End Racial Preferences at Colleges? [John Stossel]

 

60 Minutes visits Deep Springs College

 

The College Admissions 'Melt' Down [NPR]

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1041011021/the-college-admissions-melt-down

University must rehire transgender professor, says 10th Circuit [Reuters]

 The flava:

A U.S. appeals court on Monday ordered an Oklahoma state university to reinstate with tenure a transgender English professor after she won her lawsuit claiming she was denied tenure and ultimately fired after transitioning from male to female.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Southeastern Oklahoma State University's claim that the hostility created over six years of litigation between the school and plaintiff Rachel Tudor, and the school's concerns about her scholarship, made her reinstatement untenable.

The article:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/university-must-rehire-transgender-professor-says-10th-circuit-2021-09-13/

Amicus briefs filed by the following:

• NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER, 
• A BETTER BALANCE, 
• ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY, 
• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, 
• AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, 
• ATLANTA WOMEN FOR EQUALITY, 
• CALIFORNIA WOMEN LAWYERS, 
• COLORADO WOMEN’S BAR ASSOCIATION, 
• COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, 
• DC COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 
• END RAPE ON CAMPUS, 
• GENDER JUSTICE, 
• GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY, 
• IF/WHEN/HOW: LAWYERING FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, 
• IN OUR OWN VOICE: NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AGENDA, 
• LAWYERS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO, 
• LEGAL AID AT WORK, 
• LEGAL VOICE, 
• NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN’S FORUM, 
• NATIONAL CRITTENTON, 
• NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 
• NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE, 
• NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS, 
• NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION, 
• NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES, 
• NATIONAL WOMEN’S POLITICAL CAUCUS, 
• OKLAHOMA COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, 
• SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER ON POVERTY LAW, 
• SISTERREACH, 
• THE WOMEN’S LAW CENTER OF MARYLAND, 
• WOMEN’S LAW PROJECT, 
• WOMEN’S BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, and 
• LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND, INC.

College-Admissions Scandal to See First Trial Next Week [WSJ]

 The flava:

The nationwide college-admissions scandal is returning to the spotlight next week, with the first trial in the sprawling case involving two parents accused of bribery-and-fraud conspiracy in an alleged scheme to get their children admitted to the University of Southern California as athletic recruits.

Forty-six defendants, including Hollywood TV stars, business titans, Division 1 coaches and SAT test proctors, already have pleaded or agreed to plead guilty. The federal criminal proceedings, which came to light in 2019 as “Operation Varsity Blues,” have highlighted how gaining entry to selective colleges amounts to a bruising competition in many affluent pockets of the U.S. and have exposed how parts of the admission process have been ripe for exploitation.

In total, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts charged 57 people in the case. Newport Beach, Calif., college counselor William “Rick” Singer has admitted to leading the scheme, which entailed rigging SAT and ACT scores or bribing coaches at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, Yale University and other schools to fraudulently present teens as recruited athletes. Being tagged by coaches as even non-scholarship players all but guarantees entry at some schools.

Several defendants have maintained their innocence. . . .

The article:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-admissions-scandal-to-see-first-trial-next-week-11630575001

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]