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Four others were injured, and a 22-year-old suspect is in custody. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2J86lb1

Federal judge tosses the former Penn State chief’s conviction tied to Jerry Sandusky’s crimes. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2DGVFwx

Blog:  Just Visiting I have gone and done a foolish thing.  In the aftermath of Elizabeth Warren’s announcement of her plan to cancel a significant amount of student loan debt, fund free public post-secondary education and redress historical imbalances in resourcing minority-serving institutions, I have apparently allowed hope that it or something like it could possibly come to pass. I am normally much more careful with my hope, but once I started imaging the good something like this could do for students, for graduates whose lives are constrained by debt, and for public post-secondary education institutions themselves, I started to want it to happen, which sent me back to imagining more possible good outcomes – state institutions oriented around serving the citizens of the state – which sent me back to the wanting and now I’m in a terrible cycle of hope. The last time I allowed myself to hope this fervently for something was when I applied for a tenure track posit...

Blog:  GradHacker John A. Vasquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Administration at Michigan State University where he also works as a career consultant for graduate students and postdocs.  You can find him on Twitter @maximsofjuan or at LinkedIn . It’s May in my adoptive home state of Michigan and I am ready for some outdoor adventures! Typically, the average high in May is 70 in Michigan compared to 87 in my native Texas, which means it’s great camping weather. My favorite spot is around Petoskey which is on the shores of Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan , in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. It’s mostly a resort community, but there are a lot of rustic camping sites that let you camp right down along the water where it is so clear, you can see the bottom 20-30 feet below. For this reason, it feels right to start my last post in this series about working identities with an image of Lake Michigan. I’ve done my best thinking and contemplation of ...

Blog:  The World View Scholars, and academic institutions,should enter the fray of international politics only reluctantly. It is, after all, our job to engage, study, and research with an open mind. This is particularly difficult as we are assailed daily with information from so many sources, much of it reflecting a particular bias or, at least, inadequately researched conclusions—we are all vulnerable to the persuasive logic of ideology and partisanship. Taking a “moral stand” is tricky. The academic community may well have made an important contribution to ending of US involvement in Vietnam or accelerating the end of apartheid in South Africa, but taking political stands can also be self-righteous, if not somewhat hypocritical. Take the example of South Africa where divestiture by US universities may have fortified a movement already underway, but we have yet to adequately address racism and race bias in the United States as well as on many of our campu...

Discontinuing the $1.7 million in funding would have effectively doomed the esteemed publisher, critics said. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2vtKz9s

Stanford University provost Persis Drell late Tuesday indicated that the university was backing down -- at least for another year -- on plans to end financial support for the Stanford University Press . She acted amid widespread anger among faculty members at the university -- and nationally -- over her plan announced last week to end university financial support for the press. The university has been giving the press $1.7 million a year, while the press brings in $5 million a year in book sales. Ending the support would effectively result in dozens of books not being published that would have been otherwise. In an email sent to Stanford professors, Drell acknowledged how upset many scholars are at the planned cut. "While I expected that this decision would be a difficult one for some of you to hear, I did not anticipate it would touch such a deep nerve in the community of our humanities and social sciences colleagues," Drell wrote. "I would especially like to than...

Two people were killed and four injured in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte late Tuesday, The Charlotte Observer reported. Details of the shooting remain unclear, but the campus has been placed on lockdown. Campus alerts conveyed a fast-changing and terrifying situation on campus. Editorial Tags:  Breaking News Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2ZJrMow

The university’s plan to cut subsidies to its scholarly press is dystopian. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2V80Gsq

On Tuesday, the university’s provost, still maintaining that a former professor’s assertions of corruption are false, announced an outside investigation. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2PAVo2E

Advice for academics and administrators on the common management, organizational, and HR issues that arise in leading any size group in higher education. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2ZIJ9FX

Graduate students need the skills to navigate the post-Ph.D. world, whether inside or outside the academy, writes Joy Connolly. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2J4Omlx

Too many campus leaders use "change-resistance" plans to refute their potential opponents, rather than to actually hear them from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2V6F9R8

Diana Natalicio is retiring after more than 30 years leading the University of Texas at El Paso. She’s critical of institutions that focus more on chasing prestige than serving students. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2Y26ctZ

Community College of Philadelphia : U.S. representative Dwight Evans. Dominican University of California : Joanna Hoffman, one of the original members of both the Apple Computer Macintosh team and the NeXT team. Duquesne University : Maxwell King, president and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Foundation. Midland University : Jon Clifton, global managing partner at Gallup. North Central Missouri College : Mike Thomson, vice chairman of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education; and Steven M. Schieber, CEO of the Critical Access Region of the St. Luke’s Health System. Nyack College : Cicely Tyson, the actress; and others. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine : Daniel Hilferty, chief executive officer of Independence Health Group. Saint John's University , in Minnesota: Mark Vande Hei, an astronaut. Trinity Christian College , in Illinois: Christina Ritsema, a business professor at Colorado State University. University of California, Merced : Jennifer ...

Diversity and inclusion are topics of conversation at most American colleges and universities. So are reports of frustrations of many students, faculty members and others who feel colleges are still designed for people of privilege -- generally those who are white and are middle or upper class. And so are reports of frustrations that many college leaders have a hard time understanding that issues are not just about black people or women or gay people, but that issues relate to many people in multiple groups and with multiple identities and needs. That is central to intersectionality, the frame for the essays in Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses (Rutgers University Press). The editors of the collection are W. Carson Byrd, associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville; Rachelle Brunn-Bevel, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University; and Sarah Ovink, associate professor of sociology a...

A group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says more research is needed to accurately estimate the number of college students facing food insecurity and hunger, as awareness of the problem grows and lawmakers and colleges grapple with it. The researchers analyzed multiple studies on food insecurity and found discrepancies in the way hunger is measured. Those discrepancies cast doubt on estimates of the share of college students who are reportedly hungry or food insecure, according to a paper the researchers, Cassandra J. Nikolaus, Breanna Ellison and Sharon Nickols-Richardson, published in PLOS ONE last week. “The main reason we are concerned about accuracy with these surveys is so we can effectively implement and assess the solutions,” Nikolaus said. “These surveys are commonly used to assess need on campus, screen students for services and to evaluate the impact of interventions. If the surveys aren’t accurate, then the endeavors to address colleg...

For three days, students at Swarthmore College , the elite institution known for its progressive politics, have occupied a picturesque stone house in the middle of campus, the quarters of one of the college’s two fraternities. Activists in the building say that it is the site of rampant sexual violence. The students have refused to leave until college administrators meet their demands: disband the fraternities and take away the two campus buildings that they lease to the groups. The sit-in is part of a long battle around attempts to kick the Greek system off campus, but more broadly, it is about officials’ handling of rape cases. The demonstration also comes after documents leaked to student journalists, purportedly chronicling years of bigotry and sexual assaults by one fraternity, Phi Psi, whose house the students have seized. Even the existence of fraternities at Swarthmore might surprise outsiders. The academically demanding liberal arts college with Quaker roots, one of thre...

Weeks after it allowed a known harasser to attend a conference where three of his accusers were present, the Society for American Archaeology is still mishandling the incident. That’s what scores of academics are saying in open letters, social media posts and other correspondence with the organization. Specifically, critics say that the society hasn’t addressed questions and concerns about the actions it took -- or didn’t take -- during and after the conference. They’re also asking why the society has deleted tweets about the incident and blocked several conference attendees on social media. The society has expressed some regret about how it handled the matter and said it’s committed to dealing with harassment. But the lesson to other professional organizations is clear: while privacy and process concerns abound in harassment cases, sexual misconduct is a public issue requiring a transparent, coherent response to member concerns. “I did not think that th...