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Byline: Sara Lipka After two students were shot in a residence hall at Virginia Tech on the morning of April 16, 2007, officials there could not reasonably have foreseen a [...]

Byline: Sara Lipka Two months ago, in settling a high-profile investigation, federal officials told the University of Montana at Missoula how to protect students from rape. The university had failed [...]

Byline: Sara Lipka A settlement announced on Thursday between the federal government and the University of Montana at Missoula over reports of sexual assault denounces the institution's handling of the [...]

Byline: Sara Lipka Parents who have lost children make tenacious advocates. Stephen M. Guest, whose daughter Kristine died in an alcohol-related snowmobile accident at Paul Smith's College seven years ago, [...]

Byline: Sara Lipka A campus police officer can arrest you just as any cop can -- unless the college that employs him is religiously affiliated. That's what judges in North [...]

Byline: Sara Lipka A former public-university president who unilaterally dismissed a student may be held personally liable for legal damages, a federal court in Atlanta ruled last week. The case [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Colleges are about to be told how to fight piracy. They have deployed various tactics over the years to deter illegal file sharing, usually of commercial music [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Washington -- New regulations may expand the thicket of student-privacy law, but the U.S. Department of Education hopes that an in-depth guide will help colleges and universities [...]

Byline: ERIC KELDERMAN and SARA LIPKA Washington -- The Supreme Court's landmark ruling overturning Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban could have implications for colleges that prohibit firearms on their campuses. Last [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Washington -- The education committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last week to approve a bill that would update the Americans With Disabilities Act [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Ethan Elliott was a corporal in the Marine Corps when 32 students and professors were shot dead at Virginia Tech. Now he's a freshman at Pima Community [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Clearwater Beach, Fla. -- The solution to shootings at colleges and universities is not more guns, public-safety experts and campus officials argued here last week at a [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA College Park, Md. -- At a women's basketball practice here at the University of Maryland this month, Ashleigh Newman has the ball. A male defender crowds her [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Most college and university speech codes would not survive a legal challenge, according to a report released in December by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Harrisonburg, Va. -- One after another, the 24 women on James Madison University's gymnastics team leapt along a balance beam, swung around uneven bars, and flipped over [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Before Chandler Parsons committed to play basketball for the University of Florida, his cellphone buzzed more than 100 times a day with text messages from college coaches. [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Using e-mail surveys to gauge the interest of both male and female students in participating in varsity athletics will protect colleges from sex-discrimination lawsuits, said the College [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Public-college officials in California would be prohibited from censoring student publications under a bill that passed the State Senate in August. The bill, which was approved by [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed Kentucky Wesleyan College on probation for three years after discovering that 45 athletes on eight teams were incorrectly certified as [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA The National Collegiate Athletic Association needs to update its enforcement and infractions procedures, according to a report issued last week by a Washington law firm. In the [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted unanimously last month to consider faculty members' patents and the commercialization of their research in deciding whether to [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA At Goucher College, foreign exchange is no longer an option -- it's an order. As of this fall, all students starting their first year of study at [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Colleges and universities may have more leeway to interpret federal privacy law than their officials know. For example, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, institutions [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA The Department of Defense announced in May that it was collecting information about high-school and college students for a database designed to aid military recruiting, which some [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA The U.S. Air Force Academy faces accusations that it has fostered a climate of religious intolerance, in which Christian cadets are urged to convert Jews, Muslims, and [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA Whistle-blowers who accuse educational institutions of sex discrimination are protected from retaliation under federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week. The court's 5-to-4 ruling, accompanied [...]

Byline: SARA LIPKA About 14 percent of female students at three U.S. military academies say they have been sexually assaulted on the campuses at least once since enrolling, and more [...]

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has extended an existing probation for California State University at Fresno for four more years after finding that a former head coach for men's basketball [...]