Articles of Interest about higher ed - Oct 15
/***HIGHER ED & THE VIRUS
Pandemic presents an opportunity for small liberal arts colleges to change
List of employees with COVID-19 at Volunteer State Community College emailed by mistake
How Transparent Is Your College's COVID Dashboard?
***K-12
Schools are 2 months into reopening under Covid-19 and no one's keeping track of how it's going
Up to 1 million California students may still lack connectivity during distance learning
***LAYOFFS & FURLOUGHS
University of Memphis braces for layoffs as COVID-19 takes its toll
D'Youville College to lay off employees furloughed since spring
Ithaca College to cut 130 faculty positions due to low enrollment
Duke University to lay off 75 employees due to COVID-19 disruptions
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Cornish College of the Arts Declares Financial Emergency and Exigency
***HIGHER ED
University of Florida ends use of prison labor after mounting student pressure
Texas A&M shortens spring break to a single day
Colleges cancel diversity programs in response to Trump order
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Princeton will pay nearly $1M in back pay to female professors in sweeping discrimination settlement
***HUMANITIES
Colleges are dropping courses in humanities
***ONLINE CLASSES
Coursera Founder Launches Zoom Challenger For Higher Ed
A college student says a professor told her not to breastfeed her baby during online class
Fine Arts majors say they struggle with online and distance learning
***ONLINE CHEATING
150 University of Missouri students caught cheating on exams held online amid COVID-19
More Mizzou students are cheating — and you can blame the pandemic. Sort of
California bar exam takers say facial recognition software rejected them
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professors endure a summer of cancellations: recent assaults on academic freedom
Harvard professor Charles Lieber sues university over legal fees
***ADMINISTRATORS
Notre Dame president ends quarantine after COVID diagnosis
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
Ohio Wesleyan cuts 18 majors, consolidates departments to save $4 million
Facebook bans Liberty University's Falkirk Center co-founder
Former Student Claims Moody Bible Institute Put Her on ‘Warning Status' for Being Lesbian
Moody Bible Institute Must Face Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Lawsuit ($)
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES & COVID
Notre Dame’s President Faces an Angry Campus After Getting the Coronavirus ($)
Baylor suspends football activities due to COVID issues
Point Loma Nazarene University reports jump in COVID-19 cases
***SEMINARIES
Court Dismisses LGBT Anti-Discrimination Lawsuit Against Fuller Seminary
SBC seminary votes to retain slaveholders’ names on buildings
***RESEARCH
Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?
How One Prominent Journal Went Very Wrong ($)
Journals’ English copy-editing services are inadequate and unethical ($)
Publish, profit, predate, perish and peer review
Retraction Watch on The Data Skeptic podcast
***STUDENT LIFE
College kids get creative to get out the vote
A college refuses to accommodate students who are afraid of being on campus
On college campuses, resident assistants in dorms adjust to a new role: COVID cop
Students continue to be stressed about college, their futures
Latinx DACA Students Contend with Adversity at Universities
***STUDENTS IN COURT
College baseball, racial epithets, and free speech
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Duquesne University fires professor who used racial slur in class
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
U.S. Department of Education fines Baylor $462K for violations of Jeanne Clery Act
LSU releases new regulations addressing sexual harassment under Title IX
Why Is It So Hard to Fire a Tenured Sexual Predator? ($)