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The publication of sexist, racist, and homophobic documents, apparently written by campus fraternity members, have prompted students to demand that the college’s two fraternities be banned. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2PE0mM1

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean I had a chance to sit in on a class recently that featured student presentations. They were assigned to groups of four or five, with each group having a different topic. The group I saw had been reduced to two over the course of the semester, due to other students dropping. The two students carried on valiantly, but it brought me back to a dilemma I never really resolved when I taught. What’s the appropriate response to grading group projects when members of the group disappear? Grading group projects is sticky on a good day. Some students carry more of the weight than others, and it can be difficult from the outside to determine who did what. If the group is larger than two, there’s a non-trivial chance that at least one member was free-riding on the work of the others.  The strongest member of the group may feel effectively penalized by the weaker performances of the others. Those are well-known issues, and any experi...

Blog:  Technology and Learning Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall. Published in April of 2019. Without overthinking, quickly write down the five things that we do at universities that are misaligned with learning science. Go. What did you come up with? Here is my list: Grades High-Stakes Exams Unrelated Courses Staff-Hiring Processes Staff Performance Reviews For now, I want to set aside the first three bullet points - and focus on staff-hiring processes and staff performance reviews.  The reason that I want us to discuss these last two HR related processes has everything to do with Nine Lies About Work . This is a book about organizational performance. Specifically, this is a book about how many of our ideas about how people perform in organizations are wrong. What was striking for me in reading through Nine Lies About Work is how closely the organizational performance research...

A professor says the protesters who commandeered his book talk demonstrated the corrosive power of racial resentment from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2UO6UJ9

Chronicle Intelligence, a division of The Chronicle of Higher Education, has taken a deep dive into the topic of student success, producing a series of reports, webinars, and case studies. The goal: to give academic leaders, administrators, and professors the insights and tools they need to better serve their students. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2V59DD4

Advice for new Ph.D.s on managing the initial years of an academic career. from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/2WeDZ2q

The most troubling aspect of gifted classrooms is that they tend to be disproportionately filled with white and Asian students while bright black and Hispanic students often get overlooked. Indeed, gifted and talented programs can sometimes look like a clever tool to separate children by race or ethnicity in school. In New York City, for example, white and Asian parents who have the resources and/or inclination to prepare their four-year-olds to excel on standardized tests snag almost three quarters of the coveted seats. Meanwhile, black and Hispanic students make up more than 65 percent  of the public school system. Nationally, more than 13 percent of all Asian students are enrolled in gifted programs compared with just 4 percent of black students, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms. Among Hispanics, it’s 5 percent. That mirrors long-standing achievement differences on sta...

Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray doubled down on arguing for the need for a “whole-of-society” response to economic espionage threats, in particular those emerging from China, and reiterated his view that academe needs to be more sophisticated about responding to these threats in remarks on Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations. Wray’s remarks were in line with what he has said before, but they represent a rare expansion of his views in a public forum. Over the past 18 months, universities have come under increasing pressure from the FBI, the federal science agencies, the White House and members of Congress to confront what the FBI says are broad efforts by foreign actors, in particular China, to steal the fruits of U.S. government-funded research and other valuable intellectual property. The increased scrutiny has raised concerns in academia about racial profiling of Chinese students and scholars and about the risk that overreaction to the threat co...

University presses periodically face threats to the financial support they receive from their universities. Such support is crucial, leaders of academic publishing say, because university presses publish work with scholarly significance, knowing that impact must be measured in ideas shared or conventional wisdom challenged, not commercial standards on book sales. But even if such threats occur periodically, many academics were stunned and angry to learn that Stanford University has announced that it will no longer provide any financial support for its press. Professors at Stanford are pushing back, but there are no signs that the university will reconsider. Without support from the university, dozens of books released by the press each year would no longer be published. “At first glance the proposition that a university of Stanford’s stature would voluntarily inflict damage upon an asset like the Stanford University Press seems shockingly improbable. The press is a world-class s...

Bethel College : Ian Lightcap of the Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Notre Dame. Boston College: Isabel Capeloa Gil, president of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. Buffalo State of the State University of New York: Jesse L. Martin, the actor. Colorado School of Mines : Bruce Grewcock, chairman and CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. Husson University : U.S. senator Susan Colllins. Lamar Community College: Joe Garcia, chancellor of the Colorado Community College System. Lynn University : James Patterson, the author. McDaniel College : Martin K. P. Hill, chair of the board of the college. MCPHS University: Sylvio L. Dupuis, former mayor of Manchester, N.H. Millersville University : Pennsylvania secretary of education Pedro Rivera. Moravian College : Dave Zinczenko, founder and CEO of Galvanized Media. Mount Holyoke College : Adrienne Arsht, the philanthropist and business leader; and others. Oglethorpe University : Donald E. Graham, ...

Many professors who do research or teach courses on white people have been subject to criticism that includes threatening emails and distortions of their work, typically from those on the far right. On Saturday, a group of white nationalists went a step beyond that and disrupted a talk being given in a Washington bookstore by a Vanderbilt University professor. The small group of white men did not name any group with which they are affiliated but said that they were speaking for the white working class and that they were "identitarians." The men shouted, "This land is our land," among other things. After a bit, they left. Soooooo I’m at @PoliticsProse for #IndependentBookstoreDay and a group of white nationalists just interrupted an author’s talk on how the politics of racial resentment is killing the heartland. pic.twitter.com/G0tOdE6MIy — dckath (@dckath) April 27, 2019 Some attendees made video of the disruption, showing audience members booing throug...

We’ve all heard about the fate of the children at the U.S.-Mexico border. In today's Academic Minute, SUNY New Paltz 's Anne R. Roschelle looks at this sensitive situation. Roschelle is a professor of sociology and chair of the department of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at New Paltz, part of the State University of New York system. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  04-29-19 SUNY New Paltz - The Humanitarian Crisis at the Border.mp3 Event's date:  Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 5:45pm School:  State University of New York at New Paltz from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2ZQUJiy

Category:  Carpe Careers How do Ph.D. students, and those involved in their training, James M. Van Wyck asks, navigate this liminal moment in career and professional development? Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Istockphoto.com/Erhui1979 Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2V3gpcf

The U.S. Department of Education will be required to implement long-delayed rules around state authorization of online programs following a judge’s ruling on a lawsuit against the department, as first reported in Politico . The rules, proposed during the Obama administration, were to set to go into effect last July. Two months before they were due for implementation, the department delayed them until 2020 , citing confusion from institutions and lobbying groups. Two unions -- the National Education Association and the California Teachers Association -- last August sued the department in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, alleging that the department failed to follow the correct process. The plaintiffs urged immediate implementation of the Obama-era rules. In the meantime, a process of debating revisions of a broad swath of federal rules around higher education innovation culminated this month in a new set of proposed rules around state authorizatio...

Brill has terminated its relationship with the Beijing-based Higher Education Press to distribute four China-focused journals after scholars reported an entire article was removed from one of the journals by Chinese censors. Scholars had argued that the partnership between Brill, a Dutch publisher, and the Beijing-based HEP was problematic because they were led in part by the association with Brill to believe the journal Frontiers of Literary Studies in China ( FLSC ) would be published according to standards of academic freedom when in practice it was subject to Chinese state censorship. Jacob Edmond, an associate professor of English at New Zealand’s University of Otago and the guest editor of a special issue of the FLSC journal that was censored, said he welcomed Brill’s decision, which goes in effect in 2020, as “a small win in what is an ongoing battle against censorship creep. “However, I do not see this win as any particular cause for celebration,” Edmond added. “I feel...

French president Emmanuel Macron said he wants to shut down the École Nationale d’Administration, an elite college that has trained French presidents and diplomats and which has become a symbol of inequality and elitism, Reuters reported . Macron announced his plans to abolish the ENA as part of his response to months of street protests. Reuters reported that Macron's move against his own alma mater “will please those who consider the ENA an emblem of the tight-knit club that dominates political and business circles and rile others who see a cynical gesture that fails to address the cause of France’s social imbalances.” On Twitter, Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, likened the move to shutting down Harvard. Emmanuel Macron’s call to shut ENA, France’s elite school of public administration, is absurd, akin to closing Harvard to assuage the left here. Smart policy is not to attack institutions of excellence but to make it possible for more to ben...

The board of the University of South Carolina on Friday announced that it was reopening the search for the university's next president. The decision came amid widespread criticism on campus of a search in which the 11 semifinalists and the four finalists were all men. Ad keywords:  diversity executive Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2UM6vXF