Matters of Style & Principle
/In matters of style. swim with the current; In matters of principle. stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson (born April 13, 1743)
In matters of style. swim with the current; In matters of principle. stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson (born April 13, 1743)
The self-renewing man is highly motivated and respects the sources of his own energy and motivation. He has the priceless quality of enthusiasm. He knows how important it is to believe in what he is doing.
He knows how important it is to pursue the things about which he has a deep conviction. Enthusiasm for the task to be accomplished lifts him out of the ruts of habit and customary procedure. Drive and conviction give him the courage to risk failure. (One of the reasons mature persons stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.) And not only does he respond to challenge, but he also sees the challenge where others fail to see it . . .
John Gardner, Self-Renewal
***COVID-19
Why It's Not a Bad Thing If You Don't Experience COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
Why you should still wear a mask even if you've been vaccinated
***RELIGION & THE VIRUS
Why the key to ending the pandemic runs through the evangelical church
How White Evangelicals’ Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic ($)
***RELIGION
'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say
Church takes away fishing trip prize from woman-- because she is a woman
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Alabama removes religious oath requirement from voter registration
Survey: Most Americans know Biden is Catholic, far fewer know Harris’ religion
***RELIGION & THE LAW
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation of Religious Beliefs
***RELIGION & RACIAL ISSUES
Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site
***CATHOLIC
Hans Kueng, dissident Catholic theologian, dies at 93
***MEGACHURCHES
Megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie still can’t smell after COVID-19
Former Hillsong Megachurch pastor who faked cancer to hide porn problem starts charity
Hillsong shuts down Dallas operations after pastors used church donations to fund their lifestyle
***RELIGION & BUSINESS
Religion is a driving force behind the gender wage gap, study finds
Dave Ramsey’s company dropped from ‘Best Workplaces’ list by Inc. magazine
***ISLAM
Civil rights group sues Facebook over anti-Muslim posts
***SATANISM
Why Satanic Panic never really ended
Nike reaches agreement with Satan Shoes manufacturer
***RELIGION & WOMEN’S ISSUES
Baylor professor argues 'biblical womanhood' more cultural than biblical
Beth Moore apologizes for her role in elevating ‘complementarian’ theology that limits women leaders
***CHRISTIAN CELEBRITIES
Former Moody Bible Institute professor Paul Maxwell leaves the Christian faith
Elizabeth Elliot & the Language of Mission
Profit-preaching televangelist who stole millions is headed to prison
Because we naturally use our present feelings as a starting point when we attempt to predict our future feelings, we expect our future to feel more like our present than it actually will. -Daniel Gilbert
***COVID-19
Got a strange text about your COVID vaccine? Here's what could be going on
1 in 3 Covid-19 patients are diagnosed with a neuropsychiatric condition
Wharton professor on the employer Covid vaccine requirement dilemma
Your post-vaccination travel questions answered
What to Do If You Lose Your Vaccine Card
Here’s What Happens If You End Up Getting Two Different Vaccines
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Some Colleges Are Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines — But At What Cost?
5 US colleges to require students to be vaccinated before returning in the fall
More colleges move to make vaccines mandatory for students
***COVID AT SPECIFIC SCHOOLS
Cornell University to require students to be vaccinated ahead of fall semester
Johnson County Community College is offering employees a one-time $250 payment to get the vaccine
***HIGHER ED
Piedmont University's name change from Piedmont College now official
Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?
***LAYOFFS & CUTS
Pacific Lutheran University will cut 36 positions, eliminate majors to fill budget hole
Mills College Faculty Demand Answers About Closure
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Endicott College’s strength during the pandemic highlights the importance of diverse revenue streams
Tennessee owes Tennessee State University between $151 million and $544 million
University of Iowa gives athletics $50 million ‘loan’
Biden Has Promised to Crack Down on Troubled For-Profit Colleges. Some Are Already in Peril.
Mormon Church helping put Utah State's language-focused programs under 1 roof
Donor Darla Moore writes off USC after it fails to acknowledge her mother's death
***ADMISSIONS
Poll: Nearly half of parents don’t want their kids to go to a four-year college
COVID-19 pandemic making college choice especially difficult
University of Kentucky sends 500,000 acceptance emails in 'error'
Duke University Tried Test-Optional Admissions And Got 10,000 More Applicants
Harvard College Accepts Record-Low 3.43% of Applicants to Class of 2025
Colleges Get Creative To Reach Students After Enrollment Plummets Due To COVID-19
***HUMANITIES
Survey of employers shows liberal arts skills are valued & sought out in the workplace
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
LSU official sues for $50 million, alleging retaliation for Les Miles allegations
Michigan university can't punish Christian club for requiring leaders be Christian, Judge rules
Dartmouth College seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging bias in sex assault ruling
University of Cincinnati Faces Lawsuit After Sharing Students’ Personal Data to Health Provider
***TEACHING
What Impacts Active Learning in STEM?
Far Too Many Educators Aren’t Prepared to Teach Black and Brown Students (Opinion)
***ONLINE PROCTORING
Cheating on homework leads to extortion scam
UW-Madison disables proctoring software amid complaints
Proctoring Tool Failed to Recognize Dark Skin, Students Say
***ACADEMIC LIFE
All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year
Florida GOP Wants To Take On 'Cancel Culture' By Secretly Recording Professors
Man who died in D.C. fire was an assistant professor at George Washington University
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Notre Dame Law School Tells Non-Wealthy Students ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’
Baylor denies health care dependency status to same-sex spouses of university employees
LGBT students sue Education Department over Title IX religious exemption
Are LGBTQ students at Christian schools discriminated against?
Judson College trustees vote to keep the school open
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Jonathan Falwell named Liberty University Campus Pastor following Nasser's resignation
‘They thank me’: Jerry Falwell Jr. says Liberty University community still embraces him
***RESEARCH
A simple guide to ethical co-authorship
Prey tell, what makes a publisher predatory?
Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching
Plagiarism scandals are devaluing higher degrees in central Europe ($)
***STUDENT LIFE
I’m suing the University of Tennessee
Ole Miss Student Charged in Frat Hazing That Injured Pledge
Colleges see urgent mental health crisis ($)
Virginia Tech students decry Turning Point USA club for 'homophobic, racist' leaked chats
States Step In To Stop Colleges Holding Transcripts Ransom For Unpaid Bills
Another Graduating Class Faces A Workforce In Which Young People Are Struggling
A Michigan university is offering college students a scholarship to study cannabis
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Education Department Starts Review of Title IX
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Albion College students continue to boycott class to fight racial injustices on campus
Police investigating after swastika found on furniture at MCLA
White supremacy graffiti was found on Northern Kentucky's campus for the second time this year
***HIGHER ED SECURITY
Moody's: Cyberattacks Could Dent Higher Ed Credit Rating
IRS warns of new phishing scheme targeting colleges
Brown Under Cyberattack: Some Systems Shut Down, University Calls Incident “Utmost Priority”
University of California victim of nationwide hack attack
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Nazi in 1943 for his work with the resistance. He had been warned not to speak publicly. He did so anyway and was hanged April 9, 1945. Ethics is a gathering of his notes for an intended work on the subject, hidden in a garden before they could be seized by the police. Here is one paragraph contrasting the Ethics of Kant to Christ:
Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but He loved the real man. He was not, like a philosopher, interested in the 'universally valid,' but rather in that which is of help to the real and concrete human being. What worried him was not, like Kant, whether the 'maxim of an action can become a principle of general legislation', but whether my action is at this moment helping my neighbor become a man before God. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Stephen Goforth
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche
What am I doing today that is growing me to make me better tomorrow? -John Maxwell
The self-renewing man has mutually fruitful relations with other human beings. They are capable of accepting love and capable of giving it – both more difficult achievements than is commonly thought. And what has that to do with self-renewal? The man or woman who is incapable of accepting love or of giving it is imprisoned, cut off from a great part of the world of experience. Love and friendship dissolve the rigidities of the isolated self, force new perspectives, alter judgments, and keep in working order the emotional substratum on which all profound comprehensive of human affairs must rest.
***COVID-19
CDC: Fully vaccinated people can travel in U.S. without tests or quarantines
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.
CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus
***JOURNALISM
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity
The journalism crisis across the world
Paul Brock, a founder of Black journalism group, dies at 89
Vaccine Hesitancy: What Journalists Need to Know
News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
Kansas City newspaper sends a warning with a blank front page ($)
More than 25 places to find journalism jobs and internships
Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Billionaires push to derail hedge fund takeover of local newspapers
U.S. Supreme Court permits FCC to loosen media ownership rules
West Coast billionaires buy dying legacy media companies
How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history
***WRITING & READING
HarperCollins to Acquire HMH Trade
Graphic novel from the “Captain Underpants” series pulled from library and bookstore shelves
‘Hemingway’ documentary Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration ($)
***COVID-19 MISINFORMATION
Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
***FAKES
How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries
***SOCIAL MEDIA
How to check if your account was part of Facebook’s 533M record leak
Google integrates Chat to Gmail for all accounts
How beauty filters took over social media | MIT Technology Review
Facebook Disputes Claims It Fuels Political Polarization And Extremism
Group-Chatting Platform Discord Might Change Social Media With Its Business Model
QAnon Facebook Group Linked to Capitol Riot Still Active
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online - 9to5Mac
IRS Warns of Scam Targeting .Edu Email Addresses
Fake apps are circumventing Apple’s rules in order to rob users
New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think
Spy pixels in emails have become endemic
Companies use this email trick to spy on you all the time – and you had no idea
***LANGUAGE
Words Like 'Racism' Have Lost Their Common Meaning (opinion)
***POETRY
San Diego's Poet Laureate Launches Digital Poetry Platform
Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators
Poetry Challenge: Create A List Poem That Grapples With Rise Of Anti-Asian Racism
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. –Booker T. Washington (born April 5, 1856)
Renewal comes neither by taking a rest nor changing the scenery, nor by adding something new to our lives, but by ending whatever is, and then entering a temporary state of chaos when everything is up for grabs and anything is possible. Then we can come out of what is really a death-and-rebirth process with a new identity, a new sense of purpose, and a new store of life energy.
William Bridges, The Way of Transition
After 20, success has very little to teach us.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. -Hans Christian Andersen (born April 2, 1805)
***COVID-19
Vaccine passports and digital vaccination records, explained
Why vaccine passports may be inevitable in next phase of COVID-19
Should I laminate my COVID vaccine card? Here’s what experts say
How does COVID-19 affect the brain?
Florida man fired after fake vaccine card business exposed on TikTok
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Some say COVID-19 may have changed college campuses for good
Rutgers University first in nation to require on-campus students get COVID vaccine for fall semester
***ENROLLMENT
Enrollment declines at California’s community colleges far greater than earlier predictions
***HIGHER ED
Moody's Upgrades Financial Outlook for Higher Ed
The Absurdity of University Rankings
A new direction for Bennett College
Google Engineers Created a Cheap Certificate Program to Help You Get a New Job in Tech
***LAYOFFS & CUTS
University of Montana professors, students protest proposed $2.6 million budget cuts
Salem State University retrenchment plan accidentally released
***COLLEGE FINANCES
The biggest earners at private colleges and universities
Moody's Raises Higher Ed Outlook to Stable
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
High court sympathetic to college athletes in NCAA dispute
Judge rules for Southern Methodist University over jurisdiction
Students file lawsuit over fake college sting operation by ICE and DHS
***TEACHING
A Pair of Business School Professors Made Their Students Read Fiction. Amazing Things Happened
Cal State LA was caught in a large-scale cheating scandal, but it’s not alone
How Cheating in College Hurts Students
Zoom Escaper makes it easy to sabotage that unbearable Zoom meeting
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University of Missouri faculty members upset about use of data in promotion and tenure
The Well-Heeled Professoriate: Socioeconomic Backgrounds Of University Faculty
***ACADEMICS & CRIME
Professor put camera in teen’s room ‘to bond with her,’ Oklahoma documents say
Ga. Tech professor indicted on federal fraud charges
***PROFESSORS IN COURT
Lecturer fired for ‘aggressive’ use of question marks gets $20K payout
***ADMINISTRATORS
SC State University faculty senate votes 'no confidence' in President and Provost
University of Michigan leaders condemn regent's comments
***ADMINISTRATORS LEAVING
Lily McNair No Longer President at Tuskegee University
University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld to leave earlier than expected
Oregon State University President F. King Alexander resigns amid fallout from LSU scandal
CUNY law school dean cancels herself after 'slaveholder' comment
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Evangel University dropping the name "Crusaders"
USA Today editor fired who wanted to ban Christian University from NCAA
Regent University hosts conspiracy-filled livestream event
***RESEARCH
How to Find and Vet Journal Articles
The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
Science relies on constructive criticism. Here’s how to keep it useful and respectful
Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication
The internationality of published higher education scholarship: How do the ‘top’ journals compare?
The top editor at JAMA has been sidelined amid outcry comments on structural racism
***STUDENT LIFE
Angela Davis event: Butler University students allege censorship
College student found driving 106 mph while watching Zoom class
Tax Refund Scam Targets College Students and Staff
Yale Disputes Social Media Report on Student's Suicide
28 Things They Don't Teach You In High School That You Learn Pretty Much Immediately In College
***STUDENTS IN COURT
Supreme Court sides with student newspaper in dispute with UK over sexual misconduct records
Judge Says Students Can Sue Quinnipiac Over Shift to Remote Learning
FTC sends out nearly $50 million to former University of Phoenix students from 2019 settlement
***STUDENT MEDIA
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
New online reporting form allows Brown University students to report sexual harassment anonymously
USC agrees to $852 million payout in sex abuse lawsuit
11 women file lawsuit alleging Eastern Michigan University mishandled sexual assault claims
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Oxford University considers scrapping ‘colonial’ and ‘white’ music notation in syllabus makeover
Boise State resumes diversity classes after brief suspension and controversy
University of Cincinnati professor who called COVID-19 'the Chinese virus' not asked to return
Brown University undergraduates vote for reparations for descendants of enslaved people
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Two plead guilty to stealing millions of dollars’ worth of computers from Stanford
***RANSOMWARE
Ransomware gang breaches University of Colorado and University of Miami
Ransomware group targets universities in Maryland, California in new data leaks
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P Jones
DARPA seeks to improve computer vision in ‘Third Wave’ of AI research
Bayesian networks can provide answers when machine learning comes up short
MIT study finds ‘systematic’ labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets
An overview of machine learning operations maintenance
Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place
A new statistical model generates more nuanced predictions for complicated events
Researchers think they’ve solved the ‘barren plateaus' issue in quantum machine learning
Geospatial information is vital for linking unconnected datasets and driving digital transformation
Is coding more like a language, or more like math?
The not-so-secret value of sharing commercial geospatial and open-source information
MIT built algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge “adversarial” inputs
DARPA work on homomorphic encryption technology
Cataloging non-reproducible machine learning papers
Five reasons so many data science projects fail to deliver
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes (born March 31, 1596)
***COVID-19
How to talk to those hesitant about the Covid-19 vaccine
Michigan must tell Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients that it was developed using stem cells
Watch out for these vaccination scams looking to get your money, information
New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports.'
People Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Can Still Contract Virus, Study Shows
Why you should get a COVID-19 vaccine – even if you’ve already had the coronavirus
Office Depot will laminate COVID-19 vaccination cards for free
***COVID-19 & RELIGION
Hundreds attend Christian revival in North Carolina — most without masks, videos show
***RELIGION
Why would Christians embrace conspiracy theories?
National Association Of Evangelicals Leader Strives To Break Down Barriers, 'Build Bridges'
The Most Christian Continent: Africa
The waning of the black church A historic past is not enough for the black church to thrive today
***THE BIBLE
Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Reveals New Details About the Bible’s Earliest Translations
Tennessee lawmakers advance bill to make Bible state's official book
***RELIGION & CRIME
Atlanta Suspect’s Fixation on Sex Is Familiar Thorn for Evangelicals
Atlanta Shooting Suspect’s Church Bashed ‘Radical Feminism’ in Deleted Sermons
***RELIGION & RACIAL ISSUES
Study: Racial Diversity Within a Church Is Associated with Higher Average Attendance Over Time
***RELIGION & WOMEN
From the Empty Tomb to Today’s Abuse: Believe Women
The good White Christian women of Nazi Germany
Asian women lead charge against bigotry in Christian rallies across U.S,
After Beth Moore departure, more Southern Baptist women question roles in church
***MEGACHURCHES
Megachurch employee fired for “inappropriate behavior online” years ago, church leaders say
***RELIGION & BUSINESS
Parent company of Christian radio's K-LOVE and Air1 relocating to Nashville area
Can you be fired over your sex life? Christian Financial Guru Dave Ramsey thinks so
***ISLAM
Muslim groups are raising money for Colorado shooting victims
Colorado shooting suspect had worried about being targeted for his Muslim faith, acquaintances say
***RELIGION & SINGERS
Skillet’s John Cooper Compares Grammys to Hitler, Condemns Cardi B’s Performance
***RELIGION & CRIME
Accused Atlanta gunman was a patient at an evangelical treatment center
***RELIGION & SEXUAL ABUSE
The inside story of how Kanakuk—one of America’s largest Christian camps—enabled horrific abuse
***SURVEYS ABOUT RELIGION
Gallup: Fewer Than Half of Americans Belong to a Church
74% of Black Americans believe in God of the Bible or other scripture
Nine-in-ten Black ‘nones’ believe in God, but fewer pray or attend services
***RELIGION & MONEY
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. -Aeschylus
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