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Vast sexual-abuse scandals rocked academe in the 2010s, leading to dismissals, huge financial settlements, damaged reputations, and continuing litigation and prosecution. These five universities suffered among the biggest scandals; all are still recovering from them. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2rfc0FC

 In the 2010s, horrors of higher ed came slowly into focus. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2ExPvPg

Taheem Fennel poses for a picture with his mom and stepdad after his fifth-grade graduation ceremony at Bancroft Elementary School. Photo: Nichole Dobo / The Hechinger Report WILMINGTON, Del. — Taheem Fennell, 12, loves to ride his bike. He taught himself when he was 4 years old while visiting older cousins in Pennsylvania. He remembers running and jumping on, feeling his feet going around and testing the brakes. “I never rode a bike with training wheels,” he says. Taheem wants to ride his bike to the park more, but his mother worries about him venturing too far from the one-bedroom apartment in the Quaker Hill neighborhood that they share with his stepfather and four siblings, and sometimes other relatives. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school. And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. She was with a 26-year-old man thought to be in a gang. So Taheem...

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter Choose as many newsletters as you like Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Mississippi Learning Leave this field empty if you're human: How do we know when kids are ready to learn anything? Babies can learn how to use toilets, but most parents don’t introduce the concept until they’re well into toddlerhood. Fourth graders can master college-level biochemistry topics but most teachers don’t even consider trying to teach them. Life is full of examples like this. (I’ll focus on the biochemistry since this is a newsletter about schools, but email me if you want to talk more about babies using toilets!) Daniel Fried is an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Peter’s University in New Jersey. While pursuing his doctorate at Yale, he started to wonder whether some of the concepts he was learning could be taught to kids. Both of his parents are teachers and their fondness for young learners rubbed off. H...

How best to thank students, alumni, employees and others for their work and to wish them well during the holiday season? Johns Hopkins University this year opted to create a crossword puzzle , with clues about the campus, alumni and other Hopkins trivia. But most colleges and universities opt for videos. Adelphi University focused on giving -- but also included some of the mistakes that were made in the filming of the video. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology sent this video, with plenty of facts, but also a reference to skiing in Terre Haute and a president writing his letters with a quill pen. Le Moyne College focused on the song "Go Tell It on the Mountain." And at Yeshiva University , the Maccabeats are of course offering Hanukkah wishes. To all of our readers, happy holidays. Editorial Tags:  Humor/whimsy Image Source:  Istockphoto.com/aleksanderdavelasveic Is this diversity newsletter?:  Newsletter Order:  0 Disa...

Calculating the carbon footprint of international education can be an uncomfortable proposition. “The huge elephant in the room is that we’re all binge flyers and our whole sector is built on the need to fly people,” said Ailsa Lamont, the director and founder of Pomegranate Global, an international education consultancy in Australia. “People are a bit reluctant to draw attention to the negative sides of that, and I think as well there’s been a lack of awareness about what you can actually do to make a difference without shutting the whole thing down.” Lamont is one of the founders of a new group of international education professionals focused on climate change, the Climate Action Network for International Educators . The network is trying to bring renewed attention to the emissions generated by air travel associated with student mobility and to call for increased action. No one is calling for ending study abroad or other education-related travel. But some are calling for more ...

Malaysians’ hopes for a rapid overhaul of their browbeaten higher education system are unrealistic, according to an expert. Political historian Ooi Kee Beng said the reform process -- aimed at boosting universities’ performance by restoring their autonomy -- was being thwarted by civil service hostility and the educational establishment’s innate conservatism. Ooi, who runs the Penang Institute think tank, said the government was peppered with activists who had never held office before last year’s election overturned six decades of authoritarian rule. They needed time to get up to speed and find advisers they could trust. “Their enemies are everywhere, and they’ve never been in government,” he said. “One year is way too short to make a proper judgment on their performance.” Chang Da Wan, of the National Higher Education Research Institute at Universiti Sains Malaysia, said three to five years were needed to reform the sector. He criticized “unrealistic expectations” -- not only a...

Tony Allen , provost at Delaware State University, has been promoted to president there. Jack Bagwell , vice president for academic affairs at Piedmont Technical College, in South Carolina, has been selected as president of College of the Albemarle, in North Carolina. Nancy H. Blattner , president of Caldwell University, in New Jersey, has been selected as president of Fontbonne University, in Missouri. Christina Drale , interim chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been appointed to the job on a permanent basis. Allana R. Hamilton , president of Jackson Community College, in Tennessee, has been named vice president for academic affairs at the Tennessee Board of Regents. Edward Louis Hill Jr. , associate professor and dean of the College of Education at Texas A&M University, Central Texas, has been appointed vice president for academic affairs and strategic initiatives at Wilberforce University, in Ohio. Craig Pouncey , superintendent of Jefferson C...

Haverford College recently told a dozen of its recent graduates that it will essentially be picking up the bill for their first year of student loan payments. The small private liberal arts college outside Philadelphia has informed 12 members of its Class of 2019 that they’ll be the first recipients of a new debt-relief program funded by a dedicated endowment. Sums being paid range from $900 to $1,500 per student, and students will be able to apply for up to two more years of payment relief to ultimately cover up to three years after graduation. Those sums aren’t huge in comparison to the thousands of dollars a graduating student might owe. Nor is the number of students a particularly large portion of the 318 seniors who walked across the stage at Haverford’s commencement ceremony in May. Nonetheless, Haverford’s leaders hope the program will have a big impact for both graduates and students who are currently enrolled. The idea is that debt-wary students who know their student l...