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Head coach Greg Powers is now ASU's former hockey coach. ASU placed him on paid administrative leave Sept. 30, two days after seven players sent President Michael Crow a 26-page letter through an attorney asking for the staff behind the Aug. 20 workout to be removed pending an independent investigation. ASU is reportedly in talks to hire former NHL head coach Dave Hakstol.
ASU hired Dietram Scheufele as a Foundation Professor of Communications this fall, weeks after he resigned from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison investigators found he violated its policy against romantic relationships with students under his authority, having such relationships with two of his students, and broke a faculty rule requiring professional honesty and integrity.
The contract for Aramark-run dining workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, expired Aug. 31, 2025. Workers struck across all four campuses in February, filed a safety complaint after a walkout over no cooling at a campus Panda Express, and saw two organizers arrested by ASU Police at a commencement protest.
Sophomore defenseman Matthew Mayich, 21, collapsed during an Aug. 20 team workout led by a former Green Beret and has been hospitalized ever since; family attorneys say his condition is irreversible. ASU's own preliminary review found coaches never submitted the training plan to the university's strength and conditioning staff.
The Direwolf ransomware group posted ASU on its dark-web leak site Aug. 17, its first claimed U.S. university target. Threat-intel firm SOCRadar separately found 25 stolen-credential records tied to asu.edu, including employee logins to ASU's central sign-in portal; those aren't confirmed as part of the gang's claim.
International enrollment fell from about 14,000 to 11,000–11,500 this fall amid visa delays and denials. International students typically pay full out-of-state tuition, so the revenue impact is significant, though ASU hasn't published a figure.
Five weeks after suing, ASU withdrew its eminent domain case against the 1902 Louis Emerson House on July 17. The house will stay standing, and ASU says it will revise plans for its $200 million medical school site.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights warned ASU and 59 other universities they could face enforcement action for failing to protect Jewish students under Title VI. ASU is among 55 schools under investigation or monitoring after complaints; the department did not detail the complaints against ASU.
The Goldwater Institute sued ASU on behalf of Owen Anderson, a philosophy and religious studies professor of 21 years, over a required faculty training covering concepts like white privilege. It says staff must pass a test afterward, with failures reported to their dean, and that Anderson could be disciplined for refusing.
A former ASU IT manager was indicted on 14 felony counts for using a university card on personal purchases from 2017 to 2021, including gaming consoles and smartwatches. The state Auditor General found ASU officials let him bypass card rules.
ASU's own annual security reports show the Tempe campus recorded 30 rape reports, 33 fondling reports and 3 statutory rape reports from 2018 to 2021, more than any other ASU campus. Six sexual-violence reports there were classified as unfounded.
The U.S. Department of Education found ASU violated federal law by requiring a student who reported a rape in February 2020 to sign a nondisclosure agreement before she could see the written findings of her disciplinary hearing. The notice also gave no clear reasoning for the outcome and didn't mention her right to appeal.
A State Press investigation found ASU recorded 68 rapes from 2017 to 2019. Of the 11 cases ASU Police referred to the county attorney, all 11 were refused. Since 2014, 277 sexual assaults were reported to the university, 147 were investigated, and fewer than half of the 101 formal cases could have ended in punishment.
A former student alleged in a Title IX suit that ASU police refused to authorize a rape kit or drug screen after she was assaulted at a fraternity party, interviewed no fraternity members, and underreported campus assaults to look safer.
In J.K. v. Arizona Board of Regents, a former student sued under Title IX in 2006 over her rape and how ASU handled former football player Darnel Henderson; former head coach Dirk Koetter was also named. The Board of Regents paid her $850,000 from the state's self-insurance fund, which her lawyers called the second-largest sexual assault settlement on record.
