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Lawyers in Rolling Stone Lawsuit Acknowledge ‘Jackie’ Has Ties to Fake Persona
Lawyers representing a University of Virginia student at the center of a debunked gang-rape allegation have acknowledged in court papers that the student has ties to a fake persona she once named as the ringleader of the alleged attack. Filed in federal court Tuesday, the papers are part of an ongoing lawsuit a U-Va. associate dean filed against Rolling Stone magazine, arguing that the magazine published a defamatory account of how the Charlottesville school handles sexual assaults.
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When Data Doesn’t Fit the Box
The U.S. Department of Education is telling colleges that accommodating transgender students extends to the data collected about them, but many colleges are finding that neither their software providers nor other federal agencies are prepared for such a change. In a Dear Colleague letter issued earlier this month, the Education Department said colleges risk losing federal funding if they treat transgender students differently than other students of the same gender identity. Those requirements also cover privacy and education records.
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Rhodes Scholarship Program to Expand
The Rhodes Trust announced on Wednesday the largest expansion of the Rhodes scholarship program in its 113-year history. The trust will open the program, which finances graduate study at the University of Oxford, to students from Ghana, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Palestinian territories, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. “Our goal is to be completely a global scholarship,” Charles Conn, the warden of Rhodes House and the chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, said in a telephone interview. “There’s never been an increase like this before.”
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Video: CPR Awareness Week
Benjamin Abella of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about CPR training becoming a high school requirement.
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The Myth of the Well-Rounded Student? It’s Better to Be ‘T-shaped’.
It’s graduation season at high schools and colleges around the country, the time of year when students are honored for their accomplishments from the classrooms to the athletic fields. Teachers and counselors have long encouraged students to be “well-rounded.” But the problem with well-rounded students is that they usually don’t focus on any one thing for a prolonged period of time. Too often they seem to participate in activities just to check off a series of boxes, instead of showing the deep and sustained involvement, passion, and dedication that employers seek.
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Is It Time for Universities to Get Out of the Hospital Business?
A couple of years ago, the leaders of Vanderbilt University faced a difficult decision: Their academic medical center was successful, a hub of research and life-saving treatment. But the health industry was in turmoil, and the changes presented new risks to the university, whose vast medical operation approached four-fifths of Vanderbilt’s entire budget. And that number was projected to grow. The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, was accelerating changes already underway. Research financing was tight. Mergers were rampant among hospitals, insurers, and drug companies.
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A Four-letter Word That Is the Key to Success
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for her research on the impact of “grit” on becoming successful.
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Kensington Graveyard Rises From the Past as Developer Seeks to Build
Aaron Wunsch of the School of Design comments on the Mutual Burial Ground of Kensington.
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No Enforcement of Bathroom Law
Margaret Spellings, president of the University of North Carolina, pledged that she would not seek to enforce the state's controversial new law barring transgender people from using bathrooms that do not correspond to their legal gender status at birth -- as long as a lawsuit about the law is pending. Spellings made the statement in an affidavit submitted to a court that is hearing a lawsuit against UNC over the new law. The university is arguing that litigation against it should be stayed while courts hear various suits and counter-suits about the North Carolina law.
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Audio: Doctor Outlines Plan to Battle Antibiotic Resistance in ‘The Washington Post’
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School shares his thoughts about how the inexpensive price of antibiotics has led to their overuse.