Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
I used to ask my patients, "How can I help you? " But that kind of question makes them Humpty Dumpty, waiting around on the pavement to be put back together again. And it makes me the kings horses and the kings men, ultimately powerless to fix another person. I’ve changed my question. Now I say, "How can I be useful to you?" How can I support you as you take responsibility for yourself?
Auschwitz survivor Edith Eva Eger in her book The Choice
***COVID-19
How worried should we be about COVID variants?
Does it matter which one I get? Comparing the three COVID-19 vaccines
How America’s Vaccine System Makes People With Health Problems Fight for a Place in Line ($)
***HIGHER ED & COVID
UC Davis offers students money to not travel during spring break
Here’s how colleges are working to reduce outbreaks
Duke University orders students to stay-in-place until March 21 following uptick in COVID-19 cases
San Diego State University plans to offer in-person commencement this spring
***HIGHER ED & POLITICS
Biden's Covid relief won't shield many public colleges from pandemic's blow
***LAYOFFS & CUTS
Layoffs at Ithaca College are forcing people out of academia (and out of town)
Michigan’s Kettering University will end 5 programs
University of Tennessee Health Science Center lays off 70
***COLLEGE FINANCES
COVID-19 pandemic worsens financial distress for private liberal arts colleges
Chegg CEO: ‘25% of colleges could go out of business’
U.S. Colleges’ Mind-Blowing Cost Of Tuition (infographic)
***HIGHER ED
Hackers Target University of Texas at El Paso
Southern New Hampshire Acquires Coding Boot Camp Kenzie Academ
Colleges continue losing undergraduate enrollment this spring, even as graduate enrollment climbs
***ACCREDITATION
Colleges Are Fleeing a Troubled Accreditor. Can They Find a New One?
Wheeling University placed on probation by Higher Learning Commission
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Supreme Court keeps ex-students' lawsuit alive in college speech zone case
Federal Court Dismisses Tuition Refund Lawsuits in Rhode Island
Former Berkeley law student sues UC over immigration error that cost him ‘dream job’
DePaul sued over facial recognition tech used for online test proctoring
***TEACHING
Coursera IPO filing reveals a company successfully monetizing MOOCs
Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Faculty and Staff Often Don’t Trust One Another. How Do We Fix That?
New Nonpartisan Faculty Group Will Promote and Defend Free Speech, Academic Freedom
***ADMINISTRATORS
Calls increase for Oregon State president to resign over handling of sexual harassment claims
University of Scranton’s President dies from ALS complications
A new president takes the reins at University of Dallas
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
College of the Ozarks says its athletics program is ending its relationship with the NAIA
Anti-LGBTQ sign at Calvin University sparks students speaking out, silent sit-in protest
Cornel West returns to Union Theological Seminary after Harvard tenure dispute
California Baptist women's basketball team has perfect record but won't make NCAA Tournament
Samford University trustees elect Beck Taylor as new president
Science and Creationism in Serious Colleges ($)
Wesley Theological Seminary wants to tap into the school's most valuable asset — its land
***RESEARCH
Re-engineering Scholarly Journal Publishing
Tips about dealing with the scientific literature
Separating out Predatory publishers from the Legitimate ones
The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
***STUDENT LIFE
Pandemic spurs increase in depression among college students
NLRB withdraws rules to quash graduate students’ right to organize as employees ($)
AP study: Nearly 90% of esports scholarships going to men
University of Tampa students revolt to throw their own graduation
Student suspensions are shaking up the University of Vermont campus
Is This the End of the Romance Between Chinese Students and American Colleges?
College Students Are Still Paying for Services, Buildings That Remain Off Limits
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Eight ways colleges, like LSU, shield sexual assaults from the public
Biden directs fresh review of Title IX rule on campus sexual assault
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
UT Austin finds no racist intent behind 'Eyes of Texas' alma mater that football players protested
Three Alabama professors on leave over racially insensitive Halloween pictures
Georgetown law professor under fire for comments about Black students' performance
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879)
Welcome to another fantastic day of opportunity and chance to drink in life! Make sure you get your daily recommended allowance.
The principal prose skill is finding your own voice. It is discovering how to be present in the experience of listening. It is listening deeply and experiencing just as deeply. There are prose elements to leading and living.
But similarly, there are poetry elements. Poetry is what illuminates your life. Poetry is what fills the small silences. Poetry is what brings you to meaning. Poetry is what touches the small fibers of who you are.
If you live a life of pure prose, you will live a linear and an effective but not an illuminus life. But if you can some how merge poetry and prose, you have the potential as a person and as a professional to be remarkable.
Roger Fransecky
***THE VIRUS
Why it's so hard to sign up for vaccinations online
Vaccine-skeptical Trump country poses challenge to immunization push
Fully vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says
Employees at Texas Mexican restaurant says customers threatened to call ICE on them for mask mandate
***RELIGION & THE VIRUS
Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated, survey finds
COVID-19 one year later: The way it has changed worshiping our faiths
Christian Groups Resist Johnson & Johnson Vaccine For Using Abortion-Derived Cells
New surveys connect the dots between politics, race, religion and vaccination
***RELIGION
The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind (opinion)
Why Christians Who Speak Jesus’ Language Can’t Agree on Their Name
An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change ($)
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
In America, evangelicalism has become as much a political as a religious identity
Trump Prophet Enraged His Followers by Apologizing. Now He’s Shutting Down His Ministry
***RELIGION & THE LAW
The Supreme Court’s new decision about evangelical preachers on campus, explained
***DENOMINATIONS
Appeals court decision allows sex abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist Paul Pressler to proceed
United Methodist conservatives detail plans for a breakaway
***CATHOLIC
A deaf priest is now serving as chaplain at Gallaudet University
In Pope Francis, Biden Has A Potential Ally — Who Shares The Same Catholic Detractors
Narrowing Enrollment Pipeline Pressures Roman Catholic Colleges
***RELIGIOUS SCANDAL
New Orleans deacon/ lawyer arrested and charged with allegations of sexual battery with a juvenile
Ravi Zacharias’s Ministry Plans Name Change, Calls for More Victims to Come Forward
***RELIGION & LGBTQ ISSUES
LGBTQ rights bill ignites debate over religious liberty
Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide
***CHRISTIAN CELEBRITIES
Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, 'I am no longer a Southern Baptist'
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. -Semeca
We must help the individual to discover how commitments may be made without surrendering individuality. We must help him to understand and resist any impulse he may have to flee the responsibility of individual choice by mindless submission to a Cause or Movement.
In short, he must recognize the hazard of having no commitments beyond the self and the hazard of commitments that imperil the self.
John Gardner, Self-Renewal
***COVID-19
There's No Point in Vaccine Shopping
One Year Into the Pandemic, How Are Health Reporters Doing?
What Do Vaccine Efficacy Numbers Actually Mean?
Hospitals Struggle To Steer Clear Of Counterfeit Masks
To selfie or not to selfie? Why the joy of getting vaccinated is drawing backlash
***JOURNALISM
Most women journalists in history haven’t been ‘notable’ enough for Wikipedia. We’re changing that.
In pandemic, rural papers show how journalists are essential workers
News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
Want to know if your news organization reflects your community? Do a source audit. Here’s how.
Newsrooms Revisit Old Stories To Offer A 'Fresh Start'
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces Cuts 5% Of Workforce Due To Impact Of Covid-19
The Newsstands of the Future Will Have No Newspapers
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
What's the best advice you've ever received in journalism?
Why Small Towns Need Student Journalists
How student journalists can find mentorship without working in physical newsrooms
***WRITING & READING
How to avoid jargon when writing about a technical product
Publishing’s New Power Club is reckoning with race
Microsoft Word will soon let you transform your documents into PowerPoint presentations
***PLAGIARISM
Monash University academic article retracted over plagiarism of a student’s work
Iowa State student paper Editorial Board member fired for plagiarism
***VACCINE MISINFORMATION
The media plays a crucial role in battling vaccine misinformation. But here’s what not to do. ($)
Twitter cracks down on Covid vaccine misinformation
***DEEP FAKES
Here’s How Worried You Should Be About Those Tom Cruise Deepfakes
Deepfake videos of Tom Cruise show the technology's threat to society is very real
***CONSPIRACY THEORIES
How the party of Lincoln became the party of Alex Jones
Experts In Cult Deprogramming Step In To Help Believers In Conspiracy Theories
As fractures emerge among Proud Boys, experts warn of a shift toward extremist violence
***QANON
Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls QAnon followers 'gentle' patriots
Support for QAnon is hard to measure — and polls may overestimate it
This Small Town Shows How QAnon Is Quietly Going Mainstream
Disinformation experts aren’t happy about the trailer for HBO’s QAnon series
QAnon and conspiracy theories are taking hold in churches. Pastors are fighting back
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets
Facebook launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for creating and sharing raps
The Empty Religions of Instagram: How did influencers become our moral authorities? ($)
Sleep problems associated with smartphone addiction
How social media and video conferencing is changing sign language
Doomscrolling can steal hours of your time -- here's how to take it back
Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two
***CLUBHOUSE
Addicted to Clubhouse? These apps will make it even better
Clubhouse gives people who missed TikTok a chance to become influencers
Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That’s Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem
***SECURITY
How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you
Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
More than 20,000 US organizations compromised through Microsoft flaw
This dangerous ransomware is using a new trick to encrypt your network
***PRIVACY
How to stop your emails from being tracked
Judge in Google case disturbed that even ‘incognito’ users are tracked
China Wants Your Data — And May Already Have It
TikTok Consumer Privacy Class Settlement Includes $92M Payout
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Journalist Sues College, Alleging First Amendment Violation
Reflections on a year of reporting on college journalism education
***LANGUAGE
The language of 'Minari' feels to me like coming home
***LITERATURE
Is it Fair Use to Reproduce Out-of-Print Seuss?
How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism
***POETRY
Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance ($)
Four Poets Reflect on the Role of Poetry In Challenging Times
NBA star Zion Williamson Gives Flowers To His Teacher And Explains His Love For Poetry
We might think that God wanted simple obedience to a set of rules: whereas he really wants people of a particular sort. –CS Lewis
*** COVID-19
Illinois family grieving loss attributed to ‘COVID psychosis’
Experts explain what you should and shouldn't do if you're fully vaccinated
How to Deal with Crushing Vaccine FOMO
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Colleges That Require Virus-Screening Tech Struggle to Say Whether It Works ($)
At least two Southeast Texas colleges will still require masks on campus
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley apologizes after undocumented migrants refused vaccine
The Cost of Insuring Colleges Continues to Rise. And Covid’s Not the Reason. ($)
COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of University of Illinois employees who weren’t yet eligible, including coaches and instructors
***HIGHER ED & POLITICS
Accreditor may lose access to federal money after approving college without students rebuked
Colorado group aims to give colleges, universities a voice
***LAYOFFS & FURLOUGHS
Group protests Marquette layoffs, calls for worker reinstatement
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Becker College in jeopardy of closing
Why Haven’t More Colleges Closed?
***HIGHER ED
A New Report on the Future of Higher Education
A ‘gobsmacking number’ of students in need aren’t applying to college. Are we missing 'an entire generation'?
***HUMANITIES
I was a liberal arts major. Education is about more than jobs
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Morehouse student denied access to program because of HIV status, lawsuit says
Auburn University professors suing over management of Econ department
UT Austin student suing school over spring 2020 tuition
Lawsuit alleges employment discrimination at the University of Cincinnati
***TEACHING
Okay, let me just share my screen… ah, nope. okay, you’re looking at my savings account
3 Lessons From Teaching A Course On UX Design
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Workaholic academics need to stop taking pride in their burnout
John Carroll University fundamentally alters tenure -- to the point that professors say it and academic freedom no longer exist
U of Florida suspends professors blamed in student's suicide
Ferris State professor fired following investigation after tweeting racial slurs
***ADMINISTRATORS
Lawrence University names first Black president
President Marjorie Hass to depart Rhodes College
Big Ten Presidents try to prevent public from seeing emails about return-to-school & COVID
Northwestern University President to step down next year
A College President Worried About the Risks of Dorm Isolation. So He Moved In
College president back and forth with paper over whereabouts of CFO
St. Bonaventure's 21st president, dies of COVID
Second interim president named at Guilford College to replace recently named first interim president
Scientist named president of University of Chicago
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Mass top court says Gordon College professor not a 'minister'
Virginia GOP rules out statewide convention at single venue after visit to Liberty University
These Christian Colleges Are Taking On Today’s Hot-Button Social Issues
Bob Jones University drops mask requirement in classrooms
President of The Master’s University and Seminary resigns
Rally to Support Southwest Baptist University Professors Draws Crowd in Front of School
***RESEARCH
What happened when a group of sleuths flagged more than 30 papers with errors?
Science journals rush to publish pandemic research but many have weak analysis, unsupported claims, & meaningless insight
There are no resources to inform researchers about the publication culture of a research group before joining
JAMA journal retracts, replaces paper linking nonionizing radiation to ADHD
Meet the postdoc who says he’s been trying to retract his own paper since 2016
***STUDENT LIFE
Will Universities take away the flexibility they have given to disabled students when the move back in person?
Many students are hesitant to discuss controversial topics in the classroom during Fall 2020 semester
VCU student found dead, fraternity suspended
'I felt immeasurably stuck': High school seniors face college acceptances, rejections alone
Study finds no link between gender and physics course performance
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Independent investigation finds that LSU routinely mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct
'Institutional betrayal': Law firm faults OSU's Alexander for Title IX issues at LSU
Campus assault victims in limbo as Biden seeks to undo Trump reforms
Lawsuit says University of Nebraska-Lincoln did not act to stop a professor from sexually harassing student
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Statue by Nazi-era artist removed from Bay Area college campus
Emails reveal Texas alumni threatening to stop donations unless song with racist ties is played at football games
Penalizing Black hair in the name of academic success is undeniably racist, unfounded, and against the law
Predominantly white colleges tackle racism, diversity, equity and inclusion
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. You do something that you genuinely believe in, that you have conviction about, but for a long period of time, well-meaning people may criticize that effort … if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder
We have a natural tendency to look for instances that confirm our story and our vision of the world. We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification. –Nissim Taleb
Little by little, preoccupation with method, technique and procedure gains a subtle dominance over the whole process of goal seeking. How it is done becomes more important than whether it is done. Means triumph over ends. Form triumphs over spirit.
Method is enthroned. Men become prisoners of their procedures, and organizations that were designed to achieve some goal become obstacles in the path to that goal.
A concern for “how to do it” is healthy and necessary. The fact that it often leads to an empty worship of method is just one of the dangers with which we have to live. Every human activity, no matter how ennobling or constructive or healthy, involves hazards. The flower of competence carries the seeds of rigidity just as the flower of virtue carries the seeds of complacency. “There is a road to hell,” said John Bunyan, “even from the gates of heaven.”
John Gardner, Self-Renewal
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein
What will make a data science CV attractive—and separate yourself from the wannabes
At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see
Neural nets yield clues to how brains learn thanks to (yes) backpropagation
Double federal R&D spending for AI each year until it hits $32B: NSC rec on AI to Congress
DoD moves to limit AI-sprawl for better coordination among projects
New machine learning theory raises questions about the very nature of science
Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations
Researchers claim algorithm can determine the basic emotional state of a person by wireless signals
Graph neural networks are set to become an important feature of artificial intelligence
A machine learning framework that exploits the variability of resistive memory devices
In order to implement a Markov chain--a class of Bayesian machine-learning algorithms
Health and Human Services issues a guide for its artificial intelligence strategy
Learning data analytics before stepping into data science
Microsoft Excel becomes a programming language
How Much Math Do You Actually Need For Data Science?
Synthetic data offers a way out of privacy risks and bias issues for artificial intelligence
Steven Covey offers a moving example in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People as to how context can change our outlook. Covey was riding the subway when a man and his children boarded the car. The kids were loud and rowdy, throwing things and disturbing everyone in the car. The man seemed oblivious.
It was very disturbing and yet the man sitting next to me did nothing. It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive as to let children run wild like that do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. So finally, with what I felt was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, “Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more?
The man lifted his gaze and said softly, “Oh, you’re right. I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother died. I don't know what to think and I guess they don’t know how to handle it either."
Can you imagine what I felt at that moment? My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw things differently, I thought differently, I felt differently. My irritation vanished. I didn’t have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man’s pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely.
While this change of perspective could be momentary, it doesn't have to be. We are continually faced with decisions about how we will approach life's circumstances.
Remember that piece of music you heard that suddenly lifted your spirit and changed your whole outlook in the middle of the day? Do you remember that pleasant smell that took you back in time to fond memories? Remember when you exited a movie theater seeing an exhilarating film, inspired to change the world? Imagine putting your feet to those sentiments.
If change is possible, that puts the responsibility on our shoulders to make it happen. It's a thought that's downright scary—and motivating.
Stephen Goforth
***THE VIRUS
Which vaccine is best? Experts say it's not fair to compare J&J vaccine data to Pfizer, Moderna
I am getting a less effective vaccine now. Can I get a better one later?
***RELIGION & THE VIRUS
Black Church Group Offers Its Best Shot at Closing Vaccine Gap
Since this California church began flouting pandemic restrictions, attendance has surged ($)
***RELIGION
Most ‘Nones’ Still Keep the Faith
The toxic relationship between Rush Limbaugh and Christian radio networks
***CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
Evangelical Leaders Condemn 'Radicalized Christian Nationalism'
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit
Understanding the fake historian behind America’s religious right
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
American Evangelicals, Israeli Settlers and a Skeptical Filmmaker
U.S. diplomat openly calls for Christian nation-states, rails against Jews
These Online Learning Platforms Offer a Surprising Lack of Church-State Separation
***RELIGION & THE LAW
The Equality Act can become law — if Democrats will add religious exemptions (opinion) ($)
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE US
Megachurch in Mulhouse, France, marked covid outbreak anniversary with an indoor service
U.S. federal commission accuses Russia of "brutal campaign" against religious freedom
Canadian Members of Parliament pass motion declaring genocide against Uighurs in China
***DENOMINATIONS
United Methodists Reschedule Meeting — And Decision on Splitting — Again
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Revoke Ravi Zacharias’s Ordination
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Southern Baptists Expel 2 Churches Over Sex Abuse and 2 for L.G.B.T.Q. Inclusion
Georgia SBC church faces banishment for accepting LGBTQ members
Southern Baptists divided over politics, race, LGBTQ policy
***MEGACHURCHES
***RELIGION & YOUTH
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -Lynn Hall
*** COVID-19
Traumatized and tired, nurses are quitting due to the pandemic
Has a Univ of Texas Professor Found a Way to Stop COVID-19 Vaccines From Spoiling?
Organ transplant patient dies after receiving Covid-infected lungs
Why are at-home COVID-19 tests still not widely available?
***HIGHER ED & COVID
More than 530,000 cases of Covid-19 have been reported among students, college employees ($)
How 5 universities tried to handle COVID-19 on campus
As U-Va. & U-Md. try to curb coronavirus surge, neighboring communities brace themselves ($)
‘What’s the Point?’ Young People’s Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On ($)
CDC Guidelines For In-Person Learning Prove To Be An Impossible Task For Many Schools
How colleges are using their disciplinary codes to punish noncompliance with COVID-related safety and testing protocols
***COVID AT SPECIFIC SCHOOLS
Rising coronavirus cases at U-Va., VMI and other Virginia colleges spark worry, lead to changes ($)
Univ of Washington bans students from in-person classes after attending large party
***LAYOFFS & FURLOUGHS
Ithaca College approves plan to eliminate 116 faculty positions, programs, majors
Point Park University cuts 17 faculty, citing pandemic
Ex-football coach says firing was violation of free speech
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Major expansion of Cal Grant financial aid proposed
Dorms at Iowa universities lose tens of million in pandemic
Why Jay Paterno spoke out against a $48M renovation of Penn State football’s Lasch Building
Regional Public Universities Don’t Need Rescuing ($)
College athletic programs scrambling to cut costs and innovate scheduling and income ($)
Faculty representatives say university budget cuts in Nevada extremely damaging
***HIGHER ED
Vermont State Colleges merger plan moves forward
University of Michigan says it shut down a campus library for two days after discovering venomous spiders
Interest Surges in Top Colleges, While Struggling Ones Scrape for Applicants ($)
***K-12
SF school board shelves plan to rename schools honoring Abraham Lincoln and others
New Education Research Showing Kids Give Up Easier If Parents Step in to Help
***HUMANITIES
Report: no evidence that the earnings of humanities majors ever “catch up” to peers in other disciplines
U of Kansas Will Cut Humanities Department
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Group that sued Harvard asks Supreme Court to end use of race in college admissions ($)
ASU reaches settlement with student who sued after removal as manager of campus radio station
Student sues Jacksonville University for fees paid during coronavirus shut down
***ONLINE CLASSES
Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring
Northwestern sued over biometrics privacy in test proctoring software
Anti-cheating in the age of COVID
***ACADEMIC LIFE
More Than Half Of College Faculty Have Considered A Career Change Or Early Retirement
Professor Says She Was Cut Loose in Retaliation for tweeting about the response of the school regarding COVID-19 ($)
Faculty Members Are Suffering Burnout. These Strategies Could Help ($)
Professor with heart condition files complaint against school for not letting him teach virtually
Group of VCU professors object to administration’s call to return in-person
Four of the 20-some professors Canisius College recently laid off are suing for violations of contract
Pacific University accused of threatening to find prof guilty of sexual misconduct if he didn’t quit
Ithaca College faculty wins arbitration against administration Ithaca Journal
Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’
***ADMINISTRATORS
Widow of President Who Died After Covid-19 Diagnosis Takes Over at Saint Augustine’s U
A Public-Information Act Request Revealed About My College President showed a disturbing pattern of mismanagement and deceit
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Concordia: How years of internal strife over gay rights helped turn it into a ‘$400 million crater’
Liberty University will host the Virginia GOP convention
Bible College graduate entered U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 attack
Wheaton College Fiscal Plan projects $9 million annual savings and a balanced budget
Seattle Pacific University faculty, staff, students and alumni create a letter of Lament in response to the schools statement on human sexuality
What is the Difference Between Liberty University and Messiah College? (opinion)
CCCU launches new database of racial, ethnic diversity resources
Wesley Theological Seminary proposes massive dorm to house hundreds of students — mostly from American University
***RESEARCH
Women make up just 24 percent of research universities' top earners
Science needs a radical overhaul
Plagiarism and duplication in abstracts at conferences
Elite scientists picking up more citations than ever as the rest lose out
Increasing ‘junk science’ is wreaking havoc on the credibility of research coming out of China
Sloppy work or deliberate fraud can get you published in a prestigious journal and cited in many others
Re-evaluation of solutions to the problem of unprofessionalism in peer review
Sexual violence survivors say Moody Bible Institute still isn’t taking their claims seriously
***RETRACTIONS
Publisher retracting five papers because of “clear evidence” that they were “computer generated”
Research linking violent entertainment to aggression retracted after scrutiny
Citation of retracted publications: A challenging problem
***STUDENTS & MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
Students With ADHD Need More Academic, Mental Health Support
Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness Are Peaking in College Students
Dramatically fewer students are seeking treatment from their college counseling centers
How to stop procrastinating with your online work
***STUDENT LIFE
George Washington Univ Does Away With RAs ($)
Free speech advocacy groups issue letters defending athletes right to kneel
1963 Morgan State University dropout giving $20 million to fund scholarships for needy students
University of Oregon's student gov ends contributions to athletics department in favor of struggling students
Students at Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati engage in ‘tip war' for restaurant workers
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
2020 college racial and gender report card shows 'insignificant progress'
Black undergraduates trust college leaders significantly less than their white peers
Meredith College students allege professor used N-word in class
Authorities Investigate Racist Attacks During City University of New York virtual events
Investigation into racism at VMI moves forward after dispute over lawyers at interviews ($)
UCLA athlete dismissed from team after racist comments, outcry among students
Investigation does not support accusations by a Smith College student that she was ejected from a dorm because she was Black
Baylor regents accept commission report on school’s history linked to slavery and racial injustice
Black students, faculty discuss diversity, activism on Pitt campus
How an accusation of racism, and resulting lack of evidence, is riling Smith College
***SEXUAL ASSAULT & MISCONDUCT
Massachusetts Enacts Sweeping New Campus Sexual Assault Law
University of Illinois Sued Over Handling Of Sexual Misconduct Claims
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