Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Oct 7
/***HIGHER ED
Education System Needs Fundamental Changes: Arne Duncan
Tensions over Hong Kong unrest flare on US college campuses
https://apnews.com/7b0f328f266f46c1a498a16a5ad03fbc
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Judge rules in favor of Harvard in affirmative action case
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-favor-harvard-affirmative-action-case-n1060921
Attorney ‘stunned’ by University of Michigan’s ‘arrogance,' resulting $1.6 million legal bill
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/10/attorney-stunned-by-university-of-michigans-arrogance-resulting-16-million-legal-bill.html
How Penn State Is Cutting Greenhouse Emissions In Half — And Saving Money
College Students Just Want Normal Libraries
***HIGHER ED & FINANCES
Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend will be paid $50,000 out of student fees for speech at University of Florida
University of Connecticut issues just over $966,000 in parking violations for 2018
Colleges received more than $60 million from family profiting from OxyContin https://www.marketwatch.com/story/colleges-received-more-than-60-million-from-family-profiting-from-oxycontin-2019-10-03
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Academic dishonesty extends to CVs, according to a new study
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/03/study-academic-dishonesty-extends-faculty-résumés
Careless mistakes or intellectual theft? UW-Oshkosh case reveals complexity of plagiarism
NC State professor suspended after calling women 'useless' during lecture
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Gordon College Receives Record $75.5 Million Donation
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Liberty Hires Disgraced Reporter
http://wset.com/news/local/former-disgraced-reporter-austen-joins-liberty-game-on-staff
Appeal sought in child sex solicitation case involving ex-LU professor
***RESEARCH
“We find that a total of 22 out of 49 papers contain demonstrable errors” —a study of research in machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.0443
Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science’s preference for positive results
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02960-3
Journal Peer Review and Editorial Evaluation: Cautious Innovator or Sleepy Giant?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11024-019-09388-z
Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02922-9
Free Yourself From Study Fragility and P Values (video)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918733
A Journal’s test for peer review bias
https://augustafreepress.com/professors-take-part-in-journals-test-for-peer-review-bias/
***STUDENT LIFE
Uncovering A Huge Mystery Of College: Office Hours
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766568824/uncovering-a-huge-mystery-of-college-office-hours
What Does a 'Good' Resume Look Like in 2019? The Answer May Surprise You
https://www.inc.com/quora/what-does-a-good-resume-look-like-in-2019-answer-may-surprise-you.html
Colleges are starting degrees in esports, with $36,000 programs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-esports-universities-launch-degrees-in-esports/
Most Americans go to college in the hopes of a secure financial future. Many don’t get it
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/many-former-college-students-dont-earn-more-than-28000-a-year.html
College students who go off Facebook for a week consume less news and report being less depressed
At UC Berkeley, Brown, and Yale, students are fighting to keep Palantir off campus over its ICE contracts https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/26/20884182/palantir-ice-protests-campus-family-separation-berkeley-yale-brown
***SEXUAL HARRASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Texas university reported 8 rapes on campus in 2016-17, but now admits there were 38: Experts say this problem is happening nationwide
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-university-reported-8-rapes-192738058.html
Claims of sexual assaults on Rice University campus spark campus policy change
Students at NYU and Rutgers are asking why professors who've been found to have behaved inappropriately with students were welcomed to campus this semester
Southwestern Officials Agreed to Keep Quiet About Professor Who Had Trove of Nude Student Photos, Sex Videos
12 arrested in connection with alleged rapes at Alabama university
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/alabama-rape-allegations-campus/