-a-straightforward-investigation-into-a-scandal/ 89A62988-AD52-41BA-A4AB-E21D41ABBF8C Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:37:06 -0500 Columbia University has settled a Title IX lawsuit filed by a former male student whose case attracted national attention after a young woman protested against the administration’s handling of her sexual assault allegations by carrying a mattress around campus. A lawyer representing Columbia graduate Paul Nungesser issued a statement announcing a settlement in the case that dated to 2015. The lawsuit stemmed from what Nungesser described as gender discrimination on the part of the university after Emma Sulkowicz became known as the "mattress girl," in what she called an artistic rendering of her dismay with the administration’s handling of her allegations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/13/columbia-university-settles-title-ix-lawsuit-with-former-student-involving-mattress-girl-case/?utm_term=.ac59231f8700 EEAB4F5B-1E9E-4A82-B8D6-0833F9B3406D Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:23:30 -0500 The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some had lost scholarships. Some had been expelled. A mother stumbled upon her son trying to take his own life, recalled Candice E. Jackson, the top civil rights official at the Department of Education. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/us/politics/campus-rape-betsy-devos-title-iv-education-trump-candice-jackson.html?_r=1 4044C024-567B-4F35-8046-67731D80F825 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:34:23 -0500 Participants in two Brown University 403(b) plans have sued the Providence, R.I.-based university, alleging the plans' managers breached their fiduciary duties under ERISA by paying "unreasonable and excessive fees" for investments and administrative services and offering too many duplicative investment choices. http://www.pionline.com/article/20170710/ONLINE/170719957/brown-university-sued-over-alleged-breach-of-fiduciary-duty-in-403b-plans 5758CA65-B563-421A-80DA-6A6B46489092 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:21:57 -0500 After a protracted 16-month investigation, officials at Howard University in Washington, D.C. found a law professor guilty of sexual harassment because he presented students with an exam question about a hypothetical person who was molested while undergoing a Brazilian wax job. Administrators at Howard University School of Law labeled the professor, Reginald L. Robinson, as a sexual harasser in May, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Higher Education (FIRE), a civil rights organization. http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/08/law-school-brands-professor-as-sexual-harasser-over-test-question-featuring-bikini-wax-job/ 83ADA91E-750B-4975-B211-07252DC37420 Sat, 8 Jul 2017 08:25:50 -0500 Members of the improv comedy group knew the unspoken arrangement: Go along with the persistent sexual advances from the USF instructor who led their club and get special treatment. Now a University of South Florida Title IX investigation has concluded that, under school policy, former adjunct Nicholas Riggs sexually assaulted one student and sexually harassed at least one other, abusing his position to coerce them. One student called him a "puppet master." http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/usf-improv-instructor-abused-power-to-coerce-students-into-sex/2329607 E9ABCBC6-2F6F-4512-BABF-67B953EDAD1B Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:07:05 -0500 Baylor is in the process of settling a lawsuit filed by a former student who claimed in her suit that the university and its Board of Regents "had created a hunting ground for sexual predators to freely prey upon innocent, unsuspecting female students, with no concern of reprisal or consequences." In her case, the woman said she was raped at a party back in 2015, and the university was "deliberately indifferent" to investigating what happened to her or helping her afterward. http://deadspin.com/baylor-will-settle-lawsuit-with-ex-student-who-accused-1796702486 1DAE978E-F07C-4429-B39C-515D542F41B3 Fri, 7 Jul 2017 10:57:08 -0500 Two siblings who graduated from the University of Florida say the state short-changed them on their education. Alexis S. Geffin, UF 2017, has teamed up with her brother, Ryan J. Geffin, UF 2016, in a lawsuit to claim they did not receive the intended benefits of more than $1 billion in private donations to Florida colleges and universities. Alexis is a sports reporter in Wausau, Wisconsin, while her brother pursued graduate studies at UF. http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/07/05/suit-claims-state-broke-higher-education-promises/453660001/ E1A88B5C-0E06-4313-A1FE-FEC3DFAFE72E Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:53:42 -0500 Duke University is facing yet another lawsuit that alleges it mishandled a rape case. Filed originally in state court and moved to federal court just before the Independence Day holiday, the new case alleges that a graduate student faced harassment and retaliation from university officials after telling them she’d been raped by the live-in boyfriend of a Duke Women’s Center counselor who works with victims of gender violence. http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article159787239.html 5C7831E7-057A-486A-B033-BFEBBEB66E09 Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:18:34 -0500 Michigan State University dismissed three former football players from the university for their violations of the school's relationship violence and sexual misconduct policy, records show. The former players -- Josh King, Donnie Corley and Demetric Vance -- are also facing criminal charges in connection to a reported campus sexual assault from January. A hearing is set for September. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/07/05/msu-dismissed-king-corley-vance-after-title-ix-investigation/451520001/ 2E85994D-BDEC-47F6-82FC-3CDC79620E4F Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:17:37 -0500 When summer break ends, Frederick County campuses will be stocked with a new type of school supply: naloxone, the overdose reversal medication. A new state law, which went into effect on Saturday, requires all public schools and institutes of higher education to begin stocking the drug -- more commonly known by its prescription name, Narcan -- and training staff on how to administer it. https://www.ems1.com/ems-education/articles/282356048-Md-schools-to-be-supplied-with-naloxone-kits/ 1C649BA7-2031-448A-A2BF-3AAA9A0C1C84 Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:47:11 -0500 Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson. As executives of Central Scholarship, a nonprofit in Owings Mills that provides scholarships and interest-free loans to Maryland students, they would award a student money and a university would reduce that student's financial aid by the same amount. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/higher-ed/bs-md-scholarship-displacement-20170704-story.html 28EC4D4B-3728-48D6-9000-9A1C0B4BB68D Tue, 4 Jul 2017 07:49:56 -0500 In-house investigators at Duke University believe a former lab tech falsified or fabricated data that went into 29 medical research reports, lawyers for the university say in their answer to a federal whistleblower lawsuit against it. Duke’s admissions concern the work of Erin Potts-Kant, and a probe it began in 2013 when she was implicated in an otherwise-unrelated embezzlement. The lawsuit, from former lab analyst Joseph Thomas, contends Duke and some of its professors used the phony data to fraudulently obtain federal research grants. He also alleges they ignored warning signs about Potts-Kants’ work, and tried to cover up the fraud. http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article159285769.html BF22E7BF-D365-4244-AE13-2B9064066C5C Sun, 2 Jul 2017 07:57:43 -0500 The University of Florida is under federal Title IX investigation for its handling of a December 2015 sexual assault accusation against star receiver Antonio Callaway, the complainant's attorney confirmed. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is looking into a complaint filed by Callaway's accuser, her attorney John Clune said Friday. http://www.tampabay.com/sports/college/university-of-florida-hit-with-title-ix-investigation-over-handling-of/2329062 5F557F13-1CDA-4D9B-B4EC-DDD018B4E307 Sat, 1 Jul 2017 07:58:06 -0500 The University of Illinois is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights because many university web pages are allegedly inaccessible to those with disabilities, according to an official notification sent to Chancellor Robert Jones in April. It’s unclear who filed the complaint, which was obtained by CU-CitizenAccess through a Freedom of Information request, or what specifically was inaccessible about the web pages it listed. http://cu-citizenaccess.org/2017/06/27/federal-civil-rights-investigation-into-university-of-illinois-web-accessibility-launched/ 2E1E40B4-F1DF-4529-B2C4-49E5BF99E87F Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:47:39 -0500 A former Texas A&M professor and scientist will go before a judge Tuesday for a status hearing after facing serious charges of harassing and stalking a female student at the university. Tarun Bhardwaj was arrested backin Decemer 2016 for the crime as well as preventing a police officer from carrying out his duty. http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Former-AM-professor-charged-with-stalking-headed-back-to-court-431070563.html E085B554-384E-4E3F-9C00-6312955BCAFE Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:17:45 -0500 In his first public comments since his arrest, Georgia State University police Chief Joseph Spillane said he does not feel he was driving under the influence of alcohol and is "looking forward to my day in court." In addition to DUI, he was arrested on charges of having an open container and failing to maintain a lane, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said. http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/disappointed-that-this-happened-gsu-police-chief-says-dui-arrest/CIzeN3pJCf51VHFFGcxDJO/ A7FB76DF-A422-4890-9207-CEF0F6898AF3 Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:59:05 -0500 The University of Alabama has released a statement regarding a former student who committed suicide after attempting to press criminal charges for rape. Megan Rondini was a UA student from Texas when she was reportedly raped by a man from a powerful Tuscaloosa family in 2015. According to Rondini's story, told to Buzzfeed News by her family and friends, the 20-year-old was mistreated by Tuscaloosa police, the university, and DCH Regional Medical Center. http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/index.ssf/2017/06/birmingham_lawyer_ua_release_s.html 5DFB943E-8EBE-4AFE-AE29-30D523303777 Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:14:10 -0500 Students and Jewish community members filed a lawsuit Monday against San Francisco State University and Cal State’s board of trustees, alleging that the San Francisco campus of the country’s largest public university system has long cultivated a hostile environment in which Jewish students are "often afraid to wear Stars of David or yarmulkes on campus, and regularly text their friends to describe potential safety issues." http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-sfsu-anti-semitism-lawsuit-20170619-story.html 9E472C4E-300B-4D0E-AE00-226D65031926 Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:01:18 -0500 College of Charleston baseball coach Matt Heath is under investigation by school officials after complaints from former players about alleged abusive behavior by the head coach over the past two seasons, a source close to the athletic department told The Post and Courier on Monday. http://www.postandcourier.com/sports/college-of-charleston-baseball-coach-matt-heath-under-investigation-by/article_a72dec46-553c-11e7-805d-3be7a55f1bbd.html 4B057479-9C1E-4EF9-80BC-2C1A9DE9FDC8 Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:58:32 -0500 A former Saddleback College counselor is facing criminal charges after prosecutors accused him of soliciting sex from students and extorting one into sending him naked pictures. Javier Albertino Williams, 38, pleaded not guilty in late April to a felony count of extortion, four misdemeanor counts of engaging and agreeing to engage in prostitution, and a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, court records show. http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/16/former-saddleback-college-counselor-accused-of-soliciting-extorting-students/ A9C4BDDA-349D-495A-AE00-6FB8AF8CB532 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 08:36:17 -0500 A jury Thursday sided with Delta Kappa Epsilon in its claim against Wesleyan University over the closure of the DKE fraternity house on High Street in 2015. The six-member jury spent about six hours deliberating Wednesday and Thursday before finding that Wesleyan violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, made negligent misrepresentations and interfered with the fraternity's business relationships. http://www.courant.com/community/middletown/hc-middletown-dke-verdict-wesleyan-fraternity-0616-20170615-story.html 773CBF06-42B4-44AD-A71B-8B66EA51FC68 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:16:59 -0500 The NCAA Committee on Infractions has ruled that Louisville coach Rick Pitino failed to properly monitor his men's basketball program and suspended the Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer for the first five ACC games of the 2017-18 season. Louisville will not be banned from future postseasons. So that's a win. But the NCAA announced Thursday that Louisville must vacate all "basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible from December 2010 [to] July 2014." http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-suspends-rick-pitino-for-5-games-louisville-will-appeal-to-save-2013-title/ 47FDD604-3DE2-4649-BAB1-9A17A7D05054 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:01:37 -0500 Rolling Stone has agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by the University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a discredited article about an alleged gang rape, effectively closing the door on a pivotal and damaging chapter in the magazine’s history. Under the terms of the settlement, the magazine agreed to pay the Virginia Alpha Chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity $1.65 million. The fraternity had originally sought a trial by jury and $25 million in damages. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/media/rape-uva-rolling-stone-frat.html?_r=0 D3871D9C-D241-4081-B05F-18924DDF5736 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:52:19 -0500 A Marshall University engineering professor has admitted his role in a kickback scheme that routed $1.5 million West Virginia Division of Highways funds to a South Carolina consulting firm. Andrew P. Nichols, 38, of Lesage, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to impede the IRS on Monday, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia. http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/mu-professor-pleads-guilty-in-doh-kickback-scheme/article_eb7b1c57-b12f-547f-8ca1-104fa7d83a62.html EE08BD32-AA90-4A6B-BA0A-2EF75402DA2D Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:42:54 -0500 The University of Missouri will pay $750,000 to settle claims arising from the death of Columbia Fire Department Lt. Bruce Britt in the collapse of a concrete walkway in February 2014. The settlement, split into three parts, includes the purchase of an annuity for Stormy Britt, daughter of Bruce and Leigh Britt, that will pay $205,016 over 15 years and increase the final value of the settlement to $867,318. The payments, $1,138.98 per month, begin in 2032, when Stormy Britt turns 21. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20170606/university-of-missouri-to-pay-750000-to-settle-britt-case 081F8BAA-11D9-4951-BD87-25D7D2CC96D2 Tue, 6 Jun 2017 09:13:59 -0500 University of Colorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano will receive a 10-day suspension in the wake of an investigation into the university's handling of domestic violence allegations against former University of Colorado football assistant coach Joe Tumpkin. The Board of Regents announced the suspension on Monday afternoon during an intense board meeting and subsequent news conference. Before the news conference began, regents fled the room, evading reporters' questions. http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_31058024/cu-boulder-chancellor-phil-distefano-given-10-day 2BC3E2C0-01C0-4D00-812B-DB76D149D06A Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:43:41 -0500 A well-known University of Nevada, Reno professor is facing misdemeanor charges for an alleged incident at a Sparks Middle School. The Sparks City Attorney’s office filed two charges this week against Howard Rosenberg, a UNR Professor for Visual Foundations, Film Studies and Art Education and a former Washoe County School District Board Member. Rosenberg is accused of grabbing a 13-year-old student by the ear on April 3 at Dilworth Middle School. http://mynews4.com/news/local/well-known-unr-professor-charged-for-allegedly-grabbing-middle-school-student-by-ear 208C4C65-D9A4-45D6-9741-3C059D924C1B Fri, 9 Jun 2017 08:41:22 -0500 Attorneys for former University of Minnesota Duluth women's hockey coach Shannon Miller are arguing that the school's 2014 decision to part ways with the longtime coach "had nothing to do with performance." They made the argument in a 56-page memorandum filed last Friday in response to the university's motion for summary judgement in the federal lawsuit brought by Miller and two other coaches that seeks a combined $18 million in damages. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4280695-gay-coaches-counter-university-minnesota-duluths-claims-18-million-lawsuit A41AC0B7-D95D-4F22-9259-D24D2C893518 Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:57:26 -0500 An assistant resident director was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual assault, authorities said. Rubadau Alverna, 32, of East Orange, was accused of sexually assaulting a female, who reported the alleged incident to Rutherford police last month. A Rubadau Alverna was listed on Felician University's website as an assistant director of residence life. http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2017/06/college_resident_director_charged_in_sex_assault.html 2B5BBB6D-0EAE-4B2D-8224-2780322CC93B Wed, 7 Jun 2017 07:58:35 -0500 In a 2-1 opinion released Wednesday, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the University of Michigan’s campus gun ban. The ruling affirms an earlier decision by the Michigan Court of Claims, in a case that could be headed to the Michigan Supreme Court. Ann Arbor resident Joshua Wade had challenged the ban on Second Amendment grounds after the university refused to permit him to openly carry a handgun on campus. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/06/07/firearms-university-michigan-ban-court/376801001/ 622494E2-8918-4A59-BB2F-39572CFD6E8A Wed, 7 Jun 2017 07:52:17 -0500 A Missouri appeals court has ruled that a white professor at predominantly black Harris-Stowe State university was fired "because of the color of her skin." A three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed a 2015 jury verdict that awarded nearly $5 million to Beverly Wilkins, a former professor at Harris-Stowe. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-appeals-court-agrees-white-professor-at-harris-stowe-was/article_322e6ae3-bb25-5a5b-a12c-abf12e83e987.html 6D97759D-1A52-475E-899C-0C457C8C844F Tue, 6 Jun 2017 07:51:46 -0500 Police issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for Michigan State defensive end Josh King, wide receiver Donnie Corley and safety Demetric Vance regarding an alleged incident that took place on campus in January. The warrants come a day after the Ingham County, Mich., Prosecutors Office charged the three players with sexual assault. The three players allegedly assaulted a woman in an apartment on January 16 and were suspended from the team in February. https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/06/06/michigan-state-football-players-sexual-assault-charges 22EF9E6E-3059-4674-AC59-6F1F1BC0DF09 Tue, 6 Jun 2017 09:16:16 -0500 Three former Penn State administrators were sentenced Friday to jail terms for their roles in the Jerry Sandusky child-sex scandal. Former President Graham Spanier, who was the only one of the three to take his case to trial, was sentenced to the shortest time in prison: 4 to 12 months, with two months in jail and two months under house arrest. He also will serve two years probation, pay $7,500 in fines and serve 200 hours of community service. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/06/ex-penn_state_president_spanie_1.html 256DB520-D220-4D4E-9FBF-20003F9914A5 Sat, 3 Jun 2017 09:16:43 -0500 A lawsuit against a UW-Madison official, brought by a student who said the official withheld key information from her while counseling her over her mother’s death, has been settled for $200,000, a state Department of Justice spokesman said Friday. UW-Madison student Megan Mengelt sued UW-Madison College of Letters and Science assistant dean Tori Richardson last year after learning that Richardson had been texting with former Lutheran bishop Bruce Burnside shortly before Burnside struck and killed Mengelt’s mother, Maureen Mengelt, on April 7, 2013, but never told her. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/courts/settlement-reached-in-lawsuit-against-uw-adviser-who-texted-with/article_84cdb662-3107-520f-b331-cbc80e757547.html 4B7BA4EF-5F30-4C0E-BB49-3A6B92BE281F Fri, 26 May 2017 08:27:03 -0500 A Towson University student accused of hazing a fellow student has been found guilty. Alexander Cantor was convicted Tuesday on one misdemeanor count of hazing, but he was found not guilty of reckless endangerment, according to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office. Cantor and Evan Francis are accused of organizing and leading a fraternity event where a member was forced to drink an unknown substance that destroyed his tongue, esophagus, intestinal liner and stomach. http://www.wbaltv.com/article/towson-university-student-found-guilty-of-hazing/9924731 2B2F0CB7-F9BE-466F-9A99-416AB469B913 Wed, 24 May 2017 08:34:08 -0500 Federal prosecutors say a former music teacher at the University of Alabama has agreed to plead guilty to child pornography charges. Authorities say 41-year-old Nikos Pappas of Tuscaloosa was found with hundreds of photos and videos of child pornography on his home and university office computers. http://abc3340.com/news/local/former-ua-professor-charged-with-receiving-and-possessing-child-porn 656D0B60-B68B-4B13-898C-FE4889A17BB7 Wed, 24 May 2017 14:44:54 -0500 The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Peru State College was not liable for the 2010 disappearance of one of its students. The court issued its ruling Friday in the lawsuit filed by the parents of Tyler "Ty" Thomas against the Nebraska State College System's governing board. The wrongful death lawsuit contends the college failed to protect Thomas from harm. Thomas was a freshman at the southeast Nebraska college when she disappeared in December 2010 after leaving a party. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article151510747.html 995CAF6E-6C5D-4A43-9490-17E1BC7CE2BF Tue, 23 May 2017 15:55:22 -0500 The University of Iowa will pay $6.5 million to settle lawsuits asserting it discriminated against former Field Hockey Coach Tracey Griesbaum and former Associate Athletics Director Jane Meyer, the UI announced Friday. The settlement, which includes the $1.43 million a jury awarded Meyer earlier this month, came after both sides agreed earlier this week to delay motions seeking additional damages in the Meyer case. http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/higher-education/university-of-iowa-pays-6-million-in-meyer-griesbaum-cases-20170519 3351E2D7-4866-4282-91F6-996D2C133465 Fri, 19 May 2017 08:39:54 -0500 A former Baylor volleyball player who says she was gang-raped by several football players in 2012 filed a federal Title IX lawsuit against the university on Tuesday, in which she and her attorneys contradict several statements Baylor's administration had previously issued about her alleged assault. The woman's lawsuit asserts that the members of the Baylor football team had "already developed a system of hazing their freshman recruits by having them bring or invite freshman females to house parties hosted by members of the football team. At these parties, the girls would be drugged and gang raped, or in the words of the football players, 'trains' would be run on the girls." http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19403308/woman-reported-gang-rape-baylor-football-players-files-title-ix-lawsuit 2ACBEA48-CDCE-4F03-BA67-01A9EB1FEFA8 Wed, 17 May 2017 09:09:22 -0500 A Cal State Chico fraternity has been charged with cutting and damaging 32 trees in the Lassen National Forest during an initiation ceremony for new pledges, federal authorities said. The university’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter and its president, Evan Jossey, are facing 32 counts of cutting or damaging any timber, which was destroyed at the Deer Creek Trailhead campground during the weekend of April 21, according to Nancy Barrera, a spokeswoman for the Lassen National Forest. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-chico-trees-20170517-story.html F58B9007-D832-452E-BA04-336C3FD260B6 Wed, 17 May 2017 08:18:02 -0500 The man who spent years ruling on Wesleyan University's sexual misconduct hearings has been charged with trying to meet with a minor for sex. Scott Backer, 39, was arrested four months after a man not connected with the police posed as a 15-year-old girl on the phone messaging app "Yik Yak," the Hartford Courant reports. Prior to his arrest, Backer was fired from his position as Wesleyan's associate dean of students hours after a Boston Globe reporter asked administrators whether they knew that Backer had been, in the same year that he was hired by Wesleyan, fired from his position at a Vermont boarding school for "propositioning" a teenage girl through numerous text messages. http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-backer-wesleyan-university-dean-arrested-sex-minor-2017-5 735608DD-A2DB-4498-AECD-37327192D8B3 Wed, 17 May 2017 09:45:50 -0500 Auburn University is paying almost $30,000 to end a lawsuit that cleared the way for a white nationalist to speak on campus. A university statement says officials will pay $29,000 in legal fees for Cameron Padgett. The Georgia man filed suit to reverse the school's decision barring Richard Spencer from speaking at Auburn last month. A federal judge in Montgomery dismissed the lawsuit in an order Friday after attorneys for Padgett and Auburn filed a joint agreement. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/auburn_pays_29000_to_settle_ri.html 93E8BA1F-7DD3-4A60-8CD8-A83F8855689E Mon, 15 May 2017 09:28:36 -0500 Bipartisan Tennessee lawmakers passed a free speech law Tuesday that protects students’ First Amendment rights on college campuses. GOP Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed the Campus Free Speech Protection Act after the state’s House of Representatives passed it in a 85-7 vote and the Senate unanimously approved it, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported Wednesday. The law will ban the establishment of "free speech zones," used by administrators to confine controversial speech to specific areas on campus. http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/tennessee-passes-bill-to-protect-free-speech-on-campus/ 4458D907-1514-4D81-80EB-F9D0C283C63E Thu, 11 May 2017 08:31:35 -0500 Lynn University decided not to take its chances with a jury after a federal judge gave the green light to a lawsuit against it by a student accused of rape. "John Doe" filed his due process lawsuit nearly a year ago, after the private Florida university suspended him and revoked his academic and athletic scholarships -- weeks before his hearing -- following an accusation that local police deemed "unfounded." One day ahead of a scheduled hearing on Lynn’s motion for summary judgment, the university reached a confidential settlement with Doe. https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32542/ 7D5654E3-E4E0-4D12-84CF-AFC3DBFECB25 Wed, 10 May 2017 10:40:28 -0500 A former Miami University police sergeant was indicted on charges of gross sexual imposition, kidnapping and two counts of abduction last week. Dustin Young, 36, was investigated by Miami University after another school employee made allegations of sexual misconduct, a university spokeswoman said Monday. Court documents show that the alleged incidents occurred August through November of 2016. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/05/08/miami-university-cop-charged-sexual-imposition-kidnapping/101431288/ 1038CA5D-D125-4C0A-8C98-C2C3C179723E Mon, 8 May 2017 08:05:40 -0500 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a sweeping ban on "sanctuary cities" into law on Sunday, giving police officers new authority to question a detained person's immigration status and blocking local entities from passing laws that would prohibit these questions from officers. Senate Bill 4 applies to officers across the state, including on college campuses. It excludes those who are contracted by religious groups and schools, government mental health care facilities and hospitals. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Abbott-signs-sanctuary-cities-bill-into-law-11128198.php C1759F37-F4EE-4480-B5FC-D90B98FF9384 Sun, 7 May 2017 08:42:05 -0500 Eighteen Penn State fraternity brothers have been charged with crimes ranging up to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a pledge who authorities say repeatedly fell down a flight of stairs after he and others were made to run a gantlet of drinking stations guzzling vodka, beer and wine. Beta Theta Pi members resisted getting help for 19-year-old Timothy Piazza, causing him to suffer for hours and possibly making his injuries worse, a prosecutor said Friday in announcing the results of a grand jury investigation. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/probe-deadly-fall-penn-state-frat-released-47222464 EB76E846-DCE8-48C5-99FF-7C10E2904AC4 Fri, 5 May 2017 08:40:21 -0500 A Polk County jury handed Jane Meyer a sweeping victory Thursday in her discrimination lawsuit against the University of Iowa, awarding her $1.43 million in damages. The jury of five women and three men ruled in Meyer's favor on all five of her claims -- gender and sexual orientation discrimination, retaliation and whisteblower violations, and unequal pay. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa/hawkcentral/2017/05/04/jane-meyer-wins-1-43-m-case-against-iowa/310303001/ 6636F0DA-ADC6-47DE-A0F7-96169B186BDC Thu, 4 May 2017 08:42:17 -0500 A Milwaukee County Circuit judge ruled Thursday that Marquette University had the legal right to suspend a tenured political science professor who opened a student up to threats by criticizing her by name on his politically conservative blog. In a 33-page ruling, Judge David Hansher found that because John McAdams named the graduate student instructor in a November 2014 blog post criticizing her handling of a confrontation with a student, it could bring negative attention to her, and he was prohibited from doing that. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2017/05/04/judge-backs-marquette-universitys-suspension-professor-john-mcadams-over-blog-post/101292186/ 1439A5A6-2945-442A-9DDC-F408984575FB Thu, 4 May 2017 08:13:28 -0500 Oakland University professor Joseph Schiele is charged with seven different counts including possession with intent to deliver, felony firearm and operating a drug house. Those who knew the teacher and worked with him say they cannot believe what he's accused of doing. Police said the business teacher was running the drug house out of his home in Oakland Township. http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/oakland-university-professor-accused-of-running-drug-house-giving-drugs-to-students 136BDEAF-20E9-411A-9424-1E1E64ED54F6 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:11:13 -0500 A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the latest effort to claim that the NCAA’s limits on what athletes can receive for playing sports violate the wage-and-hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. It is the third time in a little more than 14 months that federal courts have rejected such lawsuits. The latest bid, in a district court in California, was filed against the NCAA and the Pac-12 Conference on behalf of former Southern California football player Lamar Dawson. It alleged violations of the FLSA and the California Labor Code. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2017/04/25/court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-ncaa-unfair-labor-practices/100892028/ 9024AB35-B5DD-468F-90D5-CE8288B947FC Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:32:40 -0500 A director on the staff of the University of Tampa was arrested Sunday after police say he had sex with a minor against her will. John Paul Stepro, director of media services at the university, is charged with sexually battering a person between the age of 12 and 17. University of Tampa spokesman Eric Cardenas said Monday that Stepro has been placed on administrative leave while officials gather information about his arrest. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/university-of-tampas-media-services-director-charged-with-sexually-battery/2321409 1ACF831C-456D-424E-836D-51FAB52DDD12 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:47:45 -0500 The dean of the law school at the University of Cincinnati, who was placed on administrative leave last month, sued the university Friday. Jennifer Bard, the first female dean of the college, filed a federal lawsuit against the university and its interim provost, Peter F. Landgren, for illegally placing Bard on leave. Bard's complaint asserts Landgren and UC illegally placed Bard on administrative leave in March immediately following her response to local media reports about financial deficits at the law school and faculty members’ responses to her efforts to reduce those deficits. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/04/24/law-school-dean-sues-uc/100838604/ 9E6B3AAB-664E-4BA8-8104-BD61536A65C6 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:39:34 -0500 Students who invited conservative commentator Ann Coulter to speak at the University of California at Berkeley sued school officials on Monday, saying their cancellation of the event was discriminatory and violated free speech rights. The Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America's Foundation said in their lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, that U.C. Berkeley was violating their constitutional rights seeking to "burden or ban" events "involving the expression of conservative viewpoints." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-coulter-idUSKBN17Q22Y 0C6FD550-4CE4-4F3A-8D76-349934FAAE00 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:28:53 -0500 A state appeals court has prohibited the University of Texas, at least temporarily, from conducting a disciplinary proceeding for deciding whether to revoke a Ph.D. conferred in 2008. The order Thursday by the 3rd Court of Appeals is the latest development in Suvi Orr’s long and circuitous legal battle to retain her doctorate in chemistry, which launched her career in the pharmaceutical industry. http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/court-grants-graduate-reprieve-from-disciplinary-hearing/VTdeqFVkK4nMRREFoeaMNN/ 123869D2-3470-48EA-BACF-6D06573D43E8 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:47:33 -0500 Former Stanford head basketball coach Johnny Dawkins has filed a lawsuit against the school for breach of contract after he was fired in 2016. Per Jon Wilner of the Mercury News, Dawkins is seeking "in excess of $7 million" in his lawsuit against Stanford, a combined total based on being owed "approximately $2.3 million in direct damages" and an additional amount of at least $5 million for "for the tortious ingredients of its wrongdoing." http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2704374-former-stanford-hc-johnny-dawkins-sues-university-for-breach-of-contract 3C0A195D-C0A7-4AB5-B287-BC9FD300373A Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:00:20 -0500 A legal settlement has been reached between the University of California, Berkeley, the former dean of its law school, and his former assistant, who said he sexually harassed her. Sorrell had sued her former boss and the university over the harassment allegations. Choudry in turn had sued the school for singling him out for additional investigation as the school looked into several cases of sexual harassment. Under the terms of the settlement, Choudry will give $50,000 to a charity of Sorrell’s choice and pay another $50,000 to her lawyers. Choudry in turn will be officially considered to be on a two-year sabbatical until May 2018. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/14/uc-berkeley-settles-suits-over-law-dean-sexual-allegations/ 32E47519-E910-45ED-97ED-5D830A560DE8 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:16:35 -0500 Texas A&M WR Kirk Merritt is locked in an ongoing legal situation stemming from an arrest and two charges of indecent exposure after allegedly exposing his genitals to Texas A&M tutors on two separate occasions. Merritt’s attorney has since explained the events, which resulted in an October arrest, were a result of a bad case of "jock itch." According to a report from Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle, at least one of Merritt’s two alleged victims believe his "jock itch" defense is "absurd." https://www.seccountry.com/texas-am/victim-kirk-merritt-indecent-exposure-case-speaks-calls-jock-itch-claim-absurd 7656352A-A63C-43D5-AFCF-7645315B44B3 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:25:00 -0500 The father of a male student who committed suicide after he was accused of sexual harassment by a classmate at the University of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the school for infringing on his son’s Title IX liberties. Thomas Klocke, a straight male student at UT at Arlington, committed suicide June 2, 2016, after he was punished for allegedly typing homophobic slurs into his computer screen in a class that May. Klocke had previously denied the allegation, and administrative investigators had acknowledged there was no hard evidence to indicate he had perpetrated the harassment. https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/father-sues-university-sons-suicide-followed-sexual-harassment-allegation/ EE3DDD6D-5B77-429F-AF5D-F5D0A110B3EA Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:07:56 -0500 After having fallen asleep at an off-campus fraternity house that night in October, Andrew Seely awoke to find his face puffy and red. His nose and lips had ballooned, his eyes nearly swollen shut. Seely, then a freshman at Central Michigan University, had a potentially deadly allergy to peanuts, a fact he had made known to those in the fraternity, Alpha Chi Rho, his father said. Yet on that night, someone smeared peanut butter on the 19-year-old’s face in a hazing ritual that could have killed him, his mother, Teresa Seely, said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/11/college-student-charged-with-hazing-after-allegedly-smearing-peanut-butter-on-allergic-peer/?utm_term=.3f194f055ed2 29633090-679D-43AE-81A3-1240D89CF1DE Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:25:33 -0500 A former research assistant has hit a renowned 84-year-old American philosopher and the regents of the University of California with a wrongful termination suit in California court, alleging the school cut the 24-year-old assistant’s pay after she reported that the professor groped and sexually harassed her for months. Joanna Ong filed the suit on March 21 claiming that John R. Searle, an emeritus professor at University of California, Berkeley, repeatedly harassed her when she was his research assistant. When she reported the incidents, her adviser allegedly said she wasn’t going to follow up on the accusations, because they needed to "protect" Searle, the suit says. https://www.law360.com/articles/905619/uc-berkeley-star-professor-groped-assistant-suit-says 0F32A263-373C-417D-A3E2-CFC92C28FB09 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:27:55 -0500 Kean University has agreed to a $375,000 settlement with a former administrator who sued the college alleging he was denied a promotion due to age discrimination. Wiliam DeGarcia, who had been with the college for 30 years, said in the lawsuit he was passed up for the promotion because his supervisor wanted "new blood" in the department. DeGarcia, of Westfield, was 55 years old at the time, according to court documents. http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2017/04/kean_university_settles_with_ex-administrator_who.html 7162ED02-73E7-4021-9675-8AADF0E1F749 Sun, 9 Apr 2017 09:14:13 -0500 State lawmakers acted illegally in making it a crime for medical marijuana users to possess their drugs on college and university campuses, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The judges said the 2010 initiative that legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes set out the specific places where even those entitled to otherwise use the drug may not have it. That list, they said, includes school buses, public schools and correctional facilities. http://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/ruling-blunts-arizona-law-banning-medical-marijuana-on-college-campuses/article_951fe38a-9430-5f7e-af82-4250568a3a55.html BF47714F-B6F3-4415-A3B1-AC3D950638BF Thu, 6 Apr 2017 09:11:17 -0500 A heralded director at the University of Montana is under investigation by the Montana Human Rights Bureau for allegations of discrimination based on gender and disability. Mark LoParco, subject of the investigation, is retiring in May after 25 years as head of UM Dining Services. LoParco denied this week that UM asked him to retire or that his coming departure is linked to allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination. UM spokeswoman Paula Short said the university respects the privacy of its employees and cannot comment on personnel issues. http://missoulian.com/news/local/lauded-university-of-montana-dining-director-under-investigation-for-sexual/article_698fbfcc-db71-59b7-bac8-ac76da357fe2.html 7C3DF0FD-531E-4B21-8402-1B9AD29F5E9D Thu, 6 Apr 2017 09:15:53 -0500 A University of Wyoming assistant professor of mechanical engineering has been charged with possession of child pornography, according to federal court records. Jian Cai, faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines if convicted of the charges. Cai confirmed that he was an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming and he used his personal laptops to connect to the internet via the UW network, federal documents state. http://laramielive.com/uw-professor-accused-of-possession-of-child-pornography/ ED3FE59D-2351-4A04-9B14-378E17336A7C Wed, 5 Apr 2017 08:54:02 -0500 A former University of New Mexico student failed to persuade a federal appeals court that the school violated her free speech rights by rejecting an essay containing anti-lesbian remarks that she had written for a film class. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday said the university had legitimate pedagogical concerns when its professors refused to grade Monica Pompeo's critique of a film about a lesbian romance and suggested that she rewrite it, prompting her withdrawal from the class in the spring of 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lawsuit-censorship-idUSKBN16Z2RN CBD294EE-20F4-47ED-A432-FE84234D97A3 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:30:35 -0500 University of California officials spent nearly $1 million investigating former UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, a probe that ended in her resignation last August and a deal that allowed her to take a year off at full pay before returning to a faculty job, according to figures released Friday. The four-month investigation was ordered last April by UC President Janet Napolitano after disclosures in The Sacramento Bee about Katehi’s acceptance of lucrative corporate board seats and her use of university funds to clean up her image online. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article140652933.html 1E3FBC1C-C172-4EAE-BC82-D3CF8D580484 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:39:53 -0500 Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier was convicted Friday of not doing enough to stop Jerry Sandusky, whose crimes rocked the university and sent the school spiraling into the darkest period in its history. After two days of deliberations, the seven-woman, five-man jury found Spanier guilty of one count of misdemeanor child endangerment, but acquitted him of felony conspiracy and a second felony child endangerment count. http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-penn-state-spanier-trial-verdict-0324-20170324-story.html 0CD88DB5-1520-4E57-8118-C479006C9762 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:37:06 -0500 Newly released legal bills show UNC’s costs related to the long-running academic-athletic scandal are approaching $18 million. From mid-2015 to near the end of last year, UNC said Friday that it has spent another $5.6 million on legal costs for the NCAA investigation, three lawsuits by former athletes who say they were harmed by the scandal and document reviews for two public records requests. UNC had previously spent roughly $12 million on legal, investigative and public relations costs related to the scandal involving classes that had no instruction and provided high grades for papers regardless of quality. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article140688913.html D4652B54-7BEB-4BCB-BB69-C627ADF127F9 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:14:54 -0500 Gym, tan, legislation. A bill inspired by Jersey Shore star Nicole Polizzi, better known as Snooki, aims to cap spending of state money for speakers at public universities in New Jersey at $10,000. Republican Assemblyman John DiMaio was inspired to write the bill after learning of the reality star's $32,000 fee she received for her appearance at Rutgers University in 2011. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/03/23/nicole-snooki-polizzi--inspires-bill-to-cap-public-university-speaker-fees/99525530/ 6CC86C50-46B9-4745-9A04-AD78A5B63E5A Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:19:01 -0500 Former University of Alabama receiver Antonio Carter has filed a lawsuit alleging fraud against Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin, Florida Atlantic University and the state of Florida. The lawsuit, first reported by SEC Country, contains counts of reckless fraud, fraud through mistaken false statements, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and promissory fraud and conspiracy. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18977094/former-university-alabama-receiver-suing-florida-atlantic-alleging-fraud 6DA82CA0-67BE-4CFB-8577-D3C68EB2138C Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:02:39 -0500 Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed a bill into law on Monday aimed at protecting student organizations' rights to manage internal affairs in a manner that is consistent with the group's religious or political beliefs. The law passed through the House and Senate nearly unopposed, with only three senators and eight House members voting against the law. The legislation amends KRS Chapter 158.183 to allow students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in public schools and postsecondary institutions. Students and human rights groups fear the legislation could allow student organizations to exclude people with conflicting lifestyles, specifically LGBTQ students. The law also allows educators to incorporate religious texts into core curriculum. http://www.jurist.org/paperchase/2017/03/kentucky-governor-signs-law-protecting-students-rights-to-express-religious-views.php AA02427C-884D-4ED5-B2C7-5724D8D3E25D Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:27:37 -0500 The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is reversing course on its decision to terminate one of its employees. Chancellor Joe Gow said late Wednesday that UW System legal counsel recommended the campus offer Kimberly Dearman her position back as a dispatcher at the UW-L Police Department. Dearman was terminated on Monday after an investigation by UW-L, which Gow said did not follow all of the due process requirements. http://host.madison.com/news/local/education/university/article_55a8b884-fa1f-5237-aca4-7324f293970d.html 8B826FD4-7E9E-4BA7-816B-4CE4525548E8 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:11:58 -0500 A former volleyball coach at Indiana University Northwest in Gary was charged with sexual battery after he was accused of inappropriately touching and kissing a teenager. Jan Emilio Torres, 48, of Munster, was in his first year coaching at IUN but let go last week after the misconduct allegations came to light. The alleged incident occurred about a week and a half ago at the university. The campus police handled the investigation. http://abc7chicago.com/news/former-college-volleyball-coach-charged-with-sexual-battery/1802337/ 376F1000-361F-4DC4-8443-F4B858000015 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:03:03 -0500 Two former Penn State University administrators each pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor child endangerment charge for his role in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case, more than five years after the scandal broke. Ex-Athletic Director Tim Curley and former university Vice President Gary Schultz originally were charged with felonies. The reduced charge is punishable by up to five years in prison. Penn State’s costs related to the Sandusky scandal are approaching a quarter-billion dollars. http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/2-penn-st-ex-administrators-plead-guilty-in-sex-abuse-case-031317 70377FC3-3DA6-4C87-BBDD-EE0B63B84368 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:10:52 -0500 Two Ohio University graduate students last week filed a civil complaint in federal court alleging their civil rights were violated by the university, an OU English professor and the former chair of OU’s English Department. In their complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Wednesday, the two graduate students, Susanna Hempstead and Christine Adams, allege that OU English professor Andrew Escobedo sexually harassed and sexually touched them without their consent during multiple incidents in Athens in December 2015. http://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/civil-rights-complaint-filed-against-english-prof-ou/article_e4a344b6-0746-11e7-8441-5f0caf2a1976.html 3F0D696E-7492-4BCD-863A-856624F4E082 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 08:36:51 -0500 The former senate president and a former lecturer at Metropolitan State University of Denver have sued the college claiming they were punished or fired after reporting alleged sexual improprieties by the university’s marketing chairman. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Denver on behalf of Kamran Sahami and Kristin Watson, accusing MSU of retaliation and creating a sexually hostile work environment. Although the lawsuit does not name Marketing Department Chairman Gregory Black as a defendant, it revolves around claims that he retaliated against faculty including Watson who say they saw him masturbating at the university. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/09/metro-state-university-faculty-sexual-discrimination-lawsuit/ 7F862F4E-94AD-44BC-AB2C-D17EA157F0C0 Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:01:05 -0500 Chicago State University agreed Thursday to pay a former school attorney $4.3 million, ending a long and expensive landmark whistleblower lawsuit. The unexpected agreement came after the cash-strapped public university, whose delays had driven up the interest it owed, told a Cook County judge it would immediately pay James Crowley, who said he was fired in 2010 after reporting alleged misconduct by top university officials. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-state-whistleblower-payment-20170309-story.html 2F39ACE8-34E8-4351-BF5A-77BC6DB24F72 Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:59:14 -0600 Two professors are suing the University of Michigan for discrimination based on race, gender and marital status and retaliation for voicing their concerns, among other counts. Their joint complaint, filed in a county court, alleges that the university’s stated commitments to diversity are superficial, and that institutional racism and a hostile campus climate for underrepresented faculty members and students of color persist. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/03/09/professors-allege-discrimination-retaliation-and-hostile-climate-u-michigan 25AC0E5D-6361-4399-ACFF-C1753E4FA26E Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:00:37 -0600 The Senate voted 59 to 40 on Wednesday to overturn regulations governing teacher-preparation programs that were approved by the Obama administration late last year. The Education Department finalized the rules after a lengthy process, and changed how colleges and universities must judge the effectiveness of their programs that prepare teachers for classrooms. Among other things, these rules would require programs to include data on how many of their graduates get jobs in high-needs schools, how long their graduates stay in the teaching profession, and their impact on student-learning outcomes. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/senate_blocks_teacher_preparation_rules_obama.html 68D2967A-16EB-48A5-80E1-DDB96B3AB30E Wed, 8 Mar 2017 07:53:54 -0600 Last week, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan regarding the state’s Freedom of Information Act, claiming the University failed to provide the documents requested within due time. On Nov. 16, Derek Draplin, a reporter with the Mackinac Center’s Michigan Capitol Confidential media outlet, issued the request on behalf of the nonprofit Michigan corporation to release University President Mark Schlissel’s emails containing the word "Trump" from July 1 to Nov. 16 of 2016. https://www.michigandaily.com/section/administration/mackinac-center-files-lawsuit-against-university-over-fioa-request 7401D5D7-E569-4233-B399-EA547203BCDC Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:50:55 -0600 A former Emory University professor was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to downloading at least 8,000 child-pornography images using the university’s Wi-Fi. Kevin M. Sullivan, 61, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to downloading the images in December, according to a release from U.S. Attorney John Horn. Sullivan will be on seven years of supervised release after his sentence. http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/emory-professor-gets-years-for-downloading-child-porn/fm28XrPRI151TkQLrk9wgJ/ 2CE3ED81-100C-437E-A59B-9CED3D8BEC43 Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:10:51 -0600 The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said in a letter that the University of Alaska System badly failed students and staff who were sexually harassed and assaulted. OCR began a Title IX investigation of the university system three years ago. The investigation focused on cases from 2011 to 2015. OCR made a list of 23 specific cases as examples of the university’s Title IX failures. The schools responsible for each case weren’t identified. The first problem in the list is the system’s failure to investigate or finish investigating multiple reports of misconduct. http://www.ktoo.org/2017/02/27/title-ix-investigation-brings-many-university-alaska-failings-light/ AA8FBB23-7570-4A3F-A19E-E7E33E2094EB Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:11:22 -0600 The Trump administration on Wednesday night withdrew Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools that let them use bathrooms and facilities corresponding with their gender identity. Last May, the departments of Education and Justice issued joint guidance directing schools to let transgender students use facilities that correspond with their gender identity. The "Dear Colleague" letter, addressed to school districts and colleges that receive federal funding, was based on the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools, to include gender identity. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/politics/doj-withdraws-federal-protections-on-transgender-bathrooms-in-schools/ F2657299-2578-48D5-95F3-6AA791F9DD75 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:36:49 -0600 Ole Miss announced Wednesday that it will voluntarily take a one-year bowl ban for 2017 after an NCAA investigation uncovered 21 allegations of violations made by the football program. The self-imposed penalty is a result of an official notice of eight additional athletic compliance violations, in addition to 13 prior allegations the NCAA issued Ole Miss last year. The NCAA’s initial investigation into the program was expanded following Laremy Tunsil’s eventful NFL Draft night. http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/ole-miss-self-imposes-one-year-postseason-ban-following-ncaa-investigation-022217 D6451541-E3AD-4513-B0ED-29DFE911CD34 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:31:31 -0600 Michigan State women's gymnastics coach Kathie Klages has been suspended, according to a letter sent to MSU gymnasts and obtained by MLive. The suspension comes on the heels of allegations in a civil lawsuit that claim Klages ignored at least one athlete's concerns about their treatments from MSU sports medicine Dr. Larry Nassar. More than 30 women have filed civil lawsuits against Nassar, claiming he sexually assaulted them. http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/michigan_state_suspends_womens.html 5EFFEDEC-0FE9-427F-B59A-8C15BF91ECEB Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:06:56 -0600 Tuskegee University plans to appeal a jury verdict that awarded nearly $2 million to the university's general counsel and vice president for legal affairs for breach of his employment contract. A jury, on Feb. 3 at the end of a five-day federal trial in Opelika, awarded Darryl E. Crompton $525,841 after finding the private historically black college and university (HBCU) breached the provision of Crompton's contract that provided for a five-year term of employment. The jury also awarded Crompton another $1,427,208 after also finding that the university breached another provision of the contract that provided Crompton would be granted tenure on the first day of his employment. http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/02/jury_tuskegee_university_must.html D49A4E06-69FF-4CEE-B531-05F1D8DA5E7C Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:05:19 -0600 Kean University should have given a professor more notice before its board voted to not renew her contract at a public meeting, a state appellate court ruled this week in a case that could change how the school does business. The public university violated the state's open public meeting law when it failed to send associate professor of nursing Valerie Hascup a warning letter before its trustees voted not to renew her contract at a 2014 meeting, the three-judge panel ruled. The "silent unexplained vote" was a violation of the state's Open Public Meetings Act, or OPMA, the judges wrote. http://www.nj.com/education/2017/02/nj_university_fired_professor_without_enough_warni.html D924EE2C-8398-4969-AF62-A60FFCEA28AE Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:15:07 -0600 A Riverside Superior Court jury has awarded a former UC Riverside counsel $2.5 million, finding that university officials violated state law when they fired her in retaliation for reporting allegations of sex discrimination against women. The jury found that university officials violated state labor code and the state Fair Employment Housing Act. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-essential-education-updates-southern-jury-awards-2-5-million-to-former-uc-1486607974-htmlstory.html 22B1D070-E1BF-44CE-8E2B-988DC37F8F28 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:45:15 -0600 A member of the Baylor University athletics department was arrested early Saturday morning in a prostitution sting. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said Brandon Washington, 33, was arrested by deputies at a local hotel on a solicitation of prostitution charge, a Class B misdemeanor. The sheriff identified Washington as a strength coach at Baylor. Baylor confirmed that Washington was employed by Baylor when he was arrested early Saturday, but said he was immediately fired upon the school learning of the arrest. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/police/baylor-strength-coach-arrested-on-prostitution-charge/article_4388ab9e-daf5-5704-b83d-f61a1e7740c3.html 2F308CA2-8E51-4C92-A7D6-EECEB2B34CF7 Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:07:31 -0600 Pennsylvania State University and online retailer Amazon Inc. settled a lawsuit with the family of a former student who committed suicide in 2013. The settlement, which was reached on Jan. 30, ends a two-year long case relating to the suicide death of former Penn State nursing student Arya Singh. Singh’s family filed a lawsuit against Amazon for allowing the student to purchase the poison and against PSU for negligence after Singh reported being sexually assaulted in a dorm in 2011. http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/penn_state_amazon_settle_lawsuit_relating_to_students_suicide 66E9EB5E-24D6-4397-937D-4602BAEDD2E1 Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:17:50 -0600 A student who was allegedly raped by one of her professors at the University of California Santa Cruz has received a $1.5 million settlement, attorneys told KSBW Tuesday. The case was settled by the University of California Regents before a civil lawsuit or criminal charges were filed. Neither the student's attorneys, nor the university, released the professor's name. http://www.ksbw.com/article/uc-santa-cruz-settles-rape-case-for-dollar115-million/8659618 4C1BB28E-22E0-4546-8932-F3E7C49D7765 Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:28:59 -0600 A Baylor University graduate who says she was raped by football players in 2013 sued the university Friday. Her lawsuit includes an allegation that 31 Baylor football players committed at least 52 acts of rape, including five gang rapes, between 2011 and 2014 -- an estimate that far exceeds the number previously provided by school officials. The woman, identified in the suit by the pseudonym Elizabeth Doe, reports being gang raped by then-Baylor football players Tre'Von Armstead and Shamycheal Chatman after a party on April 18, 2013. The woman, a 2014 graduate of Baylor, is now suing the university for Title IX violations and negligence. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylor/2017/01/27/new-baylor-lawsuit-describes-show-em-good-time-culture-cites-52-rapes-football-players-4-years 1029D350-7346-4B32-BA53-F58919844878 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:18:27 -0600 A state Senate bill would require New York colleges to compile reports on foreign-born students. The bill, which is sponsored by Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Kenneth LaValle (R-Suffolk County) and a number of other Senate Republicans, would for the first time require private and public colleges and universities to compile statistical data regarding the number of foreign students on their campuses and the programs they are enrolled in. Such information, under the bill, must contain countries of origin, but wouldn't contain any personal identifying information like the student names. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-senate-bill-collect-data-foreign-born-college-students-article-1.2959107 5599CDA3-78EC-4C3E-B8E6-69AB912C87DF Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:10:17 -0600 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall can't access admissions records and other student documents he has fought to obtain for years, probably putting an end to Hall's battles with university leaders. The court ruled in favor of UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven and said that Hall didn't have cause to sue the chancellor and that McRaven was within his rights to deny Hall access to the documents. The court decision from Justice John Devine said there "are concrete limits on Hall's claimed right to complete access," but these limits are set by the Board of Regents as a whole and not by McRaven as an individual. Hall, who is from Dallas, sued McRaven. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/01/27/texas-supreme-court-rules-ut-system-regent-wallace-hall-records-fight 17A128AB-5690-4B7C-BE63-4D6ED38440A5 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:33:54 -0600 The University of Louisville has formally disputed one of the four allegations levied against its men's basketball program and challenged three elements of another charge, according to the school's response to the NCAA released Wednesday. As expected, U of L contested the NCAA's fourth allegation, which stated that Cards head coach Rick Pitino "violated NCAA head coach responsibility legislation" as a result of infractions committed by former director of basketball operations Andre McGee from 2010-14. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2017/01/25/university-louisville-response-ncaa-notice-of-allegations-basketball-rick-pitino/97051970/ 981BB918-367D-4CA8-A470-C405643700BA Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:09:05 -0600 Syracuse University is under a second Title IX investigation, stemming from a complaint filed by a graduate student with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the university announced Wednesday. The student alleges that she has been subject to a hostile work environment in her academic department.The university was notified of the complaint this week while the OCR was visiting campus as part of a separate investigation, Interim Associate Vice President and Chief Equal Opportunity Officer Sheila Johnson-Willis said in a statement. http://dailyorange.com/2017/01/investigation-opened-after-syracuse-university-student-files-title-ix-complaint/ 8A7AE2A8-D4C4-40D2-BCA1-21AA272B53B0 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:07:54 -0600 A Kentucky judge has ruled in favor of the University of Kentucky in an open-records case involving its campus newspaper's pursuit of documents regarding a sexual harassment investigation of a former professor. Fayette Circuit Court Judge Thomas Clark reversed a state attorney general's opinion that said UK violated the state's open-records law by refusing to release documents on the professor's case to the student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel. In his ruling made public Tuesday, Clark said the documents are "educational records" protected from disclosure by a federal student privacy law. http://wkms.org/post/judge-rules-favor-university-kentucky-open-records-case B2B9EB1D-EAA5-4934-96A2-338B6A801926 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:07:16 -0600 A former Springfield College student is suing the school in federal court, arguing he was improperly expelled over drugs that weren't his -- and, beyond that, weren't even drugs. Zachary Wekilsky, a New Jersey resident, was a junior in good academic standing and a starting offensive guard on the Springfield College football team when he was bounced from the institution in December, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. Residential staff found a white substance in his dorm room and administrators said it tested positive as cocaine, the complaint states. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/01/lawsuit_springfield_college_fo.html 001780A5-254B-4B06-9CBA-AE32BEFF861F Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:53:55 -0600 Ball State University presented the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee with a list of more than 100 government regulations it must comply with at an estimated cost of 11 percent of the school's operating budget. The list starts with affirmative action (requiring employers to attract and recruit minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans) and ends with the Visual Artists Rights Act (granting rights to authors of art). "Some studies would say regulations account for about 11 percent or more of the operating budgets of higher education, which seems to be true in our case as well," BSU Interim President Terry King told lawmakers Jan. 18. http://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/education/2017/01/22/ball-state-complains-government-regulations/96824500/ 6CDCE4A0-5C73-4BDA-9CCF-C6F8E381F8F1 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:40:07 -0600 Officials at most of Ohio's public and private colleges have decided the best action regarding a new state law allowing permit holders to carry a concealed firearm on campus is no action. Senate Bill 199, signed by Gov. John Kasich on Dec. 19 lifted the blanket prohibition on firearms but only if a college's board of trustees agreed to allow concealed carry on campus. Kasich's action occurred as Ohio's colleges emptied for winter break. Officials did not have a chance to discuss the law and address any concerns until recently. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/01/concealed_firearms_will_not_be.html E20265D2-1936-481B-8A23-CAEF37D9E6E0 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:46:36 -0600 Open government advocates and Iowa’s state universities are poised for a fight over whether federal copyright laws pre-empt state laws requiring government agencies to provide public access to state-generated documents and materials. The staff of the Iowa Public Information Board has found the University of Iowa broke Iowa’s public records law by refusing to share its photos and video from the historic 2008 floods with a Cedar Rapids documentary filmmaker. http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/university-of-iowa-broke-public-records-law-state-board-staff-say-20170118 DA157D29-483D-4892-A403-362B58B349D3 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:48:57 -0600 Kellogg Community College violated the constitutional rights of a student who was arrested for trespassing while handing out U.S. Constitutions, a federal lawsuit says. The lawsuit follows similar legal action against Grand Valley State University. Students at both schools have complained that administrators have tried to limit free speech on campus by designating areas for free speech and requiring school permission before holding gatherings. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/01/kellogg_community_college_limi.html B9D7E4AF-FFB9-41FC-89CA-1B160F73A863 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:48:08 -0600 Two prominent Republican lawmakers said they hope their party’s majority can limit the Department of Education’s role on campuses. Senator James Lankford, the chair of the Regulatory Affairs Committee, and Representative Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House Education Committee, expressed their desire to lessen the role of the department on K-12 and college campuses in separate statements to The College Fix. http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/2_lawmakers_signal_will_to_reduce_activity_of_dept._of_ed?platform=hootsuite# E084C5A0-3468-4C85-AF02-63E8825C80EC Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:08:17 -0600 Former Idaho State University Museum of Natural History employee Kelly Pokorny has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against ISU for $170,000. Pokorny claimed that she was sexually harassed by former museum director Herb Maschner and then punished by the university for reporting the harassment. The turmoil began on Oct. 25, 2013, when Pokorny claims Maschner followed her into her office, closed the door and forcibly kissed her and grabbed her buttocks. When she protested, Maschner left her office, according to Pokorny. http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/isu-settles-sexual-harassment-suit-for/article_ea1225e3-24e8-596b-b5d9-3b0722c6e029.html 0F14B4D4-1BB1-4561-884C-D3DA36BDC37F Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:31:29 -0600 An email sent out on Tuesday did more than just inform students about their academic status. Students who earned a GPA below 2.0 were notified in December about their academic progress, and on Jan. 10, another email was intended to inform students about ways to improve their GPAs. But university spokesperson Joan Todd confirmed that the university retention office sent emails to students on academic probation containing the names of other students on academic probation. To comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), schools can generally not disclose "personally identifiable information from an eligible student's education records to a third party" without written consent from the eligible student. http://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2017/01/news-accidental-email 40A1928E-A0CC-4258-A432-FBEACED2361E Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:25:31 -0600 Two and a half years after a fellow student accused him of rape, University of Miami graduate David Jia has filed a lawsuit against the student, the university and two former UM employees. In the lawsuit, filed last week in federal court, Jia argues that the rape allegations were false and that the university’s investigation was "flawed and discriminatory," resulting in Jia being suspended for a semester. "From the very beginning, David Jia was treated unfairly as the guilty party because of the complete disregard to his side of the story or his witnesses," the suit states. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article125738939.html 6EA91E03-8587-4657-85F0-7B303672730B Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:05:02 -0600 The first of 37 defendants in a 2013 fraternity hazing death of a Baruch College student in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to go on trial pleaded guilty Tuesday in Monroe County Court of Common Pleas in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Ka-Wing Yuen, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to hinder apprehension by evidence tampering, a third degree felony, and conspiracy to commit hazing, a misdemeanor. Three other felony charges were dropped. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-hazing-death-idUSKBN14V0A2 8AD6E08D-C2BE-45F7-A581-55670729778E Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:15:49 -0600 Legislation that would abolish the University of Louisville’s board of trustees and allow Gov. Matt Bevin to appoint a brand-new one for the second time during his first term in office is on its way to the governor’s desk. Bevin first reorganized the U of L board last summer using an executive order, which is the target of an unresolved lawsuit brought by Attorney General Andy Beshear. The Senate already approved the U of L legislation earlier this week, so the House’s 57-35 vote in favor of the bill on Saturday means the proposal can now be signed into law by the governor. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2017/01/07/house-approves-bill-overhauling-u-l-board/96297508/ 21EF19A5-A21E-443D-89CB-E0959CF03EEE Sat, 7 Jan 2017 08:30:26 -0600 Penn State’s costs related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal are approaching a quarter-billion dollars and growing, five years after the former assistant football coach’s arrest on child molestation charges. The scandal’s overall cost to the school has reached at least $237 million, including a recent $12 million verdict in the whistleblower and defamation case brought by former assistant coach Mike McQueary, whose testimony helped convict Sandusky in 2012. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/sandusky-scandal-cost-penn-state-quarter-billion-article-1.2939007 5D4DEE68-21F7-4B29-A439-3B738A8C2BB1 Sat, 7 Jan 2017 08:25:04 -0600 Already facing the prospect of owing nearly $5 million in an ongoing whistleblower case, Chicago State University has agreed to pay more than $1 million to end a separate lawsuit brought by another former high-ranking administrator. The latest $1.3 million settlement marks the second time in recent years that the university has either lost or settled costly disputes by former employees who claimed they were fired after reporting alleged misconduct by the school's former president, Wayne Watson. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-state-meeks-whistleblower-lawsuit-met-20170104-story.html A6616175-A951-4E07-BD05-09F571A75CA2 Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:47:22 -0600 UNC-Chapel Hill has received a third notice of allegations from the NCAA in the academic fraud case, several weeks after appearing before the association’s Committee on Infractions in a rare procedural hearing. The fresh set of charges from the enforcement agency marks yet another unusual turn in a case that has now stretched beyond five years. http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article122190244.html 6E6791A5-8F43-4665-B062-25C49BD02187 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:42:50 -0600 A former College of Charleston student is suing the school and the fraternity that hosted a party in August where she was allegedly disrobed, served drugs and alcohol, and raped while one of her attackers recorded the assault on his cellphone. The lawsuit, filed Friday in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, accuses C of C, its Board of Trustees, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and its Chi Omicron chapter of negligence for failing to "take proper precautions" or "develop adequate policies and procedures" that would have ensured the young woman's safety on the night she was allegedly raped. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/alleged-rape-victim-sues-college-of-charleston-alpha-epsilon-pi/article_4078d594-c601-11e6-8271-1f1732470c4f.html C2287CE8-2DD2-4827-8C1F-E285B090B0CC Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:40:36 -0600 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that Montclair State University is an arm of the state of New Jersey, and is therefore immune under the 11th Amendment from liability for an employee’s discrimination suit. The decision reverses a ruling holding the university subject to Paula Maliandi’s suit in federal court for claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act and under state law after she took leave for treatment of breast cancer and was offered only an inferior position upon her return. http://www.njlawjournal.com/id=1202775644943/Montclair-University-Found-Immune-From-Suit-as-Arm-of-State?slreturn=20170004093511 2FA00EEA-F98A-472D-8510-4F1C12DDEEAC Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:35:51 -0600 A Republican lawmaker called for UW-Madison to cancel a planned course on racism and fire its professor for posting tweets the legislator said condoned violence against police officers, warning Tuesday that the class could affect the university’s funding in the next state budget. State Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, said he believes the course in the university’s African Cultural Studies department called "The Problem of Whiteness" is inappropriate and a waste of money. Murphy joined Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, in saying that how the university handles the controversy over the spring 2017 course could have ramifications for its request for new state funding in the 2017-19 budget. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/legislators-criticize-uw-madison-professor-s-course-on-race-tweets/article_b09c432a-6e83-5c96-8cbf-3599503f093c.html 32DC0902-4E01-477B-85CE-A5ED986D41E0 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:24:42 -0600 The battle over whether graduate students at universities can unionize entered a new phase on Friday, when Columbia University filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board over the recent vote by its graduate assistants to unionize. The issue has gone back and forth depending on the makeup of the board, which said in August that graduate students at private institutions had a federal right to unionize. That decision overturned a ruling from 2004 that said graduate students at Brown University could not do the same. The rules for public universities are different. There, states can decide if graduate students can unionize. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/nyregion/columbia-challenges-vote-by-graduate-students-to-unionize.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202016-12-20%20Higher%20Ed%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue%3A8427%5D&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20Higher%20Ed FFAB3C68-1743-4B50-A499-DE5DF86E0481 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:38:59 -0600 The NCAA has issued a notice of allegations to Rutgers football noting seven possible violations. The violations include academic misconduct that occurred under former coach Kyle Flood, who was suspended for three games by Rutgers before being fired in 2015. Flood is accused of providing an extra impermissible benefit to cornerback Nadir Barnwell after Flood directly contacted one of Barnwell's professors asking for Barnwell to receive special consideration in the course. http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/report-ncaa-sends-notice-of-allegations-to-rutgers-with-seven-possible-violations/ 3AF5908D-E8A5-4069-A13E-D3E5B0781B88 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:54:19 -0600 Syracuse University is suing its longtime law firm over claims of legal malpractice related to failed plans to build a bookstore and fitness center on campus. SU filed court papers last week accusing the city's largest law firm - Bond, Schoeneck & King -- of legal malpractice over the firm's representation of SU in a contract with developer Cameron Hill Construction to build a $20 million bookstore and fitness center on University Avenue. Bond, Schoeneck & King has been SU's law firm for years. http://www.syracuse.com/su-news/index.ssf/2016/12/syracuse_university_files_lega.html FC0B10FF-4956-4AB5-9A86-0512BAB0EA5F Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:49:17 -0600 A university investigation of Michelle Karnes’ sexual harassment complaint concluded that Stephen Hinton, who is 20 years older, had made an "unwanted sexual advance", but it’s unclear if the professor faced any consequences. On the contrary, Karnes says that administrators retaliated against her for speaking up and pushed her out of Stanford. Hinton vigorously denied the allegations, claiming they had a "platonic, reciprocal relationship" and pointing out that a university investigation concluded his conduct did not constitute sexual harassment. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/ex-stanford-professor-i-was-pushed-out-after-reporting-sexual-harassment?CMP=edit_2221 3FDEBE89-01D5-4EAC-9EDA-4A610C56FE47 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:46:57 -0600 The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Princeton University to resolve a compliance review initiated in May 2014 regarding Princeton’s treatment of students with mental health disabilities and its policies and practices related to requests for reasonable modifications, withdrawals and leaves of absences. The agreement details specific steps Princeton will take to strengthen its policies, practices and training to benefit all current and future Princeton students with disabilities. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-agreement-princeton-university-resolve-americans-disabilities-act 8D8B316B-C37B-48FA-B96F-09F288ECACE6 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:46:09 -0600 The attorneys for Joe Mixon released a surveillance video on Friday that shows the Sooners star running back punching a female Oklahoma student in 2014. The video shows Mixon punching Amelia Molitor, fracturing four bones in her face, during an altercation at a sandwich shop near Oklahoma's campus in Norman. The video was released after the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters sued for its access, prompting the Oklahoma Supreme Court to rule earlier this month that the city of Norman should release it. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18294274/joe-mixon-lawyers-release-video-oklahoma-sooners-rb-punching-female-2014 A2FE2059-0BC6-409D-957F-5BEFE5B2D86B Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:41:35 -0600 Auburn University employees who switched to being paid hourly on Dec. 1 because of updated U.S. Department of Labor rules will go back to being paid a flat salary on Jan. 1, according to Auburn University Human Resources. The new rule, which made employees making less than $47,476 a year non-exempt from federal overtime rules, was put on hold by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant on Nov. 22. The injunction keeps the threshold for non-exempt employees at $23,660. Alabama was one of 20 states that sued to block the new rule’s implementation. http://www.oanow.com/news/auburn-university-to-switch-workers-back-to-salary-status-after/article_547699fc-bf60-11e6-87b5-fff9c794849f.html D7FF56D5-479C-4BAE-B972-2E06552581E7 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:21:29 -0600 Deputies say a Clemson University professor has been charged with driving under the influence after officers saw him cross a center line and drive erratically in a state vehicle. The driver was later identified as 52-year-old Ronald David Lamie. Deputies say the Taurus that Lamie was driving was a state of South Carolina vehicle bearing a permanent license tag. Lamie is an associate professor of Applied Economics and Statistics and works at the Clemson Sandhills Extension facility at the time of his arrest, deputies said. http://wspa.com/2016/12/12/clemson-professor-charged-with-dui-while-driving-state-owned-vehicle-deputies-say/ EF20ABB1-5723-4092-8326-91ECDEC46A19 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:20:28 -0600 Lawmakers in Ohio approved a bill on Friday that opens the way for licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, less than two weeks after a man injured 11 in a stabbing attack at Ohio State University. State senators passed the bill 22-8 after representatives approved it 68-25 late on Thursday, sending the bill to the desk of Republican Governor John Kasich for his signature. If signed into law, the board of trustees at Ohio's public universities would have the option to allow for concealed-carry on campuses. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-guns-idUSKBN13Y127 25CF2028-4ED5-41F0-8DF3-2599D98D39BF Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:14:57 -0600 A student group at Grand Valley State University has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the university unfairly restricts free speech on campus. The student group, "Turning Point USA at Grand Valley State University," says GVSU limits expressive activity to "two small speech zones" on campus and requires students to gain prior university permission for free-speech activities. They say campus police and administrators told students they would be arrested for trespassing when they tried to talk to other students about the First Amendment outside of a designated speech zone. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/12/gvsu_restricts_free_speech_thr.html A432EE06-678E-4F30-AA03-37EA1DBC43E4 Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:14:25 -0600 The Southern Association of College and Schools’ Commission on Colleges has placed Baylor University on warning for 12 months over issues related to the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school’s football program, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. The publication reports that the commission found that Baylor was not in compliance with "several accrediting requirements." The publication reported that Baylor could spend as much as two years under the sanction before the commission takes action on the status of the schools accreditation. http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Baylor-feels-some-heat-from-regional-accrediting-group-405110246.html F8D7DAC4-D8E2-4A97-BC25-6C3FC9ACDAE6 Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:59:00 -0600 The University of Louisville said Tuesday it has been placed on probation by its regional accrediting agency, stemming from turmoil involving Gov. Matt Bevin over the makeup of the school’s governing board and the turbulent departure of its former president. In the school’s latest setback in a difficult year, UofL acting President Neville Pinto stressed the university remains accredited and is determined to correct problems that led to the one-year probation, which could be extended another year. http://www.state-journal.com/2016/12/06/university-of-louisville-maintains-accreditation-but-placed-on-1-year-probation/ 8BAF8DCB-A914-4AF4-8D07-3C25E2D75E68 Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:57:56 -0600 A judge on Wednesday awarded more than $5 million to a former Penn State assistant football coach over his treatment by the university following Jerry Sandusky's arrest on child molestation charges five years ago. Judge Thomas Gavin ruled in favor of Mike McQueary's whistleblower claim, adding to a jury's $7.3 million verdict issued last month for defamation and misrepresentation. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18175004/judge-adds-5-million-mike-mcqueary-7-million-verdict-penn-state D062EAEA-6357-40F0-A286-B621525154C1 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:06:17 -0600 KOCO’s Patty Santos reported in mid-October on the investigation involving Langston University's Early Childhood Laboratory. The investigation's findings this week revealed the claims of a child being locked in a closet as punishment and staff putting their feet on children to hold them down were substantiated. Langston University officials report there are 36 children, ages 5 months to 7 years old, at the day care. It costs the university nearly $400,000 per year to operate. The university has 10 days to give the state’s Child Care Licensing a plan of correction. http://www.koco.com/article/investigation-reveals-violations-committed-by-colleges-early-childhood-laboratory-staff/8377793 2658E9AB-3444-453C-AAF8-33ED75E8F890 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:49:06 -0600 A third rape victim joined one of two Title IX lawsuits against Kansas State today. Jared Gihring, a former K-State student who was expelled from the university just before the fall semester according to court documents, has been charged with the rape and sodomy of Crystal Stroup, a former K-State student. Gihring is also charged with the rape of Sara Weckhorst, dating back to April 26, 2014. In April of 2016, the Collegian reported on two separate Title IX lawsuits by Weckhorst and Tessa Farmer brought against K-State, accusing the university of deliberate indifference to plaintiffs’ reports of rape, deceptive acts and practices in violation of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, and negligence. http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2016/11/28/k-state-student-charged-with-rape-victim-joins-lawsuit-against-university/ 440E484E-A020-45FE-9CEF-6B188CCD9EE6 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:42:19 -0600 Yale will pay $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Annie Le MED ’13, a graduate student murdered in a Yale research laboratory in 2009. The settlement amount was listed in a probate court document obtained by the Associated Press last Tuesday. Yale’s lawyers and Le’s family disclosed that the case had been settled through mediation in a court paper filed last week, but the original document did not list the settlement amount. Filed in 2011 in Connecticut Superior Court by Le’s mother, Vivian Van Le, the lawsuit alleged that "sexual attacks on and harassment of women at Yale had been a well-documented and long-standing problem, and there was a widespread belief that Yale repeatedly failed to impose meaningful discipline on offenders." http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/11/28/yale-settles-wrongful-death-lawsuit-for-3-million-2/ 872AE45A-B188-4627-BCCC-7AC45E49EA67 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:21:49 -0600 The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The settlement includes a corrective action plan and a monetary payment of $650,000, which is reflective of the fact that the University operated at a financial loss in 2015. On June 18, 2013, UMass reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that a workstation in its Center for Language, Speech, and Hearing (the "Center") was infected with a malware program, which resulted in the impermissible disclosure of electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,670 individuals, including names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, health insurance information, diagnoses and procedure codes. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/11/22/umass-settles-potential-hipaa-violations-following-malware-infection.html A01C9EFF-41D4-4623-ADB8-4532BBCAC987 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:18:33 -0600 With just over a week before it was scheduled to take effect, a federal judge has blocked the implementation of an Obama administration rule that would have extended overtime eligibility to some 4 million Americans. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III issued a preliminary injunction in the case, siding with plaintiffs who said the new overtime rules would have caused an uptick in government costs in their states and made it mandatory for businesses to pay millions in additional salaries. Business groups said the new rule changes would have eventually led to layoffs. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503081151/federal-judge-blocks-obama-administrations-overtime-pay-rule DC33FF89-0828-47AE-B745-15ABC43D12D5 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:34:40 -0600 A former University of Notre Dame student athletic trainer violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football student-athletes and provided six other football student-athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits, according to a Division I Committee on Infractions panel. One additional football student-athlete committed academic misconduct on his own. The panel prescribed one year of probation, a two-year show-cause order and disassociation for the former student trainer, and a $5,000 fine for the university. During that time, if a member school hires the former student trainer in an athletically related position, she and the school must appear before a Committee on Infractions panel. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/former-notre-dame-student-trainer-acted-unethically-committed-academic-misconduct?sf43132124=1 FB444A04-4AA4-48DD-AC93-D305A987AC6F Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:30:23 -0600 Two women who reported being gang raped by multiple football players in 2012 reached a financial settlement on Tuesday with Baylor University, and details of the alleged sexual assaults hadn't previously been reported in the media. Baylor officials have said previously that 17 women had reported 19 sexual or physical assaults involving football players since 2011, including four gang rapes. According to university officials, the alleged incidents that led to Tuesday's settlement were included in the four gang rapes. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18117028/women-reported-gang-rape-baylor-football-players-reach-settlement-school EC480F1E-DF16-4659-847D-23C4253FE915 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:29:20 -0600 A Massachusetts woman is suing Brown University, saying that administrators at the school acted indifferently and failed to adequately investigate when she reported being raped by three students on Brown’s football team. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Rhode Island, said authorities later found explicit photos of one of the accused students with the woman at the time of the assault, along with text messages that appeared to show the students laughing about the reported rape hours later. The school opened an investigation, but never finished it and never doled out any punishment, the suit said. A Brown spokesman said officials were "confident" in the decisions the university had made in the case and noted that a grand jury had declined to bring criminal charges in the case. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/17/lawsuit-says-brown-university-did-not-properly-investigate-alleged-rape-football-players/Vd6b2q39C5kuwfzYgrnG4M/story.html B71BEECF-4C71-4EA9-B75D-1CFCCBBE7B7D Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:05:25 -0600 A court case pitting broadcasting giant ESPN against the University of Notre Dame -- and centering on the disclosure of campus police records -- has been resolved but still leaves unanswered questions. The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that a private university can maintain a police force that is not subject to Indiana's Access to Public Records Act. But the issue of whether private universities should be allowed to employ their own police force without oversight from the state records laws will likely live on next year when lawmakers gather for the upcoming legislative session, experts say. Even now, a provision of a new Indiana law governing public access to footage from police body cameras could offer a new path forward for members of the public seeking campus police records. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2016/11/16/court-rules-university-police-not-subject-state-public-record-laws/93977284/ 2D3DAFB0-BE16-456F-AE77-E41FBAC74612 Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:56:48 -0600 Thomas More College failed to monitor its women’s basketball program when it did not identify and report a women’s basketball student-athlete living impermissibly with a former assistant women’s basketball coach, according to a decision issued by the Division III Committee on Infractions. The head women’s basketball coach also failed to fulfill his head coaching responsibilities when he did not monitor the former assistant coach and did not promote an atmosphere for compliance in his program. Penalties in the case include probation, a vacation of women’s basketball wins in which the student-athlete competed while ineligible, and a self-imposed fine. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/thomas-more-failed-monitor-its-women-s-basketball-program 99E80627-98DD-4C2D-A791-EE4C7A141CB1 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:57:15 -0600 One Iowa lawmaker has a message for any state university that spends taxpayer dollars on grief counseling for students upset at the outcome of last week’s presidential election: "Suck it up, buttercup." Kaufmann plans to introduce a piece of legislation he’s calling the "suck it up, buttercup bill" when the Legislature resumes in January. It would target state universities that use taxpayer dollars to fund election-related sit-ins and grief counseling above and beyond what is normally available to students. Those that do would be subject to a budget cut for double the amount they spend on such activities, Kaufmann said. It also would establish new criminal penalties for protesters who shut down highways, like those who briefly closed Interstate Highway 80 in Iowa City during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump last week. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/14/iowa-lawmakers-suck-up-buttercup-bill-targets-protests/93797142/ 063208B6-5B34-4EB0-8B40-BE360FFA1648 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:59:26 -0600 Ohio State University has agreed to undergo a performance audit, which would be the first of a public higher education institution. State Auditor Dave Yost performs audits to identify ways to reduce costs and improve service. Under legislation passed in 2011, the auditor must complete performance audits of at least four state agencies every two years. Legislation is pending in Columbus that would require Yost to choose a public two- or four-year college for one of those four performance audits. Ohio State's audit is contingent on the legislation passing, Ohio State spokesman Rob Messinger wrote in an email Monday. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/11/ohio_state_agrees_to_undergo_performance_audit_would_be_first_college_in_the_state.html 2EB427C4-71F1-4FD8-98AA-C91885931A42 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:11:01 -0600 A renowned Middle East scholar and architecture professor at UC Berkeley spent months ingratiating himself with a graduate student before placing his hand on her upper thigh, proposing they become "close friends" and suggesting they go to Las Vegas, a campus investigation has found. Nezar AlSayyad, an internationally recognized scholar and a frequent public voice on global issues, is the latest prominent faculty member at UC Berkeley found to have sexually harassed a student or colleague in violation of University of California rules, The Chronicle has learned. http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UC-professor-sexually-harassed-student-10610716.php E6B0E082-99A1-4282-9864-515B10BFA580 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 08:29:44 -0600 This afternoon, the Psychological & Counseling Center sent an email out to 468 of its clients without blocking the recipients from seeing each other’s names. The content of the email was a satisfaction survey regarding the student’s recent visit to the center. Several students responded to all recipients of the email with sarcastic and angry messages regarding the breach of their privacy. This incident is a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which provides privacy of medical information. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, formally called The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, "establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain healthcare transactions electronically," according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. http://vanderbilthustler.com/news/pcc-sends-blast-email-without-hiding-recipient-email-addresses.html 2EC5CF0D-A1DD-4304-851C-9C20F7503762 Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:43:53 -0600 Officials with the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety have identified and arrested the mother of the newborn baby that was found in a trash bag at Claflin University. Officers say Amber Fulton, a 19-year-old Kingstree native who attends Claflin, faces charges of unlawful conduct towards a child and attempted murder. She was taken to a medical center for evaluation. Arrest warrants indicate that Fulton gave birth to the baby boy between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8:25 a.m. Wednesday on the Claflin campus. Officials say after she gave birth, Fulton cut the umbilical cord with paper scissors. Once the baby began to cry, she used tissues to clean the baby, and then she placed him in a plastic bag and put that bag in another large trash bag which she tied with a loose knot. Fulton then placed the bag with the live baby in a dumpster at the student residential center, behind the Claflin dining facility. Custodians with Claflin University were collecting garbage for the week when they made the discovery. http://www.kxxv.com/story/33670418/claflin-university-student-charged-with-throwing-baby-in-dumpster-in-court-thursday 426FC442-1201-439B-80E8-628331E6BC7E Wed, 9 Nov 2016 10:32:40 -0600 An Indian-American doctoral student at the University of Chicago has filed a $1 million discrimination lawsuit against its board of trustees, alleging she was fired from a job at the school after she complained that white employees got preferential treatment.Sameena Azhar's lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, alleges retaliation and race and national origin discrimination. Azhar is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Service Administration and, starting in March 2015, worked for the university's Center for HIV Elimination. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-muslim-discrimination-uchicago-1109-biz-20161108-story.html 926DF9A1-90A2-4A92-844D-95E212B763B8 Tue, 8 Nov 2016 16:27:23 -0600 A group of Baylor alumni and major donors -- including Drayton McLane, for whom the school's football stadium is named -- is scheduled to launch a nonprofit organization that will demand an overhaul of the university's board of regents as well as full details of the school's sexual assault investigation. Bears for Leadership Reform is going to be "demanding transparency and accountability," spokeswoman Julie Hillrichs said. "They believe the only way we can do this is to have true reform of the board. They want a seat at the table when the board selects its next president, and then they want a best-in-class Title IX program on that campus," she said, referring to the federal gender-equity law that requires schools investigate reports of sexual violence. http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/17991610/new-non-profit-organization-demand-overhaul-baylor-board-regents 17BE32BC-57C4-4476-97FB-40EC9F869FAA Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:16:58 -0600 Four years after Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted of sexually abusing 10 young boys, the federal government is seeking to fine the university nearly $2.4 million for failing to alert the public about Mr. Sandusky’s conduct and other campus dangers. In announcing the proposed fine -- the largest ever for failure to comply with the Clery Act, a federal law requiring prompt public alerts about safety threats as well as annual disclosures of campus crime statistics -- the United States Department of Education painted a damning picture of how university officials permitted Mr. Sandusky "unfettered access" to campus buildings and facilities even though officials knew he posed a danger to the campus community. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/sports/ncaafootball/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-clery-act-fine.html?_r=0 0E50E8C2-83A9-4EF4-8A0A-7EB1A754DCFD Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:03:04 -0500 Hunter College agreed to revise procedures for addressing sexual harassment and assault allegations after a U.S. Department of Education investigation found it failed to properly handle more than a dozen cases in a two-year span. Under a settlement, the largest college in City University of New York must provide training to staff and students to address sexual misconduct and re-examine all complaints of sexual harassment and assault filed in the past three years. http://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-college-to-alter-response-to-sexual-assault-allegations-1477960037 086A17AE-51B9-4F40-9491-52EB1833AE8C Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:59:06 -0500 A jury awarded a former Penn State assistant football coach $7.3 million in damages Thursday, finding the university defamed him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation. Judge Thomas Gavin still must decide McQueary's whistleblower claim that he was treated unfairly as the school suspended him from coaching duties, placed him on paid administrative leave, barred him from team facilities and then did not renew his contract shortly after he testified at Sandusky's 2012 trial. McQueary had been seeking more than $4 million in lost wages and other damages, saying he was defamed by a statement the school president released the day Sandusky was charged, retaliated against for helping with the Sandusky investigation and misled by school administrators. http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2016-10-27-US-Penn-State-Abuse/id-3f39b1590c1e4880bee2d434b383603a 4CACA3D1-7132-4300-9CA1-90318D627F4A Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:10:43 -0500 A federal appeals court has ruled that public college officials did not violate free speech or due process rights of a student removed from a nursing program after writing Facebook posts during his free time that allegedly violated professional standards. Free speech advocates fear the 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by a panel of the St. Louis-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit could allow schools to punish many things uttered or written off campus merely by asserting it violates an outside group's professional standards. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/federal-court-upholds-college-punishment-for-off-campus-facebook-posts-said-to-violate-vague-standards 9E92D401-C011-4810-AB8F-1CA077862A29 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:21:11 -0500 A former San Jose State University head women’s basketball coach acted unethically when he falsely claimed to be unaware of violations in his program, according to a Division I Committee on Infractions panel. The former head coach also failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance when he allowed a nonqualifer to practice during her year in residence and when he conducted impermissible countable athletically related activities. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/former-san-jose-state-women-s-basketball-coach-violated-ncaa-ethical-conduct-rules 3CA09048-90B4-448E-AEA7-CDA52EDBE5BC Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:54:54 -0500 The NCAA charged the University of Louisville men's basketball program with four Level I violations - the highest level - including citing coach Rick Pitino for a failure to monitor an employee, the school revealed Thursday with its public release of the NCAA's notice of allegations. The allegations, which the NCAA sent after its 13-month-long investigation into U of L, did not include any charges for lack of institutional or head coach control of the program, two of the most severe NCAA violations. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2016/10/20/university-of-louisville-receives-ncaa-notice-allegations-basketball-program/91603198/ E5EDE071-9D37-49FA-B4D4-5B46E904D7F6 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:00:56 -0500 The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio says Miami University has agreed to make sure technologies on all of its campuses are accessible to students with disabilities. Ben Glassman says the agreement comes after Miami was accused of not being compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. University Deputy General Counsel Mitchell McCrate says under the consent decree Miami will make sure all of its web sites meet handicap accessible standards, use technology that will meet accessibility standards, and will talk to students who have disabilities to make sure they have what they need. http://wvxu.org/post/miami-university-doj-reach-agreement-ada-compliance#stream/0 E9A11322-F636-4915-A397-EFD6AB21B375 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:54:29 -0500 A professor at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College reports he was asked to change a class syllabus by school administrators worried a participation grade could be misunderstood as a request for sexual favors. Prof. David Seidemann wrote at Minding the Campus, a higher ed watchdog site, that his syllabus included a notice that grading would consider "Class deportment, effort etc..... 10% (applied only to select students when appropriate)." The investigation was reportedly initiated not by any student complaints but by the school's director of diversity investigations and Title IX enforcement. http://theweek.com/speedreads/654901/professor-made-effort-worth-10-percent-students-grades-school-said-thats-sexual-harassment 25C6D217-2D1D-4B2F-83F9-87D8CF532651 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:38:15 -0500 Lawsuits are accumulating across the nation brought by students who say they were unfairly disciplined for sexual misconduct by colleges and universities. And increasing numbers of judges are finding their complaints sufficiently valid to move forward. But few, if any, of the alleged violations of a student’s rights compare in egregiousness to what happened at Wesley College in Delaware, as described in findings by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) made public Wednesday. In this case, the OCR found virtually everything wrong and, therefore, a violation of Title IX’s protections against discrimination. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/college-expels-student-for-sex-misconduct-without-bothering-to-interview-him-or-telling-him-allegations 441FC17E-C951-46BD-A522-D23DA2E08F26 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:40:50 -0500 A University of Cincinnati student, found guilty of sexual assault by UC, filed a federal lawsuit against the university Friday. The male graduate student, identified only as John Doe in his lawsuit, alleges the university violated due process and Title IX in how it handled the investigation and ruling of the case against him. Title IX is a federal law passed in 1972 that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Doe is facing a one-year suspension from UC for allegations that he sexually assaulted another female student in September 2015. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/10/07/student-sues-uc-after-sexual-assault-accusation/91745612/ C4455A8A-E9BF-453F-8588-4B5FB6F9D763 Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:17:04 -0500 The University of Northern Colorado men’s basketball team has lowered the boom on itself. The Bears and former coach B.J. Hill, guilty of alleged NCAA violations dating back several seasons, have self-imposed penalties and now await word from the NCAA on whether the self-imposed sanctions are acceptable. Hill and his staff were immediately fired, and school officials adamantly declined to discuss the nature of the allegations or violations. UNC still has not revealed what the violations are, widely considered to be Level I violations by the NCAA. It’s the first time in school history the athletic department has been in violation of what the NCAA determines to be a Level I violation, which is the most serious type. http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/24257633-113/university-of-northern-colorado-reports-self-imposed-penalties-to A6CFDEBC-A35D-4487-8DC8-39167AEA0B9F Fri, 7 Oct 2016 08:06:36 -0500 A creationist scholar recently received a six-figure settlement from California State University Northridge, a payout that resolved a 2-year-old lawsuit that alleged the scholar had been fired after discovering soft tissue on a triceratops horn and publishing his findings. The plaintiff, Mark Armitage, had alleged religious discrimination and a violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act in his suit, claiming in court documents that after his discovery -- which supports a young Earth theory -- some professors went on a successful "witchhunt" against him. http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29337/ 51120509-08CF-4BF0-9587-43C7B4AFF602 Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:53:42 -0500 Two women claiming they were sexually assaulted while attending Baylor University joined a Title IX lawsuit against the school Monday in U.S. District Court in Waco. Waco attorney Jim Dunnam filed the lawsuit June 15 naming Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3 as plaintiffs. Thirteen days later, three more Jane Does were added. Jane Doe 7 and Jane Doe 8 on Monday claimed Baylor failed to adequately investigate their cases. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/two-more-women-join-title-ix-lawsuit-against-baylor-say/article_dec6b8d1-1cd1-55ed-bd07-47544f8ce433.html 2F4E2CB2-8B05-46D5-9AF0-915CEC3497E9 Mon, 3 Oct 2016 07:46:06 -0500 A University of California, Berkeley professor who is the subject of three sexual harassment complaints has filed lawsuits against the women he is accused of victimizing, an unusual step that the students say will not deter them from speaking out. Blake Wentworth, assistant professor of south and south-east Asian studies, has accused the women of defamation and "intentional infliction of emotional distress", with new lawsuits filed nearly a year after university investigators concluded that he had violated sexual harassment policies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/29/uc-berkeley-sexual-harassment-blake-wentworth-sues-victims 86D29117-1D23-4B45-97D1-ED8C8D41F2ED Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:01:43 -0500 The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest local school to be hit with allegations that its process for handling campus sexual assault complaints is discriminatory against male students. In a lawsuit filed last week, a university senior - identified in court filings only as John Doe - asked a federal judge to halt ongoing disciplinary proceedings against him based on what he described as a "sham investigation" into claims he raped a female student this year. http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160928_Penn_student_accused_of_rape_sues_Penn__citing_gender__racial_discrimination.html 00A02083-2B87-4577-BA11-8A79ACA1A7F6 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:36:51 -0500 Former San Diego State women’s basketball coach Beth Burns won her wrongful-termination trial against the university Wednesday, receiving a $3.35-million judgment from a San Diego Superior Court jury for whistle-blower retaliation after complaining about potential Title IX violations. SDSU ultimately identified two central reasons for her termination -- a video from a February 2013 home game in which Burns elbowed assistant coach Adam Barrett, seated to her immediate right, after a defensive lapse; and an internal investigation that chronicled an alleged "history" of mistreating subordinates. http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-beth-burns-lawsuit-20160928-snap-story.html 9756F1B9-E78F-497C-A098-B3A871A1CA7C Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:10:06 -0500 UW-Madison is cutting the work week of its student employees to no more than 29 hours to conform to requirements of the Affordable Care Act, a move some student workers say will make it harder for them to stay in school. The ACA requires large employers to provide affordable basic health insurance to employers who work an average of 30 hours a week or more. UW-Madison officials say that the UW System is considered a single employer under ACA. So, under the new rule, student workers would be limited to 29 hours a week total for all jobs with UW, on any campus. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/university/uw-madison-cuts-student-workers-hours-citing-affordable-care-act/article_fb5bac68-5ad2-5209-a77e-68dba043332a.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202016-09-28%20Higher%20Ed%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue%3A7416%5D&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20Higher%20Ed 57429C5F-8D77-4FF6-8356-37DE98F95983 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:51:49 -0500 Wheaton College in Norton failed to respond to a report of student-on-student rape, did little to prevent an alleged rapist from continuing to contact the victim, and neglected to prevent retaliation against a different victim, according to a recent report by the Department of Justice. The Wheaton report is an example of how schools around the country struggle to adequately address sexual assault under a rigorous set of federal guidelines and a reminder of how rapes continue to occur despite increasing awareness. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/21/wheaton-college-faulted-over-handling-sexual-assaults/uQuE1xZPGmvyHlfxSZ9p5M/story.html 6D6B63C1-A658-4EBE-8835-3D719BA4E1BA Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:51:16 -0500 A Michigan State University doctor facing a growing chorus of sexual assault allegations has been fired by the university, officials confirmed today. Dr. Larry Nassar, an associate professor in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine who served as USA Gymnastics' team physician during four Olympic Games, had been relieved of clinical and patient duties on Aug. 30. Late last week, the university initiated the process to end Nassar's fixed-term appointment. He was formally fired Tuesday, said university spokesman Jason Cody. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/09/20/msu-fires-doctor-facing-sexual-assault-allegations/90742514/ 07361357-A39E-416F-8725-3E4F5988DBCF Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:10:45 -0500 On at least two occasions, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of New Mexico dissected the brains of aborted children during a six-week summer educational research program. The report, released this summer by a select investigative panel of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, alleges the "symbiotic relationship" between the university and the abortion center possibly violates New Mexico state law prohibiting the donations of aborted fetal tissue for scientific research and federal statutes that make it illegal to profit from human fetal tissue. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/congressional-investigation-documents-university-of-new-mexicos-use-of-abor 1CFCC093-75D6-4E85-9F1A-3C48693C164E Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:53:16 -0500 A former St. Louis University theology professor has won a $367,000 judgment in her gender discrimination lawsuit against the Jesuit university. Cornelia Horn, who worked for SLU from 2004 to 2012, was an assistant professor in the school's theology department who accused the administration of denying her a promotion and tenure because of her gender. She alleged that female faculty members were discouraged, and received less help preparing for those advancements. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-slu-professor-wins-sex-discrimination-suit-against-university/article_cbbb643e-93b8-5ed8-810e-662ab5d8af9a.html 19624094-665D-4141-A3CB-9EB22A709915 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:29:57 -0500 Former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry sued the UC Board of Regents -- among other university-related parties -- on Thursday, alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination and that the university was attempting to deprive him of his reputation and career. The lawsuit comes after campus outcry over Choudhry’s return to campus this fall as a Berkeley Law faculty member, despite having resigned as dean in March after allegations of sexual harassment came to light. A campus Title IX office found that his behavior toward his former executive assistant, Tyann Sorrell, violated UC sexual misconduct policies. http://www.dailycal.org/2016/09/15/sujit-choudhry-sues-uc-sex-harassment-discipline/ 3191269F-93C4-4998-BC42-8471F24077D0 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:01:36 -0500 A mother has filed a lawsuit against William Paterson University, claiming her daughter committed suicide after officials at the school failed to fully investigate the student's claims of rape. Cherelle Jovanna Locklear, 21, was found by her roommates hanging by a necktie in a dorm bathroom on Nov. 22, 2015, according to a lawsuit filed Sept. 8 in U.S. District Court by her mother, Marquesa C. Jackson-Locklear. The lawsuit alleges William Paterson University employees violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which state in part no person should be discriminated against on the basis of sex. http://www.nj.com/passaic-county/index.ssf/2016/09/student_killed_herself_after_college_botched_rape_probe_suit_alleges.html 07DBB43D-5408-4095-BBFE-C91041AD51F1 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:49:17 -0500 Wesleyan University has settled a lawsuit filed by a professor who alleged school administrators mishandled an investigation into sexual harassment complaints she made against another professor. Documents filed in federal court in New Haven show a judge dismissed Associate Professor Lauren Caldwell's lawsuit Sept. 1, after lawyers reported the settlement. Terms were not disclosed. http://www.courant.com/education/hc-wesleyan-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-0715-20160914-story.html 17F0B2A2-2E7C-4413-964B-BD566B4C1382 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:12:03 -0500 UCLA settled a lawsuit Thursday that was filed by two graduate students who claimed they were sexually harassed by professor Gabriel Piterberg. According to a UCLA statement, the UC Board of Regents agreed to pay one student $350,000 and the other student $110,000. They will also provide one of the students with a dissertation year fellowship in her final year of graduate school. Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow, both graduate students in history, sued UCLA in June 2015, alleging that UCLA violated Title IX when dealing with their claims of sexual harassment. http://dailybruin.com/2016/09/09/ucla-settles-lawsuit-with-graduate-students-alleging-title-ix-violations/ 22A7A933-6928-410E-A08F-B902B8E00FD2 Fri, 9 Sep 2016 09:17:41 -0500 The U.S. Department of Education announced today that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has entered into an agreement with Frostburg State University of the University System of Maryland to ensure compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as it applies to sexual violence and sexual harassment. The action follows an OCR investigation which found Frostburg to be in violation of Title IX. http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/maryland%E2%80%99s-frostburg-state-university-found-violation-title-ix-reaches-agreement-us-education-department-address-prevent-sexual-assault-and-harassment 354E9AF8-4F71-483B-A8C5-D6E8ECF7E70E Fri, 9 Sep 2016 09:10:01 -0500 In a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, 41 Nigerian nationals -- many of whom are now Alabama State University alumni -- allege the school overcharged them for books and meals, enrolled them in classes they never took, and more, all because they were black foreigners. "They called us cash cows," said Jimmy Iwezu, an ASU alum who claims the university intentionally mismanaged millions from a scholarship fund set up by the Nigerian government that was paid in advance for every exchange student. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/07/nigerian-students-sue-alabama-college-for-treating-them-like-animals.html 0AC0B791-6202-47C4-8EA0-F9C650AAA57E Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:36:56 -0500 A San Jose State professor found to have sexually harassed a student last year remained the head of his department for nearly five months after the campus investigation concluded, stepping down just days before the end of the academic year, an investigation by this news organization has found. Late last week, after receiving questions from this news organization, the campus placed Professor Lewis Aptekar on paid leave, according to a source familiar with the case. http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/06/san-jose-state-under-fire-in-sexual-harassment-scandal/ 050B2987-A22B-4BA5-84A4-4D6A596B7497 Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:55:46 -0500 J Robinson was fired from the University of Minnesota on Wednesday by athletic director Mark Coyle. Coyle, who took over in June, had on his first day on the job banished the 70-year-old coach from campus and begun an investigation of Robinson’s handling of an alleged drug ring involving more than a dozen wrestlers. Ultimately, it was Robinson’s unwillingness to reveal details of the use and sale of the prescription sedative Xanax by Gophers wrestlers, and his alleged self-policing of the issue, that led to his fall. http://www.startribune.com/j-robinson-fired-by-university-of-minnesota-after-30-years-as-wrestling-coach/392637101/ F17B3539-1441-4DD7-A20B-0C12CC745F79 Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:20:12 -0500 Missouri's public universities are on the hook from the state auditor about college affordability. In a report released Tuesday morning, Auditor Nicole Galloway highlights the growing trend of schools keeping tuition flat for in-state residents, but increasing fees that students must pay for specific classes or within an academic college. An almost 10-year-old state law prevents universities from increasing tuition costs for in-state students more than the value of the Consumer Price Index, a percentage that indicates how Missouri’s economy is performing. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/higher-education-audit-highlights-rising-course-fees-while-tuition-stays/article_d6720b86-cedb-5bf4-9432-2290ac823cad.html B2B97E80-5231-4AE9-81DD-E01E74BF1015 Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:41:04 -0500 A former SF State information security officer claimed in a lawsuit that she was fired in a University attempt to sweep "under the rug" a 2014 hack involving a significant student records breach including financial records and password reset functions. "We’ve had minor cases," former employee Mignon Hofmann said of her work at SF State. "This was the most severe case I’ve ever seen." The suit, filed in January at the San Francisco Superior Court, accused the University and Board of Trustees of California State University of wrongful termination and whistleblower retaliation. Hofmann is asking for more than $1 million in lost pension, lost past and future earnings and emotional distress, according to court documents. http://goldengatexpress.org/2016/08/30/fired-employee-sues-sf-state-for-1-million-after-alleged-hack/ 65C68A01-985C-483F-BF3E-16B261528984 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:26:47 -0500 Syracuse University is being investigated by the Department of Education for its handling of a sexual assault case after a former student filed a Title IX complaint with the department’s Office of Civil Rights. The complaint alleges that the university failed to "respond promptly or equitably" to a report of sexual assault made on or about May 5, 2015, according to documents obtained by The Daily Orange through the Freedom of Information Act. Further details of the incident were not provided in the request because the investigation is ongoing. http://dailyorange.com/2016/08/syracuse-university-under-federal-investigation-for-its-handling-of-sexual-assault/ BD8FA9BA-C3E6-42C4-ADAF-2D93EED1380A Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:52:22 -0500 The University of Colorado has paid a former business school staffer $40,000 to settle a federal gender discrimination complaint. Robin Miglarese, the former associate director of operations in executive education for the Leeds School of Business, filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She says she resigned because Dean David Ikenberry and other officials created a hostile work environment and discriminated against her for being female and over the age of 40. http://gazette.com/cu-business-school-settles-discrimination-suit-for-40000/article/1583945 4DACC54B-C1A8-467A-9469-939641084651 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:05:11 -0500 A former University of Cincinnati classics professor pleaded guilty to trading child pornography over the internet Monday in federal court, and could have been taken in custody immediately due to a bond violation. Holt Parker, 59, appeared before Judge Timothy S. Black in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati and changed his plea from not guilty to guilty as part of a proposed plea agreement. He admitted in court that he had possessed and traded images and videos of children engaging in sexual activity and was ready to take responsibility for the crime. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/08/29/ex-uc-professor-plead-child-porn-case/89540274/ 4F9E9874-51FD-421D-9AFD-C9C38EAD701A Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:01:54 -0500 A federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina system cannot enforce the part of the state’s so-called "bathroom bill" that restricts which restrooms transgender people can use, a controversial provision that prompted boycotts, outrage and a Justice Department lawsuit. Until a final decision is reached in the case, the schools -- which have said they are caught between conflicting state and federal mandates -- cannot enforce the law’s language ordering people to only use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates, District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder wrote in an 83-page order issued Friday afternoon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/26/federal-judge-says-unc-cant-enforce-restroom-restrictions-in-north-carolinas-bathroom-bill/?utm_term=.b17ffea8197f F6CD6B28-C088-485B-80EA-46CF3D687E57 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 10:04:54 -0500 A prominent southwest university’s medical school could face a criminal probe after it was revealed that students dissected aborted fetal brains and other body parts at a summer camp. The University of New Mexico was accused of illegally transferring fetal tissue by the House Select Panel of Infant Lives in a recent letter to New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. charged the school broke state laws governing the use of aborted fetal tissue it received from Southwestern Women’s Options, which provides late-term abortions. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/25/house-panel-seeks-criminal-charges-for-university-new-mexico-in-abortion-research.html 3938FCF7-F382-4C2B-B18D-FEECBE074163 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:17:08 -0500 A Kennesaw State University worker is suing the school for $1.5 million for claims that she is still being harassed for coming forward about ethics violations by leadership during the past year. Tracy Nunn, who was an administrative assistant to the school's executive director of culinary services, filed the lawsuit Monday in the Superior Court of Fulton County as a violation of the Georgia Whistleblower Protection Act. The lawsuit alleges that her direct supervisor Gary Coltek, director of culinary services, listed Nunn as registered agent for a company, which she didn't know until a TV reporter emailed her with questions in September 2015. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/education/kennesaw-state-employee-files-15-million-whistlebl/nsLMF/ 376F4021-BBA8-4A48-8D53-B1F75D6A6673 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:13:35 -0500 A federal judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction barring federal government agencies from taking action against school districts that don't follow the Obama administration's guidance on transgender bathroom policies in schools. The judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by Texas and several other states challenging the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in schools, colleges and universities. The administration interprets Title IX to include discrimination based on gender identity. The ruling was issued by Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, late Sunday night before many students across Texas and other states commenced their school year. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/transgender-school-bathroom-policy/ 3D87CC3F-3E0C-4A73-9975-3E0BE28CD12B Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:56:40 -0500 A federal judge on Monday declined to grant a preliminary injunction that would have allowed three professors at the University of Texas to ban concealed handguns from their classrooms. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin said he found no precedent for the professors’ argument that they have a right of academic freedom under the First Amendment so broad that it overrides decisions of the Legislature and the university that employs them. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/judge-rules-against-ut-professors-seeking-to-ban-g/nsKYM/ BA46739B-E73F-406B-A8CE-21B2184C697F Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:40:00 -0500 A Philadelphia man who claimed he was falsely arrested as the result of lies by Drexel University police in an alleged racial profiling incident will get another shot at suing the school. A state Superior Court panel gave Troy Demby that chance this week by reversing a Philadelphia judge's dismissal of the complaint he filed against the school and its cops over a December 2011 incident on campus that involved his brother. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/08/false_arrest_racial_profiling.html 3055C018-F6B6-4D1B-883A-74CDF3D9E034 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:02:04 -0500 The U.S. Department of Education is investigating how the University of Maryland, Baltimore County handles reports of sexual assault after an attorney filed a complaint alleging that the university mishandled a student's case. Attorney Wendy Murphy, who is representing the UMBC student, said the student was drugged, raped and beaten by a fellow student on campus last year. She declined to be more specific about the date. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-umbc-ocr-investigation-20160816-story.html 7C6C549A-A07D-4F44-A3EC-B21CD385715C Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:21:01 -0500 Today, Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) became the first and only institution of higher education to challenge in court a 2011 mandate from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that colleges and universities adjudicate sexual misconduct allegations using the low, "preponderance of the evidence" standard. This mandate for institutions governed by Title IX --all but a few colleges and universities nationwide, whether private or public -- was first announced in OCR’s April 4, 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter (DCL). https://www.thefire.org/oklahoma-wesleyan-joins-lawsuit-challenging-2011-dear-colleague-letter/ 9193E8B9-D86C-4A57-A598-8E71DAA8BFA4 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:57:36 -0500 A federal judge dismissed the civil-rights lawsuit filed by Ohio State University's fired marching band director Friday, putting an almost certain end to Jonathan Waters' two-year legal fight. Waters was fired in July 2014 for ignoring a "sexualized culture" inside what's known to fans as The Best Damn Band in the Land. He denied wrongdoing and sued for reinstatement and damages alleging reverse gender-discrimination. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-tosses-fired-band-directors-suit-ohio-state-41333693 C9FD8B82-275C-49FF-A475-6B77A629D313 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:01:31 -0500 An audit report released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General could potentially trigger efforts in Congress to eliminate a critical legal requirement for college programs to receive federal Title IV student grants and loans. That would be a dangerous development, according to a long-time higher education policy expert who provided me with the statement below. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/risks-of-fraud-in-compete_b_11461358.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202016-08-12%20Higher%20Ed%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue%3A6882%5D&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20Higher%20Ed D4E73C31-A3C2-47DD-82D9-A948332F0F6A Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:27:19 -0500 More leading universities have been sued on claims that their retirement plans charged employees excessive fees, following a series of similar suits filed earlier this week. In the latest round, complaints were filed in various federal courts on behalf of employees at Duke, Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt. The earlier lawsuits were filed against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Yale on Tuesday. All of the complaints seek class-action status. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/business/employees-sue-four-more-universities-over-retirement-plan-fees.html?_r=2 2A95E79B-0563-4C14-AB48-C38E736942AD Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:53:39 -0500 The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against New Mexico State University Thursday, alleging that the school discriminated against a former female assistant track coach. The DOJ says that NMSU and its Board of Regents paid the coach less than similarly-situated men, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The department says NMSU paid Coach Mary Harkins thousands of dollars less per year than it paid two male assistant track coaches with similar responsibilities. http://krqe.com/2016/08/11/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-new-mexico-state-university/ C172D01A-73C7-41B8-B413-8D51D650B5AD Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:00:29 -0500 The University at Buffalo has been added to a growing list of colleges under investigation for their handling of sexual assault allegations. The inquiry into UB’s case began in May. The federal civil rights agency is examining whether the university violated any laws in handling the case of a female student who accused a male student of sexually abusing her in a dorm room. The woman made the allegation to university staff last semester, and the case was referred to the university student judicial system. http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/university-at-buffalo/feds-investigating-ubs-handling-of-students-allegation-of-sexual-assault-20160811 C8BE2661-AAF3-4BB9-A2D9-221669CFCFEB Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:51:18 -0500 A former Western Kentucky University swimmer has reached a settlement in a lawsuit in which he claimed to have been hazed and assaulted by his teammates. Collin Craig had alleged that he was abused physically and mentally and suffered discrimination on the basis of sex. He reported multiple cases of assaults and hazing. Following a Title IX investigation last year that concluded policies were violated, the university suspended the swimming and diving programs for five years. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/former-swimmer-university-reach-settlement-in-hazing-case/article_e4c3d9ad-9848-56f4-94ba-697a4521417b.html 9446DDBA-B7BC-4ED5-BDF3-9F4207A1B418 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:52:39 -0500 A biochemistry professor at George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC, has settled a lawsuit with his institution over how it handled allegations of misconduct leveled against him. Rakesh Kumar sued GW for $8 million in January 2015, accusing the university of taking away his position as chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology without following proper protocol. He served as the department chair from March 2009 until July 2014, when the university began investigating problems in his lab. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/08/washington-university-biochemistry-professor-sues-over-alleged-misconduct 2D535834-F591-4C60-957F-8E10C42B0693 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:08:45 -0500 The University of Kentucky will pursue legal action against the independent student newspaper, The Kentucky Kernel, after Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear sided with the newspaper on an open records request. In April, the paper sent an open records request to the university asking for documents regarding allegations of sexual harassment by a tenured faculty member. The university sent some documents, but not others. The Kernel's staff appealed to the attorney general's office to force the university to release the rest of the documents. On Monday, Beshear announced he had sided with the Kernel. http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/University-of-Kentucky-will-sue-student-newspaper-over-open-records-dispute-389662001.html 1CE8234D-2B5C-482F-B48E-D21A008EAC6E Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:17:05 -0500 Three professors duking it out in court for the right to ban guns in their classrooms were told Monday they will be punished if they do, according to the latest legal back-and-forth prompted by Texas' new campus carry law. "Faculty members are aware that state law provides that guns can be carried on campus, and that the president has not made a rule excluding them from classrooms," attorneys representing the University of Texas at Austin and Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a legal brief filed Monday. "As a result, any individual professor who attempts to establish such prohibition is subject to discipline." http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20160809-professors-who-ban-guns-in-their-classrooms-will-be-punished-ut-lawyer-says.ece?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202016-08-10%20Higher%20Ed%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue%3A6845%5D&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20Higher%20Ed 5BC62765-2279-4C76-B449-92EE6F563576 Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:10:22 -0500 Three prominent universities were sued on Tuesday, accused of allowing their employees to be charged excessive fees on their retirement savings. The complaints allege that the universities, as the plan sponsors, failed to monitor excessive fees paid to administer the plans and did not replace more expensive, poor-performing investments with cheaper ones. Had the plans eliminated their long lists of investment options and used their bargaining power to cut costs, the complaints argue, participants could have collectively saved tens of millions of dollars. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/your-money/mit-nyu-yale-sued-4013b-retirement-plan-fees-tiaa-fidelity.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160809&nlid=62968283&tntemail0=y&_r=2&referer= 686325C0-3B76-4709-86FC-15A31829282C Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:07:11 -0500 Brigham Young University is the target of a federal investigation for how it responds to reports of sexual assault. The university learned Thursday afternoon it is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, according to an announcement posted Monday afternoon on the university’s website. The investigation comes after a complaint was filed on April 18. http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/college/byu/byu-under-federal-investigation-for-how-it-handles-sexual-assault/article_1e4a4df9-fade-514f-bcef-addf22c54bb1.html ACA0FE73-AF04-4BC1-8EC8-909569BF835B Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:27:01 -0500 Members of Alabama’s coordinating board for higher education were taken aback this past legislative session, when a Senate bill created to give the state’s two-year college system more power threatened to remove the system from the supervision of the board in its entirety. Senate Bill 246, introduced by Sens. Trip Pittman, R-Daphne, and Del Marsh, R-Anniston, was drafted to establish the Alabama Community College System as a corporate body -- providing for the system powers similar to those held by four-year institutions, and to grant it the authority to allocate funds to the system’s colleges and to create procedures for employee discipline and termination. http://www.oanow.com/news/lee_county/ache-director-reflects-on-failed-bill-that-would-have-removed/article_22c9c60c-5c43-11e6-9c5e-5b26cd23feb6.html D5B86A1E-74A5-4A1A-81D9-E131A7236692 Sat, 6 Aug 2016 07:36:35 -0500 Arkansas State University confirmed Thursday that former Chancellor Dr. Tim Hudson was the focus of a second internal audit at the time of his resignation. The documents, which were released following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Region 8 News, "noted occurrences of potential noncompliance with a State of Arkansas law." The audit stated Hudson "appeared to use his position to secure financial assistance for a family member" who was unnamed. http://www.kait8.com/story/32685865/a-state-hudson-focus-of-second-internal-audit-when-he-resigned?sf32536458=1 488D90E8-46CE-4286-9264-A2F27D301350 Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:19:15 -0500 A University of Hawaii professor pleaded not guilty today in federal court to charges of possessing and transporting child pornography. A federal grand jury indictment that was unsealed today charges Beei-Huan Chao, 61, with one count of distributing "visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, namely, approximately 14 videos." The indictment says that on or about Feb. 11, Chao knowingly transported and shipped the material. Chao is a mechanical engineering professor at UH-Manoa. A university spokesman said the professor was placed on paid administrative leave this morning. http://www.staradvertiser.com/breaking-news/uh-professor-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-porn-charges/ FC1D3D01-5F44-4E39-AAD5-F27F7A833117 Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:32:07 -0500 A University of New Mexico professor who was suspended and censured after a sexual harassment investigation that involved interviews of students and faculty will return to the classroom this fall, albeit under supervision. UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah, in a statement to the Journal, on Wednesday acknowledged the case involving assistant anthropology professor Cristobal Valencia and said the university’s goal was to "prevent future misconduct." Meanwhile, the director of the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico said UNM’s actions in this case would be "terrifying" for the victims. http://www.abqjournal.com/820000/censured-prof-returns-after-sex-harassment-probe.html C52A3FB3-4832-4FCE-A58A-AC61DB8532BD Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:30:00 -0500 A former Kent State University softball player who filed a lawsuit accusing the university and her former coach of not properly responding to allegations that she was raped by the coach's son now says she is not receiving public records from the college. Senior Laura Kesterson filed a complaint Tuesday with the Ohio Supreme Court, asking the court to force the university to provide public documents about how it handled her rape report. Kesterson filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in February, saying former varsity softball coach Karen Linder pressured her to keep quiet in spring 2014 after she reported that she was raped in 2012. The lawsuit said Linder never reported the incident to the university. http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/former-kent-state-university-softball-player-sues-ksu-former-coach-claiming-her-report-of-rape-was-mishandled-1.660751 497DA464-F3A8-4747-BAB6-AD6E3CF4077F Wed, 3 Aug 2016 08:05:13 -0500 Associate Professor of Biology Robert Dillon will not return to his lab or the classroom this fall after he locked horns with college leaders in the spring in an obscure battle over a course syllabus. Dillon said he intends to retire on Aug. 15. He is also suing the college and Provost Brian McGee, saying that the college defamed him and denied him due process. College leaders wanted Dillon to include a list of "student learning outcomes" on the syllabus for his Biology 305 genetics lab, in keeping with the latest accreditation standards. Dillon refused. http://www.postandcourier.com/20160803/160809805/ousted-biology-professor-suing-college-of-charleston-after-syllabus-fight 566BF750-0668-469F-940C-BD885F7FB568 Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:57:12 -0500 Kennesaw State University has fired softball head coach Torrence "Tory" Acheson after an investigation by the University's Office of Title IX found Acheson violated its Sexual Misconduct Policy by making inappropriate comments to members of the team. The investigation also uncovered systematic problems with how the complaints were handled. http://www.11alive.com/news/ksu-fires-softball-coach-for-sexual-misconduct-with-players/286770140 A0612D04-FE6D-48D4-8578-9095EC840575 Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:55:00 -0500 A longtime University of Virginia film professor was arrested Tuesday amid allegations that he was in possession of child pornography. Walter Francis Korte, Jr., 72, was arrested and charged with two counts of possessing child pornography after police obtained warrants and searched his campus office and his home on Fosters Branch Road in Albemarle County. Korte was taken to the Albemarle County Regional Jail, where is being held without bond. A trial has been scheduled for Sep. 12. His attorney could not be immediately identified. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/03/long-time-u-va-film-professor-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/ E6C3C3DD-DF50-48AF-BD81-7F6BFE7A5690 Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:11:03 -0500 North Carolina is challenging the NCAA's jurisdiction to pursue charges in the school's long-running academic fraud scandal and is holding off on self-imposed penalties. The school on Tuesday publicly released its response to five potentially top-level NCAA charges, which include lack of institutional control. UNC acknowledged problems tied to irregular courses in a department popular with athletes but also available to non-athletes on the Chapel Hill campus, though it argued that its accreditation agency -- not the NCAA -- was the proper authority to handle such a matter. http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-north-carolina-ncaa-jurisdiction-20160802-snap-story.html 0FA49F5F-CDAB-4B68-9896-A60E0CB49E3C Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:33:15 -0500 Merced College President Susan Walsh broke her silence Tuesday to address an investigation on campus with an email sent to staff and faculty. The email discussed the college’s decision to hire a private detective in March to investigate an anonymous letter, a move the Sun-Star confirmed by obtaining an invoice through a public records request. Merced County Sheriff Sgt. Vince Gallagher, the campus’s former chief, told the Sun-Star campus officials were looking to see if any campus employees were behind the letter, however administrators denied that was their motive. In the morning email, Walsh cited the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as a reason to stay mum over the investigation of an anonymous letter and Merced-based private investigator Cen Cal Investigations, which conducted a "latent fingerprint" search on March 31. http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/education/article93374937.html C93BB794-8FE7-461B-88D7-D9721C6AF0A1 Tue, 2 Aug 2016 08:38:43 -0500 Two men connected with the Temple University Police Department have been charged with murder, according to court records. Aaron Wright, 47, and Marquis Robinson, 41, are charged with six criminal counts including murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy, and abuse of a corpse. Their addresses were unavailable Sunday. Wright was an officer with the university police department until he was dismissed in 2012, Temple University spokesman Ray Betzner said Sunday. Betzner would not say why Wright was fired. Robinson was an officer with the department until Sunday, when he was fired because of the charges against him, Betzner said. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160801_Two_former_Temple_University_cops_charged_with_killing.html 00F08D9F-00C6-4214-A6B6-B95837A59825 Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:15:39 -0500 In a significant ruling on the issue of Title IX in campus sexual assault investigations, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today vacated a district court decision and will allow a male student's lawsuit against Columbia University to proceed. The Second Circuit clarified the standard for accused students pleading a violation of Title IX, and suggests the possibility of a Title VII framework, which would be much better for males suing schools due to alleged sexual discrimination. The student claims Columbia University violated his due process rights and discriminated against him based on his gender in a wrongful sexual misconduct investigation that resulted in his suspension. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/federal-appeals-court-reinstates-accused-male-students-title-ix-lawsuit-against-columbia-university-300306385.html 1BCCB963-9DD6-4D9F-8154-89114EFAD2C6 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:23:31 -0500 A petition by a fired Baylor athletic staff member filed in Dallas County on Wednesday could provide insight into the university's sexual assault scandal. Thomas Hill, who spent 28 years at Baylor and was recently the university's associate athletic director for community relations and special projects, filed a Rule 202 petition to depose three Baylor Board of Regents members to find out why he was fired. http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/baylorbears/2016/07/28/fired-baylor-stafferfiles-petition-info-says-ex-ad-football-coach-knew-alleged-assault 038506AE-EC23-4610-B217-A2F016F4159B Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:52:24 -0500 The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a new sexual assault investigation at the University of Virginia, according to a report obtained Thursday. Department’s spokeswoman Dorie Turner Nolt confirmed Thursday that the office had opened a Title IX investigation at UVa on July 22. Nolt said the investigation involves facts that were not covered as part of the office’s investigation into Title IX violations at UVa that was launched in 2011 and ended in September. http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_be3ff9c4-cc3f-5a04-9ac2-0256cabf51f1.html 9807D7C5-B107-4204-9017-B9A46886B2ED Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:31:42 -0500 Baltimore County police have charged two men in connection with an incident in March that seriously injured a Towson University student. Investigators said a 19-year-old man who is a Towson student attended an initiation event on March 31 for the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Police said the victim was made to perform strenuous workouts, recite knowledge of the fraternity and drink unknown substances. After the event, the victim became extremely ill and was hospitalized. Evan Palmer Francis, 21, of Olney, and Alexander James Cantor, 21, of Bel Air, have been charged with hazing and reckless endangerment. Francis was released on $35,000 bail, and Cantor was released on $50,000 bail. Trials are set for both men on Sept. 19. http://www.wbaltv.com/news/2-men-charged-with-hazing-in-towson-university-case/40911840 4772C6DE-769C-4DEB-8213-01A147378589 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:29:00 -0500 Four Radford University students, all members of a now-disbanded fraternity, pleaded guilty Thursday to hazing and alcohol charges related to making pledges do push-ups on bottle caps, and other painful and humiliating initiation rituals. In a Radford General District Court hearing, Theodore Eugene Anna and Andrew Morgan Piccione pleaded guilty to hazing, and Jesse Vaughn Leasure and Evan Ross Satterley pleaded guilty to hazing and also to purchasing alcohol for underaged persons. http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/radford/radford-university-frat-hazing-case-four-plead-guilty-each-to/article_5829f30f-a85d-5b42-b0b9-83e3a9646799.html FC69682F-1A60-4468-BEB3-329EBE552C50 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:28:35 -0500 The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011. The school struck a deal with Jennifer Dibbern shortly before a June trial and after a federal judge dismissed most claims. She had accused the university of retaliating against her for union activity and efforts to change the campus anti-harassment policy. The university denied any wrongdoing and said Dibbern wasn’t making enough progress toward a doctorate degree after four years, among other issues. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/07/27/university-michigan-settle-lawsuit-dismissed-student/87612326/ 26525464-A0E7-4ACD-A084-3BA8F4FE5189 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:14:50 -0500 The University of Utah is being investigated by the federal government after a complaint from graduate Nisha Kavalam who said the school mishandled her sexual assault investigation. Kavalam, who graduated in December with a degree in social work, says she reported to the U. a few weeks after being sexually assaulted by a fellow student in February 2015. Under Title IX, a federal law that bars sexual discrimination, schools have an obligation to swiftly investigate reports of sexual assault. The school took more than a year to find the perpetrator, she said, so in May she filed a federal complaint with the education department's Office for Civil Rights. http://www.sltrib.com/home/4159470-155/university-of-utah-under-federal-investigation 0244BFC9-672F-449E-89AC-B789ABFCFDBD Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:57:06 -0500 A former University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey player who was charged with and then acquitted of rape says the statewide college system refuses to hand over his petroleum engineering degree. Nolan Youngmun, through his attorney William Ingaldson, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the University of Alaska and three individuals, who he argues are unreasonably withholding his bachelor's degree. Former UAF chancellor Brian Rogers, interim chancellor Michael Powers and the university's Title IX coordinator Mae Marsh are named as co-defendants in the suit, which also seeks more than $100,000 in damages. http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/07/24/former-uaf-hockey-player-acquitted-of-rape-says-the-university-wont-give-him-his-degree/ B9AAA519-DDE4-48C1-B8F1-917EF19349A3 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:56:39 -0500 In early April, shortly after his team celebrated a postseason championship, a George Washington men’s basketball player visited a campus Title IX coordinator to log complaints about Coach Mike Lonergan. Lonergan, the player believed, had created an offensive, uncomfortable environment, evidenced in his mind -- and in the minds of many of his teammates -- by the spate of transfers during the coach’s five-year tenure. When the player shared the complaints, which included Lonergan making repeated graphic remarks about the school’s athletic director, Title IX coordinator Rory Muhammad’s response surprised him. The player was told, he later recalled, that the school had looked into Lonergan’s behavior previously and that the issue had been "handled." https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/gw-basketball-players-report-coachs-verbal-and-emotional-abuse-many-fled-school/2016/07/21/b7d5bd12-4dae-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html#comments 1429BDFA-394B-4955-9134-969DFE160010 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:55:59 -0500 A student Christian organization at N.C. State University says it has dropped its lawsuit against four campus administrators because the university has changed its policies on student speech on campus. Grace Christian Life argued that requiring students to get a permit to pass out pamphlets and fliers on campus violated free speech rights and that administrators enforced the rule unfairly. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article90609907.html B8850574-B7C9-40AD-A645-7537DA967D9A Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:51:35 -0500 Two former University of Oregon Counseling & Testing Center employees, who blew the whistle on a superior they said accessed an alleged rape victim's health records without her consent, settled a lawsuit with the school Sunday. In their lawsuit, Jennifer Morlok and Karen Stokes said they were retaliated against by coworkers after raising concerns about the university accessing a student's health records without her consent. School officials maintained they did nothing improper by accessing the files as they prepared for the woman's suit against the university. http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/07/uo_settles_lawsuit_with_2_form.html E5E71ADE-A20C-4B16-B945-22BA3A7810E3 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:53:12 -0500 Monroe County prosecutors filed charges Thursday against a former senior lecturer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Guo Ping Wang is charged with sexual battery and criminal confinement, both felonies. A warrant was issued for his arrest. According to court documents filed Thursday, Wang approached a student after Nutcracker rehearsals at the IU Musical Arts Center in November 2015, and asked her to "stay to work on her technique." Wang attempted to kiss the student and when she got up to leave, he stood between her and the only door to the office, according to the probable cause affidavit. http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/ex-iu-professor-charged-with-sexual-battery 3CCDAD1A-C458-42D7-823E-1057E9116415 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:52:57 -0500 Five people charged in the sexual assault of a woman at Ramapo College appeared in Bergen County Superior Court Monday where they entered not guilty pleas and were offered plea deals by the prosecutor to consider. The charges date to a November 2014 incident in which the victim attended a fraternity party and woke up the next morning undressed in a dorm room, believing she had been sexually assaulted. She went to Hackensack University Medical Center where medical personnel found she had lacerations consistent with non-consensual sex. http://www.northjersey.com/news/five-accused-in-alleged-ramapo-college-sex-assault-are-offered-plea-deals-1.1628730 1AC9BC49-A560-4AB5-80CA-ADBDE209A70D Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:38:19 -0500 The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today that it has entered into a resolution agreement with Minot State University, North Dakota, after finding the university in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. OCR found that the university failed to process a complaint brought by a former student (Student A) who reported that during her time at the school, she had been sexually assaulted for over two years by one of her professors. Despite the serious nature of the complaint, OCR determined that Minot State did not take any steps to address the effects of the hostile environment to which the student reported she had been subjected. http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-education-department-settles-sexual-assault-case-minot-state-university-nd 9DD3FDFD-2169-423C-A7E0-1F9A5D14C125 Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:19:39 -0500 A former student of Jacksonville State University has filed a federal lawsuit against the university and others alleging discrimination while he was a member of the school's Marching Southerners band. Lawyers for Jalen Green, a student who withdrew from JSU last December, filed the 38-page suit June 28 in U.S. District Court. It names as defendants the school, band director Kenneth Bodiford, vice president of student affairs Timothy King, an instructor and two students, along with any students to be named later. It alleges violations of the student's first and 14th amendment rights, saying Green was subjected to a "racially hostile educational environment, disparate treatment, and "threats of violence for speaking out against the discrimination." It seeks punitive and compensatory damages. http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2016/07/former_jsu_student_alleges_rac.html#incart_river_home BA7828E3-78B1-445D-BDE3-E64CA94CB855 Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:41:44 -0500 Kansas State University’s policy not to investigate accusations of rape in off-campus fraternity houses is "incorrect," according to federal government statements filed in court in support of two female students at the university. Their federal lawsuits, filed in Kansas in April, say the university violated Title IX, by failing to respond to their complaints of rape. Responding to the lawsuits, the university argued in court that the cases should be dismissed because it is not legally responsible for reports of student-on-student rape at "off-campus" fraternity houses or events. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/us-instructs-kansas-state-to-heed-reports-of-off-campus-rape.html?_r=1 D4D78E05-9173-44EC-B289-10929C969191 Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:00:21 -0500 The University of Tennessee has reached a financial settlement with a group of women who sued the school in federal court for the way it handled their allegations of sexual assaults by student-athletes. According to documents obtained by ESPN, the university will pay the eight women $2.48 million. On Feb. 9, a group of six unidentified women filed a federal civil lawsuit against Tennessee, alleging that the school violated Title IX regulations and created a "hostile sexual environment" through a policy of indifference toward assaults by student-athletes. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/16809872/university-tennessee-reaches-financial-settlement-lawsuit-regarding-school-handling-sexual-assault-cases 75B41D8F-D79B-4198-B139-4A994818E5EE Tue, 5 Jul 2016 07:42:52 -0500 Already the efforts of this White House have dramatically transformed the way colleges and universities respond to allegations of sexual misconduct. The Education Department has 253 ongoing investigations at 198 postsecondary institutions into the handling of sexual violence. Hundreds of schools have taken steps to make it easier to report allegations and discipline offenders. Many schools have appointed a specific officer to receive complaints and have determined that a "preponderance of evidence" is enough to establish that misconduct occurred, a less rigorous evidentiary standard than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" that applies in most criminal cases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-and-obama-rewrite-the-rulebook-on-college-sexual-assaults/2016/07/03/0773302e-3654-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html BF54192B-CB2D-4A61-94C8-8D2C9582EC2E Sun, 3 Jul 2016 09:32:45 -0500 At one university, a garbage can blocked access to the paper towels, a table was placed in front of the automatic door button, students in wheelchairs couldn’t access the accessible sink in a science lab because of a trash can’s placement, and staff sometimes plowed snow into disabled parking spaces or access lanes. These common oversights can occur even on campuses where leaders believe they have complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. To avoid running afoul of the law, constant vigilance and ongoing review are essential because there are so many factors to consider -- from what the law covers to how to best put accommodations into practice. http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/ada-compliance-across-campus 9020856E-E50A-4956-B581-2CDABF06DA89 Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:19:32 -0500 The University of Washington says a microbiology professor faces possible discipline for violating sexual harassment policies. As detailed in a report on BuzzFeed this week, university investigations found Dr. Michael Katze demanded and received sexual favors from an employee in his lab. Investigators found that the woman, who had little prior job experience and performed little work in the office, was paid 12 percent more than the university's average for her position, and received gifts and vacations from the professor. http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/uw-professor-faces-discipline-for-sexual-harassment-allegations/375144467 C075D83C-4AFB-44C1-891B-C87B1F50E266 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:50:42 -0500 For nearly four years, NCAA Case No. 189693 trudged on without much notice outside of the state of Mississippi and college football circles. The NCAA's investigation into the University of Mississippi's athletic department includes allegations of academic fraud, illicit booster involvement and significant extra benefits in its football program. As the school shielded NCAA documents from public record and consistently downplayed the severity of the investigation, a veil of mystery hung over the case. http://www.campusrush.com/ole-miss-rebels-hugh-freeze-laremy-tunsil-ncaa-1891313640.html 089F4DA4-DC0D-43A1-B848-0E82F120E822 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:13:04 -0500 For the third time in as many months, Ball State University police have arrested a staff member in a child pornography investigation. Robert Yadon -- until recently a professor of information and communications sciences -- was taken into custody Monday, preliminarily charged with 10 counts of child exploitation. In a press release, campus officials said Yadon had been barred from the campus on June 21 as a result of the investigation. Monday’s arrest followed two others of Ball State staffers in recent weeks. http://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/27/ball-state-police-arrest-ex-prof-child-porn-probe/86446610/ 61EA8846-4BBF-40A1-820E-BA60B0AB528E Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:40:02 -0500 Last Wednesday, Georgia Tech Police arrested a 52-year-old man employed by the school’s Department of Housing and charged him with sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery. A police report indicated the associated incident occurred between 52-year-old Ernest Olivares of Powder Springs and a female subordinate employee on campus on the afternoon of June 8. No students were involved in the incident. http://www.11alive.com/news/crime/georgia-tech-housing-employee-charged-with-sexual-battery/257392817 ABA1BFC6-D780-4116-8516-2F6B1C6DE89B Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:09:28 -0500 A former Indiana University student who was charged in connection with two rape cases in September 2015 accepted a plea deal and was sentenced Thursday, June 23rd. John Enochs will serve one year of probation after accepting the plea deal. Enochs agreed to plead guilty to battery with moderate bodily injury (a class A misdemeanor) and his two rape charges were dismissed. Court records show he spent one day in jail. According to court documents, the victim told police she’d been raped at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, but didn’t know her alleged attacker. http://fox6now.com/2016/06/26/former-indiana-university-student-charged-in-two-rape-cases-sentenced-to-probation/ C9D55764-9CBA-4DD3-A845-89306F605B06 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 07:40:55 -0500 A former University of Arizona professor plans to file a $3.6 million lawsuit against the school for releasing a confidential report that alleged he violated the school’s sexual harassment policy. Timothy Slater, a professor at the University of Wyoming and former professor of astronomy at the UA from 2001-2008, denies allegations included in the 2005 report from the UA’s Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office. The report found he created a sexually charged environment among his students. http://tucson.com/news/local/watchdog/former-ua-professor-to-sue-university-in-defamation-suit/article_13a54b76-8492-56f8-9ed4-e6fdd76ddd59.html 719F0F1D-D8BF-4C6A-9BB3-C410DEBDD670 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:40:18 -0500 The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas, Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory. The case concerned the University of Texas’s idiosyncratic admissions program. Most applicants from within the state are admitted under a part of the program that guarantees admission to top students in every high school in the state. (This is often called the Top 10 Percent program, though the percentage cutoff can vary by year.) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html?_r=0 D5FC2435-3EFD-47C3-AFFF-99A511F4E275 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:44:23 -0500 A new lawsuit filed on Monday by a former Baylor student -- the third of its kind -- claims that Baylor "created a hunting ground for sexual predators to freely prey upon innocent, unsuspecting female students, with no concern of reprisal or consequences." This specific suit involves a woman who says she was drugged and abducted in February 2015 at an off-campus residence called the Rugby House. (The alleged assailant was not a member of the rugby team.) http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/06/baylor-called-a-hunting-ground-for-rapists.html 36465B60-D1B6-4152-BAE7-45DECF4C0561 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:55:13 -0500 A former employee of Skidmore College will serve 4-12 years in prison and pay more than $258,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to stealing from the college. Clifford Williams admitted in April that he stole more than $258,000 in electronics from Skidmore between January 2011 and September 2015. State police say the Rensselaer County resident would order and purchase the equipment using a college credit card, and then take the items home. They say he manipulated business records at the college to cover up the thefts. http://cbs6albany.com/news/local/former-skidmore-employee-sentenced-for-stealing-from-college 6C1849FA-BCD5-4603-B8F6-1CD6BBECD3DD Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:49:08 -0500 As lawmakers across the United States battle over whether to allow transgender Americans to use public restrooms that match their gender identities, universities are scrambling to ensure that dorms meet federal standards. At a time of year when the nation's 2,100 residential colleges and universities are sorting out student housing assignments, they also are poring over a May letter from the Obama administration that thrusts them into the national debate on transgender rights. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-education-idUSKCN0YW15P 4CC631C8-3D52-4331-ACF9-AEC01E2867D1 Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:01:46 -0500 A Tennessee jury has found former Vanderbilt football player Brandon Vandenburg guilty of multiple counts of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery in a case that stems from the 2013 gang rape of a woman he had been dating. Vandenburg and another former player, Corey Batey, had been convicted in January 2015, as The Two-Way reported. But a judge declared a mistrial last June, after it emerged that one of the jurors had not disclosed that he had been raped. Batey was convicted again in April, The Associated Press reported. Two other defendants are awaiting trial. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/19/482678701/former-vanderbilt-university-football-player-found-guilty-of-rape-again B8F54275-C7E9-424A-AD68-B25608B03479 Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:39:10 -0500 Though Baylor University has made national headlines for mishandling sexual assault complaints and neglecting related laws, it is not one of 195 institutions of higher education under federal Title IX investigation. http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/baylor-not-under-federal-title-ix-investigation-as-scandal-unfolds/article_8769cf55-7ccd-5428-99cc-16e7bec1ccba.html DF3309E6-0C98-47A4-A586-1238641B89A3 Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:37:15 -0500 A recent University of Virginia law school graduate is challenging a federal directive that transformed the way colleges evaluate allegations of sexual assault on campus. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the plaintiff -- who was accused of and found responsible for sexual misconduct, and who uses the pseudonym "John Doe" in court papers to protect his identity and that of his accuser -- argues that a 2011 letter from the U.S. Department of Education was a mandate improperly imposed on universities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/16/former-u-va-law-student-files-suit-challenging-federal-sexual-assault-directive/ 62B0ACE3-A56E-4BA1-9A9F-11888232DD70 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:09:25 -0500 The Blacksburg Police Department has reopened a criminal investigation into hazing allegations at Virginia Tech after details of repeated beatings within the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity were made public. Tech completed its own investigation in April, found the fraternity in violation and barred it from campus for 10 years. But the university did not report its findings to the county prosecutor -- as required by Virginia law -- for two months, according to emails obtained through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/police-investigation-of-virginia-tech-fraternity-reopened/article_5f576868-892c-5d71-9bfb-fa9454936def.html 8B9B1030-0A7D-489A-9C2D-AF076E6B1360 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:49:21 -0500 Six Ferrum College students are indicted by a grand jury after a death investigation of 20-year-old Ferrum College student Michael Walker. Charges show his death could be related to fraternity hazing. According to search warrants, Michael Walker of Cumberland, Virginia was found unresponsive on a porch on April 17th, 2016 after witnesses say he had been heavily drinking all that day. http://wsls.com/2016/06/16/six-students-charged-with-hazing-after-death-of-freshman-ferrum-college-student/ 4DEC737C-88B2-4295-A021-214667879EE3 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:27:08 -0500 Former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague filed a civil complaint against the university and two school officials in U.S. District Court Thursday, alleging he was wrongfully expelled this year amid allegations he engaged in nonconsensual sex. Montague was expelled on Feb. 10 because the university said he had "unconsented-to sex" in fall 2014, according to his Boston attorney, Max Stern. http://www.courant.com/education/hc-yale-montague-complaint-20160609-story.html 3DB7564F-BF93-45EA-B9A9-BD1AE86A9DD2 Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:52:49 -0500 Occidental College failed to address some sexual misconduct complaints promptly but did not otherwise violate federal civil rights laws and voluntarily agreed to reforms, U.S. education officials announced Thursday. The long-awaited resolution of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office came three years after about 50 students and faculty members filed federal complaints that administrators at the Eagle Rock liberal arts school had fostered a hostile environment for victims of sexual assault. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-occidental-sex-assault-20160609-snap-story.html 7AC782E2-5020-481C-B7D9-46D73296F9EE Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:49:56 -0500 A new law signed by Governor Nikki Haley will require colleges to publicly post conduct violations for on-campus organizations. Haley signed the "Tucker Hipps Transparency Act" on Thursday, which is named for the Clemson University student whose body was found in Lake Hartwell in 2014. The bill unanimously passed the state Senate earlier this week. http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/32188488/gov-haley-signs-tucker-hipps-transparency-act F81CDA31-476B-451F-AE7A-FB4105BED5AE Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:47:35 -0500 UA professor Franco Parisi is now at the center of a Title IX investigation launched against Lance Nail, a former dean of the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, according to a report from TV station KCBD in Lubbock, Texas. The investigation comes as a result of allegations stating that Nail knew about and hid multiple incidences of sexual harassment committed by Parisi, who served as a visiting International Scholar from Chile in 2014. Parisi is now a professor of finance at The University of Alabama. http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2016/06/ua-professor-involved-in-texas-tech-title-ix-investigation 23BAB20C-9AE6-4254-A70F-2DD6BEB0F5F6 Tue, 7 Jun 2016 11:41:01 -0500 Widespread outrage has erupted over a California judge's decision to give a former Stanford University swimmer a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Critics are blasting the decision as far too lenient. Prosecutors had asked that Brock Turner be sentenced to six years in prison for the January 2015 assault. Turner, 20, was convicted in March of the intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/ 0EC69372-85F0-4C4E-8334-5D937791DE00 Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:25:56 -0500 Worcester Polytechnic Institute is alleging that a student who was raped during a study abroad program in Puerto Rico in 2012 is partially responsible because she had been drinking that night and chose to follow a stranger onto a dark rooftop, according to recently filed court documents. The college made the arguments in response to a civil suit filed last year in Worcester Superior Court on behalf of the victim. The woman’s suit alleges the college failed to provide a safe environment for students. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/06/college-says-rape-victim-partly-blame/kdx2Wv5c8kHqYniA6a7jTI/story.html 128AEBE1-75F1-4CBB-9028-07DCCBB09E78 Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:19:15 -0500 Former University of South Carolina assistant soccer coach Roberto "Bert" Molinary Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to possessing child pornography obtained over the Internet. It was a co-worker’s tip to university officials that led to a SLED and FBI investigation that resulted in Molinary’s guilty plea, assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Day told U.S. Judge Mary Lewis in a hearing at the U.S. federal courthouse in Columbia. The co-worker, an assistant coach, had observed pornography on Molinary’s school laptop and told school officials, Day told the judge. At the time, Molinary was a trainer for USC’s men’s soccer team. http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article81237002.html 4D912691-9D9E-436F-9D85-10F71A625A94 Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:29:12 -0500 Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, Starr told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday. Starr said in an interview with Outside the Lines that he was resigning effective immediately "as a matter of conscience." After an independent review of Baylor's response to sexual assault allegations, many of them against athletes, Starr had been removed as school president last week, but he was being transitioned into a full-time chancellor role and was allowed to continue to teach at the law school. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/15875833/kenneth-starr-resign-chancellor-baylor-continue-teach E87A89D8-B007-43BF-9134-325A152836A4 Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:14:56 -0500 Kean University flouted state law and its own policies in spending $250,000 for a custom Chinese-made conference table, a state investigation has found. The purchase, first detailed in The Record, was made without needed board approval or competitive bidding at the public university, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Office of the State Comptroller. http://www.northjersey.com/news/state-chastises-university-over-250-000-table-1.1608583 14CC3260-D5EA-4E7B-9A85-3A637E2C7573 Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:12:42 -0500 The University of North Carolina system told a federal court Friday that it won't enforce a law requiring transgender students to use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. The declaration came in a motion asking a federal court to halt civil legal proceedings against the university system while a higher court decides a separate case on transgender rights from Virginia. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unc-system-enforce-transgender-bathroom-rules-39441368 2D417E95-748E-454F-883E-EE7FAD3A8AC0 Fri, 27 May 2016 10:07:03 -0500 Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel who delivered a report that served as the basis for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, was removed as president of Baylor University on Thursday after an investigation found the university mishandled accusations of sexual assault against football players. The university also fired the football coach, Art Briles, whose ascendant program brought in millions of dollars in revenue but was dogged by accusations of sexual assault committed by its players -- an increasingly familiar combination in big-time college sports. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/sports/ncaafootball/baylor-art-briles-kenneth-starr-college-football.html 57CE44B7-189D-4B54-A0DD-1967ED3CA054 Thu, 26 May 2016 10:02:44 -0500 Ole Miss has responded to the list of allegations made against it by the NCAA after a four-year investigation that included more than 265 interviews. The school sent a 154 page response. "The NCAA has alleged, and we agree, that serious violations have occurred." The most serious violations involved academic misconduct that happened in the football program six years ago and in women’s basketball almost four years ago. http://wreg.com/2016/05/27/ole-miss-responds-to-ncaa-allegations-will-self-imposed-penalties/ AB4E6776-73C2-4937-AD20-02BD46BA51E5 Fri, 27 May 2016 08:35:58 -0500 After a seven-day trial and more than three hours of deliberation, a Norfolk jury returned a verdict in favor of Virginia Wesleyan College in the $10 million negligence lawsuit filed against them by Jane Doe. The jury was unanimous in its decision in court on Thursday. Jane Doe, a former student, sued the school for negligence. She claimed that she was raped by another student, known in the lawsuit as Robert Roe, in August of 2012. http://wavy.com/2016/05/26/jury-sides-with-virginia-wesleyan-college-in-10m-lawsuit-case/ 519EDFA7-45DB-447B-8EDE-4B447BA16045 Thu, 26 May 2016 08:56:41 -0500 Nearly four years after a University of Idaho assistant professor was terminated due to allegations of sexual harassment, the institution settled the resulting wrongful termination case with a six-figure settlement. Sanjay Gupta, formerly assistant professor of plant science, and his wife Archana, recently received a $400,000 settlement from the UI in response to their wrongful termination suit. Gupta was fired from his position at the UI in the summer of 2012, after a formal investigation concluded Gupta sexually harassed his accuser, Priyanka Gajjar, who worked for him. http://dnews.com/local/ui-settles-wrongful-termination-suit-for/article_c1a5540f-e373-54a0-9266-a82f6f7ac33e.html F3F1C80A-7F17-454D-B67D-FA3B52088E85 Wed, 25 May 2016 09:06:54 -0500 Former Auburn baseball coach Sunny Golloway filed a civil lawsuit in district court Tuesday against the school. Golloway alleges breach of contract, defamation, fraud and tortuous interference in the 86-page complaint. Auburn’s former baseball coach is seeking the $1 million buyout in his contract along with compensatory and punitive damages against the university for what he describes as "mental anguish, embarrassment, and humiliation." Auburn responded with multiple statements Wednesday night labeling the lawsuit as a diversionary tactic and shakedown attempt. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/sports/college/sec/auburn-university/war-eagle-extra/article79948492.html A723658F-F7D8-4626-8923-584CD6BEC6EC Wed, 25 May 2016 09:00:39 -0500 A Mormon tennis player from Idaho Falls is suing Idaho State University, claiming he was discriminated against because of his faith. Former Hillcrest High School tennis standout Orin Duffin filed suit against the school Friday, alleging he was subject to severe harassment while playing for the men’s tennis team because of his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-daily-email-todays-headlines/2016/05/23/ex-if-tennis-star-sues-isu-discrimination# 1FC6C051-A417-4217-BC0C-80083AAD6011 Mon, 23 May 2016 09:08:31 -0500 A Rockhurst University employee hopes to represent some 1,200 school staffers in seeking damages for a data breach last month. Someone duped university staff into supplying information on IRS W-2 forms, including Social Security numbers, in an act of fraud April 4. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court by Alexandria Stobbe said the university was willful and reckless in exposing the personal information in "flagrant disregard" for the employees’ rights to privacy and property. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article79288922.html 4C7996B7-30FF-45FE-8BC1-5AB75AECDE03 Mon, 23 May 2016 15:55:52 -0500 A federal complaint filed against Yale University claims the Ivy League school violated the gender equity law Title IX multiple times between 2010 and 2015 by mishandling reports that one of its well-known professors, Thomas Pogge, harassed students. Yale paid a former student, Fernanda Lopez Aguilar, $2,000 and instructed her to sign a gag order after she reported in 2010 that Pogge sexually harassed her, the federal complaint alleges. Years later, when multiple additional allegations were shared with Yale administrators detailing claims that Pogge acted inappropriately with other students, the university declined to investigate, saying it did not have jurisdiction, according to emails obtained by The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yale-professor-sexual-harassment_us_573df25be4b0646cbeec673f F4D40139-4B91-4816-BC57-813B4DF668C8 Sun, 22 May 2016 08:53:07 -0500 Rutgers University has settled a lawsuit with former men’s basketball player Derrick Randall for $300,000. Randall filed the suit in 2013, eight months after the university fired basketball coach Mike Rice’s for mistreating his players. The 6-foot-9, 240-pound forward, who has learning disabilities, sought damages for assault and battery, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress, interference with prospective economic advantage, discrimination, and violations of his civil rights and of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. http://www.app.com/story/sports/college/rutgers/2016/05/19/rutgers-pays-300k-former-mike-rice-player-derrick-randall/84577456/ 93BCE346-8190-401E-86D9-7211A85E6423 Thu, 19 May 2016 07:57:02 -0500 As Baylor University's board of regents reviews a law firm's findings about the school's response to sexual violence allegations -- many involving its football players -- Outside the Lines has obtained documents that detail largely unknown allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence and other acts of violence involving several Baylor football players. According to the police documents, at least some Baylor officials, including coaches, knew about many of the incidents, and most players did not miss playing time for disciplinary reasons. None of the incidents has been widely reported in the media. http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/15562625/waco-police-records-reveal-additional-violence-allegations-baylor-football-players FE28B5AC-841B-45CD-876C-D65DC0B1ADD0 Thu, 19 May 2016 08:38:15 -0500 A college professor at the University of Houston was among the more than a dozen individuals arrested Tuesday in connection with an international synthetic marijuana ring. Omar Maher Al Nasser, 36, faces two criminal counts related to a synthetic drug operation detailed by authorities in a lengthy indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Southern District of Texas. Mr. Al Nasser worked as an assistant professor of finance for the University of Houston-Victoria’s School of Business Administration at the time of his arrest, and he was responsible for teaching up to 40 students as of Tuesday, UHV President Vic Morgan told the Victoria Advocate. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/omar-al-nasser-university-houston-professor-arrest/ 88F4E3D1-EB74-41D0-90E9-AB99154DC344 Wed, 18 May 2016 15:46:45 -0500 Several former college football players filed class-action lawsuits Tuesday against their universities, conferences and the N.C.A.A., claiming negligence over their handling of head injuries. The spate of cases - six were filed Tuesday - marks a new effort by athletes seeking financial relief for what they say are the lasting effects from concussions sustained in their college careers. Among the named defendants in the filings are Penn State and Vanderbilt and three major football-playing conferences: the Big Ten, the Southeastern Conference and the Pacific-12. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/sports/ncaafootball/six-head-injury-suits-filed-in-new-front-against-colleges-and-ncaa.html?_r=1 37FB1A10-41B7-44E3-ACEF-5ABC505262FB Tue, 17 May 2016 09:28:48 -0500 A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million in punitive damages to a black professor at William Paterson University who sued the school on allegations that she was harassed and discriminated against because of her race and religion. The award to Althea Hylton-Lindsay was on top of a nearly $1.2 million that the panel in Superior Court in Paterson awarded to her on Wednesday in compensatory damages. http://www.northjersey.com/news/william-paterson-university-professor-awarded-another-1m-in-discrimination-case-1.1602044 43C6091C-15A0-4D8B-B3CC-C8DBAF83C681 Mon, 16 May 2016 09:05:19 -0500 The Obama administration on Friday directed schools across the nation to provide transgender students with access to suitable facilities - including bathrooms and locker rooms - that match their chosen gender identity. The move, which affects all public schools and most colleges and universities that receive federal funds, plunges the administration even further into the country’s ongoing contentious debate over transgender rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-administration-to-instruct-schools-to-accommodate-transgender-students/2016/05/12/0ed1c50e-18ab-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html E8C1A71A-3F8B-469E-8461-2678CA0C124E Fri, 13 May 2016 09:14:41 -0500 Marquette University associate professor John McAdams and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Monday against Marquette over the professor's suspension stemming from his public criticism of a teaching assistant. According to a news release, the lawsuit against Marquette is for "illegally suspending" McAdams and "making the decision to terminate his tenure and fire him from Marquette." The lawsuit, filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, accuses Marquette of breach of contract. http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/suspended-professor-john-mcadams-to-sue-marquette-university-b99717327z1-377812161.html DCCA4BCC-42C2-40D1-A840-8A11B5836743 Mon, 2 May 2016 07:55:07 -0500 Cynthia Clark received praise and glowing performance reviews as an adjunct history professor and senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington before she was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease two years ago. Facing an uncertain future as she awaited a liver transplant, Clark lost her job and her health insurance, jeopardizing her ability to afford the potentially lifesaving treatment. Clark is now suing UTA, alleging discrimination and retaliation, which she asserts in court documents occurred after she told her department chairman of her health crisis. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article74504132.html 53BB2F0F-EFFD-4374-BAD7-700CD7FBC289 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:04:34 -0500 A professor who gained notoriety by questioning whether the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and other bloody crimes were hoaxes perpetrated by the government has sued a Florida university for firing him, saying that he was targeted for exercising his right to free speech. The professor, James Tracy, filed suit on Monday in Federal District Court against Florida Atlantic University, where he taught for 13 years, and United Faculty of Florida, the union that had represented him. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/us/sandy-hook-newtown-conspiracy-theorist-sues-university.html?_r=1 40CDA8EF-8A90-476B-8283-D652CEE38B57 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:58:45 -0500 Ten immigrants who have received a reprieve from deportation filed another suit in Fulton County Superior Court Tuesday, seeking once again to force the Georgia Board of Regents to allow them to pay substantially lower in-state college tuition. Georgia’s in-state tuition policy requires "lawful presence." So the plaintiffs are pointing to federal records that say DACA recipients are "lawfully present" in the U.S. Currently, these students can attend most of Georgia’s public colleges, but must pay the higher out-of-state tuition rate. http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/immigrants-without-legal-status-file-new-suit-seek/nrCKh/ A24BD3EF-D640-49D8-B79C-0665A25688E8 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:39:20 -0500 Officials are backing away from a controversial rule allowing Minnesota’s state colleges and universities to examine the personal cellphones of their employees. The new rule, which took effect April 1, gave administrators the right to inspect privately owned phones, computers and other mobile devices if employees used them for work. But after pushback from employees and state legislators, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system agreed last week to shelve the rule until a compromise can be worked out. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-state-college-officials-back-off-demand-to-inspect-employee-cellphones/377173801/ E2A9BC7C-E37F-4BC2-B359-A1BE141CD85F Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:45:25 -0500 North Carolina has received a new document from the NCAA outlining violations connected to the school's long-running academic fraud scandal. UNC will release the NOA as soon as possible, but there is no timetable yet, according to media relations director Steve Kirschner. The arrival of the new Notice of Allegations jumpstarts a case that has been stalled in a procedural limbo since August. UNC hasn't made a formal statement about the second notice's arrival. UNC's academic case centers on independent study-style courses that required no class time and one or two research papers in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies department. Run largely by an office administrator -- not a faculty member -- the courses featured GPA-boosting grades and significant athlete enrollments across numerous sports, while poor oversight throughout the university allowed them to run unchecked for years.. http://www.fredericksburg.com/sports/college/college-notes-unc-charged-with-five-ncaa-violations/article_5a52c46d-1d5a-5365-8a9a-274fd4a25790.html F5462B26-2BE8-4044-BC53-794FB2F55109 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:01:53 -0500 The U.S. Department of Justice Friday announced that the University of New Mexico's handling of sexual harassment and assault reports by students does not comply with federal law and said many students are reluctant to report such matters because they lack confidence in the school's response. The Justice Department had investigated the university since December 2014 after a series of on-campus incidents and looked at UNM's policies and practices for preventing sex crimes and for investigating and responding to students' complaints. The report from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division and Educational Opportunities Section, which was delivered to UNM President Robert Frank Friday, says that despite "strengthened" programs and responses to the issues, the university remains out of compliance with Title IX and Title IV. http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/doj-report-unms-sexual-assault-policies-not-compliant-with-title-ix-need-improvement/4114562/#.Vx4ZCkdJfhU 23174FD8-B25D-400D-BBAB-E89F9BF90213 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:18:17 -0500 A Brigham Young University student has filed a federal complaint against the school for putting her on academic hold and failing to help her withdraw from classes after she reported being raped to police. Madi Barney, an undergraduate at BYU in Provo, Utah, told The Huffington Post she filed her Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday. Barney reported to city police in September 2015 that she was sexually assaulted off-campus by Nasiru Seidu, a 39-year-old man who is not a BYU student and who is expected to face trial later this year over the rape charges. Although Barney says she did not report what happened to BYU, the school contacted her in late November after getting a copy of a police report related to her case. In an email obtained by HuffPost, the school told Barney the police report provided "information that you have engaged in behavior that violates the BYU Honor Code." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/byu-title-ix-complaint_us_57162229e4b0018f9cbb012a BBD2A126-2E92-4072-865B-B54E1339AF38 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:46:32 -0500 The family of Cal football player Ted Agu, who died after a team drill in 2014, and the University of California settled a wrongful-death lawsuit for $4.75 million, bringing months of negotiations and litigation to a close, the two sides said Thursday. Agu, a defensive lineman and premed student, died at age 21 shortly after an off-season conditioning workout outside Cal’s Memorial Stadium. His parents sued the university, saying their son should have never been placed in such a strenuous workout because he carried sickle cell trait, a blood abnormality that experts believe can lead to death under extreme exertion. Cal doctors and coaches knew of Agu’s condition since he redshirted his freshman year in 2010. The settlement comes nearly three months after the university admitted liability for the death. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-pays-4-75M-in-suit-over-Cal-football-player-7248274.php#photo-9592090 D8F4DA0B-37E0-4FC2-A247-99E641A8D36A Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:42:38 -0500 Illinois has reached financial settlements totaling $625,000 with former football coach Tim Beckman and seven former women's basketball players, the university said in separate news releases Tuesday. Beckman was fired a week before last season kicked off after allegations of player mistreatment arose and an investigation by a university-hired law firm confirmed many of the claims. The seven former women's basketball players -- Amarah Coleman, Alexis Smith, Taylor Tuck, Nia Oden, Sarah Livingston, Taylor Gleason and Jacqui Grant -- will receive $375,000 to be distributed among them. They filed a $7 million lawsuit in July alleging the coaching staff had racially discriminated against them and violated their civil rights. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-illinois-reaches-settlement-20160412-story.html 5FCE3F22-58F0-41BE-B9A1-C05B550FB05A Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:19:56 -0500 A judge found the former Xavier University women's basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a player not guilty Monday. Police charged Bryce McKey with one count of third-degree sexual abuse in August after they said he groped a Xavier student on the evening of May 2 in his Covington home. A judge also found McKey not guilty Monday on a charge related to providing alcohol to an underage woman. McKey resigned from his position at Xavier before accusations were made against him in August. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/covington/bryce-mckey-judge-finds-former-xavier-university-basketball-coach-not-guilty-in-sex-abuse-case F70CC63E-360E-4F00-AA0F-6D995B1181B4 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:37:50 -0500 "Your entire life is just one big lie," Charin Davenport’s former supervisor allegedly told her, according to a lawsuit filed today. Davenport is suing Saginaw Valley State University and the supervisor, Ann Coburn-Collins, for illegal sex discrimination. The suit claims Davenport’s administrative job at the school was abruptly eliminated after Davenport told her supervisor she planned to transition to life as a woman. Now Davenport is suing SVSU and Coburn-Collins on grounds of sex discrimination, including under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. http://michiganradio.org/post/transgender-professor-sues-saginaw-valley-state-university-alleged-discrimination#stream/0 39DF7D6D-74B2-41C6-8584-E74BFC50DB1F Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:23:02 -0500 A former head men’s basketball coach at The University of Southern Mississippi acted unethically and failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance when he directed his staff to engage in academic misconduct, according to a decision issued by a Division I Committee on Infractions panel. During the investigation, the former head coach fabricated a document to justify payments to student-athletes and took other actions to thwart the investigation. Penalties in the case include three years of probation, a two-year postseason ban for the men’s basketball team, reductions in scholarships and recruiting opportunities, as well as show-cause orders for a number of individuals, including the former head coach. During the show-cause period, if any of the individuals are hired by an NCAA school, that school must follow the terms of each of their respective show-cause orders. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/former-southern-mississippi-men-s-basketball-coach-acted-unethically 99CF2B22-E51F-4A3A-A315-6C6A73237C95 Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:02:15 -0500 Should a professor who can’t be trusted to be alone with students be trusted to teach at all? Students at the University of California at Los Angeles say no, and they’re protesting the university’s decision to allow a professor accused of serial sexual harassment and assault to return to campus, despite a university agreement that stipulates he must leave his door open when meeting with students, among other requirements. The complaints against Gabriel Piterberg are detailed in a lawsuit filed last year by two graduate students who have been public about their involvement in the case, Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/05/ucla-students-and-faculty-protest-return-professor-accused-sexual-assault-and 5C70EF61-4FD8-4828-BB5F-1C609AF409B3 Tue, 5 Apr 2016 08:12:30 -0500 An Ohio University psychology professor was arrested Monday morning and charged with aggravated burglary and assault toward an OU student, according to a report from the Lancaster Police Department. Keith Markman, 48, of Bexley was arrested after he allegedly entered a residence with force and assaulted a woman, 33, described as his former girlfriend. The woman listed in the report is a current student at OU, Pittman said. He said FERPA regulations does not permit the university to disclose whether the woman was a student of Markman’s. http://www.thepostathens.com/news/ohio-university-psychology-professor-arrested-monday-allegedly-assaults-student/article_6f2212e8-fb7c-11e5-b7e5-7fea3f8d499e.html C8DAAC15-62FD-49F6-A0B8-EDA5E9E37B01 Tue, 5 Apr 2016 08:00:49 -0500 Alabama A&M University fired a tenured professor in March after the school discovered videos of him participating in sexual activity with two students on campus, according to court documents. The school severed ties with Edward Jones, who has worked more than 20 years at Alabama A&M. According to court documents filed in federal court by Alabama A&M, videos of Jones were discovered on a school laptop that recorded the professor in three sex acts, including twice having oral sex with two different male students. All three instances occurred on the Alabama A&M campus, the school said. The videos were found on a school laptop recovered at Jones' home after Huntsville police and Alabama A&M police executed a search warrant, according to court documents. http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2016/03/alabama_am_fires_professor_ove.html#incart_river_home_pop 03FD812E-DAFF-4A15-93FA-1085BDA30A8F Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:15:02 -0500 A Villanova University history professor has been charged with 415 child pornography-related counts after the university contacted police. Radnor police Lt. Andrew Block says hundreds of images were found in the investigation of 60-year-old professor Christopher Haas. He says Haas also is the subject of a similar 2012 federal probe. Villanova spokesman Jonathan Gust says the university was unaware of the federal investigation. He says the university contacted police after security noticed suspicious activity on a computer in a common area. He says Haas is banned from campus. http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/villanova-university-professor-charged-with-child-porn/ FE8F21E7-0725-4B99-A1E3-03A7CB08B29C Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:13:14 -0500 Two faculty unions are up in arms over a new rule that would allow Minnesota’s state colleges and universities to inspect employee-owned cellphones and mobile devices if they’re used for work. The unions say the rule, which is set to take effect on Friday, would violate the privacy of thousands of faculty members, many of whom use their own cellphones and computers to do their jobs. "[It’s] a free pass to go on a fishing expedition," said Kevin Lindstrom, president of the Minnesota State College Faculty. But college officials say they have an obligation under state law to protect any "government data" that may be on such devices, and that as public employees, faculty members could be disciplined if they refuse to comply. For the first time, the rule spells out that MnSCU employees "may be required" to hand over their personal cellphones or mobile devices for a variety of reasons, from security concerns to misconduct investigations. It also states that the employer may inspect, copy or delete any work-related information, such as text messages, voice mail and e-mails, if necessary for a "legitimate business purpose." http://www.startribune.com/new-rule-on-personal-cellphones-enrages-minnesota-faculty-unions/374072561/ 7C731179-AA2B-4290-8AD2-72962EBF5FC3 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:00:41 -0500 The expansion of Title IX bureaucracies -- often at great expense -- is driven in part by pressure from the federal government, which recently put out a series of policy directives on sexual misconduct on campus. More than 200 colleges and universities are under federal investigation for the way they have handled complaints of sexual misconduct, up from 55 two years ago. But the growth of these bureaucracies also reflects the difficulties that students, parents, administrators and faculty members face as they negotiate changing ideas and standards of sexual behavior. And in a report last week, a national association of professors said that the Title IX bureaucracy had started to infringe on academic freedom, by beginning investigations into faculty members’ lectures and essays. Because of these complexities, dealing with these kinds of cases has been wrenching for students, faculty members and administrators. Many women’s groups have set a much lower bar for what constitutes sexual misconduct than previous generations, leading to more internal review of campus behavior. At a minimum, federal rules require colleges to designate one Title IX coordinator, at least part time. Many colleges have gone far beyond that, at a cost ranging from thousands to millions of dollars. College officials said it was difficult to put a price tag on the efforts because they often spanned more than one department and involved volunteers and doubling up on jobs. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/colleges-beef-up-bureaucracies-to-deal-with-sexual-misconduct.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1 ED90B79E-37DD-47BB-A2B0-5E34EF98B8B3 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:03:27 -0500 Prairie View A&M women's basketball coach Dawn Brown was fired for enforcing a team rule that allegedly violates Title IX. The university made the announcement Tuesday. Brown removed two of her players during the season for dating each other. Brown's rule stated that players may not have non-professional relationship with each other, coaches, managers, trainers or any others affiliated with the team. The two players filed a complaint against Brown citing that they were kicked off the team because of their sexual orientation, which violates Title IX, which bans discrimination based on sex. "The important thing to note is that the rule was not particular to women's basketball players only," said Garry Rosenfield, Brown's agent. "It was particular to everybody that has a role within the team which includes both women and men." Brown said she enforced the rule after an assistant coach was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a player and by all accounts the rule was cleared through the proper channels - Prairie View A&M athletics director Ashley Robinson and his Title IX office. http://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/Prairie-View-women-s-coach-fired-for-kicking-off-6976121.php#photo-6025087 7EA3CCEF-64C6-4189-9B44-E5557A42EFAF Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:57:26 -0500 Kansas' conservative Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday allowing faith-based groups at college campuses to restrict membership to like-minded people, likely putting the state on a collision course with civil liberties groups. Kansas already has a religious objections law that prevents state or local governments from limiting people's freedom to express their religion, though that law doesn't touch on organizations at universities. With Gov. Sam Brownback's signature, Kansas becomes the second state after Oklahoma to have a college-specific law. "This is very good, narrow, targeted piece of legislation that will serve the betterment of our college campuses," Brownback said. The new law, which will take effect July 1, will prevent public colleges and universities from denying religious groups funds or campus resources for limiting their memberships. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kansas-governor-signs-bill-protecting-faith-groups-campus-37851197 F1FAB404-9F4D-4722-9EC7-C983CF1FD702 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:22:05 -0500 Kalamazoo College failed to monitor its financial aid awards when it used a system that considered athletics participation when determining financial aid packages for student-athletes, according to a decision issued by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions. In total, the financial aid packages of 567 student-athletes considered athletics leadership, ability and participation information. Division III members cannot award financial aid based on athletic performance. Penalties in this case include three years of probation and a postseason ban for teams that continue to have student-athletes who are receiving financial aid based on athletics participation. If the college repackages the aid, the teams do not have to serve a ban. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/kalamazoo-college-failed-monitor-financial-aid 02423E80-E7B0-486B-87E1-FCD01C08CF27 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:13:49 -0500 The University of Iowa, once again, has prevailed in a lawsuit filed by a College of Law applicant accusing the institution of passing him over for a professorship due to his age. Donald Dobkin, a now 62-year-old immigration and administrative law attorney, first sued the university in 2009 after he didn’t land an interview for a teaching position in 2008, when he was 55. According to that suit, the job went to a younger candidate with inferior qualifications even though administrators said they were impressed with Dobkin’s resume. In July 2012, Dobkin again sued the UI College of Law based on a second attempt to land a job there in 2010. According to Dobkin’s suit, the college retaliated against him for his previous lawsuit "when one of the members of the Faculty of Appointments Committee gave plaintiff a low score and specifically noted that plaintiff had a pending age discrimination lawsuit against them." That case went to trial March 8, and an eight-person jury on Tuesday returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the university, saying it did not discriminate or retaliate against Dobkin. http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/university-of-iowa-wins-second-case-involving-age-discrimination-accuser-20160317 FB5E2AED-5020-48D6-8A81-C30220F92D55 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:38:20 -0500 Expelled Yale men's basketball captain Jack Montague will sue the university, his attorney announced Monday. Max Stern, legal counsel for Montague, said in a statement that Montague was expelled from Yale on February 10 after a panel of the Yale University-Wide Committee found that he had nonconsensual sex in October 2014 with a female student who is currently a junior at Yale. Montague was expelled during the second semester of his senior year. CNN previously had learned from a source close to Montague that, according to Montague, he had a consensual sexual relationship with a student in 2014. The unnamed woman has not spoken publicly about this allegation. "Mr. Montague intends to sue Yale University to vindicate his rights," Stern said. http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/us/jack-montague-to-sue-yale/index.html 3CD8F0D7-EF65-4FFB-A246-F5ABE14F735E Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:48:57 -0500 Columbia University on Friday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a graduate over the school's decision to allow a student who accused him of rape to carry a mattress around campus in protest, even though Columbia had cleared him of the allegation. U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said Paul Nungesser failed to show that Columbia discriminated against him based on his gender by allowing and condoning conduct during the 2014-2015 academic year by his accuser, Emma Sulkowicz. Nungesser had sued Columbia, its president Lee Bollinger, and visual arts professor Jon Kessler, who oversaw Sulkowicz's senior thesis "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)," in which she drew national attention by carrying a mattress around the campus in Manhattan's Morningside Heights. Sulkowicz had accused Nungesser of raping her in a dormitory in August 2012. Nungesser had said the sex was consensual. The university ultimately decided not to discipline him. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-new-york-columbia-mattress-idUSKCN0WE00U 2AFC66A9-80BD-488E-BE63-551C3BC150FB Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:26:52 -0500 The University of North Florida and its former women’s basketball coach Mary Tappmeyer have announced a settlement in Tappmeyer’s sex discrimination and retaliation claims associated with her termination from UNF in March 2015. UNF will pay Tappmeyer $1.25 million to settle her claims, according to attorneys representing Tappmeyer. In the complaint, Tappmeyer alleged that UNF terminated her from her long-standing position as UNF women’s basketball coach in retaliation for complaints she filed about sex discrimination experienced by female student athletes, and because of alleged sex discrimination against her. According to Tappmeyer, UNF allowed male basketball recruits academic exceptions to UNF’s admissions requirements, but refused any exceptions for female players. Other complaints were that the women’s basketball team had unequal operating budgets, travel budgets, locker rooms, and training and office facilities as compared to the men’s team. Tappmeyer also says UNF disparaged the women’s basketball team coaches to current players, recruits, other members of the athletic department, UNF donors, and the UNF community. http://floridapolitics.com/archives/204387-unf-former-womens-basketball-coach-settle-title-ix-lawsuit-1-25-million 567236F1-4351-41CA-B0BC-AAD72AC3FE44 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:58:21 -0500 Officials at the University of California at Berkeley said Wednesday night the dean of their prestigious law school is taking an "indefinite leave of absence" from his position after he was sued for sexual harassment by his former executive assistant, who claims he made inappropriate advances toward her. The complaint was filed Tuesday against Berkeley Law Dean Sujit Choudhry and the University of California Board of Regents, claiming sexual harassment, retaliation and failure to stop it, among other actions. Tyann Sorrell, the former executive assistant, claims in the lawsuit that from September 2014 to March 2015, Choudhry sexually harassed her -- rubbing her shoulders and arms, kissing her cheeks and giving her bear hugs that pressed her body against him, according to court documents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/09/dean-of-uc-berkeley-school-of-law-sued-for-sexual-harassment/?tid=sm_fb 8A443498-EB81-47D4-B472-5D2F7B760921 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:22:41 -0600 The Chi Chapter of Kappa Sigma is suing Purdue University, alleging the school unfairly sanctioned its chapter. The university didn't allow the campus fraternity to fully defend itself against claims that an underage student was served alcohol at its chapter house last winter, according to a complaint Kappa Sigma and its house corporation filed last Friday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Kappa Sigma is seeking damages and is asking the university be required to provide all records, including the names and addresses of witnesses, involved with the investigation. It's also asking the school be restrained from further enforcing any related sanctions imposed on the chapter until the documents have been produced and addressed by the court. http://www.jconline.com/story/news/college/2016/03/02/purdue-fraternity-sues-university-over-sanctions/81217904/ AF6B8C85-063E-4643-92DD-CB617946C1ED Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:13:24 -0600 A University of Louisville employee claims university President James Ramsey and other administrators worked to "derail and interfere with" his duties investigating and calling attention to conflicts of interest, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed against Ramsey and the university on Monday. Robin Wilcox, who is an institutional compliance officer in the university’s audit department, plans to leave the job effective March 11, according to a Feb. 26 resignation letter that was attached to the lawsuit. The lawsuit says Wilcox resigned because he was unable to do his job and believed his position was soon to be eliminated after being told by unnamed superiors in December that he was "too passionate" about audit and compliance issues. Among a number of other claims in his 17-page complaint, Wilcox said Ramsey was untruthful in a December letter to the university community regarding allegations of potential misconduct involving university vice presidents David Dunn and Priscilla Hancock. http://www.wdrb.com/story/31348032/university-of-louisville-employee-files-whistle-blower-lawsuit-against-ramsey 25374A11-EEAD-4E07-A171-901832FC6E10 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:08:41 -0600 A former UCF men's basketball team manager who claims his bank account was drained has filed the second lawsuit this month over a computer hack where 63,000 Social Security numbers from former and current students and employees were stolen. UCF's handling of people's private information was "lackadaisical, cavalier, reckless, or at the very least, negligent," according to the lawsuit filed by Jeremiah Hughley. He describes himself as a former UCF student and men's basketball team manager from 2010-2011 on his LinkedIn page. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Orange Circuit Court and seeks more than $15,000 and class action status. It accuses the university of not doing enough to help the victims, prompting Hughley to buy additional identity theft protection at his own expense. Hughley's bank account was drained once his personal information was compromised, the lawsuit said. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-ucf-second-lawsuit-hack-20160226-story.html AEF1CB84-270F-48F2-AFE8-3036911EF936 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:26:52 -0600 The shocking allegations of a racially tinged assault at the University at Albany appeared to unravel Thursday as police accused three black students of making the story up and charged the women with assaulting a fellow bus passenger. The women grabbed national attention after claiming to have been attacked on a CDTA bus around 1 a.m. Jan. 30 by a large group that included white men while others stood by and did nothing. In social media posts that spread like wildfire far beyond campus, the women claimed to have been the target of racial slurs and to have been assaulted while on the bus floor. But authorities now say there's no evidence any of that happened and that the women were the aggressors in the fracas, which was captured by cameras on the bus and other cameras in the hands of bus riders. All three defendants are charged with misdemeanor assault and are facing campus disciplinary proceedings. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Charges-filed-against-UAlbany-students-who-6854003.php#photo-9456181 9A2C3D99-5193-4A3F-95EF-E67E8D63C49C Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:39:45 -0600 Two more women joined a wide-ranging lawsuit against the University of Tennessee on Wednesday, alleging they were sexually assaulted by football players, and that the assaults occurred because of an unsafe culture of athletes partying and misbehaving without repercussions. The updated complaint, filed by Nashville attorneys David Randolph Smith and Chris Smith on behalf of the plaintiffs, hits the university with new allegations, including: The administration mishandled sexual assault claims against UT football player Von Pearson, who was allowed to re-enroll at the university even after an internal investigation found that he had assaulted one of the new plaintiffs. UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek ignored warnings that the culture at Volunteer Hall -- where many football players live -- was unsafe, and that the athletics department was inappropriately influencing the discipline of athletes. A former football player with an arrest record was allowed to work as a resident assistant in charge of underclassmen living at Volunteer Hall. http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/ut/2016/02/24/women-join-ut-sexual-assault-suit/80860462/ DDAC22F1-D832-49A3-ACB9-CCF1996E82BB Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:41:53 -0600 The University of Utah roiled fans across the state -- and in the Capitol -- when it yanked Brigham Young University from next season's basketball schedule. Now, lawmakers are taking the Utes to task with a sweeping probe of the college's sports department. The "efficiency and effectiveness" review is the first-ever state audit of a single athletic office. The breadth of the new request distinguishes it from other more routine reports, including a brief state financial analysis of all eight public colleges each year. A four-member panel approved the new report without discussion in the final moments of the Feb. 1 public Legislative Audit Subcommittee meeting -- less than a month after Utah shelved the state's signature rivalry. http://www.sltrib.com/news/3557683-155/legislature-will-audit-university-of-utah 8FB3CAC6-3733-412F-B7AC-79664F409BFD Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:07:07 -0600 Indiana University plans to begin reviewing 18 sexual misconduct cases this week, following allegations that the school’s associate dean of students sexually assaulted a woman at a December conference. In an open letter published Feb. 4, Jill Creighton accused Jason Casares of sexually assaulting her in December at a conference in Fort Worth, Texas. Creighton is the assistant director of global community standards at New York University and a board member of the Association for Student Conduct Administration. Casares, who is also the school’s deputy Title IX coordinator, was placed on administrative leave immediately after Creighton published the letter. He has denied the allegations. University Provost Lauren Robel has requested a review of all sexual misconduct cases from the past academic year that went to hearings with Casares on the hearing panel. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2016/02/16/iu-begin-review-sexual-misconduct-cases/80460316/# 382B6051-F990-4C27-A5FA-1757E5E3D021 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:35:34 -0600 The state of Montana will pay Jordan Johnson $245,000 under a settlement in which the former University of Montana quarterback agreed to drop claims that the school and its officials mishandled a rape investigation against him. In addition to UM and the Montana University System, UM President Royce Engstrom, former Dean of Students Charles Couture and former university legal counsel David Aronofsky are listed as having all potential claims against them resolved under the settlement. David Paoli, Johnson’s attorney, said in a statement Tuesday that Couture predetermined guilt on Johnson’s part after he was accused of sexual assault by a female student in 2012, and that Couture went on to "act as a biased investigator, prosecutor and judge in spite of being required by all rules and regulations to be impartial and provide fairness and equal treatment in the process." http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/montana-to-pay-k-to-settle-with-ex-quarterback-over/article_b0f6c135-5eea-51eb-9c85-6a7b2ac10e91.html 781B2B0D-5A62-45B1-AD81-D8016C242F62 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:33:32 -0600 The head swim coach at a Maryland university has been arrested on charges that he exchanged nude photographs with a child he met on the Internet. Andre Rudolph Barbins, 45, of Solomons in Calvert County, was arrested Friday and is no longer coaching the swim team at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The university said in a statement Tuesday that an assistant coach has taken on Barbins’s role at the college. It declined to comment further, except to say that it was working with investigators to protect students’ safety. The victim in the case was a minor whom Barbins only had contact with online, not someone he coached, Maryland State Police Cpl. DaVaughn Parker said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/md-college-swim-coach-charged-with-exchanging-nude-photos-with-minor/2016/02/16/9a085628-d4e6-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html 73974ED8-10F8-4A35-9362-CFB71716EBE5 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:10:17 -0600 The University of Iowa is facing a federal civil rights investigation, looking into accusations the school does not provide equal opportunities for female athletes. Court documents show the federal Office for Civil Rights is investigating gender bias allegations, including how the Iowa athletic department awards scholarships, allocates equipment and schedules practices and games. If discrimination is found, the case could result in a settlement requiring the university to change its policies and allocate more funds to women's sports. http://www.kcci.com/sports/hawkeye-athletic-dept-faces-federal-civil-right-investigation/37966064 BF310F7A-D359-4490-BB64-171D75888C59 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:30:56 -0600 Reopening a long-delayed fight for his reputation, former Penn State President Graham Spanier filed separate lawsuits Wednesday against the university and its chief Jerry Sandusky investigator, Louis Freeh. The suits, both filed in Centre County Court, are born of the same set of circumstances. Spanier claims Penn State trustees and Freeh colluded to make him, his top administrators and former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno fall guys for the Sandusky child sex scandal that rocked the university, Pennsylvania and the college football world in 2011 and 2012. Freeh's report did allege that Penn State officials did not respond appropriately to early allegations of sexual misconduct by Sandusky, to be sure. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/02/spanier_files_breach_of_contra.html F6293B9D-3A9B-4944-8EA2-013115B09C44 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:19:44 -0600 Six women filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the University of Tennessee has created a student culture that enables sexual assaults by student-athletes, especially football players, and then uses an unusual, legalistic adjudication process that is biased against victims who step forward. In making its case that the university enabled an environment of bad behavior and used a disciplinary system that favored the players, the lawsuit cited more than a dozen incidents involving football players that included underage drinking, sexual harassment, assault, armed robbery and sexual assaults that did not involve the Jane Doe plaintiffs. Some of the incidents cited have previously never been reported. The plaintiffs say that UT violated the Title IX laws, which protect students from gender discrimination in federally funded education programs. UT created a hostile sexual environment for female students by showing "deliberate indifference and a clearly unreasonable response after a sexual assault that causes a student to endure additional harassment," according to the lawsuit. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/02/09/sweeping-sexual-assault-suit-filed-against-ut/79966450/ AD746675-2F71-4D48-B5CC-7A18CDC5110F Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:08:24 -0600 A former University of Central Florida student body president and member of UCF's Board of Trustees filed a class action lawsuit against the university Friday after being victimized in UCF's massive Social Security number hack. The lawsuit was filed in federal court, in the Orlando division, one day after UCF admitted 63,000 Social Security numbers of current and former students and staff were stolen. The lawsuit states "UCF owed a duty to Plaintiffs and the Class to notify them about the breach within a reasonable amount of time under the circumstances, which it failed to do, exposing the Class to additional harm." The lawsuit seeks an order finding UCF "breached its duty" on several issues, including failing to "timely notify Plaintiffs and the Class about the breach" and failing to "safeguard and protect" personal information of the victims. http://www.clickorlando.com/top-stories/ucf-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-in-social-security-hack 77FAF7E2-35EB-4715-BAA0-98841A3870F7 Sat, 6 Feb 2016 07:49:55 -0600 The president of a Cornell University fraternity was arrested after an alleged sexual assault in his fraternity house bedroom, according to court documents. Wolfgang Ballinger, 21, is charged with attempted rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, and sex abuse in the first degree, documents in Tompkins County, New York, say. The fraternity was suspended on Monday as a result of "alleged sexual misconduct taking place at the fraternity house," according to a statement by Travis T. Apgar, senior associate dean of students at the University. The suspension is invoked when "details of a credible report compel the university to cease activities of the organization for the safety of the members, those joining or guests," Apgar said. During this suspension, the chapter "may not engage in any activities other than operation of its residence," according to the statement. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/us/cornell-university-sex-assault-allegations/ DE593793-561D-41EE-A694-35A457C50937 Sat, 6 Feb 2016 07:45:17 -0600 A 60-year-old Mishawaka man who worked as a nighttime janitor at Saint Mary's College has been charged with nine felonies related to possession of child pornography and child exploitation. Luis Morales, 60, was arrested Friday on allegations of downloading child pornography on his computer. According to the St. Joseph County prosecutor's office, police found in his home several flash drives and computer memory cards containing more than more than 100,000 images. Investigators said Morales allegedly utilized Saint Mary's College’s computer wi-fi network to view and download some of the images, but there was no evidence that students, faculty or staff at the college were harmed or exploited. http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/saint-mary-s-college-janitor-charged-with-child-porn-possession/article_8fc34d16-cc40-11e5-8431-935ff5d2a89d.html 63F56BF4-1FF7-44B2-A3F6-9AFCCE4476DD Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:59:30 -0600 A Martinsburg man who police said admitted to embezzling from Valley College to pay restitution for a previous embezzlement conviction was sentenced after pleading guilty to one felony count of embezzlement in Berkeley County Circuit Court. Bradley Scott Martin, 31, was sentenced by 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge John C. Yoder to not less than one or more than 10 years in prison. Authorities have alleged that Martin was working as a contract employee for the college when he altered multiple time slips, which resulted in him being overpaid by Manpower, court records said. Police also alleged that Martin forged 60 checks identified by Valley College and uttered them, records said. http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/west_virginia/martinsburg-man-sentenced-in-college-embezzlement-case/article_a75c6a66-cba0-11e5-a985-4bc6ead64b30.html D15ABC81-506C-47D6-B9EA-B320BFE56BFB Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:05:38 -0600 A Northwestern University police lieutenant who is facing child pornography charges has been placed on administrative leave. Ronald Godby, 53, was charged with manufacturing child pornography, possessing child pornography and grooming, all felonies, according to Cook County court records. Godby, a lieutenant with the Evanston university’s police department, has been placed on administrative leave and banned from campus, according to a statement from Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage. http://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/7/71/1300309/northwestern-university-police-lieutenant-facing-child-porn-charges A624D940-F7E0-4DBF-8B2C-C8AF8FBF6CE0 Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:03:01 -0600 Eight students were arrested at Georgia State University when they refused to leave a protest Tuesday over a Georgia Supreme Court decision rejecting lower tuition for immigrants without legal status. The protesters had occupied the first floor of Centennial Hall since Monday, students and university officials said. "The eight arrested refused to leave," she said in a statement. "Police said the protesters had been disruptive earlier this morning, and they were concerned about possible disruption in the building at the start of the university’s workday." The protest followed a ruling Monday by Georgia’s highest court. The court rejected an appeal aimed at allowing immigrants without legal status to pay substantially lower in-state college tuition rates, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution earlier reported. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/8-protesters-arrested-supreme-court-rejects-tuitio/nqHPS/ 420F131E-53AC-447A-8B62-88FD1C317297 Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:16:14 -0600 A prominent molecular biologist at the University of Chicago has resigned after a university recommendation that he be fired for violating the school’s sexual misconduct policy. His resignation comes amid calls for universities to be more transparent about sexual harassment in their science departments, where women account for only one-quarter of senior faculty jobs. The professor, Jason Lieb, made unwelcome sexual advances to several female graduate students at an off-campus retreat of the molecular biosciences division, according to a university investigation letter obtained by The New York Times, and engaged in sexual activity with a student who was "incapacitated due to alcohol and therefore could not consent." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/us/chicago-professor-resigns-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation.html?_r=0 C5D09A5F-9A06-42A5-83BA-3C078A9A7DBF Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:09:37 -0600 Despite being a private school, Baylor is required by federal law -- Title IX -- to thoroughly investigate allegations of sexual violence, and provide security, counseling services and academic help to those who report assaults. Part of the law's goal is to help keep victims in school. Yet an investigation by Outside the Lines found several examples in Tanya's case, and others at Baylor, in which school officials either failed to investigate, or adequately investigate, allegations of sexual violence. http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/14675790/baylor-officials-accused-failing-investigate-sexual-assaults-fully-adequately-providing-support-alleged-victims 17F956F6-AC55-46A4-BEF7-F77CFCECA188 Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:06:17 -0600 The NCAA has formally charged the University of Mississippi with dozens of rules violations in three sports, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports. The school has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA enforcement staff alleging roughly 30 violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field, sources told Yahoo. It is unclear at present what the breakdown is in terms of violations by sport. The NCAA does not comment on current, pending or potential investigations. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--ncaa-to-formally-charge-mississippi-with-rules-violations-193911274.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma 3D0EA3AE-10E1-4704-88B0-9C4308B77961 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:57:01 -0600 The University of California has admitted its negligence was a substantial factor in the 2014 death of Cal football player Ted Agu, who died after a strenuous team workout. The admission comes after testimony in a lawsuit brought by Agu’s parents raised questions about the actions of Cal football personnel in the events that preceded his death. The testimony, given in confidential depositions, also detailed allegations that campus officials did not provide the Alameda County coroner’s office with all police and medical records after Agu died, including some that indicated he had sickle cell trait -- a blood abnormality that experts believe can lead to death under extreme exertion. http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UC-admits-liability-in-2014-death-of-Cal-football-6794170.php?t=12bf85228a&cmpid=twitter-premium 2502E3ED-E0E1-44B4-B5F6-64F327D8C726 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:49:31 -0600 The family of a University of Rhode Island baseball player who died after a team workout has received $1.45 million in a settlement with the university and its insurance carrier. The 20-year-old student from Orange, Connecticut, suffered an unspecified medical emergency and collapsed during an Oct. 24, 2011, team preseason workout. He died in a hospital three days later. http://www.theolympian.com/sports/article57082343.html 8E300F38-EDCE-4EA4-BD03-6DA4166DD40C Thu, 28 Jan 2016 07:48:41 -0600 Police arrested a college’s director of campus safety on charges of possessing/viewing matter portraying sexual performance by a minor Wednesday. Robert Marshall, 52, was indicted on the child porn charge, according to the Kenton County Detention Center. His bond was set at $25,000. Marshall was the director of campus safety at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills. He joined the college’s staff in 1999 and was promoted to director of campus safety in 2003, according to his biography on the school’s website. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/thomas-more-college-safety-director-arrested-on-child-porn-charge ED67342F-B8D8-4E11-B7F2-F2D6F6892D31 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:35:06 -0600 Florida State has settled a federal Title IX lawsuit with Erica Kinsman, a former student who said she was raped by quarterback Jameis Winston in 2012. The settlement was announced on Monday, more than a year after she initially filed the complaint in federal court. FSU agreed to pay Kinsman $950,000 -- an amount that includes attorney’s fees -- as well as make a five-year commitment to awareness, prevention and training programs. The lump sum is the largest settlement for Title IX claims regarding indifference to a student’s reported sexual assault. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/01/25/florida-state-settles-title-ix-lawsuit-erica-kinsman-jameis-winston/79299304/ 415D1C51-5778-4C68-A1A1-0B9A91F98978 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:07:25 -0600 Campus mathematics lecturer Alexander Coward filed a wrongful termination complaint against the UC Board of Regents on Friday after nearly three months of ongoing tension with the campus. Coward, who has taught at UC Berkeley since 2013, outlined three complaints in his suit: whistleblower retaliation, defamation and discrimination in violation of the federal Fair Employment and Housing Act. http://www.dailycal.org/2016/01/24/campus-math-lecturer-alexander-coward-sues-uc-regents-alleging-wrongful-termination/ 1896F38B-A54C-45DF-B9EF-560C930942DC Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:54:00 -0600 The University of Missouri communications professor caught on video scuffling with a journalist during a November campus demonstration was charged with third-degree assault Monday morning, the Columbia city prosecutor’s office confirmed to FoxNews.com. A summons with a yet-to-be determined court date is set to be mailed to UM assistant professor of communications Melissa Click. If she’s found guilty, her penalty would ultimately be up to a judge, but would likely require paying a fine, a spokesperson from the prosecutor’s office said. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/25/university-missouri-professor-charged-with-assault-in-fracas-with-journalist.html 4D2EC276-9E55-4738-A347-25E54559B678 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:38:29 -0600 A district court issued a permanent injunction Friday prohibiting Iowa State University administrators from using trademark policy to stop a campus group from printing university-themed T-shirts that depict a marijuana leaf. In a 45-page ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa permanently barred ISU from enforcing the university's trademark licensing policies in a discriminatory manner against the campus chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The court specifically blocked ISU "from further prohibiting plaintiffs from producing licensed apparel on the basis that their designs include the image of a similar cannabis leaf." http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2016/01/22/court-order-isu-allow-t-shirts-marijuana-leaf/79192242/ E3F21EEB-CEB6-402C-98E3-E36C8B4AB881 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:58:31 -0600 The FBI is investigating a professor at Kent State University for allegedly having ties to terrorism, CBS affiliate WOIO reports. Citing an FBI source, WOIO reports that a joint terrorism task force has been investigating Julio Pino for his alleged involvement with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The FBI told CBS News' Paula Reid that it would not reveal details of its investigation, saying "because this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment." Reid reports that the FBI has open ISIS-related cases in all 50 states. The bureau does not expect charges to be filed in the immediate future. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-fbi-investigating-kent-state-professor-for-alleged-isis-link/ 186CDEA4-D560-469B-8BDE-3D8986F7CE88 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:58:05 -0600 The sister of a man fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer who pulled him over for lacking a front license plate said she hopes a $5.3 million settlement will help prevent another family from losing a loved one. The settlement with the university, which was announced Monday, gives the family of Samuel DuBose $4.85 million and promises free undergraduate tuition for his 12 children. It also provides for a memorial commemorating DuBose, an apology from the university and the family's involvement in a community advisory committee on police reform. DuBose, 43, was shot and killed behind the wheel of his car on July 19 after Officer Ray Tensing stopped him near campus for missing a front license plate, which is required by Ohio law. Tensing was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-university-reach-53m-deal-traffic-stop-death-36356679 A7500C58-233F-4955-A898-16A32BD1E31F Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:58:07 -0600 Attorneys have settled a federal lawsuit filed by a blind student who accused Miami University of using technology that presented a barrier to her education, court records show. Attorneys for Aleeha Dudley and the university reached a settlement following mediation Friday, but it's subject to "modest continuing negotiations," according to U.S. District Court records posted online. Dudley, who's from New Paris, sued the university in 2014. Her lawsuit said course materials were inaccessible to her text-to-speech software and she hadn't received material in Braille or other forms she could use without help. Her lawsuit also said Miami violated federal law by failing to provide equal access. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/01/15/blind-student-settles-suit-against-miami-university/78872670/ 9A5C63C4-905E-4744-B60A-D1B540AA354E Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:57:18 -0600 Superior Court Judge Siobhan Teare sentenced Rutgers-Newark professor Anna Stubblefield, 46, of West Orange, to 12 years in state prison for abusing the 35-year-old victim, known as D.J., in her Newark office in 2011. D.J. has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak beyond making noises. Stubblefield has claimed she and D.J. fell in love, and that she communicated with him via a controversial typing method, known as "facilitated communication." But an Essex County jury determined D.J. is mentally incompetent and could not consent to the sexual activity, and found Stubblefield guilty on Oct. 2 of two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault. She was facing between 10 and 40 years in prison. http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/01/professor_sentenced_to_prison_for_sexual_assault_o.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured 1EBF44DF-C2AA-4080-A862-C0011F5FAB60 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:44:05 -0600 A former Miami University student is facing criminal charges for allegedly stealing computers from the school’s technical support office, selling marijuana and making a sex tape of a woman without her permission. In July, Miami University Police began investigating the theft of computers from MiTech Repair Center, which is part of the university’s IT department, according to Lt. Jim Bechtolt. Jordan was employed at the center that offers technical assistance to students who purchase computers through the university. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/ex-miami-u-student-indicted-for-stealing-computers/np4mb/ 413634B5-E7E2-40CC-A331-5D6DD024EFCA Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:06:28 -0600 A private foundation is suing UA in Texas state court, alleging the university breached a contract between the two after taking more than $1.3 million for a scholarship program for first-generation college students. The lawsuit filed by the Suder Foundation, based in Plano, Texas, in July 2015 claims breach of contract, anticipatory breach of contract, promissory estoppel, and unjust enrichment. It is seeking return of the funds, attorneys and court fees, and pre- and post-judgment interest on the funds. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20160114/news/160119840?p=1&tc=pg 963C3242-34DB-4535-AA2A-A2A58E280D55 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:35:07 -0600 A Michigan professor who authorities say traveled to South Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty.James Cavalcoli, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to coerce or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Authorities say Cavalcoli, 51, had made arrangements to meet with an undercover Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent, whom he believed to be the boy’s father. He was arrested Aug. 7. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/01/14/university-of-michigan-professor-pleads-guilty-to-sex-charges-in-florida/ 851350E4-98D6-410D-BD1E-23CDF1000D1C Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:03:01 -0600 The University of Missouri revealed details from a "collaborative investigation" with the NCAA that spanned 19 months on Wednesday, announcing the findings of several rules violations by the men's basketball program that led the school to self-impose punishment. Most notably, Missouri is vacating all of its wins from the 2013-14 season and imposed a one-year postseason ban for the 2015-16 season, which means the Tigers will not participate in the SEC tournament or any postseason event sanctioned by the NCAA. The investigation by the university and NCAA showed rules violations dating back to 2011 that included impermissible benefits provided by Missouri donors, illegal contact with recruits by the men's basketball coaching staff, failure to monitor an internship program and a former coach assisting with a prospective student's housing. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/sec/2016/01/13/missouri-tigers-basketball-ncaa-violations-2013-14-season-frank-haith/78750660/ BD9B5DAD-E2D9-471F-93F5-2657C0C8EDA5 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:31:24 -0600 A college professor in Minnesota has pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling items made of elephant ivory from the United States to China. St. Cloud State University philosophy professor Yiwei Zheng (EEE’-way Zeng) also pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the U.S. Lacey Act, which bans trade in wildlife, fish and plants that have been illegally taken or sold. Under a plea deal, Zheng agreed to pay a $500,000 fine. He also could face roughly three years in prison when he’s sentenced in May. Investigators say the items Zheng tried to smuggle to China in April 2011 included potted flower carvings, a fan and a carved lion. All were made of elephant ivory. http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/university-professor-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-ivory/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all A9308249-C711-430F-8E2D-E6098AFBACEF Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:20:47 -0600 The University of Iowa reached a financial settlement of $15,000 Friday with a former football player who was one of 13 Hawkeyes hospitalized with a serious muscle disorder following a high-intensity 2011 workout. Lowe’s lawsuit alleged that coaches and trainers failed to properly supervise the January 2011 workout and didn’t immediately offer medical care after he and others reported severe pain and symptoms. The former backup cornerback argued that his injuries were aggravated because he was required to participate in additional workouts in the following days. Lowe and 12 others were eventually hospitalized and diagnosed with exertional rhabdomyolysis, which is the result of muscles breaking down and releasing proteins into the bloodstream. It can cause kidney failure and even death. http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/iowa/football/2016/01/08/iowa-settles-lawsuit-ex-player-injured-workout/78519382/ 7CBC3DC2-0DBF-487F-8AAF-158943FE85F0 Fri, 8 Jan 2016 08:38:24 -0600 In a press release, Eastern Mennonite University said: "Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has suspended Luke Hartman from his role as vice president for enrollment, effective immediately. The suspension comes as a result of a January 8, 2016, misdemeanor charge of solicitation of prostitution following an investigation by the Harrisonburg Police Department and the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office." http://www.whsv.com/content/news/University-vice-president-among-those-charged-with-solicitation-of-prostitution-364714721.html 5CFADAC0-1E69-4CA5-A31A-75676922F3AE Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:13:15 -0600 Kent State University would allow assistance animals in university housing and would pay a couple $100,000 as part of a proposed consent decree to settle a fair-housing lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The federal lawsuit arose following a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by Jacqueline Luke, who had sought to live with a dog following a university psychologist's recommendation that the animal would help alleviate her anxiety. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/01/kent_state_university_agrees_t.html EEC42555-6A3D-4073-B53B-C826B5147ACC Mon, 4 Jan 2016 08:22:00 -0600 Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries announced a settlement Wednesday in a wage dispute with Southern Oregon University. Under the settlement, the university will pay $2.5 million to workers who built a new residence hall and dining area on the campus. BOLI found that SOU had underpaid the workers under the state’s wage law for public works projects. http://www.opb.org/news/article/southern-oregon-university-to-pay-record-settlement-in-wage-dispute/ 9B0F9B71-4C5D-4283-95C7-C770194A7088 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:38:11 -0600 The Clemson Tigers, with a 13-0 record and the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff, are perched atop the college football world. Their dream season has produced priceless exposure for the university and a multimillion-dollar playoff payout for the Atlantic Coast Conference, of which Clemson is a member. From Our Advertisers Now, a group with strong ties to the university wants to make sure the next wave of players is paid for its efforts. And the group’s members think they can do it without breaking N.C.A.A. rules. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/sports/ncaafootball/fan-offers-new-way-to-compensate-college-athletes-crowdfunding.html?_r=1 B2D32621-D006-4486-813D-CBFD69028435 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:16:22 -0600 Arkansas volleyball coach Robert Pulliza resigned from his position Wednesday a week after allegations of verbal abuse of his players. The university and athletic department received a letter from anonymous parents of players a week ago calling for Pulliza’s removal. The letter alleged Pulliza engaged in "emotional abuse" and threatened physical abuse of his players. The university spent the last week investigating the allegations. http://pbcommercial.com/sports/arkansas/ua-volleyball-s-pulliza-resigns-amid-verbal-abuse-allegations AD2A4880-8E8E-4F4A-8E3B-BA83423E56E3 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:52:09 -0600 University of Washington Medicine has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges stemming from a breach of data of 90,000 patients. The November 2013 breach potentially exposed the data after a UW Medicine employee downloaded a malicious email attachment, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services news release. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/health-care-inc/2015/12/uw-medicine-settles-with-feds-over-breach-of-data.html 91F6DE21-38DF-44C7-B9D1-CBE8A4D7FC45 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:56:24 -0600 The city of Corvallis has filed charges against an Oregon State University fraternity following a drunken toga party last week. The local chapter of Phi Delta Theta faces 39 counts of furnishing alcohol to minors and 39 counts of hosting a party for minors, the Corvallis Gazette-Times reports. A police report says two women who attended the party were taken to a hospital because they drank too much. http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33846200-75/oregon-state-university-fraternity-charged-suspended-after-toga-party.html.csp F633D91B-B371-41F6-B7EE-7C3F1F6688CB Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:09:20 -0600 Six people have been charged in connection with the abduction of two New York college students. But the details surrounding the incident, which ended when a SWAT team stormed a home near the school, remain unclear. Rochester police announced the charges late Monday night. Lydell Strickland, 26, Dennis Perez, 23, and Leah Gigliotti, 20, all of Rochester, and Samantha Hughes, 19, of Pittsford, were charged with first-degree kidnapping. Inalia Rolldan, 19, and Ruth Lora, 19, both of Rochester, were charged with second-degree kidnapping. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/12/08/six-charged-in-new-york-abduction-of-two-college-students-from-chicago-suburbs/ 0F39E1C8-9690-44CB-B16D-F12B851D0245 Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:50:32 -0600 Niagara University placed its dean of students on administrative leave Monday and hired a Buffalo law firm to conduct an independent investigation of her response to a rape allegation against an unidentified member of the university’s men’s basketball team. The dean, Marjean C. "Carrie" McLaughlin, was called out over the weekend by third-year social work student Sarah Joslin, who late Friday posted an online petition on the change.org website, accusing McLaughlin of taking the player’s side after a female student allegedly reported to her that she had been raped on campus by a basketball player. http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/niagara-university/niagara-university-places-dean-on-leave-after-online-uproar-over-rape-claim-20151207 7909EDE6-8FA7-4445-B95C-96B47E53037B Mon, 7 Dec 2015 09:15:54 -0600 Steve Sarkisian sued the University of Southern California on Monday, alleging the school breached the football coach's contract and discriminated against him on the basis of a disability when it fired him this fall. Sarkisian's attorneys also alleged wrongful termination and invasion of privacy in the complaint filed in Los Angeles County Court. Sarkisian contends he is owed at least $12.6 million left on his USC contract, along with other damages for "extreme mental anguish." http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3277696-155/college-football-steve-sarkisian-sues-usc A527E52C-0D95-4544-9D71-3583C766AEC5 Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:44:16 -0600 The Supreme Court revisits affirmative action in college admissions Wednesday, the latest racially focused case to go before a court that has pared back government programs intended to benefit minorities. Two years ago, the court passed up a chance to undo affirmative action at the University of Texas, instead asking a lower court to decide whether the Austin campus adequately justified classifying individual applicants by race. Now the case is back at the high court. http://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-revisits-university-of-texas-race-in-admissions-case-1449437219 6547E6F8-F5A7-430F-80B7-C92CC3F993FC Sun, 6 Dec 2015 10:07:54 -0600 For the second time this fall, a St. Louis Circuit Court jury has found that Harris-Stowe State University discriminated against an employee based on ethnicity. A jury has awarded Shereen Abdel Kader, a former professor in Harris-Stowe’s College of Education, $2.5 million over complaints that the school didn’t renew her contract because of her national origin. Kader is a Caucasian of Egyptian origin and an Arab Muslim. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/harris-stowe-hit-with-another-costly-discrimination-suit/article_a18434d4-4bde-5319-b180-58e2bbda6375.html B582C336-B25A-4CB8-90B4-F25AB65103A7 Fri, 4 Dec 2015 08:29:06 -0600 A New Jersey woman has been charged with making fake threats against black students at Kean University last month.Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union Township faces one count of creating a false public alarm. The Union County prosecutor’s office says McKelvey participated in a Nov. 17 rally on racial issues at Kean and then went to a computer station in a campus library and posted anonymous threats on Twitter against black students. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/12/01/woman-charged-with-making-bogus-threats-against-black-students-at-kean-university/ 893D5061-5C47-4AE6-A1D2-52B4EE79D9D6 Tue, 1 Dec 2015 08:27:13 -0600 A 21-year-old college student has been arrested for threatening to "execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff" at the University of Chicago, and then "any number of white policemen," to avenge the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/30/university-of-chicago-cancels-classes-over-gun-violence-threat/ A894D89F-11F5-4C15-A956-C7E4B9E5CC75 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:07:29 -0600 Western Washington University Police have arrested a student in connection with a threat posted on the online social media platform Yik Yak. The arrest comes less than a week after WWU President Bruce Shepard canceled classes for one day due to racially charged social media posts and threats. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article47263180.html B70B3978-AAEF-4C91-9D8D-753DBFA8901B Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:06:17 -0600 A university professor and his wife were convicted Friday of defrauding NASA by letting graduate students and researchers do all the work on a $700,000 project. Lehigh University engineering professor Yujie Ding and his wife, Yuliya Zotova, told NASA that their startup company would develop a cutting-edge sensor used to track climate change, The Morning Call of Allentown reported. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e6991ff055a54bdd8500f81d3a8f3b51/professor-wife-convicted-fraud-700000-nasa-contract 8ECB52B4-8EEC-4AB0-874A-4CD2DDA3F186 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:17:44 -0600 A Towson University diving coach was indicted on criminal charges Monday in connection with a cellphone that was recording in the team's locker room last month. Maureen Mead of Lutherville, 43, is charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with interception of communication, peeping Tom and altering evidence, according to the university and online court records. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-towson-coach-charged-20151123-story.html C8FB7E9A-1B47-4E08-BE24-C688012FA90E Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:06:38 -0600 An instructor in the University of Memphis’ department of finance has been arrested and charged with indecent exposure. The victim told police the instructor, Frank SanPietro, exposed himself to her and touched himself while the two were having lunch in his office, according to the affidavit. http://wreg.com/2015/11/22/university-of-memphis-instructor-charged-with-indecent-exposure/ 0AB26EBF-881D-4C8D-A468-9BFD37DA2187 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:09:02 -0600 A University of Delaware professor allegedly stalked a fellow school employee, police announced Friday. According to authorities, 66-year-old economics professor William Harris has been charged after a two-month investigation. Police say Harris, a Marlyland native, tried puncturing the tires of the employee's car inside a university parking garage. http://www.phillyvoice.com/ud-professor-charged-stalking-college-employee/ 3A81F42B-9F13-4A5C-92E5-FA202F438E6D Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:03:41 -0600 Police said they have made an arrest in connection with an online threat at Missouri Valley College in Marshall. Police said an 18-year-old from Arizona, has been arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats. He is in custody in Marshall. http://www.kmbc.com/news/missouri-valley-college-on-alert-after-threat/36525766 345CF8D9-C60E-473E-806B-98B75788E6CE Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:08:33 -0600 The Atchinson County, Kansas Prosecutor’s Office confirmed Colleen Carey has been charged with one count of aggravated criminal threat. Benedictine College went on lockdown late Tuesday evening following a threat posted on Yik Yak, the same messaging app that led to an arrest concerning threats at the University of Missouri. http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/yik-yak-threat-prompts-lockdown-at-benedictine-college B1333066-5F72-4E16-972C-CA8BE39C34D3 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:05:53 -0600 A woman is suing Pacific University for $3 million because she was allegedly raped by another student after an underage drinking party at a coach’s house. The suit claims Pacific University hasn’t done enough to discourage alcohol-related sexual assaults. http://koin.com/2015/11/17/ex-student-sues-pacific-university-over-rape-claim/ 79F241FD-D439-46F7-90CC-DD93F01A4ABC Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:23:02 -0600 Former Wesleyan University student Zachary Kramer, 22, of Bethesda, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, MDMA, otherwise known as "Molly." The charge stems from an investigation into the distribution of controlled substances that caused multiple students at the Connecticut college to overdose in February of this year, according to Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. http://patch.com/maryland/bethesda-chevychase/guilty-plea-college-molly-drug-ring 01019E25-E2A3-4394-AA38-E43CAC3CEDCA Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:34:14 -0600 Tyler Bradenberg, 19, of St. Louis County, a former student at Missouri University of Science & Technology, was charged Thursday for allegedly threatening violence on campus via social media, Fox 2 reports. Campus police in Rolla had investigated after they received a report of a posting on the anonymous social media platform Yik Yak saying, "I'm going to shoot up this school." http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morning_call/2015/11/third-man-charged-for-college-campus-threats.html 443023BC-02D8-4797-9EBB-E7EF9B64FBF8 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:32:42 -0600 University of Cincinnati Medical Center can't be sued after an employee leaked private medical records about a patient who had syphilis, a judge ruled Monday. The patient, a woman in her early 20s, filed the lawsuit last year. A screen shot of the woman's private medical records from the hospital was posted on the Facebook group, http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/11/09/uc-health-lawsuit-motion-summary-judgment/75462320/ 7B90C0AD-DFDB-4022-91B5-128052D4B4E4 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:15:24 -0600 A Bend college student who says his possibly psychotic dorm mate plunged a knife into his back at least 12 times filed a $3 million lawsuit Wednesday against Central Oregon Community College. James Briles claims that the college brushed off his pleas to assign him to a different dorm room even though he told the college he feared for his safety. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/11/student_says_he_pleaded_with_c.html 10F097B5-F209-4312-90EA-E78709C48B85 Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:45:36 -0600 A woman accused of running a red light and purposely driving around a barricade and over a police motorcycle before crashing into spectators at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade was formally charged Tuesday with four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of felony assault. http://www.koco.com/news/oklahoma-woman-charged-in-parade-crash-that-killed-4/36253454 07F3DBA8-D7AF-4C1F-8D58-21DFE4A30BEB Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:28:45 -0600 Philosophy professor Peter Ludlow has resigned from Northwestern University, the Evanston, Illinois-based school confirmed Tuesday. Ludlow resigned his tenured professorship on Monday as the university prepared to fire him after determining he sexually harassed two students. Ludlow's behavior was "an affront to the standards" of Northwestern, the university said, and the private school "regrets the pain that was caused by his actions." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-ludlow-resigns-northwestern_5638f2c7e4b079a43c04c6c7 EBD1588B-A380-4449-920C-F58E641B897E Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:24:19 -0600 Authorities have arrested a freshman football player at a California university after he allegedly used social media to threaten gunfire on campus, the latest incident involving a student making violent threats on the smartphone "app" Yik Yak. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-california-threat-idUSKCN0SS25720151103#zzkeLHRL2UcYIgPv.97 C2FFCE6B-7D65-4382-9F93-A5633E0F4F0C Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:48:16 -0600 A St. Louis Circuit Court jury has awarded a former Harris-Stowe State University instructor $4.85 million after finding that the historically black university discriminated against the instructor because she is white. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/jury-says-harris-stowe-discriminated-awards-dismissed-white-instructor-nearly/article_a72e6120-e535-597b-b5e8-dedaa64386bf.html B9B72F45-D3E2-4D93-BD76-97F7802DE1CC Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:56:24 -0600 A Rutgers University student accused of stabbing two people in the lobby of a school dorm has been charged with attempted murder. http://6abc.com/news/student-charged-in-stabbing-at-rutgers-university-dorm/1061470/ 77C56A0C-8CD9-46F5-BB62-B031769E4A33 Mon, 2 Nov 2015 08:14:45 -0600 A former Skidmore College security guard has pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful surveillance stemming from the 2014 accusation that he molested and took digital photos of a highly intoxicated woman. http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/former-college-security-guard-pleads-guilty-unlawful-surveillance-charges-30193.shtml 19C4A596-DDFA-46A7-8CD5-1BF2B7A7A411 Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:49:27 -0600 Former University of Oregon basketball player Brandon Austin has filed a lawsuit against the school and four administrators alleging they damaged his prospects of playing in the NBA. Austin was among three UO basketball players who were kicked off the team and suspended from school after a student accused them of rape. http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2015/10/30/basketball-player-accused-rape-sues-university-oregon/74891398/ C84036BB-F78B-4710-B12F-F0F14818A645 Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:01:24 -0600 Tyrone Mushatt, the former head coach of the Westchester Community College men’s basketball team, was arraigned in Mount Pleasant Town Court Thursday on charges he used forged transcripts to help star players earn NCAA Division I scholarships. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/29/ex-wcc-basketball-coach-charged-over-bogus-transcripts/74791746/ 1F41C9C3-3113-4C91-B3DD-F2212F480EAB Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:06:08 -0500 A Chinese woman pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to have two other women take college admissions examinations in her place to help her get accepted to Virginia Tech. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chinese-woman-pleads-guilty-college-test-taking-scheme-34834093 4A42E07C-287C-4F19-BF02-5F87D4A682EC Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:37:02 -0500 The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says a University of Arizona administrator has been charged with sexual assault, sexual abuse and aggravated assault. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/10/28/university-arizona-dean-charged-sexual-assault/74769288/ 5C5F276D-26A7-4334-BFB8-22CE17912990 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:42:07 -0500 The renovation and expansion project at the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium could come to a halt temporarily if a Cleveland County judge grants a motion for temporary injunction. The lowest bidder for the project, HME, is claiming OU and general contractor Flintco awarded the bid to W&W Steel and violated Oklahoma's Public Competitive Bidding Act, court records show. http://www.normantranscript.com/news/university_of_oklahoma/ou-facing-lawsuit-that-could-halt-football-stadium-construction/article_be5e3fcb-e96a-5261-af9e-77ba79964f49.html 1EF74CFB-BE7B-45B3-93E9-1E1B9555E05C Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:59:43 -0500 The nation's colleges and universities collectively spend an estimated $27 billion each year trying to comply with federal requirements. Or so says the latest Vanderbilt University report aimed at highlighting the burden of federal regulation on institutions of higher education. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/19/vanderbilt-study-again-highlights-what-colleges-view-burdensome-federal-regulations 4984947F-459C-4F0D-A673-8C530DBA4CBE Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:58:47 -0500 A former University of Miami graduate student filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that Colin McGinn, a philosophy professor, sexually harassed her over several months in 2011 and 2012. She's claiming the school violated its Title IX responsibilities by failing to fully investigate her sexual harassment claims against McGinn in 2012 and failing to stop his retaliation against her. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-of-miami-lawsuit-mcginn_561fbe37e4b050c6c4a47ec1?21n61or E02BB6BA-D9EE-4A85-A58C-9440C9AFEE7D Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:58:04 -0500 Geoffrey Marcy, an acclaimed astronomer and leader in the hunt for planets around other stars, has been found guilty of violating the sexual harassment policies of the University of California, Berkeley. In June, the university concluded that Dr. Marcy had engaged in inappropriate behavior with students, including groping them, kissing them and touching or massaging them. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/science/astronomer-apologizes-for-behavior.html?_r=1 082D932E-8224-4C1A-965D-87737ACB9880 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:57:01 -0500 A state appeals court says a woman who was attacked by a classmate at UCLA cannot hold the university responsible. A division of the 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled this week that a public university has no general obligation to protect its students from crimes committed by other students. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/10/09/appeals-court-sides-with-california-regents-in-ucla-attack/ 688D79C0-8C85-4908-ADFD-DB5BBCE51FAA Fri, 9 Oct 2015 14:55:22 -0500 Three Nyack College women's softball players who allege a head softball coach inappropriately touched them hundreds of times have filed a federal lawsuit against the Rockland County college. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/02/softball-players-sue-nyack-college-sexual-harassment/73241740/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= A5E71158-4B7D-459E-AE89-C4478F418F14 Sat, 3 Oct 2015 14:26:42 -0500 The University of Louisville is looking into salacious allegations in a new book that say a former Cardinals men's basketball staffer paid escorts thousands of dollars to have sexual relations with both players and recruits during his time at the university. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/acc/2015/10/02/louisville-basketball-prostitute-escort-scandal-andre-mcgee-rick-pitino/73248574/ 527280B2-3E03-424D-AA90-3A82DADAAAB0 Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:08:42 -0500