Lee’s second book debuted to rave reviews, and on top of that, Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine purchased the film rights before the book even appeared on shelves. In a statement, Witherspoon called Lee’s book “inspiring.”
NOTE: Porter Halyburton '63 featured in Lee's book.
The University of Southern California has agreed to pay $50 million to the University of California to resolve a long-running legal dispute over Southern Cal’s 2015 hiring of a leading Alzheimer’s disease researcher from the University of California, San Diego, according to the settlement agreement.
Author Jon Krakauer's five-year quest to find out how and why Montana's top higher education official intervened to prevent a star college quarterback's expulsion over a rape accusation stalled Wednesday when the state Supreme Court denied him access to those documents.
Language in the draft rules for the college endowment tax would force Berea College, a Kentucky school the Senate majority leader tried to spare from the burden, to pay Uncle Sam.
