Being in Power
/Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. –Margaret Thatcher
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
A growth mindset
/A growth mindset suggests that you can grow, expand, evolve, and change. Intelligence and capability are not fixed points but instead traits you cultivate. A growth mindset releases you from the expectation of being perfect. Failures and mistakes are not indicative of the limits of your intellect but rather tools that inform how you develop. A growth mindset is liberating, allowing you to find value, joy, and success in the process, regardless of the outcome.
Cultivating a growth mindset can begin with shifting your inner dialogue from beliefs about your ability (a fixed mindset) to beliefs about your opportunities and needs (a growth mindset)—for example, from “I’m terrible at giving presentations” to “I need more practice presenting in front of others.”
Similarly, “I’m not good enough to be promoted to supervisor” might become “I need some additional experience before I’ll be ready for promotion.” Simple restatements have a dramatic impact on what you believe about your own abilities. A fixed mindset often runs deep; it may take constant practice to reframe your default thoughts.
The Cost
/It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. -C.S. Lewis
Articles of interest about higher education - April 17
/***COVID-19
How Pfizer Became the Status Vax
Some People’s Bodies Aren’t Set Up for Vaccines
Vaccines Won’t Protect Millions of Patients With Weakened Immune Systems ($)
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Maine college will fine students $50 for failing to mask
What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses
4 Historically Black Medical Schools Receive $6 Million for Vaccination ($)
Texas and Utah Bar Public Colleges From Requiring Covid-19 Vaccines ($)
A vaccine study in college students will help determine when it’s safe to take masks off
Hampton University requires all staff get vaccinated by May 31
***HIGHER ED & POLITICS
***LAYOFFS & CUTS
Laurentian University cuts 69 programs
City College San Francisco to lay off nearly 163 full-time faculty
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
American University hit with pay discrimination lawsuit from female Kogod professor
Parent involved in college admissions scandal sues Netflix over documentary
***CHEATING
University of Michigan Dearborn decides to reject remote proctoring
Report: Plagiarism Rates Changed When Instruction Moved Online
Dartmouth medical students accused of cheating
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Caught up in false accusations, professors found themselves fighting to clear their names
Scottsdale Professor Who Offended Muslims Gets Hefty Settlement From College District
SDSU defends professor's use of controversial language about race and stereotypes
Why Disability Studies Scholars Are Protesting a Prominent Textbook
'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua says Yale punishing her over false student allegations
***ADMINISTRATORS
University of South Alabama board appoints acting president
Shippensburg University gets interim president
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Students protest Seattle Pacific University policies after discrimination lawsuit
Liberty University Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 Million ($)
College of the Ozarks sues Biden Administration over anti-sex discrimination order
Falwell’s son out as VP at Liberty University
Colleges Seek to Intervene in Title IX Religious Exemption Suit
Pacific Lutheran University to cut 36 positions, eliminate programs to fit budget
Why Belmont University is making more space for Jewish perspectives
Notre Dame, First Christian University to Require Mandatory Vaccination for All Students
***RESEARCH
Why don’t researchers correct their own errors in the scientific record?
Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors
Has the pandemic changed research culture – and is it for the better?
Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists
Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals
Leading Chinese universities axe publication requirement for PhDs ($)
***STUDENT LIFE
Bowling Green State University expels fraternity for hazing in wake of student's death
Florida poised to pass bill allowing students to record classes
After Anti-Asian Incidents, Colleges Seek to Reassure Fearful International Students ($)
***FREE SPEECH
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Ohio University Board Says Professor Accused Of Sexual Harassment Should Be Fired
Three rapes reported on Stanford University campus
Eastern Michigan rape suspect: Title IX director said assault didn't sound like him
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Cornell faculty approves resolution removing race from crime alerts
Nazi salutes at the University of Kentucky
After Anti-Asian Incidents, Colleges Seek to Reassure Fearful International Students ($)
***CAMPUS CYBERATTACKS
Beautiful people
/Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Safe Solutions
/If your state of mind is coming from a place of fear and risk avoidance, then you will always settle for the safe solutions—the solutions already applied many times before. Sometimes, the path already taken is the best solution. But you should not follow the path automatically without first seeing it for what it really is. When you are open to possibilities, you may find that the common way is the best way for your particular case. However, this will be a choice you made not by habit, but by reflection and in the spirit of a fresh beginner with fresh eyes and a new perspective.
Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen
Articles of interest about journalism, social media, security & more - April 15
/***COVID-19
Study shows vaccines carry much lower risk of blood clots than COVID-19
Why The COVID-19 Vaccines Take Two Weeks To Be Fully Effective
Health experts weigh in on whether 'herd immunity' is possible
CDC reports 5,800 Covid infections in fully vaccinated people
A New Study Suggests Empty Middle Seats On Planes Reduce COVID Exposure By A Third
Study: Moderna immunity wanes 6 months in but still protective
Erectile dysfunction risk is 6 times higher for men with COVID-19
***JOURNALISM
Using FOIA logs to develop news stories
How Instagram became the place to find Asian American news
Bad news for journalists: The public doesn’t share our values. But there’s hope.
News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
What Pew’s Defense of Polling Accuracy Tells Us (opinion)
Why journalists shouldn’t parrot police language
Nebraska lawmakers kill student journalist protection bill after filibuster
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Kim Godwin makes history by taking over as ABC News president
The rise of news products They look like journalism, but they're not
How newsrooms learn from other industries
Top Bidder for Tribune Newspapers Is an Influential Liberal Donor ($)
An eleventh-hour bid might keep Tribune Publishing out of a hedge fund’s hands
Hearst Invests More Resources Into Data Journalism
***WRITING & READING
The Books That Made Me: 8 Writers on Their Literary Inspirations ($)
The best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections
TikTok Is Changing The Way Publishers Market New Books
Parts of Alberta's draft school curriculum plagiarized, academic finds
***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS
Anti-Vax Activists Are Quietly Bending State Politics To Their Will
Mick Jagger Takes Shots at Conspiracy Theorists & Anti-Vaxxers in a New Song, “Eazy Sleazy”
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook urged to scrap Instagram for children plans
Instagram’s new test lets you choose if you want to hide ‘Likes,’ Facebook test to follow
Review Your Social Media Etiquette ($)
Muslim Advocates Has Filed A Lawsuit Against Facebook
Partisan differences in social media use show up for some platforms, but not Facebook
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Lawsuit Filed After Facial Recognition Tech Leads to Wrongful Arrest
Please stop doing this when you create a new password
‘Dark Patterns’ in Consumer Data Privacy Garner Policy Attention
Huge Zoom flaw lets hackers completely take over your Mac or PC
Data from half a billion LinkedIn users has been scraped and put online
New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn
Law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of AI facial recognition searches
High numbers of schools hit by phishing, account compromise and ransomware attacks
Houston Rockets works with FBI after being hit by major cyberattack
***LANGUAGE
How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
It takes a leader
/Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. -John Maxwell
Diminishing our Pain
/People say to me, "Things in my life are pretty hard right now, but I have no right to complain—it’s not Auschwitz." This kind of comparison can lead us to minimize or diminish our own suffering. If we discount our pain, or punish ourselves for feeling lost or isolated or scared about the challenges in our lives, however insignificant these challenges may seem to someone else, then we’re still choosing to be victims. We’re judging ourselves. I don’t want you to hear my story and say, "My own suffering is less significant. " I want you to hear my story and say, "If she can do it, then so can I."
Auschwitz survivor Edith Eva Eger in her book The Choice
Matters of Style & Principle
/In matters of style. swim with the current; In matters of principle. stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson (born April 13, 1743)
Self-Renewal & Motivation
/The self-renewing man is highly motivated and respects the sources of his own energy and motivation. He has the priceless quality of enthusiasm. He knows how important it is to believe in what he is doing.
He knows how important it is to pursue the things about which he has a deep conviction. Enthusiasm for the task to be accomplished lifts him out of the ruts of habit and customary procedure. Drive and conviction give him the courage to risk failure. (One of the reasons mature persons stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.) And not only does he respond to challenge, but he also sees the challenge where others fail to see it . . .
John Gardner, Self-Renewal
Articles of interest about religion - April 11
/***COVID-19
Why It's Not a Bad Thing If You Don't Experience COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
Why you should still wear a mask even if you've been vaccinated
***RELIGION & THE VIRUS
Why the key to ending the pandemic runs through the evangelical church
How White Evangelicals’ Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic ($)
***RELIGION
'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say
Church takes away fishing trip prize from woman-- because she is a woman
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Alabama removes religious oath requirement from voter registration
Survey: Most Americans know Biden is Catholic, far fewer know Harris’ religion
***RELIGION & THE LAW
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation of Religious Beliefs
***RELIGION & RACIAL ISSUES
Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site
***CATHOLIC
Hans Kueng, dissident Catholic theologian, dies at 93
***MEGACHURCHES
Megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie still can’t smell after COVID-19
Former Hillsong Megachurch pastor who faked cancer to hide porn problem starts charity
Hillsong shuts down Dallas operations after pastors used church donations to fund their lifestyle
***RELIGION & BUSINESS
Religion is a driving force behind the gender wage gap, study finds
Dave Ramsey’s company dropped from ‘Best Workplaces’ list by Inc. magazine
***ISLAM
Civil rights group sues Facebook over anti-Muslim posts
***SATANISM
Why Satanic Panic never really ended
Nike reaches agreement with Satan Shoes manufacturer
***RELIGION & WOMEN’S ISSUES
Baylor professor argues 'biblical womanhood' more cultural than biblical
Beth Moore apologizes for her role in elevating ‘complementarian’ theology that limits women leaders
***CHRISTIAN CELEBRITIES
Former Moody Bible Institute professor Paul Maxwell leaves the Christian faith
Elizabeth Elliot & the Language of Mission
Profit-preaching televangelist who stole millions is headed to prison
Predicting our Future
/Because we naturally use our present feelings as a starting point when we attempt to predict our future feelings, we expect our future to feel more like our present than it actually will. -Daniel Gilbert
Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - April 9
/***COVID-19
Got a strange text about your COVID vaccine? Here's what could be going on
1 in 3 Covid-19 patients are diagnosed with a neuropsychiatric condition
Wharton professor on the employer Covid vaccine requirement dilemma
Your post-vaccination travel questions answered
What to Do If You Lose Your Vaccine Card
Here’s What Happens If You End Up Getting Two Different Vaccines
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Some Colleges Are Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines — But At What Cost?
5 US colleges to require students to be vaccinated before returning in the fall
More colleges move to make vaccines mandatory for students
***COVID AT SPECIFIC SCHOOLS
Cornell University to require students to be vaccinated ahead of fall semester
Johnson County Community College is offering employees a one-time $250 payment to get the vaccine
***HIGHER ED
Piedmont University's name change from Piedmont College now official
Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?
***LAYOFFS & CUTS
Pacific Lutheran University will cut 36 positions, eliminate majors to fill budget hole
Mills College Faculty Demand Answers About Closure
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Endicott College’s strength during the pandemic highlights the importance of diverse revenue streams
Tennessee owes Tennessee State University between $151 million and $544 million
University of Iowa gives athletics $50 million ‘loan’
Biden Has Promised to Crack Down on Troubled For-Profit Colleges. Some Are Already in Peril.
Mormon Church helping put Utah State's language-focused programs under 1 roof
Donor Darla Moore writes off USC after it fails to acknowledge her mother's death
***ADMISSIONS
Poll: Nearly half of parents don’t want their kids to go to a four-year college
COVID-19 pandemic making college choice especially difficult
University of Kentucky sends 500,000 acceptance emails in 'error'
Duke University Tried Test-Optional Admissions And Got 10,000 More Applicants
Harvard College Accepts Record-Low 3.43% of Applicants to Class of 2025
Colleges Get Creative To Reach Students After Enrollment Plummets Due To COVID-19
***HUMANITIES
Survey of employers shows liberal arts skills are valued & sought out in the workplace
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
LSU official sues for $50 million, alleging retaliation for Les Miles allegations
Michigan university can't punish Christian club for requiring leaders be Christian, Judge rules
Dartmouth College seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging bias in sex assault ruling
University of Cincinnati Faces Lawsuit After Sharing Students’ Personal Data to Health Provider
***TEACHING
What Impacts Active Learning in STEM?
Far Too Many Educators Aren’t Prepared to Teach Black and Brown Students (Opinion)
***ONLINE PROCTORING
Cheating on homework leads to extortion scam
UW-Madison disables proctoring software amid complaints
Proctoring Tool Failed to Recognize Dark Skin, Students Say
***ACADEMIC LIFE
All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year
Florida GOP Wants To Take On 'Cancel Culture' By Secretly Recording Professors
Man who died in D.C. fire was an assistant professor at George Washington University
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Notre Dame Law School Tells Non-Wealthy Students ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’
Baylor denies health care dependency status to same-sex spouses of university employees
LGBT students sue Education Department over Title IX religious exemption
Are LGBTQ students at Christian schools discriminated against?
Judson College trustees vote to keep the school open
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Jonathan Falwell named Liberty University Campus Pastor following Nasser's resignation
‘They thank me’: Jerry Falwell Jr. says Liberty University community still embraces him
***RESEARCH
A simple guide to ethical co-authorship
Prey tell, what makes a publisher predatory?
Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching
Plagiarism scandals are devaluing higher degrees in central Europe ($)
***STUDENT LIFE
I’m suing the University of Tennessee
Ole Miss Student Charged in Frat Hazing That Injured Pledge
Colleges see urgent mental health crisis ($)
Virginia Tech students decry Turning Point USA club for 'homophobic, racist' leaked chats
States Step In To Stop Colleges Holding Transcripts Ransom For Unpaid Bills
Another Graduating Class Faces A Workforce In Which Young People Are Struggling
A Michigan university is offering college students a scholarship to study cannabis
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Education Department Starts Review of Title IX
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Albion College students continue to boycott class to fight racial injustices on campus
Police investigating after swastika found on furniture at MCLA
White supremacy graffiti was found on Northern Kentucky's campus for the second time this year
***HIGHER ED SECURITY
Moody's: Cyberattacks Could Dent Higher Ed Credit Rating
IRS warns of new phishing scheme targeting colleges
Brown Under Cyberattack: Some Systems Shut Down, University Calls Incident “Utmost Priority”
University of California victim of nationwide hack attack
The Nazis hung him (on this date in 1945)
/Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Nazi in 1943 for his work with the resistance. He had been warned not to speak publicly. He did so anyway and was hanged April 9, 1945. Ethics is a gathering of his notes for an intended work on the subject, hidden in a garden before they could be seized by the police. Here is one paragraph contrasting the Ethics of Kant to Christ:
Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but He loved the real man. He was not, like a philosopher, interested in the 'universally valid,' but rather in that which is of help to the real and concrete human being. What worried him was not, like Kant, whether the 'maxim of an action can become a principle of general legislation', but whether my action is at this moment helping my neighbor become a man before God. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Stephen Goforth
Fighting Monsters
/Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche
growing me
/What am I doing today that is growing me to make me better tomorrow? -John Maxwell
Renewal and Friendship
/The self-renewing man has mutually fruitful relations with other human beings. They are capable of accepting love and capable of giving it – both more difficult achievements than is commonly thought. And what has that to do with self-renewal? The man or woman who is incapable of accepting love or of giving it is imprisoned, cut off from a great part of the world of experience. Love and friendship dissolve the rigidities of the isolated self, force new perspectives, alter judgments, and keep in working order the emotional substratum on which all profound comprehensive of human affairs must rest.
Articles of interest about journalism, writing, conspiracy theories & more - April 5
/***COVID-19
CDC: Fully vaccinated people can travel in U.S. without tests or quarantines
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.
CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus
***JOURNALISM
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity
The journalism crisis across the world
Paul Brock, a founder of Black journalism group, dies at 89
Vaccine Hesitancy: What Journalists Need to Know
News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
Kansas City newspaper sends a warning with a blank front page ($)
More than 25 places to find journalism jobs and internships
Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Billionaires push to derail hedge fund takeover of local newspapers
U.S. Supreme Court permits FCC to loosen media ownership rules
West Coast billionaires buy dying legacy media companies
How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history
***WRITING & READING
HarperCollins to Acquire HMH Trade
Graphic novel from the “Captain Underpants” series pulled from library and bookstore shelves
‘Hemingway’ documentary Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration ($)
***COVID-19 MISINFORMATION
Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
***FAKES
How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How to check if your account was part of Facebook’s 533M record leak
Google integrates Chat to Gmail for all accounts
How beauty filters took over social media | MIT Technology Review
Facebook Disputes Claims It Fuels Political Polarization And Extremism
Group-Chatting Platform Discord Might Change Social Media With Its Business Model
QAnon Facebook Group Linked to Capitol Riot Still Active
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online - 9to5Mac
IRS Warns of Scam Targeting .Edu Email Addresses
Fake apps are circumventing Apple’s rules in order to rob users
New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think
Spy pixels in emails have become endemic
Companies use this email trick to spy on you all the time – and you had no idea
***LANGUAGE
Words Like 'Racism' Have Lost Their Common Meaning (opinion)
***POETRY
San Diego's Poet Laureate Launches Digital Poetry Platform
Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators
Poetry Challenge: Create A List Poem That Grapples With Rise Of Anti-Asian Racism
Measuring Success
/Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. –Booker T. Washington (born April 5, 1856)