Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Nov 1

***HIGHER ED

East Carolina University Interim Chancellor Resigns Over Boozy Night With Students https://www.thedailybeast.com/east-carolina-university-interim-chancellor-dan-gerlach-resigns-over-boozy-night-with-students?via=rss

The University of Arizona is changing the way it refers to itself https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/university-of-arizona-is-changing-the-way-it-refers-to-itself/75-21e834f8-a0f9-477d-abfb-519a08ff6151

Do trustees have full freedom of speech? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/01/do-trustees-have-full-freedom-speech   

 

***HIGHER ED & FINANCES

Ashford University restructuring contributes to hundreds of layoffs https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/10/31/ashford-university-restructuring-contributes-hundreds-layoffs

 

***HIGHER ED IN COURT

Southwestern College Withheld Investigation Docs From Shooting Involving Former Police Chief: Lawsuit https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Southwestern-College-Accused-of-Withholding-Investigation-Into-Accidental-Shooting-by-Former-Police-Chief-564129871.html

 

***FREE SPEECH 

University of Michigan settles free-speech lawsuit https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/university-of-michigan-settles-free-speech-lawsuit/article_3e189a51-8889-5f99-a8cc-a212294cb091.html

 

***TEACHING

A teacher says he was fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a transgender student https://www.10news.com/news/national/a-teacher-says-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-use-male-pronouns-for-a-transgender-student

Dueling Brain Waves Anchor or Erase Learning During Sleep https://www.quantamagazine.org/dueling-brain-waves-anchor-or-erase-learning-during-sleep-20191024/

Faculty support for online learning builds slowly, steadily -- but not enthusiastically https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/faculty-support-online-learning-builds-slowly-steadily-not-enthusiastically

 

***ACADEMIC LIFE

Oxford professor ‘failed to properly acknowledge’ Chinese colleagues https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxford-professor-failed-properly-acknowledge-chinese-colleagues

Catchy findings have propelled this young ecologist to fame—and enraged his critics https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/catchy-findings-have-propelled-young-ecologist-fame-and-enraged-his-critics

Professor Pleads Guilty to A Scheme to Defraud the National Science Foundation  https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/professor-pleads-guilty-scheme-defraud-national-science-foundation

 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Generational Divide Among Evangelicals Shakes Prominent Seminary (sub req’ed) https://www.wsj.com/articles/generational-divide-among-evangelicals-shakes-prominent-seminary-11572354000

People want to know: Who gave Gordon College all that money? (sub req'ed) https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/10/28/the-world-wants-know-who-gave-gordon-college-all-that-money/26cc4ZGp345s5x1UAknwiP/story.html

Why attend a Christian university? Here’s an answer you weren’t expecting. https://christianchronicle.org/why-attend-a-christian-university-heres-an-answer-you-werent-expecting/

Student on Cincinnati Christian University's decision to close: 'l feel like I’ve been lied to' https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/student-on-cincinnati-christian-universitys-decision-to-close-l-feel-like-ive-been-lied-to

Liberty University: A Cautionary Tale https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/10/liberty-university-a-cautionary-tale/

Northwest Christian University sees record enrollment https://nbc16.com/news/local/northwest-christian-university-sees-record-enrollment

Mid-America Christian University offers state’s first bachelor’s degree in data analytics 

https://oklahoman.com/article/5645628/mid-america-christian-university-offers-states-first-bachelors-degree-in-data-analytics

Hundreds to attend conference at Wheaton College to advance evangelical-Muslim dialogue  

https://www.christianpost.com/news/hundreds-to-attend-conference-wheaton-college-advance-evangelical-muslim-dialogue.html

 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS & DISCRIMINATION

How Christian Colleges Are Responding to LGBTQ Regulations https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/no-obvious-answer-christian-colleges-responding-lgbtq-regulations /

Some Christian Colleges in SC exempt from anti-discrimination law https://www.postandcourier.com/news/some-sc-colleges-exempt-from-anti-discrimination-law-leaving-lgbtq/article_ed967c90-c04f-11e9-980e-ef21a5b3da55.html

 

***RESEARCH 

Is Science working well as it did in the 40s? (Podcast)  http://www.theblackgoatpodcast.com/posts/everybody-act-normal/

China publishes “new standards defining plagiarism, fabrication” etc. http://www.ecns.cn/m/news/society/2019-10-23/detail-ifzpzfnq8046778.shtml

Ghostwriting Peer Reviews https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/01/ghostwriting-peer-reviews-advisers-more-common-you-might-think

 

***STUDENT LIFE 

A doctoral student wore a skirt made of rejection letters to defend her dissertation.  https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dissertation-phd-doctor-rejection-letter-skirt-caitlin-kirby-a9166866.html

Working while in college might hurt students more than it helps https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/working-in-college-can-hurt-low-income-students-more-than-help.html

Major In Esports At Ohio State https://www.npr.org/2019/10/27/773817348/major-in-esports-at-ohio-state

Survey: Number of kids watching online videos soars  https://apnews.com/6d2694d32a7d44bf9619172d26c674da

College athletes permitted to be paid for name, image, likeness https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/30/college-athletes-permitted-be-paid-name-image-likeness 

New data on the 36 million Americans who left college without a credential https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/31/new-data-36-million-americans-who-left-college-without-credential

The millennials taking on France's funeral business https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191028-the-high-tech-start-ups-taking-on-frances-funeral-providers 

The March of Technology

The designs built into modern technology comes from savvy, white-coated engineers working tirelessly in their laboratories to create the most effective devices. Right? Kevin Kelly offers this example of how decisions made by generations past stay with us in unexpected ways:

Ordinary Roman carts were constructed to match the width of Imperial Roman war chariots because it was easier to follow the ruts in the road left by the war chariots. The chariots were sized to accommodate the width of two large war horses, which translates into our English measurement as a width of 4' 8.5". Roads throughout the vast Roman empire were built to this spec. When the legions of Rome marched into Britain, they constructed long distance imperial roads 4' 8.5" wide. When the English started building tramways, they used the same width so the same horse carriages could be used. And when they started building railways with horseless carriages, naturally the rails were 4' 8.5" wide. Imported laborers from the British Isles built the first railways in the Americas using the same tools and jigs they were used to. Fast forward to the US Space shuttle, which is built in parts around the country and assembled in Florida. Because the two large solid fuel rocket engines on the side of the launch Shuttle were sent by railroad from Utah, and that line traversed a tunnel not much wider than the standard track, the rockets themselves could not be much wider than 4' 8.5."

As one wag concluded: "So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of two horses' arse."

Kevin Kelly

Choosing Prison

Our capacity to choose changes constantly with our practice of life. The longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens; the more often we make the right decision, the more our heart softens – or better perhaps, comes alive.

Each step in life which increases my self-confidence, my integrity, my courage, my conviction also increases my capacity to choose the desirable alternative, until eventually it becomes more difficult for me to choose the undesirable rather than the desirable action. On the other hand, each act of surrender and cowardice weakens me, opens the path for more acts of surrender, and eventually freedom is lost. 

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man

Articles of Interest about Religion - Oct 27

***RELIGION 

How Westboro Church Founder’s Granddaughter Is Working to ‘Dismantle’ Family’s Legacy of Hate https://people.com/human-interest/westboro-church-founder-granddaughter-dismantle-legacy-of-hate/

Religion is fueling a new wave of immigration activism https://www.axios.com/religion-is-fueling-a-new-wave-of-immigration-activism-6443e1a9-9c2d-4670-a3c4-4b0d219e766e.html

 

The making of world's first 'Scientology city' in Clearwater https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2019/investigations/scientology-clearwater-real-estate/

 

Tennessee pastor, Freedom From Religion Foundation spar over ad, book https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-pastor-freedom-from-religion-foundation-spar-over-ad-book

 

Founding principal of Christian colleges in Australia charged with historic sex abuse https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/founding-principal-of-christian-colleges-charged-with-historic-sex-abuse-20191025-p5348z.html

 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Teaching Democrats to Speak Evangelical https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/teaching-democrats-to-speak-evangelical

 

New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/trump-white-evangelical-impeachment/600376/

 

ICE drops $300,000 fine for an immigrant in church sanctuary https://religionnews.com/2019/10/25/ice-drops-300000-fine-for-an-immigrant-in-church-sanctuary/

 

***RELIGION & MONEY

Chicago Churches Help To Pay Off Cook County Residents' Medical Debt  https://n.pr/367iTZ2

 

Here's how much money these megachurches bring in across the US https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-much-money-megachurches-bring-145031393.html

 

***MEGACHURCHES

Megachurch pastor tells Beth Moore to get out of the Pulpit and Go Home https://religionnews.com/2019/10/19/accusing-sbc-of-caving-john-macarthur-says-beth-moore-should-go-home/

 

One of the first of many sexual abuse lawsuits expected under a new California law targets Modesto megachurch https://baptistnews.com/article/one-of-the-first-of-many-sexual-abuse-lawsuits-expected-under-a-new-california-law-targets-modesto-megachurch/#.Xa-q7y2ZPNI

 

Joel Osteen reportedly invites Kanye West to megachurch service  https://www.wthr.com/article/joel-osteen-reportedly-invites-kanye-west-megachurch-service

 

***CONVERSION THERAPY

My own bouts with ‘conversion therapy’ https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/kirby/2019/10/21/robert-kirby-my-own-bouts/

 

Conversion Therapy leads to LGBT scholarship https://www.king5.com/article/syndication/heartthreads/seth-owen-georgetown-gofundme-gay-student/507-6f7dca7e-5507-41a9-9104-7a5da75afd60

 

***CHRISTIAN MUSIC

TobyMac's oldest child, 21-year-old aspiring rapper Truett Foster McKeehan, dies https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/10/24/truett-foster-mckeehan-tobymacs-son-rapper-dies-suddenly/4080913002/

 

We Asked Religious Experts About Kanye West's 'Jesus Is King' https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5ynv3/we-asked-religious-experts-about-kanye-wests-new-church-album-jesus-is-king

 

***RELIGION AND THE ARTS

A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork  https://boingboing.net/2019/10/23/antitheology.html

Author and ex-nun Karen Armstrong on scripture: 'Religion ... is an art form' www.startribune.com/scripture-should-be-viewed-as-art-not-the-final-word-says-british-author-karen-armstrong/563842812/

 

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Oct 26

***WRITING & READING

Machine learning beats humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests—but in doing so reveals how AI has to go 

http://bit.ly/2MJPmNt

"Everybody Is Freaking Out": Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law

 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/everybody-is-freaking-freelance-writers-scramble-make-sense-new-california-law-1248195

 

***JOURNALISM

Donald Trump Letter to CNN Promises Legal Action for "Highly Biased" News 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-letter-cnn-promises-legal-action-highly-biased-news-1248699

 

How Reporters Figured Out The Identities Of The Men Who Vandalized The Emmett Till Memorial

 https://digg.com/2019/how-reporters-figured-out-the-identities-of-the-men-who-vandalized-the-emmett-till-memorial

 

Five tips for journalism students from ONA President Mandy Jenkins

https://journalism.uoregon.edu/news/five-tips-journalism-students-ona-president-mandy-jenkins

 

The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press 

https://niemanreports.org/articles/18-weeks-and-counting-how-hong-kong-media-is-covering-the-mammoth-protests-and-fighting-for-its-own-survival/

 

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

One-in-five U.S. newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C. 

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/24/one-in-five-u-s-newsroom-employees-live-in-new-york-los-angeles-or-d-c/

 

First Draft launches nationwide project to help prepare US newsrooms for online threats ahead of 2020 election 

https://firstdraftnews.org/first-draft-launches-nationwide-project-to-help-prepare-us-newsrooms-for-online-threats-ahead-of-2020-election/

 

SmartNews is paying publishers to be on its platform 

https://digiday.com/media/theres-clarity-around-youll-make-smartnews-paying-publishers-platform/

 

Five takeaways from a new study of local digital news publishers

https://www.rjionline.org/stories/five-takeaways-from-a-new-study-of-local-digital-news-publishers

 

***FACEBOOK “NEWS”

Watch Mark Zuckerberg duck a question about including Breitbart in Facebook's News tab 

https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-breitbart-news-tab/

 

Facebook will pay some publishers for ‘News’ tab items

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/23/facebook-offer-news-tab-users-pay-some-publishers-their-work/

 

***STUDENT MEDIA 

When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/news-desert-ann-arbor-michigan.html

 

Student Newspaper Adviser Punished for Critical Coverage 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/22/college-newspaper-adviser-loses-job-students-claim-retaliation

 

Harvard Crimson, university's student newspaper, defends contacting ICE for comment 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-crimson-responds-criticism-contacting-ice-comment-n1070501

 

Chapman University president right to apologize for censoring student newspaper 

https://www.thefire.org/chapman-president-right-to-apologize-for-censoring-student-newspaper/

 

***FAKE NEWS 

Trademarking "fake news"

https://www.fakenewstm.com

 

How fake news conquered the world

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/24/20908223/trump-russia-fake-news-propaganda-peter-pomerantsev

 

To Predict the Role of Fake News in 2020, Look to Canada 

https://daily.jstor.org/to-predict-the-role-of-fake-news-in-2020-look-to-canada/

 

Fake News Trivia Quiz

https://factcheckingday.com/articles/35/want-more-fake-news-trivia-take-our-2019-fact-checking-quiz

 

My Journalism Organization Is Trying to Trademark "Fake News" to Stop Donald Trump From Using It 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trademark-fake-news-stop-donald-trump-from-using-it

 

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Senators Call for TikTok Investigation Over Chinese Espionage Concerns

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/tech/8540471/tiktok-senators-investigation-chinese-espionage

 

The power of social media influencers is shrinking 

https://www.axios.com/social-media-influencer-marketing-1b7875c5-89f9-4fe1-938e-060ca4c8fb3c.html

 

***LITERATURE

Dublin Wants to Reclaim James Joyce’s Body Before the Centenary of ‘Ulysses’ 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dublin-wants-reclaim-james-joyces-body-centenary-ulysses-180973376/

 

The US Release Of Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages’ Just Got Canceled Months After An Awkward Interview Revealed An Error In The Book

https://digg.com/2019/naomi-wolf-realizes-thesis-is-wrong

 

In Venezuela, Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables' Resonates With Caracas Residents 

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772775834/in-venezuela-victor-hugos-les-mis-rables-resonates-with-caracas-residents

 

Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji

www.openculture.com/2019/10/found-a-long-lost-chapter-from-the-worlds-oldest-novel.html

 

Flannery O’Connor knows you can't handle the truth 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/flannery-oconnor-knows-you-cant-handle-the-truth

 

***POETRY 

Why poetry matters 

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/10/why-poetry-matters

 

5 Reasons Why You Should Habitually Read Poetry in College https://studybreaks.com/culture/reads/reasons-to-read-poetry/

 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

You Got a Brain Scan at the Hospital. Someday a Computer May Use It to Identify You.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/health/brain-scans-personal-identity.html

 

Research participants' privacy threat 

https://www.axios.com/medical-data-privacy-artificial-intelligence-65d34310-2a69-45a9-a3ca-e54c5c3e7a40.html

 

***INTERNET

The FTC fosters fake reviews, its own commissioners say 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-ftc-fosters-fake-reviews-its-own-commissioners-say/

 

Google Is Making A Big Change To The Way It Serves Search Results 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/google-search-bert-natural-language-processing

 

 

 

Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Oct 25

***HIGHER ED

Colleges and universities track web activity of potential applicants 

https://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-universities-websites-track-web-activity-of-potential-applicants-report-2019-10

Why Do We Have Business Or Education Schools In Universities? 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2019/10/16/why-do-we-have-business-or-education-schools-in-universities/

 

The largest community college in Pennsylvania is eliminating mental health services on campus—more struggling two-year institutions may follow suit 

www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/18/mental-health-low-priority-community-colleges

 

Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed? 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/21/downfall-hampshire-college-broken-business-model-american-higher-education/?arc404=true

 

Bill would require accreditors to flag failing colleges sooner 

https://www.educationdive.com/news/bill-would-require-accreditors-to-flag-failing-colleges-sooner/564312/

 

NCAA comes down on Cal Poly for books violation 

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/26554592/ncaa-comes-cal-poly-books-violation

 

***HIGHER ED & FINANCES

College costs have increased in all 50 states over the past 10 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/college-costs-have-increased-in-all-50-states-over-the-past-10-years.html

 

DeVos, Ed Dept get $100K fine over for-profit student loan collection 

https://www.educationdive.com/news/devos-ed-dept-get-100k-fine-over-for-profit-student-loan-collection/565833/

   

***FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS 

Why the Supreme Court’s Davis standard is necessary to restore free speech to America’s college campuses  (opinion) 

https://www.thefire.org/why-the-supreme-courts-davis-standard-is-necessary-to-restore-free-speech-to-americas-college-campuses-part-i/

 

SDSU launches Free Speech site, Inclusivity portal to raise awareness of student rights 

https://thedailyaztec.com/96354/news/sdsu-launches-free-speech-site-inclusivity-portal-to-raise-awareness-of-rights/

 

***TEACHING 

A teacher says he was fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a transgender student 

https://www.10news.com/news/national/a-teacher-says-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-use-male-pronouns-for-a-transgender-student

 

My Classroom Is Not a Safe Space 

https://humanparts.medium.com/my-classroom-is-not-a-safe-space-406927bfeab6

 

How can you get students to put down their cellphones and engage in class?  

www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/04/04/how-professors-can-get-students-put-down-their-cellphones-class-essay

 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

19 Professors And Students Who — For Better Or Worse — Hit "Send" On These Emails 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/students-professors-emails-college

 

Professor says she was fired for refusing to disclose a victim's name 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/22/professor-says-she-was-fired-refusing-disclose-victims-name

 

Professor apologizes for controversial survey 

https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Professor-apologizes-for-racist-survey-563655381.html

 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 

In Tennessee, One Christian College Breaks Enrollment Records, While Another Fights Declines 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/october/christian-colleges-enrollment-bryan-trevecca-nazarene.html

 

Why We Still Need Christian Colleges

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/october/kapic-we-need-christian-liberal-arts-colleges.html

 

Chapman University accused of lying to student newspaper

https://dynamicsofwriting.com/2019/10/21/ethics-versus-access-an-interview-with-the-chapman-panther-editor-who-said-no-thanks-to-covering-george-w-bushs-private-event-on-the-campus/

 

How these Christian schools use campus policy to cultivate Christian sexual virtues 

https://www.thecollegefix.com/how-these-christian-schools-use-campus-policy-to-cultivate-christian-sexual-virtues/

 

Locker room videos of Christian College female athletes posted to porn site 

https://www.wspa.com/news/videos-of-womens-teams-inside-locker-room-at-limestone-college-from-2012-13-posted-to-porn-site-under-investigation/

 

***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

The Cautionary Tale of Jerry Falwell Jr. (opinion) 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/november/jerry-falwell-jr-biblical-leadership.html

 

Longtime Liberty prof to become the first research professor and one of the only female faculty members at the Southern Baptist college 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/october/karen-swallow-prior-sebts-southeastern-liberty-university.html

 

***RESEARCH 

A Python code glitch that causes computations to vary depending on the operating system used may have caused errors in more than 100 published studies 

http://bit.ly/2Bpq54D

 

Not reporting a retraction leaves people unaware of how retractions can sometimes actually advance our scientific understanding

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/a-tale-of-two-retractions/

 

***STUDENT LIFE

Teen suicide rates are rising, despite efforts at prevention

https://www.axios.com/why-were-failing-to-stop-teen-suicide-0b1b4e63-a4c0-48d2-b76a-ec55651bd050.html

 

Millennials sleep and work more than previous generations
https://www.axios.com/millennials-lifestyle-work-social-bureau-labor-statistics-7fbabcc6-d5cb-4066-8ca1-f9724019905b.html

 

Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle

 

Life360 and other ‘tracking apps’ allow parents to keep close watch over their adult kids 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/dont-leave-campus-parents-are-now-using-tracking-apps-watch-their-kids-college/

 

The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/voting-college-suppression.html

 

UConn satisfies no one with punishments of students who used racial slurs 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/25/uconn-satisfies-no-one-punishments-students-who-used-racial-slurs

 

***STUDENTS IN COURT 

College students are taking their schools to court over campus marijuana use 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/college-students-are-taking-their-schools-to-court-over-campus-marijuana-use-2019-10-24

 

***CRIME ON CAMPUS 

The Fake School-Shooting Threats Getting Kids Arrested 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/fake-school-shooting-threats-getting-kids-arrested/600238/

 

Utah universities vary in Lauren’s Law implementation 

https://www.ksl.com/article/46660845/utah-universities-vary-in-laurens-law-implementation

 

Univ. of Utah Students Walk Out

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/clery/univ-of-utah-students-walk-out/

 

Student says that even after professor who abused her left campus, fellow students continued to harass her 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/25/student-says-even-after-professor-who-abused-her-left-campus-fellow-students

 

A Tale of Two Artists

The first of two artists said, "I have traveled the world over and I have seen a lot. But I have not found one person worth painting. I have found flaws in everyone and just can't bring myself to paint them."

The second artist disagreed, "I may not be a great artist; I have never been to Paris - or even New York. But among my unimportant friends living in my small rural town, I have not found anyone too insignificant to paint. There is always a better side. I may not be a great artist, but I enjoy my art."

Which is one is the true artist? The one who finds nothing worth painting? Or the one who brings a certain something to his craft enabling him to see a world of beauty others are blind to? In the same way, some people find no one worthy of their love, while others find everyone worthy.

Should I search for attractive people to paint, to love? Or should I look for the attractiveness of the soul within?

A Steadfast Man

When a man is faithful to one woman, he looks on other women in quite another way, a way unknown to the world of Eros; other women turn into persons instead of being reflections or means. This ‘spiritual exercise’ develops new powers of judgment, self-possession, and respect.* The opposite in this of an erotic man, a steadfast man no longer strives to see a woman as merely an attractive or desirable body... he feels, as soon as tempted, he has been desiring only an illusory or fleeting aspect of what is actually a complete life. Thus temptation recedes disconnected instead of making itself into an obsession; and fidelity is made secure by the clear-sightedness it induces.

(*‘Respect’, as I use the word here, means that we recognize in a being the fullness of a person. A person, according to Kant’s famous definition, is what cannot be used by man as an instrument or thing.)

Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World

I am Loved!

We’ve heard a thousand times that God loves us. But one day the meaning hit us. WE ARE LOVED. Really loved! Not just for what we can do, or what we have, tor what we have to offer. Not out of pity or obligation.

People love like that. They love what they think we are. We all know that about each other. We play games to keep it that way.

We try to always show the side of ourselves that we think people love us for. And we have learned form harsh experience that if we don’t, we lose! (People can change their minds about loving us.)

Sometimes we play our games very well. Sometimes we fool everyone except ourselves, and deep inside we say, “You love me… But if you really knew, you wouldn’t.”

I think some of us have a hard time even liking ourselves. We think we don’t have enough to offer, and that makes it hard to love anyone else! Giving is then conditional, tentative. There is a wall of protection… that tough shell of “I’m not going to let you hurt me.”

We all know folks who aren’t very easy to work with because they don’t feel loved. They’re defensive and wary, often depressed and pessimistic.

But if we could all really see that God – the perfect, great omnipotent creator and orginal cause of the whole universe – really, loves us.. that “the One who knows us best, loves us most,” it would change our lives! God, whom we have wronged the most, loves us - and has found a way to come to where we are… and forgive us! No person, no power, no circumstance, no situation,, no station in life, nobody’s opinion – nothing- can ever make us fell unloved again. We are of value. WE have been redeemed. We are totally, unreservedly, forever LOVED!

We can dare to love back! We can risk hurt or rejection. We can try again, and even if we fail, we can win. We are loved by the only person whose opinion ultimately matters. We can LOVE. We can love even those who haven’t “earned” it. Even those who reject it. Even those who don’t need it. (Who’s that?!) We are loved!

Bill Gaither, songwriter

The Limits of Science

The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the two great commandments (to love God, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself), according to Freud, come from human experience, not from revelation. The scientific method, he writes, is our only source of knowledge.

(CS) Lewis strongly disagrees. The scientific method is simply cannot answer all questions, cannot possibly be the source of all knowledge. He says the job of science- a very important and necessary job – is to experiment and observe and report how things behave or react. He writes, “But why anything comes to be there at all and whether there is anything behind the things science observes.. this is not a scientific question.”

Armand Nicholi, The Question of God

Articles of Interest about Religion - Oct 18

***RELIGION 

Company sells out of $1,425 'Jesus shoes' that feature holy water so you can 'walk on water' 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/465450-company-sells-out-of-1425-jesus-shoes-that-feature-holy-water

 

Religious Walking Tour Maps Out The History Of Muslims In New York City  

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769046586/religious-walking-tour-maps-out-the-history-of-muslims-in-new-york-city

 

The Perilous Power of the Preacher’s Wife

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/evangelical-preachers-pastors.html

 

As Christianity's popularity declines, more Americans identify as religiously unaffiliated, study finds 

https://www.newsweek.com/christianity-decline-americans-religion-unaffiliated-pew-study-1466035

 

Share of Christians in America dropping sharply 

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/466287-share-of-christians-in-america-dropping-sharply

 

Kenyans see ‘hand of God’ in under two-hour record-breaking marathon run 

https://religionnews.com/2019/10/17/kenyans-see-hand-of-god-in-kipchoges-record-breaking-marathon-run/

 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Generational Split Among Evangelicals Threatens Support For Trump  

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770224572/generational-split-among-evangelicals-threatens-support-for-trump

 

Religious Groups Condemn Governor's 'Infuriating' Decision to Sign Bill Forcing Universities to Offer Abortion Pill 

https://www.newsweek.com/religious-groups-condemn-gavin-newsom-signing-california-university-abortion-pill-1465045

 

Why Christian music's biggest stars refuse to change their tune for the Trump era 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/us/christian-music-ccm-trump-blake/index.html

 

Mike Pompeo Lauds the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policies To Christian Counselors

https://www.wthrockmorton.com/2019/10/11/to-christian-counselors-mike-pompeo-lauds-the-trump-administrations-foreign-policies-while-kurds-die/

 

***RELIGION & THE LAW 

Oxford professor accused of selling ancient Bible fragments to Hobby Lobby

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/16/oxford-professor-dirk-obbink-ancient-bible-fragments-hobby-lobby

 

Judge Rules Doctors Can Decline To Perform Transgender Surgery On Religious Grounds

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-transgender-bias-rule-violates-religious-freedom-law

 

***RELIGION & FILM

Faith-Based Show ‘Vindication’ Displays Realities of Sexual Abuse 

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/october-web-only/vindication-amazon-prime-show-abuse-human-trafficking.html

 

 

 

Shopping for Happiness

What we’ve been seeing in my lab, over and over again, is that people have an inability to predict what will make us happy — or unhappy. The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too.

So the good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends.

The interesting thing is that people will sacrifice social relationships to get other things that won’t make them as happy — money. That’s what I mean when I say people should do “wise shopping” for happiness.

People think a car will last and that’s why it will bring you happiness. But it doesn’t. It gets old and decays. But experiences don’t. You’ll “always have Paris” — and that’s exactly what Bogart meant when he said it to Ingrid Bergman. But will you always have a washing machine? No.

You couldn’t pay me $100,000 to miss a play date with my granddaughters. And that’s not because I’m rich. That’s because I know that a hundred grand won’t make me as happy as nurturing my relationship with my granddaughters will.”

Daniel Gilbert
Harvard social psychologist and
author of Stumbling into Happiness

Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Oct 16

***HIGHER ED 

A major shift to 'DIY' Education

https://www.pearson.com/corporate/news/global-learner-survey.html 

Repairing an Institutional Reputation Tarnished by Fraudulent Publishing  

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/09/30/repairing-institutional-reputation-fraudulent-publishers/

 

6 Ways to Fortify Your Campus Against Phishing Attacks

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2019/10/6-ways-fortify-your-campus-against-phishing-attacks

 

How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/

 

Higher ed shrinks: number of colleges falls to the lowest point in two decades

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/14/higher-ed-shrinks-number-colleges-falls-lowest-point-two-decades

 

University may lose Superman papers over Liz Cheney comments

https://apnews.com/fd25b9c5d72a4d1e85f8c9802d99d608

 

House Democrats Have a Plan for Higher Ed. Here’s What’s in It.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/House-Democrats-Have-a-Plan/247349

 

***HIGHER ED & FREE SPEECH 

'They could not guarantee my safety': Author's speech canceled after Georgia students burn book 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/crucet-cancels-speech-book-burning-1.5319443

 

To Protect Free Speech, U. of Wisconsin Is Poised to Double Down on Punishing Disruptive Protesters

https://www.chronicle.com/article/To-Protect-Free-Speech-U-of/247328

 

***HIGHER ED & FINANCES

Real estate developer, wife donate $100M to University of Virginia to help first-generation students

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/real-estate-developer-wife-donate-100m-university-virginia/story

 

For Some Colleges, the Best Move Is to Merge 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/education/learning/colleges-mergers.html

 

***HIGHER ED IN COURT

Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail In Student Loan Case

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2019/10/08/judge-threatens-betsy-devos-with-jail-in-student-loan-case/

 

U.S. Supreme Court snubs University of Wisconsin appeal in patent fight with Apple  

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-apple/u-s-supreme-court-snubs-university-of-wisconsin-appeal-in-patent-fight-with-apple-idUSKBN1WM1F8

 

***TEACHING 

A teacher says he was fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a transgender student

https://www.10news.com/news/national/a-teacher-says-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-use-male-pronouns-for-a-transgender-student

 

Study Finds Professors Must ‘Entertain’ Students To Keep Them Off YouTube

https://www.studyfinds.org/class-clowns-study-finds-professors-must-entertain-students-to-keep-them-off-youtube/

 

Preparing for the Students You Actually Have in Class—Without the Assumptions

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/course-design-ideas/preparing-for-the-students-you-actually-have-in-class/

 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

When Professors Plagiarize 

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/01/when-professors-plagiarize/

 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Loyola University Maryland uses modern themes and music to draw college students to church and nurture their spiritual lives on campus.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/11/biggest-student-hub-late-night-sunday-mass

 

Cost of college went up for all students at Arizona Christian University 

https://azbusinessdaily.com/stories/513743163-cost-of-college-went-up-for-all-students-at-arizona-christian-university

 

***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

Congressmen take aim at Betsy Devos over censorship at evangelical Liberty University 

https://www.newsweek.com/betsy-devos-libertyuniversity-censors-freespeech-1464478

 

Jerry Falwell Jr. settles lawsuit over Florida real estate venture 

https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/lynchburg/jerry-falwell-jr-settles-lawsuit-over-a-florida-real-estate-venture

 

***RESEARCH 

Little attention has been devoted to the validity of inferences based on the findings of the research caught in the replication crisis
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2515245919869583

 

Pirate website Sci-Hub is making the world’s academic research free to all

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/10/05/pirate-website-sci-hub-is-making-the-worlds-academic-research-free-to-all-but-at-what-cost.html

 

Basic Statistical Errors Are Common in Canadian Psychology Journals But the Computer Programs That Detect Them Are Far From Perfect

https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/spotlight/issue-156

 

***STUDENT LIFE

YouTube Surpasses Netflix as Top Video Choice for U.S. Teens, New Survey Finds

https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-netflix-survey-teens-top-video-source

 

The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

https://hechingerreport.org/the-students-disappearing-fastest-from-american-campuses-middle-class-ones/

 

Can Video Games Replace the Outdoors?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2403017/video-games-outdoors-addiction-rehab

 

Esports Coaches Share Lessons Learned on the Path to Building a New Program

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2019/10/esports-coaches-share-lessons-learned-path-building-new-program

 

***STUDENTS & MENTAL HEALTH

Stressed-out college students are sleeping less than ever. Meditation apps claim to help 

https://www.inquirer.com/health/temple-university-students-stress-meditation-app-sleep-philadelphia-20191015.html

 

It Can Take Weeks for College Students to Get the Mental Health Help They Ask For. That’s a Seriously Dangerous Delay.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a29211906/college-mental-health-clinic-long-wait-times/

 

Half of the millennials and 75% of Gen Zers have left their job for mental health reasons

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/mental-health-issues-cause-record-numbers-of-gen-x-z-to-leave-jobs.html

 

***STUDENTS & FINANCE 

Do University Stores Rip Off Students?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2019/10/07/do-universities-rip-off-their-students/

 

***SEXUAL HARRASSMENT & ASSAULT

College survey finds a surprisingly high number of sexual assaults reported on campus 

https://abc7.com/college-survey-finds-high-number-of-sexual-assaults-on-campus/5621775/

 

#MeToo movement’s next step? Colleges’ approach to sexual assault  

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/10/20885824/me-too-movement-sexual-assault-college-campus

 

Top Universities Release Sexual Assault Reports 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/16/universities-identify-campus-specific-sexual-assault-issues