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Franco Origlia/Getty Images Father James Poole, a priest in Nome, Alaska, was serial sexual predator, who abused at least 20 women and girls, according to court documents. In response to his serial abuse, he was sent to live out his retirement years on Gonzaga University’s campus in Spokane, Washington. And he isn’t the only one: […]
Published time: 12 Dec, 2018 02:02 Edited time: 12 Dec, 2018 02:12 A bomb threat has forced the evacuation of at least one building at Facebook’s Menlo Park office campus. Police are investigating and have called for the public to avoid the 200 block of Jefferson Drive, where offices housing Facebook and Instagram are located. […]
OZY and JPMorgan Chase have partnered to take a deeper look at how businesses can impact society for the better. Enjoy the rest of our special series here. In the United States, the cost of college is reaching new levels. Student debt surpassed $ 1.5 trillion in 2018, and the Department of Education estimates that […]
Cassie Cope/The Charlotte Observer, via Associated Press A high school in near Charlotte, North Carolina, where one student fatally shot another on Monday, was criticized for resuming classes hours after the shooting. Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, defended the school’s decision Monday, saying that it was the appropriate thing to do to ensure that […]
Glossy brochures with photos of young adults traipsing around leafy quads might dominate the popular imagination of what higher education looks like. But steadily and dramatically, we’re seeing movement away from a life of lecture halls and dorms. The number of higher ed students studying on campus dropped by more than 1 million between 2012 […]
Gerry Broome/AP A Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was toppled during a rally by hundreds of protesters who decried the memorial known as “Silent Sam” as a symbol of racist heritage. Once it was on the ground, demonstrators kicked it and cheered. UNC leaders previously said state law prevented the […]
Greg Sandoval/Business Insider YouTube has told officials in San Bruno, California, that they intend to bulk up security at the company’s headquarters, the city’s community development director told Business Insider. Some of the upgrades come as YouTube seeks to expand its San Bruno campus. The talks follow the April shooting attack on YouTube by a […]
On move-in day at Michigan State University’s College of Engineering, freshmen and their parents discover something surprising. Mingling among the families and faculty are teams of volunteers from major companies like General Electric and Consumers Energy, helping students move in. Even more surprising, there’s a good chance the person schlepping futons up four flights of […]
Enlarge / A T9 Transporter van like this could soon shuttle Apple employees. (credit: Volkswagen) The New York Times reported this evening that Apple entered into a partnership with Volkswagen Group to pair a number of electric T6 Transporter vans with Apple’s proprietary autonomous vehicle software. The vans will reportedly be used to shuttle employees around Apple’s […]
The U.S. Education Department opened investigations into whether scholarships and professional networking groups intended to support women at Yale University and the University of Southern California violate federal law by discriminating against men.
