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3 Public Universities in Illinois to Get $17 Million in Emergency Funds

Three public universities in Illinois have been approved for a combined $17 million in emergency funding, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The state’s Board of Higher Education voted on Wednesday to provide the money to Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, and Western Illinois Universities. The money will come from a $20-million pool set up by the state to help financially failing colleges stay open. It can be used only to pay off costs incurred before the end of the year.

Western Illinois University w…

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U. of Missouri Investigates Claim of Academic Fraud Involving Athletes

The University of Missouri at Columbia is investigating a former tutor’s statements that she completed academic work for student-athletes, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

On Tuesday evening Yolanda Kumar, the former tutor, posted on Facebook that she took entrance examinations and completed entire courses for the athletes, the AP reported. Ms. Kumar also wrote that two academic coordinators had encouraged and supported her work.

Ms. Kumar said that she resigned her position this mont…

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Betsy DeVos, Charter-School Advocate, Is Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary

[Updated (11/23/2016, 2:45 p.m.) with additional details and reaction.]

President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Betsy DeVos, a charter-school advocate, to be his secretary of education.

Ms. DeVos, 58, is chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, a group that pushes for the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs. Ms. DeVos earned her bachelor’s degree from Calvin College, and her work has mostly centered on elementary and secondary education.

She is a former chairwoman o…

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Baylor U. Settles With Women Who Reported Gang Rape

Baylor University has settled with two women who said they were gang-raped by multiple football players in 2012, the university said in a statement. One of the two women also said she had been physically assaulted by a football player in 2013.

Baylor did not disclose financial details of the settlement. David E. Garland, the university’s interim president, said in the statement that football players implicated in the alleged sexual assaults and the athletic-department personnel who apparently sa…

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Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Overtime-Pay Rule

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration’s effort to extend overtime pay to millions more workers, after 21 states and dozens of business groups asserted that the rule was unlawful and would cause them irreparable harm.

Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Tex., concluded that the U.S. Department of Labor had exceeded its authority and ignored the intent of Congress in issuing the rule, which had been scheduled to take effect on December 1….

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Here’s a Rundown of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump’s Election

Organizations that track hate crimes have seen a rise in reports since the presidential election. The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded more than 700 incidents of hate or violence against minorities, 16 percent of them on college campuses, even though colleges are perceived as liberal oases. Many of the episodes, on campuses and off, involved references to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Here’s the latest:

November 22, 2016

Arizona State University has joined a string of colleges that ha…

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NCAA Wipes Out 2 Years of Notre Dame Wins in Football

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has ordered the University of Notre Dame to vacate all of its football wins from the 2012 and 2013 seasons after the university was found to have violated the association’s regulations, CBS Sports reported.

An NCAA investigation determined that a trainer had provided players with extra benefits and had engaged in academic misconduct by helping two players to cheat. Notre Dame has been placed on a one-year probation, and the trainer under a two-year sh…

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Yale to Pay $3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Murder of Student in Lab

Yale University will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a graduate student who was murdered in a campus research lab in 2009, the Associated Press reports.

The student, Annie Le, was murdered by a research technician who worked in the same building less than a week before her planned wedding. Ms. Le’s family argued that Yale had not done enough to ensure women’s safety on the campus and that the man who murdered her had shown a “violent propensity towards women” in…

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Associate Athletic Director at Baylor U. Is Charged With Assaulting a Reporter

Baylor University has placed an athletic-department official on leave after he was charged with assaulting a reporter, USA Today reports.

Heath Nielsen, associate athletic director for communications, is accused of assaulting the reporter on November 5, after Baylor lost to Texas Christian University. He is facing a misdemeanor assault charge.

James McBride, a reporter with the Texas Blaze News, told the police he was taking a photo with a Baylor football player when Mr. Nielsen grabbed him by t…

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U. of Kansas Cheerleaders Are Suspended From Squad Over ‘KKK’ Snapchat

Four University of Kansas cheerleaders have been suspended from the squad after a photo captioned “Kkk go trump” was posted to one cheerleader’s Snapchat account, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.

In the Snapchat photo, three male cheerleaders wearing sweaters emblazoned with the letter “K” for Kansas are posing side by side.

“Unacceptable,” the university’s athletics department posted to Twitter on Monday. “This behavior won’t be tolerated.” The university’s official Twitter account adde…

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