Black University of Alabama students, parents outraged after getting racist text message [ WVTM 13 News ]

Moriarty from Midland emails a thought

Election Day is here on campus. The Student Affairs employees are aroused. Many of the students seem giddy. The faculty are keeping their heads down, somewhat. I'm wondering whether or not my anxieties should be high. What will tomorrow bring?

--Moriarty from Midland

Being a College Athlete Now Means Constant Travel and Missed Classes [ NYTimes ]

The flava:

Playing football this season for the U.C.L.A. Bruins means being a frequent (and distant) flier. The team began the campaign in August with a win at the University of Hawaii. Their next road games sent the Bruins to Louisiana State, then Penn State, and back across the country to Rutgers. Then, a trip to Nebraska on Saturday and a jaunt up to Washington.

Such is the life of the modern-day college athlete, with U.C.L.A. moving into the Big Ten Conference, the erstwhile standard-bearer for Midwest football that now stretches from Piscataway to Puget Sound.

In all, the Bruins will travel 22,226 miles this season — nearly enough to circumnavigate the globe. It is the equivalent of 33 round trips to the Bay Area to play Stanford or U.C. Berkeley, U.C.L.A.’s former rivals that have moved to a newly bicoastal league of their own. . . .

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/college-football-conference-realignment.html

Fewer Black men are attending HBCUs | All Things Considered [ NPR ]

tension

Academic Sexual Misconduct Database

https://academic-sexual-misconduct-database.org/

Far-Right Pastor Wants False Sexual Assault Reports to Be Punishable by Death

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/far-pastor-wants-false-sexual-141959467.html

You can fool yourself

You can cheat until you're blind

You can cut your heart

It can happen

Clemson frat opens its arms to student with special needs [ CBS Sunday Morning ]

Must-read books for 1st-year college students [ Good Morning America ]

Tracking college closures [ The Hechinger Report ]

The flava:

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close.

In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in all of 2023, according to an analysis of federal data provided to The Hechinger Report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association or SHEEO.

Earlier this year, our colleague Jon Marcus reported that colleges were closing at a rate of nearly one per week. The Hechinger Report has created a tool to track these changes in the higher education landscape. Readers can search through the archive of colleges that have closed since 2008, and we will update it periodically with the latest shutdowns. . . . 

The article:

https://hechingerreport.org/tracking-college-closures/

Retractions: On the Rise, But Not Enough [ online talk via UC Irvine ]

In 2000, there were about 40 retractions from the scholarly literature. In 2023, there were more than 10,000. That is a dramatic increase, even accounting for the growing number of papers published per year.

In this UCI Libraires sponsored talk, Ivan Oransky, M.D. will explore the reasons for the increase, why it is good news, and why the real number should be even higher. Dr. Oransky will tell the stories of the sleuths who are finding problems in the literature, drawing on more than a decade of experience at Retraction Watch.

The webinar presentation is open to attendees interested in tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process, open access to information about scientific corrections and retractions, and ethics in publishing.

Registration is required. Click link to begin registration:

https://spaces.lib.uci.edu/event/13138327

colleges around the world. . .