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When Recruiting Minority Faculty Members Isn’t Enough
Several colleges, prodded by black students who want to see more black professors on their campuses, have announced ambitious efforts in recent weeks to hire more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups. But even as some institutions promise to shell out millions of dollars to shift the composition of their faculties, recruitment and hiring seem to get more attention than retention does. Keeping the people who come aboard is a pressing challenge for institutions.
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Bribery Confession in China Calls Into Questions Integrity of College Admissions
The children of the wealthy and well-connected in China enjoy enormous privileges over their poorer counterparts: access to elite kindergartens and primary schools, expensive tutors, European vacations, flashy Italian and German sports cars and generous allowances. But in a country where cash and connections rule, one bastion of meritocracy, it was thought, remained: admission to a university. It was no myth that a high score on China’s famously difficult national college entrance examination guaranteed a spot at a top university and a ticket to the middle class, and maybe beyond.
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Two Visions of Desegregation
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the Maryland Higher Education Commission and the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education having different views on historically black colleges and universities.
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How a Prominent Legal Group Could Change the Way Colleges Handle Rape
The American Law Institute, a scholarly group influential in legal circles, is beginning to craft guidelines on campus sexual assault that will seek to outline best practices and bring some clarity to the tangles of compliance with federal law. The institute is perhaps best known for its Model Penal Code, which is the bedrock of many states’ criminal statutes, including sexual-assault laws. A team at the institute is now revising the sexual-violence provisions of the penal code.
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Online Classes Appeal More to the Affluent
Free online educational courses may not be democratizing education as much as proponents believe, a new study reports. John D. Hansen, a doctoral student at Harvard University’s School of Education, and his colleagues looked at registration and completion patterns in 68 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by Harvard and M.I.T. The data covered 164,198 participants aged 13 to 69. In a study published in the journal Science, Mr. Hansen and his colleagues reported that people living in more affluent neighborhoods were more likely to register and complete MOOCs.
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Who Must Report?
A growing number of colleges and universities in the past few years have adopted policies requiring all faculty members and other professional employees to report sexual misconduct to designated administrators. Though not required by law, the move is an outgrowth of U.S. Department of Education guidance on preventing and investigating campus sexual assault. The guidance, issued in 2011, mandated that certain employees have an obligation to report cases of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct they become aware of.
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Drexel Opens Shared Office Suite for Science/Tech Companies
Drexel University opened a shared office suite for burgeoning life-science and medical-device companies Wednesdayin what the school is portraying as a preview of its larger development plans for the area.
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When Should a Shooting Really Be Called ‘Terrorism’?
Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences suggests that the words used to discuss different crimes can reveal subconscious prejudices.
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After a Possible Violent Threat, a University Tells Its Students to ‘Run, Hide, Fight’
On Thursday, Florida International University officials alerted the campus community to a threat reported that the school “would be on the news tonight.” They didn’t lock down or cancel events. Instead they included links to printable “pocket cards” with advice about what to do if there were an active shooter, asked everyone to be aware of and report any possible threats, and to run, hide or fight if an attack were to happen.
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Stanford’s Business School Tells M.B.A.s to Wait on Startups
Stanford University encourages its students to think big and hatch ideas for new companies. But those who plan to start their own ventures are hearing a new message from the school: Wait. Worried that student founders have become so absorbed in their fledgling companies that they are missing out on course work and campus life, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business is asking M.B.A.