Homemaker?

From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed:

SCHLAFLY: Hundreds of graduates and faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis turned their backs to the stage Friday when the university awarded an honorary doctorate to Phyllis Schlafly. Critics said it was inappropriate for a university that educates women for careers to honor a woman who had repeatedly denigrated women who hold jobs outside the home and questioned the need for bans on gender bias. Others questioned how a university with major biomedical research programs could honor a woman who tried to lobby against teaching evolution. Schlafly told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she was honored by the degree. She called those who protested “juvenile,” adding: “I’m not sure they’re mature enough to graduate.” Schlafly praised the university for sticking by the plan to honor her, despite intense criticism. But she said she was disappointed that in Chancellor Mark Wrighton’s speech, when he named some of the career paths new graduates were embarking on, he did not include homemaker. (See also Chronicle of Higher Ed.)

REPUBLICANS: A controversial search for a new president of Monroe Community College, in New York, ended Saturday in stagnation. The board deadlocked, 5 to 5, over two candidates — one a local businessman and one a local lawyer, both with Republican Party connections, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Both of these individuals were finalists over the objections of faculty groups and the original search committee, which favored candidates with experience running community colleges….

RETALIATION? Two professors at West Virginia University have filed a grievance saying that they were informed their offices would be moved the day after one of them called for the resignation of Mike Garrison as president, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. University officials deny that retaliation was behind the move, but the grievance is the latest sign of faculty distrust of the administration due to a scandal over the the awarding of a degree she did not earn to the governor’s daughter….

In this morning’s OC Reg: Spy agency names UCI top foe of cyber attackers:

UC Irvine has become a leader in finding ways to protect the country’s most critical computer systems from attacks by hackers and other intruders, says the National Security Agency, the United State’s top guardian of information and intelligence. NSA and the Department of Homeland Security named UCI a National Center of Academic Excellence in the burgeoning field of Information Assurance, or IA — a designation shared by only 23 institutions across the nation....

From the New York Times: Michael Rossman, Who Fought for Campus Rights, Dies at 68:

Michael Rossman, an organizer of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, who was later known for his books on politics, society and education, died May 12 at his home in Berkeley. He was 68….

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