Provo, still, you know?

Brigham Young has banned most types of facial hair for decades. One emeritus professor at the university is leading the charge to change that.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/style/beards-brigham-young-university.html

And a classic....

"moral atrocity" [Jeremy Fischer]

 

https://dailynous.com/2021/08/17/philosophy-professor-resigns-to-protest-universitys-covid-19-plan/

Stanford to reinstate weekly COVID-19 testing requirement, regardless of vaccination status [The Stanford Daily]

 The flava:

Stanford will require all students living on campus, living in University-sponsored off-campus housing, or coming to campus to be tested for COVID-19 weekly, regardless of vaccination status, starting on Aug. 15, according to a Wednesday email from Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole.

The reversal follows the University’s July elimination of the testing requirement for fully vaccinated students — a decision that was soon followed by seven fully vaccinated students testing positive for the virus. It also comes as Stanford continues to tighten on campus restrictions amid the surge in cases of the highly contagious Delta variant.

Stanford may be the first university in the Bay Area to enact such a requirement, though it is in good company — East Coast peer institutions like Harvard, Princeton and Brown are also requiring weekly testing for vaccinated students.

The article:

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/08/11/stanford-to-reinstate-weekly-covid-19-testing-requirement-regardless-of-vaccination-status/

Krabby Kathy recommends a blog post about an article about stinky master's programs

Krabby Kathy recommends a Naked Capitalism article that praises a WSJ article about stinky master's programs.  

The flava:

The Wall Street Journal has done a terrific job of reporting in a new article, ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off. Even though it discusses a general phenomenon, that of too many students of modest means acquiring student-debt-funded graduate degrees where the prospects of the borrowers paying off their obligations is practically nil.

The Journal documents that Columbia is the outlier, both in the ratio of “untenable if you don’t have rich parents paying for them” master’s degrees, and the particularly dreadful cost/earnings ratio (proxied by the debt/income ratio) of two programs, drama/theater arts and film.

The article:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/07/wall-street-journal-fingers-columbia-as-leader-in-grad-students-whose-student-debt-leaves-them-financially-hobbled-for-life.html

I'm Rubber, You're Glue [from Wombat of the Copier]

Wombat's Colleague:  "The students just don't want to learn anything they don't already know, even if it means sticking with inefficient, unsophisticated or immature methods that actually make everything harder for them in the end."

Also Wombat's Colleague:  "Here's my part of the course outline for the class we're teaching together."  [sends Office '97 document]

Mills College Enters Negotiations to Become Part of Northeastern University [SFist]

 https://sfist.com/2021/06/17/mills-college-enters-negotiations-to-become-part-of-northeastern-university/

If Texas A&M University can have a campus in Qatar, then perhaps it's not so strange for Mills College to merge with Northeastern University?

Big Hungry

Seriously, has anyone gotten anything meaningful done this year (besides stay alive)?

Vartan Gregorian, 1934-2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartan_Gregorian 

Cheating Is Easier Than Ever For Online College Students [TODAY]

 

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