Lou Anna K. Simon, when testifying before the US Senate, pointed to campus bureaucracy as the reason why unethical behavior, such as Nassar's sexual abuse, is not brought to light and resolved. On The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Schools are struggling to find ways to manage sexual harassment complaints against tenure-protected professors, and are drafting new rules, like "no mentoring female students" and creating open-door policies. On the Wall Street Journal.
After experiencing a drastic drop in enrollment for the past two years, the University of Missouri is doubling down on its recruitment efforts. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
On June 1st, The UNC Board of Governors elected Nancy Cable as UNC Asheville's new chancellor. In the News and Observer.
A new book entitled "Making Sense of the College Curriculum: Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation," explores via in-depth inverviews the prespectives of 185 faculty members from 11 universities. On Inside Higher Ed.
UNC System President Margaret Spellings announces new project to fund and research "promising innovations" focused on achieving higher graduation rates with a $3 million grant. On The News & Observer.
An explanation of Walmart's college assistance plan provides a glimpse into why companies are increasingly providing these benefits to their employees. On The Atlantic.
A student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was nearly removed from a class for debating a professor over transgender issues, but instead took his fight to the media. On The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Russell Lowery-Hart, the president of Amarillo College, is advancing programs to cater to students in poverty, but it seems that he may not be able to do enough. On The Atlantic.
Author Arthur Jago attempts to find the source for the assertion that half of academic papers aren't read and comes up empty. On the Chronicle of Higher Education.