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First Woman to Ref in a College Bowl Game
Sarah Thomas on Saturday became the first woman to be a referee in a college bowl game, The Detroit Free...
Fund Manager Settles Suit Over Ill. College Savings Plan
Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. announced Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $77 million to the State of Illinois to settle...
Slippery Rock Settles Title IX Suit (Again)
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania has pledged to improve the women's softball field and provide additional funds for women's athletics...
Bucknell Professor Sentenced to Death in Ethiopia
An Ethiopian court has sentenced a Bucknell University professor to death, but the sentence was in absentia as the professor...
Britain Considers 2-Year College Degrees
The British government has urged universities to develop "fast track" college degrees that could be finished in two years instead...
Do American Students Bring Down the Curve?
"My Lazy American Students," an op-ed in The Boston Globe, is attracting considerable online debate. The piece -- by Kara...
$100M in Senate Health Bill Is Bid to Help UConn
Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, managed to insert a provision in the Senate's version of health care legislation that...
NIH Will Seek New Rules on Conflicts of Interest
The National Institutes of Health is planning to propose new rules for researchers receiving its grants, requiring that they disclose...