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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA – When driving across the United States, Australia and many European countries, motorists oftentimes speed past a little part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Even while watching NASCAR and Indy Racing League races, viewers are seeing the work of members of the UNL community.
No, this has nothing to do with the university [...]

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON – Final offers from both the Oregon Public Employees Union and the Oregon University System are now on the table in their contract renegotiation, but the two sides still seem no closer to reaching an agreement.

“We were hoping they would come through and match the proposal we had on the table,” [...]

0UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA – Starting fall semester the School of Computer and Information Science will be the only school within the University of South Alabama requiring certain students to own a laptop computer.
However, USA is requiring that all students registering this fall own a computer or have personal access to one.
Only those students enrolling [...]

0MINNESOTA ST. UNIV. AT MANKATO – Of the 90 students in Philosophy 110 at Northwestern University, 12 may have ignored the section that discussed ethics.
After a teaching assistant found similarities in 12 papers, the university launched an investigation to see if the students plagiarized content in a paper for the class, possibly taking information from [...]

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DE ANZA COLLEGE – Former part-time De Anza instructor Daniel Mackay was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on April 7 by a jury in an Alameda County courthouse.

The conviction stems from the 1998 slaying of Mackay’s wife, Debby Mackay. Mackay taught Manufacturing Design at De Anza for 14 years before bludgeoning his wife to death [...]

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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – Wisconsin officials appeared before the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Infractions Committee on Saturday, Aug. 11, in what could be one of the final steps in an extra-benefits case involving student-athletes.
In April, the university completed a comprehensive investigation and self-report to the NCAA and Chancellor John D. Wiley issued self-imposed institutional [...]

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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA – After a month-long wait, the purchasing contract was signed, and with approval from the Federal Communications Commission, the University bought its first commercial television station.
The contract was signed on July 21, making WJRD News Channel 49 officially part of the Capstone.
Pamela Doyle, associate professor in the College of Communications and [...]

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON – The University has dropped all plans to institute a new policy that would have restricted how long television news broadcasters could air footage of Duck football games.

Athletic Director Bill Moos announced Wednesday that after almost a month of public feedback and angry, critical letters from media groups nationwide, the school [...]