Drake Student Writes 4 Racist Hoax Notes
By Emma Whitford. A Drake University student faces potential expulsion and criminal charges after she was determined responsible for four of five racist notes found in campus residence halls, the Des Moines Register reported. More...
Student Arrested for Twitter Threat to Kill Professor
By Emma Whitford. A Florida Atlantic University student was arrested for threatening to kill his professor on Twitter for scheduling a 7 a.m. exam, the Sun Sentinel reported. More...
Canada Blazes the Trail for (Authorized) Pot on Campus
By Emma Whitford. After recreational marijuana was legalized in Canada, three universities are amending their policies to allow its use on campus. Universities in the U.S. remain committed to federally imposed ban of the drug. More...
Judge Requires Eastern Michigan to Restore Women's Tennis
By Emma Whitford. Eastern Michigan University has hired a new coach and will reinstate its women’s tennis team after a judge ruled that cutting the team violated Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination, the Detroit Free Press reported. More...
UW Madison to Pay $32 Million Over Patent Contract
By Emma Whitford. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the patent-licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was ordered to pay $32 million to Washington University in St. Louis after a judge ruled that WARF violated a royalties contract between the two universities, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. More...
Swastikas Spray-Painted in Jewish Scholar's Office
By Scott Jaschik. Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor who is a scholar of the Holocaust, found two large swastikas spray-painted in her office at Teachers College, Columbia University, on Wednesday, The New York Daily News reported. The slur "yid" was also spray-painted. More...
Threats Lead to Changes in Finals at Northridge
By Scott Jaschik. A series of written threats, some accompanied by bigoted and anti-Semitic symbols, has prompted California State University at Northridge to offer all final exams today in alternative formats such that students do not need to come to campus. More...
Free Speech for Some, Not All?
By Colleen Flaherty. Adult film star's invite to campus gets a Wisconsin chancellor in trouble. Some see hypocrisy on the part of the state university system, which passed a lengthy free speech policy just last year. Does the system only care about some speech. More...
SEIU Ends Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Union Drive at Vanderbilt
By Colleen Flaherty. Service Employees International Union withdrew its petition to form a non-tenure-track faculty union at Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science, both the university and the union said this week. More...