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College Presidents With Business-World Ties
The president of Mount St. Mary’s University wanted to improve the school’s vital national rankings by pushing out struggling freshmen before they flunked out and hurt its federal retention rate. “Put a Glock to their heads,” the president, a former private equity manager, said according to the campus newspaper. On Monday he resigned after outrage by academics who felt his cold, business-like approach was at odds with the school’s academic mission. Some say that as costs and student debt soar, the trend of hiring business people for academic leadership is beneficial for schools.
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Desperately Seeking Shut-eye
Michael Perlis of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about new insomnia drugs.
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Replacing ‘Tradition With Science’
Police officers at all 14 University of Texas campuses will soon be trained to follow new investigative protocols aimed at changing how campus law enforcement officers interview and support victims of sexual assault, the system announced today. A new 170-page manual, called "The Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault," instructs the system's 600 sworn police officers to replace "tradition with science" when investigating sexual violence.
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Audio: Originals: How to Spot One, How to Be One
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is highlighted for his new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
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On Her First Day at UNC, Margaret Spellings Prepares to Face Her Critics
Margaret Spellings has faced more than four months of near-constant criticism since she was named president of the University of North Carolina system. The former U.S. secretary of education knows that some opposition comes with the territory; she has spent decades in public life. But "to see that visceral reaction before I’d even done one thing was a little surprising," Ms. Spellings said on Monday in a phone interview with The Chronicle. She takes office as North Carolina’s president on Tuesday, at a $775,000 annual salary.
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Court Fight Seen by African-Americans as Affront to Obama
Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the impact of the Obama presidency on the African-American community.
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Obama Breathed New Life Into Federal Grant Aid, Yet It’s Not Enough to Tackle College Costs
The Obama administration has made unprecedented investments in the Pell grant program for needy college students, increasing access and the award amount over the years. Yet in the face of rising higher education costs and dwindling state investment, the program is fighting an uphill battle to make college affordable for low-income students. This month marks the seventh anniversary of President Obama signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a bill that, among many other things, doubled Pell funding by more than $17 billion.
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Colleges Draw Hard Lines Against Calls to Restrict Speech
As colleges around the nation face pressure to regulate campus speech, several have pushed back by formally declaring refusals to limit the exchange of ideas. At the forefront is the University of Chicago, which last year adopted a statement on free expression on campuses that is being heralded as a model for colleges elsewhere. Its statement says the university should not try to shield people from ideas "they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive," and has a responsibility to ensure visiting speakers on campus are unhindered by student protesters.
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One University Prepares Students to Intervene
The University of New Hampshire’s campaign to prevent sex assault is based on two programs: "Bringing in the Bystander" was developed in 2002 as an in-person training program that the university’s Prevention Innovations Research Center sells to colleges. The program teaches people to safely intervene when a situation looks as if it could become dangerous, and it is aimed at increasing their willingness to do so. The other program, "Know Your Power," is a newer social-marketing effort that uses 26 images depicting real-life scenarios to promote bystander behaviors.
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Mount St. Mary’s President Quits After Firings Seen as Retaliatory
A Maryland university president resigned on Monday, weeks after a furor erupted on campus over faculty firings and a student newspaper article that quoted the president as comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot. The board of the university, Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, about 60 miles northwest of Baltimore, announced that the dean of the business school would replace the departing university leader, Simon Newman, as acting president effective immediately. Mr.