Accreditors voted on Tuesday to remove George Washington University's medical school from probation, The Washington Post reports. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education had penalized the medical school in 2008 for failing to adequately monitor the time that students spent with patients, among other problems. James Scott, the dean, said that his school had received 14,000 applications this year for 175 spots, so its reputation does not appear to have suffered.

Trustees of the Yuba Community College District voted unanimously on Wednesday to rescind a pay raise to the chancellor amid concerns that it had violated California's open-meetings law, reports the Appeal-Democrat, a local newspaper. The $29,282 raise, which was to have increased Chancellor Nicki Harrington's compensation to $249,282, would have been her first since 2006, but it came at a time of budget cuts and layoffs. Critics predict the pay raise will ultimately be approved.

A former president of South Carolina State University has resolved his lawsuit over his 2007 ouster. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, S.C., reports that Andrew Hugine Jr. accepted $60,000 to drop his suit for defamation and breach of contract against the university. Mr. Hugine, who is now president of Alabama A&M University, had originally sought up to $1-million from South Carolina State and $2-million from the trustees who voted to oust him.

A former professor at Tennessee State University's School of Nursing was disciplined this month for scientific misconduct following an investigation by the federal Office of Research Integrity. A report in Thursday's Federal Register states that James Gary Linn "knowingly and intentionally falsified and/or fabricated" data in a study involving mentally ill homeless men engaged in high-risk sexual behaviors. The Department of Health and Human Services barred Mr. Linn from contracting with the federal government or from acting in an advisory or consulting role to the department for the next three years.

The Chicago Tribune sued the University of Illinois on Wednesday in federal court to compel the release of the names of applicants' parents and their political patrons in an admissions scandal that roiled the university last year. The university contends that the names are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law that protects student privacy.

The Student Press Law Center and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education have accused officials at Los Angeles City College of engaging in a "pattern of interference" with the student newspaper, The Collegian, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a January 15 letter to the president of the Los Angeles Community College District's Board of Trustees, the two groups said the board should urge the college's president, Jamillah K. Moore, to comply with state laws protecting students' rights to free speech.

A Nebraska district court dismissed a family's wrongful-death lawsuit against Nebraska Wesleyan University and the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity on Friday after lawyers for both sides in the case reached an undisclosed settlement, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. The father of Ryan Stewart had sued for unspecified damages in addition to more than $10,000 in expenses after his son, a sophomore, died in a 2006 fire at the fraternity. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined.

The University of Maryland at College Park has reprimanded an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy for using university letterhead to issue an opinion to health-care workers in California, the Baltimore Sun reports. In the letter, Fred Feinstein advised the workers that they risked losing contract benefits if they left the Service Employees International Union for a competing union. Service Employees International paid Mr. Feinstein $240,000 in consulting fees in 2007-8.

Lawrence M. DuBuske, an allergy and asthma specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will give up both jobs rather than give up lucrative speaking engagements for pharmaceutical companies, The Boston Globe reports. Partners HealthCare hospital network, which includes Brigham and Women's, has a new conflict-of-interest policy that bars doctors from participating in speakers' bureaus. Last April, May, and June, Dr. DuBuske made nearly $100,000 talking to other doctors about drug companies' products.

Two top administrators who stepped down from their posts last year at North Carolina State University amid a scandal over the hiring of the governor's wife have returned as professors, reports the Raleigh News & Observer. James L. Oblinger, the former chancellor, is performing food-science research and assisting in strategic planning at the North Carolina Research Campus, in Kannapolis. Larry A. Nielsen, the former provost, is a professor in N.C. State's department of forestry and natural resources.