Adult daughters of Purdue professor accuse him of incest [yahoo.com]

"I have never had any form of inappropriate relationship with any minor or any form of non-consensual relationship with anyone, and I am innocent of any such charges."

--Purdue University Associate Professor Robert Givan

Big Hungry. . . May Day. . . mayday, mayday, mayday

So many of the community college campuses are like ghost towns now because of the pandemic.  There's been a profound increase in online classes.  On the other hand, the elite college campuses look crowded like they did three years ago.

There will be consequences, yes?

Former Yale administrator stole $40M in electronics from school to buy luxury cars and homes, prosecutors say [New Haven Register]

 The flava:

A former Yale School of Medicine administrator pleaded guilty Monday after stealing and reselling more than $40 million worth of computers and electronic devices while employed by the university, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut.

The article:

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Former-Yale-administrator-stole-40M-in-17034496.php

1,000+ Professors Call For Full Student Debt Cancellation and Tuition-Free College [Business Insider]

 The flava:

Canceling student debt won't solve all the inequities in higher education — but it's a vital first step,
professors say.

Over 1,000 faculty members from universities across the country, including Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to deliver on full student debt cancellation for federal borrowers. The letter, which was organized by the Debt Collective — the nation's first debtor's union — and obtained by Insider, said that the growing $1.7 trillion student debt crisis is causing "instructional harm," forcing borrowers to assume studies that would best help them pay off their debt. They say it has also exacerbated the labor shortage for faculty, because many of them are student debtors themselves.

The article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-why-1000-professors-support-universal-student-loan-debt-cancellation-2022-3

Wombat of the Copier shares a copy of a position description. . . and a thought

 F***in' UCLA, am I right?

--Wombat of the Copier

Kofi Annan's postulation

 “Education, is quite simply, peace building by another name.  Education is the most effective form of defense spending there is.”

—Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, on September 10, 1999

The speech:

https://www.un.org/press/en/1999/19990910.sgsm7125.doc.html

Big Hungry

Have you dumbed down your classes during the COVID pandemic?

:-)

Huntsville Amarillo Pampa Paris Yates Bluegrove Izoro Rockport Texline Hillsboro Decatur Abilene Yturria, Canton Alvin Lufkin!  

Ex-Casino Executive Gets 1 Year and 1 Day in Prison in College Admissions Scheme [New York Times]

 The flava:

A former casino executive was sentenced on Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for participating in a conspiracy to secure his daughter’s admission to the University of Southern California as a Division I basketball recruit even though she did not make the varsity team in high school, prosecutors said.

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/varsity-blues-sentence-gamal-abdelaziz.html

Merger with USF Charts New Direction for San Francisco Art Institute [KQED]

The flava:

The San Francisco Art Institute and the University of San Francisco announced this month that they’re planning to merge. Under the agreement, USF will acquire the cash-strapped 151-year old arts college and offer a program called SFAI@USF in the fall. The move is reminiscent of Northeastern University’s acquisition of Mills College in September 2021 as small colleges and arts schools deal with financial pressures compounded by Covid. We’ll talk about the implications for SFAI’s students and adjunct faculty, as well as for the broader arts community of the Bay Area, and look ahead at a new era for the irreverent contemporary arts school.

The podcast episode:

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887741/merger-with-usf-charts-new-direction-for-san-francisco-art-institute