Cokie Roberts and Steven Roberts: No more 'poverty' naps

"The public policy goal should be completely clear and compelling: No more growling stomachs in classrooms. No more 'poverty naps' instead of lunch."

--Cokie & Steven Roberts

Boston’s community college problem: Abysmal graduation rates are failing young people of color [commonwealthmagazine.org]

The flava:
Less than 3 percent of newly enrolled, full-time students graduate on time from community colleges in Boston: 2 percent at Bunker Hill Community College and 1 percent at Roxbury Community College. It’s college decision time, and most students in Boston Public Schools will become part of a broken system of “well-meaning” adults, who are severely allergic to accountability.

The article:
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/education/bostons-community-college-problem/

The Surreal End of an American College [theatlantic.com]

The flava:
Like most other colleges across the country, Newbury College, a small, private liberal-arts school in Brookline, Massachusetts, held classes through the end of this past spring semester and then bid farewell to cap-and-gown-wearing seniors. But unlike almost every other college, those classes, and that farewell, were the school’s last: Newbury officially ceased operations at the end of May.

The article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/what-its-like-when-your-college-shuts-down/591862

To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over [NPR]

Wombat of the Copier makes a statement.

I swear this is relevant:

https://thehustle.co/botto-bistro-1-star-yelp/

--WotC

Ohio bakery awarded $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College over alleged racial profiling [CNN.com]

The flava:
An Ohio jury has ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery which said it was libeled and wrongfully accused of racially profiling students.


The article:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/us/oberlin-college-bakery-lawsuit/index.html

The Anti-College Is on the Rise, By Molly Worthen [NYTimes]

The flava:
A small band of students will travel to Sitka, Alaska, this month to help reinvent higher education. They won’t be taking online courses, or abandoning the humanities in favor of classes in business or STEM, or paying high tuition to fund the salaries of more Assistant Vice Provosts for Student Life. They represent a growing movement of students, teachers and reformers who are trying to compensate for mainstream higher education’s failure to help young people find a calling: to figure out what life is really for.

The article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/college-anti-college-mainstream-universities.html

Overcoming Gaslighting in a Higher Education Setting [medium.com]

By Mark Patterson, Ombudsman at William & Mary

". . .  Because gaslighting is not illegal, administrators will need to identify a specific policy or policies that have been violated.  Depending upon an administrator’s relationship with the suspected gaslighter, there may be a tendency to downplay a complaint that does not align with their perceptions. . . ."

Location:
https://medium.com/@stimpmark/overcoming-gaslighting-in-higher-education-bff81a45def7