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A quick Walgreens trip near campus turned into an interrogation about foreign travel. Uniformed officers demanded citizenship papers from students. The FBI searched for a professor in the Center of African Studies. Department heads advised biology labs to lock their doors after U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents were allegedly spotted nearby.

Such stories ricocheted around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign last spring, ratcheting up anxiety, internal emails obtained by Raw Story show.

Police chief Matt Ballinger wrote there was no evidence ICE had carried out any such operations but also explained the problem: ICE doesn’t notify local police when making inquiries....

One of the largest private Christian universities in the United States is being slapped with a hefty fine for allegedly misleading graduate students about the cost of their programs, reported the Associated Press on Tuesday.

"Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000 students, mostly in online programs, faces the largest fine of its kind ever issued by the U.S. Education Department. The university dismissed the allegations as 'lies and deceptive statements,'" reported Collin Binkley. "'Grand Canyon University categorically denies every accusation in the Department of Education’s statement and will take all measures necessary to defend itself from these false accusations,' the school said in a five-page statement."

"An Education Department investigation found that Grand Canyon lied to more than 7,500 current and former students about the cost of its doctoral programs," said the report. "As far back as 2017, the university told students its doctoral programs would cost between $40,000 and $49,000. The department found that less than 2% of graduates completed programs within the range, with 78% paying an additional $10,000 to $12,000." According to the report, that extra cost came from "continuation courses" students were told they needed to complete dissertation requirements....

Two teens in California have been arrested in connection with a classroom brawl with a teacher that was videotaped and widely shared online over the weekend.

A male student at Oberlin College admitted to police that he is responsible for a series of racist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBT incidents at the traditionally progressive institution. The student's campaign began on February 5, 2013, when an unnamed female student complained to the Oberlin College Safety and Security Office that someone had posted on her door a flyer with a link to "OBIETALK.COM," which led to a site containing offensive comments about the unnamed female. At the time of the incident, she stated that she believed two students -- including the one who later confessed his complicity to police -- responsible for posting the flyer on her door. One week later, the same female student found another flyer on her door that read "CELEBRATE N****R HISTORY MUNF! RAPE A WHITE WOMAN!"