LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat has been named the new dean of Liberty University's business school.
The nation's most high-profile evangelical university announced Brat's hiring Wednesday.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University is dropping the name of the Papa John's founder from a business school program amid controversy over his use of a racial slur, while his Indiana alma mater announced Friday it is keeping its public ties with John Schnatter.
Purdue's Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to offer Schnatter a refund of the $8 million donation that was announced in April with the renaming of the John H. Schnatter Center for Economic Research.
PHOENIX (AP) — Jerry Colangelo has been an owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. He's been an owner of indoor soccer and football teams, was executive director of USA Basketball and has been chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2009.