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How a Top Business School Added More Women to Its Faculty

Navigating NYU’s ‘Island’ in China

Stanford Business School Dean to Resign Over a Lawsuit

 Garth Saloner, the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, announced his resignation on Monday, saying he did not want “a baseless and protracted lawsuit related to a contentious divorce” to hurt the school’s reputation. The divorce involves two Stanford professors. Mr. Saloner began a relationship with the wife shortly after the couple separated, Stanford acknowledged on Monday. The husband is suing the university, saying he was discriminated against.

How Luck and Planning Saved K-9 Cody’s Life

 Cindy Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine is highlighted for her work with the Working Dog Center.

WCU Joining Battle Against Sexual Assaults

 When several sexual assaults were reported at West Chester University during the last school year, students started paying attention. But no one knew quite how to react. It was as though students shrugged and said, " 'We're just going to let it go, we're just going to let it happen, and next weekend we're going to let it happen again,' " said junior Ma'Shiya Queen. The incidents occurred as national scrutiny of sexual assaults on college campuses was intensifying. Students elsewhere were taking action, and even the White House was getting involved.

Fatal Shooting of Professor at Mississippi College Might Be Linked to Earlier Homicide

 Mississippi authorities said after midnight Monday that they’d ended their search for a Delta State University professor suspected of killing his live-in girlfriend in their gulf coast home, and then allegedly fatally shooting a fellow professor on the campus five hours away, which had prompted a lengthy lockdown of the small school on Monday. The suspect, Shannon S. Lamb, 45, a Delta State professor of geography and social sciences, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound., according to the Associated Press.

Could Changing the Brain Help Smokers Quit?

 Caryn Lerman of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for developing a transcranial direct brain stimulation test.

Why College Rankings Are Unfair

 After heavy lobbying from some of the nation’s most elite institutions of higher education, the President has just abandoned his effort to rank the nation’s 7,000 colleges and universities. So, with college application season almost upon us, where should aspiring college students and their parents look for advice? In my view, not U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guide (out last week). 

5 From Baruch College Face Murder Charges in 2013 Fraternity Hazing

 Five fraternity members from Baruch College in Manhattan will face murder charges in Pennsylvania for their involvement in the death of a freshman who was hazed during a rural retreat in 2013, officials said on Monday. A grand jury in Monroe County, Pa., recently recommended that five people face third-degree murder charges and that a total of 37 would face a range of criminal charges, including assault, hindering apprehension and hazing in Chun Hsien Deng’s death.

It’s About to Get Easier for Students to Figure Out Which Colleges They Can Afford