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No. 14 Texas Tech routs Sam Houston St to improve to 2-0
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Mac McClung is already doing for No. 14 Texas Tech exactly what he told coach Chris Beard he would after transferring from Georgetown. McClung had 18 points to again lead the Red Raiders in scoring as they improved to 2-0 with an 84-52 victory over Sam Houston State on Friday. ...
Florida college says its campus belonged to Native American
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The University of South Florida acknowledged this week that its campus in Tampa is located on land once occupied by the Seminole people and other Native Americans, an admission meant to give context to the Thanksgiving holiday most Americans are celebrating Thursday. In a...
No. 14 Texas Tech opens with 101-58 win over Northwestern St
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Mac McClung and Marcus Santos-Silva fit right in with No. 14 Texas Tech when the transfers finally got to play a game for the Red Raiders. McClung scored 20 points while Santos-Silva had 10 points and 12 rebounds despite playing only 18 minutes as Texas Tech opened the season with a...
Woman who bounced among foster homes named Rhodes Scholar
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman who as a child bounced among foster homes and often slept on the couches of friends in Missouri has been named a 2021 Rhodes Scholar. Mackenzie Fierceton, 23, is one of just 32 U.S. college students awarded a four-year scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Oxford in...
Woman who bounced among foster homes named Rhodes Scholar
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman who as a child bounced among foster homes and often slept on the couches of friends in Missouri has been named a 2021 Rhodes Scholar. Mackenzie Fierceton, 23, is one of just 32 U.S. college students awarded a four-year scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Oxford in...
2 students from Georgia among those named Rhodes Scholars
ATLANTA (AP) — Two students from the Atlanta area have been chosen among the 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2021. The winners are Phaidra Buchanan, a senior at the University of Georgia who is from Tyrone, and Samuel E. Patterson III, a senior at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who is from...
Pickett leads shorthanded Pitt by Virginia Tech 47-14
PITTSBURGH (AP) — His team reeling from a bout with COVID-19 that threatened to derail the rest of the season, Pittsburgh senior quarterback Kenny Pickett stood up in front of his teammates as the Panthers prepared to face Virginia Tech and provided a very blunt reminder about the bond they shared....
Louisiana university system raises pay for faculty, staff
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Southern University college system is boosting pay for faculty and staff across its campuses, under a package of salary hikes and one-time bonuses approved Friday by the system's governing board. “There’s never a good time to advance a salary adjustment,...
Heading home for the holiday? Get a virus test, colleges say
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As college students prepare to go home for the holidays, some schools are quickly ramping up COVID-19 testing to try to keep infections from spreading further as the coronavirus surges across the U.S. Thousands of cases have been connected to campuses since some colleges reopened...
Teacher shortage has Connecticut turning to college students
Connecticut has launched a pilot education program in Bristol that puts college students in public schools to help ease the state's teacher shortage during the coronavirus pandemic and increase diversity in the classroom. The NextGen Educators program is a partnership between the state Department of Education...
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