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How One University Closed the Gender Gap in STEM-Faculty Hiring
For many years, Montana State University had a gender-diversity problem that seemed intractable: Women weren’t well represented on the faculty as a whole, and in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, male professors outnumbered women roughly four to one. Yet today the number of female faculty members in STEM is approaching what some would call critical mass. Every year since 2012, the university has hired an equal number of men and women — or close to it — for tenure-track jobs in those fields. Of 72 hires, 36 have been women.
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The Role of Teaching in Responding to Racism
Last month, a Snapchat image circulated on the campus of Quinnipiac University of a white female freshman student in a dorm wearing a dark exfoliating beauty mask.
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Students Were Told to Select Gender Pronouns. One Chose ‘His Majesty’ to Protest ‘Absurdity.’
The University of Michigan has implemented a “designated pronoun” policy to allow students to choose the way they want their professors to refer to them in class. As a protest measure, one student created a new identity: “His Majesty.” Grant Strobl, a junior at U-M and a conservative activist, inserted himself into an emotionally charged national debate over gender identity last week when he used the school’s new policy to declare himself royalty.
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Tips for Picking a Good Nursing Home
Rachel Werner of the Perelman School of Medicine and post-doc Elizabeth White of the School of Nursing are quoted about nursing-home selections.
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With Campus Carry in Place, Some Texas Grad Students Make Bars Their Offices
Texas’ campus-carry law has had well-publicized effects on the state’s public colleges: A handful of professors have resigned in protest, thousands of dollars have been spent on educational materials, and mobs of students have strapped dildos to their backpacks in protest. But in the conversation about the effects of the law, one campus constituency has been largely overlooked: graduate students. At the University of Texas at Austin, that’s changed, as a small handful of graduate students have started holding office hours in a bar — admittedly, a softer kind of protest.
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A Creationist’s Victory
California State University at Northridge has settled a lawsuit brought by a former employee who said he was fired for sharing news of an archaeological discovery that supported his young-Earth creationist beliefs. The university says it settled for $399,500 to avoid a protracted legal battle, but some scientists say the outcome has implications for how scientists critique creationist colleagues going forward. The plaintiff, Mark Armitage, managed the Northridge biology department’s electron and confocal microscopy suite starting in 2010.
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Furor Over Band Protest Leads to a Tense Week at East Carolina U.
Nineteen members of the East Carolina University marching band knelt in support of the Black Lives Matter movement during a performance of the national anthem. But the protests were only just beginning. The band members took a knee before a football game last Saturday, between East Carolina’s Pirates and the Knights of the University of Central Florida. The gesture was similar to demonstrations by professional and college athletes that have swept across the country in recent weeks.
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Perils of Indigenous People’s Day
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education pens an article about Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations.
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NTSB: Train in Hoboken Crash Was Going Double the Speed Limit
Vukan Vuchic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his thoughts on the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of a commuter train accident in New Jersey.
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Why Conservatives Should Fear a Trump Federal Reserve
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School writes about his concerns of the impact of Donald Trump on the Federal Reserve if he is elected president.