Ever since she took over her family's all-natural peanut butter business, Kimmi Wernli has seen a potential for global scale. "We've been wanting to sell internationally. There's a market for it, but honestly we didn't know where to start," said Wern...
Cecil "Barney" Barnett and his wife, Gillian Barnett, have pledged $4 million to Simmons College of Kentucky. The announcement was met with whoops, cheers and a standing ovation at a breakfast event this morning at St. Stephen Church. Barnett, the f...
Niagara University has established a new 12,000-square-foot location in Vaughan, Ontario, just north of Toronto. The location – which will be an addition to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre in the city's downtown core – is part of the Niagara Universit...
Lindenwood University President Michael Shonrock was terminated Friday by the school's board of trustees, Shonrock's attorney, Jerome Dobson of Dobson, Goldberg, Berns & Rich, confirmed to the Business Journal in an email. Shonrock was placed on paid...
Some 140 people gathered this morning at King County Library System’s Tukwila Library to watch Seahawk quarterback Russell Wilson and his entertainer wife, Ciara, unveil two limited-edition library cards featuring pictures of each. The event marked th...
Marlon James, the award-winning, Minneapolis-based writer and teacher at Macalester College, is getting big attention from Hollywood for his just-published fantasy novel, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf." The Hollywood Reporter reports that the movie rights ...
The renovations are an investment in workforce development, said CCP President Don Generals.
University of Central Florida President Dale Whittaker and nine other school leaders will face subpoenas related to the misuse of operations funding. 14 current and former UCF employees must testify to the Florida House public integrity and ethics com...
Michael Shonrock, the president of St. Charles-based Lindenwood University System, has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to the university's student publication Lindenlink. Shonrock told the student publication that he received a le...
The University of Cincinnati is expanding its student housing offerings as a result of record demand, student newspaper the News Record reports. A record 6,800 students moved into university-provided housing this fall. Those students are living in a m...
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this year, Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) has made a donation of $1.5 million to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Raytheon's donation, according to Tuesday's announcement, will allow...
The University of North Florida held its grand opening Monday for its satellite campus in the Barnett Building downtown. Up to 200 Coggin College of Business students will take classes in the 16,000-square-foot space on the fourth and fifth floors, w...
