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Harvard Reportedly Rescinds Admissions Offers to 10 Over Facebook Posts – The Ticker
Harvard University has rescinded admissions offers to at least 10 prospective members of this fall’s entering freshman class after the students traded sexually explicit and other offensive graphics and messages in a private Facebook group chat, The Harvard Crimson reported. University officials declined to comment to the newspaper about the status of the admissions offers. The Crimson based its… → Read More
U. of Maine Approves a Restructuring of its Presque Isle Campus – The Ticker
Trustees of the University of Maine system took another step on Sunday toward streamlining operations and reducing costs by approving a reorganization of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, the Portland Press Herald reports. The campus, like many regional public institutions across the country, has seen enrollment shrink and has been struggling to close budget gaps in recent years. With… → Read More
Mills College Declares Financial Emergency and May Cut 30 to 35 Jobs – The Ticker
Mills College, a liberal-arts institution for women in Oakland, Calif., declared a financial emergency on Tuesday as a first step toward dealing with financial challenges, including a projected $9.1-million deficit in the coming fiscal year. In a news release and in a statement emailed to faculty, staff, and students on Tuesday afternoon, the college described the Board of Trustees’ approval of… → Read More
Jury Awards $1.4 Million to Former Senior Female Athletics Official at U. of Iowa – The Ticker
A state-court jury awarded $1.43 million in damages on Thursday to Jane Meyer, the former senior associate athletics director at the University of Iowa, ruling in her favor on all five claims in her discrimination lawsuit against the university, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. Ms. Meyer — whose partner, the fired field-hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum, is also suing the university — had been… → Read More
Students Oppose Pomona College’s Hiring of Alice Goffman as a Visiting Scholar – The Ticker
A group of “students, alumni, and allies” of the sociology department at Pomona College have written an open letter to the department and senior executives of the college to protest the hiring of the ethnographer Alice Goffman as a visiting professor of sociology. The college confirmed in a statement emailed to The Chronicle on Sunday night that it had offered Ms. Goffman a position as a… → Read More
Penn State’s President Warns Fraternities and Sororities to Shape Up – The Ticker
Are we “witnessing the beginning of the end of Greek life” at Pennsylvania State University? Many administrators and trustees are wondering if that will be the case, Eric J. Barron, the university’s president, says in a bluntly worded open letter to fraternity and sorority members. In the letter, published Monday on his blog, Mr. Barron notes that the problems of binge drinking and campus sexual… → Read More
Anti-Clinton Lawyer Apparently Is Tapped for Key Civil-Rights Post – The Ticker
A lawyer who helped the Trump campaign organize an event last fall with several women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct says she has accepted a top civil-rights position at the Department of Education, according to reports by Politico Pro and The Washington Post. The lawyer, Candice E. Jackson, wrote on her personal website that she had accepted “an appointment” in the Education… → Read More
U. of Chicago Cancels Monday Classes After Threat of Gun Violence – The Ticker
The University of Chicago canceled classes and all other activities on its main campus on Monday after being informed by the FBI that an unknown individual had posted an online threat of gun violence against the institution. In a statement posted on its website on Sunday, the university’s president, Robert J. Zimmer, said the threat had specifically mentioned “the campus quad” at 10 a.m. on… → Read More
Rutgers Fires Football Coach and Athletics Director – The Ticker
Rutgers University has fired its athletics director and head football coach, the institution’s president announced in a statement released on Sunday afternoon, confirming reports published earlier in the day by NJ Advance Media and other news sites. In his statement, the president, Robert L. Barchi, said he had met with the athletics director, Julie Hermann, and the coach, Kyle J. Flood, on… → Read More
32 Americans Are Chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2016 – The Ticker
The Rhodes Trust has announced the names of the 32 men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars from the United States for 2016. The scholarships cover all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford, in England. The American winners were chosen from 16 districts across the United States and represent 22 colleges and universities. American citizens may apply for the… → Read More
Complaint Accuses U. of Kansas Professor of Racial Discrimination in Class – The Ticker
A professor at the University of Kansas at Lawrence is on leave while the university investigates a complaint accusing her of racially discriminatory behavior in class, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. Graduate students, meanwhile, are pursuing a social-media campaign demanding that she be fired. Andrea M. Quenette, an assistant professor of communication studies, told the newspaper she was… → Read More
Jury Awards $4.85 Million to White Instructor Who Alleged Bias in Her Dismissal – The Ticker
A jury in a state court in Missouri has awarded nearly $5 million to a former instructor at Harris-Stowe State University after finding that the historically black institution discriminated against her because she is white, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The jury awarded the instructor $3.5 million in punitive damages and $1.35 million for lost wages and emotional distress. But the… → Read More
Faculty and Student Groups Urge Ole Miss to Quit Flying State Flag – The Ticker
Faculty and student governing bodies at the University of Mississippi have jointly passed a resolution calling for the university to cease flying the state flag of Mississippi, which includes a Confederate battle emblem. The Faculty Senate passed the measure on Thursday, two days after it was approved by the Associated Student Body Senate. → Read More
Margaret Spellings Reportedly Is Top Contender for U. of North Carolina Presidency – The Ticker
Margaret Spellings, a former U.S. secretary of education under George W. Bush, is a finalist in the search for a new president of the University of North Carolina system, and she will meet with the university’s Board of Governors in an emergency session on Friday, The News and Observer reports, citing unidentified sources “with direct knowledge” of the search. Ms. Spellings is the only candidate… → Read More
Calif. Governor OKs Bill to Tighten Campus Gun Ban but Vetoes Sex-Assault Bill – The Ticker
Acting on a number of bills over the weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed into law a measure that will ban the carrying of concealed guns on college campuses in the state, but vetoed legislation that would have required colleges to set tougher penalties for sexual assault. The sex-assault bill, AB 967, would have required the state’s college and university systems, as well as… → Read More
Louisiana State U. Faculty Censures Administrators for Firing Profanity-Prone Professor – The Ticker
Louisiana State University’s Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to censure three top administrators there over their dismissal of a tenured professor accused of creating a hostile environment in the classroom with obscene language and sexually explicit jokes. The Faculty Senate voted, 39 to 5, to censure F. King Alexander, the university’s president; Stuart R. Bell, its provost; and… → Read More
Bible-Carrying Group Disrupts DePauw U. With Shouts That Students Are Going to Hell – The Ticker
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Fight Over Cooper Union’s Decision to Charge Tuition Nears an End – The Ticker
A major battle over the future of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art appears to be coming to an end, according to statements released on Tuesday by the prestigious Manhattan college’s Board of Trustees and a coalition of professors, alumni, and students who sued in 2014 to block the board’s plan to start charging undergraduate tuition. Those groups and the office of the… → Read More
West Point Professor Who Slammed Critics of War on Terror as Traitors Resigns – The Ticker
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Academics Who Criticize War on Terror Are ‘Lawful Targets,’ West Point Professor Says – The Ticker
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