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.
Head coach Greg Powers and an assistant were placed on paid leave. Seven players anonymously asked for the whole staff to be replaced, and a family attorney says players describe it as a punishment workout. ASU Police will send their findings to the Maricopa County Attorney. Reporting on the ASU Police criminal investigation says the 50-to-60-minute session of sprints, bear crawls and teammate carries ran in 87–89°F heat that met ASU's own "high" heat-stress threshold, and that Mayich was not immediately put in a cold-water immersion tub, the first-line treatment under ASU policy. Police have begun interviewing players; no charges have been filed.
ASU's side / contextASU says its investigation continues, it will convene an expert panel on outdoor athletics, and coaches say they are grieving too.
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 Police's own Clery 60-day log (Aug. 14 to Oct. 13, 2026) lists 430 cases, including 8 reports of sexual assault or sexual abuse, about 20 assaults and fights, and 59 bike, e-bike and scooter thefts. 234 entries are marked "No Solvability Factors (Inactive)," meaning police found no leads to pursue.
A new Visa Fraud Strike Team announced subpoenas to nine universities including ASU, alleging they lean on J-1 visas for federally funded research jobs at the expense of American researchers' wages.
Tempe Police arrested hundreds of underage drinkers in raids near ASU in 2024 and 2025, including 173 in one raid at Tempe Tavern in spring 2025 and 249 people under 21 in a second raid there in November 2025, mostly for fake IDs and underage drinking. Tempe Tavern, a longtime college-crowd bar near Apache Boulevard and McClintock Drive, abruptly closed in September 2026.
Phoenix New Times reports on an 18-year-old who says she was handed wine on arrival at a "Wine Wednesday" rush party at an off-campus fraternity house near Meyer Park. Her lawsuit alleges she came out of a bathroom with visible abrasions and bruising around her neck consistent with strangulation. We haven't verified the fraternity's name or its ASU status. Read the full story at the source.
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.
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.
Bodycam video shows Tempe police shoving senior Eryn Bonner to the ground and pinning her against a police bike as officers arrested two of her friends outside a nightclub. She was left bruised and later charged with two misdemeanors; her attorney calls the force excessive.
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.
With Board of Regents approval, ASU filed an eminent domain suit to take the 1902 Louis Emerson House, the last parcel it wanted for a new medical school campus. The 89-year-old owner rejected offers of $190,000 and later $999,000, saying neither would cover moving the house, and a petition to save it began circulating.
The DOJ said viral undercover videos suggested ASU treated students differently by race and tried to hide it. The videos came from Accuracy in Media, a conservative group that secretly recorded ASU staff.
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.
