Security

A Boston law school has recovered about $173,000 that a former administrator last week admitted to stealing, and has put in place safeguards to protect the institution against future thefts, according to the dean.

UW-Madison employees would not be able to carry guns or other weapons while working under a policy recommendation approved by the university's Faculty Senate Monday.

Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon condemned a string of racial incidents that have erupted on campus and will be addressed on Tuesday evening at a meeting of several student and community organizations.

Police are looking for the person who sent a threatening email to the College of the Albemarle early Monday, causing school officials to close the campus down.

When city officials arrived last month at a private dormitory that houses more than 900 Old Dominion University students, and which has been the site of several armed robberies and drug deals, they found unauthorized people entering the building, malfunctioning fire alarms and no security at the front door.

Personal information for 19,500 current and former students may have been accessed by hackers, university informs in letters

Hackers briefly defaced Harvard University’s website yesterday, replacing the home page of America’s oldest university with an image of Syria’s president, Bashar el-Assad, together with a message accusing the United States of supporting the uprising against his regime and threatening retaliation by Syria’s “23 million mobile bomb.’’

Pale, thin and dressed in a red jail uniform, a Harvard University-educated biology professor pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder charges Thursday in the slayings of three colleagues killed during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

A Utah gun-rights group is asking its members to pressure state officials to consider only University of Utah presidential candidates who have an expansive view of citizens’ rights to arm themselves on campus.

Two Quinnipiac University basketball players were arrested on assault charges Sunday after allegedly hitting two other university students as they were trying to break up a fight on campus, police said.