Chapman purchased the Anavia Apartments, which will be renamed Chapman Court, to house approximately 800 additional students.

Public Safety recently announced that all officers will start wearing body cameras starting in 2023. These cameras will record all officer encounters when addressing incidents.

Twelve candidates ran for five open seats on the Orange City Council this year — the mayor and Districts 1, 3, 4 and 6.

Chapman’s most recent 990 file is from the 2019-2020 fiscal year, and it includes a breakdown of which individuals had the most reportable compensation from the university. Here are the top 10 highest earners of the university

The family of a Chapman University graduate student has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the University of Southern California (USC) and two of its students after their son was killed in a vehicle accident in Imperial Valley last April.

Chapman’s chapter of SAE was officially closed May 18, 2022 and will have no further presence at the university.

Over 5,000 Chapman employees will receive their formulated share of approximately $664,166 in settlement money after a near two-year legal dispute between the university and former adjunct professor Frank Chindamo.

Dalante Jerome Bell, a 22-year-old Garden Grove resident who was arrested by the Orange Police Department Sept. 28, is sentenced to six years in state prison after being convicted of two felony sexual assault charges.

In a 3-2 vote earlier this month, district trustees voted to ban critical race theory in schools, despite arguments that it isn’t currently being taught.

The hearing to potentially approve a $1.15 million settlement approaches after a former Chapman professor took legal action against the university for allegedly failing to pay some employees sufficiently.

As Chapman looks to increase student enrollment to 10,500 on the Orange campus, residents and university representatives discuss how Chapman’s relationship with the community has shifted and addressed issues such as lacking housing, parking and noise complaints.

A unanimous vote from the California State Legislature against a proposed enrollment cap for the University of California, Berkeley signals support for college students living in the area. The California Supreme Court originally sided with Berkeley residents, saying that the university had to accept 3,000 less students into the 2023-2024 incoming class.

After a federal judge gave Mary’s Kitchen until the start of May to find a new location, CEO Gloria Suess describes the difficulty in finding a suitable new location for the food kitchen.

Effective immediately, the Chapman community is no longer required to wear face coverings indoors according to a March 3 update from President Struppa

California Sen. Dave Min introduced new legislation to ban offshore drilling and cease oil production off the state coast after last October’s oil spill drumped 25,000 gallons of crude oil into Orange County waters.

Due to a national testing kit shortage, on-campus COVID-19 tests will be prioritized for students who still need to fulfill their return-to-campus requirements.

Chapman University’s known positive COVID-19 cases reached 284 Jan. 7, nearly surpassing the fall’s surge that peaked at 290 cases. As of Jan. 13, the case rate at Chapman has dropped to 236.

All Chapman University classes will be online for the first week of both interterm and the spring semester, and eligible students are required to receive a COVID-19 booster shot by Jan. 31 along with following revised testing protocols.

In the U.S., the Omicron variant has been detected in 27 states and 68 countries across the world.

As Chapman students return from fall break, the university’s COVID-19 protocols encourage testing and quarantine immediately following out-of-state travel.