At Yale, Painful Rifts Emerge Over Diversity and Free Speech Chronicle of Higher Education At Yale, Painful Rifts Emerge Over Diversity and Free Speech Black women matter." "History is watching." "I refuse to be complicit." Dozens of messages like those were scrawled in chalk on a wide swath of stone in front of Yale University's largest library on Thursday. By Friday evening they had begun to fade, rubbed out in places by the steady stream of students' shoes. But the tensions that have flared on the campus for the past week and a half seem likely to leave a more permanent mark on this elite institution, which finds itself roiled by a heated debate about race relations and free speech.
Wormholes May Limit Landslides Earth Magazine Wormholes May Limit Landslides Doctoral candidate Emma Harrison and undergraduate student Aria Kovalovich of the School of Arts & Sciences are featured for researching endogeic worms.
U-Va. Fraternity Files $25 Million Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone The Washington Post U-Va. Fraternity Files $25 Million Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an article in 2014 that alleged a freshman was gang raped at the house during a party. The lawsuit focuses on a Rolling Stone article titled “A Rape on Campus,” which detailed a harrowing attack on a freshman named Jackie at the Phi Psi house on Sept. 28, 2012.
U. of Missouri Chief Resists Calls to Resign After Football Team Joins Protest of Racism Chronicle of Higher Education U. of Missouri Chief Resists Calls to Resign After Football Team Joins Protest of Racism Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri system, responded to increasing calls for his resignation by saying on Sunday that “change is needed” and that his administration was working “around the clock” to deal with concerns raised by protesters angry over the university’s handling of racial controversies. But his remarks, in a statement released by the university, made no mention of resigning and did little to satisfy the protesters.
Has Mother’s Milk Gone Sour? Chronicle of Higher Education Has Mother’s Milk Gone Sour? Postdoc Jessica Martucci of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for her research about breastfeeding and natural motherhood in America.
How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful Huffington Post How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for researching how pessimism is not good for health.
The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors Chronicle of Higher Education The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors Rachel A. Griffin is used to students she doesn’t know showing up for her office hours here at Southern Illinois University. Sometimes they come to see her on her first day of class for the semester. The stories, by now, are familiar: Often a friend has taken a course from Ms. Griffin, associate professor in the department of communication studies, and thinks she’ll have good advice. The student sits down and tearfully describes a problem he or she is counting on Ms. Griffin to help solve.
Limits Are Key to Business Creativity, Wharton Prof Says Philadelphia Inquirer Limits Are Key to Business Creativity, Wharton Prof Says Rom Schrift of the Wharton School says, “Maybe there’s a sweet spot where we can actually use constraints in a way that will actually help us.”
In Tulsa, a Hot Spot for Early Childhood Education, the Grade Is ‘Incomplete’ Kansas City Star In Tulsa, a Hot Spot for Early Childhood Education, the Grade Is ‘Incomplete’ Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy comments on how Tulsa’s private-public partnerships serve as a example for other cities.
High Pay for Presidents Is Not Shown to Yield Any Fund-Raising Payoff Chronicle of Higher Education High Pay for Presidents Is Not Shown to Yield Any Fund-Raising Payoff Public colleges should not assume that a generous salary will buy them a president who is adept at raising money, a new study concludes. After accounting for factors like institution size, the researchers, all at Florida State University, found no link between how much public colleges pay their presidents and how much money the institutions take in from private donors and state appropriations.