Thursday, May 31, 2018

Triple Jeopardy in College Sexual Assault Case Ends an N.F.L. Career [NYTimes]

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The flava: His mother lives in a trailer. He amassed excellent grades and excelled in sports. None of this inoculates him against the terri...

Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty [theatlantic.com]

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The flava: He was unshowered and unshaven, in the same secondhand clothing the whole weekend. By Sunday morning, the humiliations had undon...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Admiral McRaven: Our biggest national security issue is pre-K through 12.

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"I'm often asked when I am sitting in various forums, and we start to turn to national defense and national security issues and som...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

student presents senior thesis in underwear [a post by Uggy from Utica]

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http://cornellsun.com/2018/05/06/student-presents-thesis-in-underwear-after-professor-questions-choice-of-clothing/ 1. It's true that ...
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Jerry Brown: Higher Ed Should Be Like Chipotle [insidehighered.com]

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The flava: California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is in his last year in office, and he got in some swipes at higher education during...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! What the selectiveness of your college says about where you’re likely to move after. [slate.com]

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The flava: Studies show that the percentage of young, college-educated adults moving between states has fallen from 12.7 percent in 2005 to...
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Friday, May 18, 2018

500,000,000 vs 1,362,100,000 vs 84,600,000,000

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/michigan-state-will-pay-500-million-to-abuse-victims-what-comes-next.html https://msu.ed...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Thoughts, submitted by Compound Cal

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Fast approaching 60 years of age, I'm a trailing spouse who has a mixture of tenured, t-t, visiting, and part-time positions in a 30+ ye...
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Saturday, May 12, 2018

'A Conversation with Bill Gates' live at Harvard's Science Center

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His College Knew of His Despair. His Parents Didn’t, Until It Was Too Late. [nytimes]

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The flava: In the days after her son Graham hanged himself in his dormitory room at Hamilton College, Gina Burton went about settling his a...