✅ One year after a pledge died, SDSU still struggles to control its fraternities -- It should have been a momentous night, the kind a fraternity pledge remembers forever. Gary Robbins, Lyndsay Winkley in the San Diego Union-Tribune$ -- 11/22/20
Professor's research finds validation can alleviate stress and depression.
—OC Reg
Scientists want to know why a major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology and analysis. Nature Communications says it’s investigating.
—Inside Higher Ed
—Inside Higher Ed
Nearly 90 percent of students plan on re-enrolling at the same college they attended during the fall semester, despite decreased satisfaction with support services and social experiences and heightened concern about finances as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new white paper based on a survey administered by Anthology, a higher ed technology services company.
About two-thirds of the 1,143 students surveyed in October by the company were taking classes fully online, while nearly one-third have a hybrid model of instruction and 3 percent were fully in person, the white paper said. Over all, 32 percent of students said they didn’t “feel included” in a circle of friends, and 27 percent said they did not feel like a part of the “college community,” both of which are “typical factors of mattering and belonging that lead to increased retention,” the white paper said.
—Inside Higher Ed
Stanford University’s Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution who is currently serving as a senior adviser to President Trump. The resolution, introduced by a group of Stanford medical and infectious disease experts who previously criticized Atlas as downplaying the threat of the coronavirus, condemns Atlas’s Nov. 5 tweet calling on Michigan to “rise up” against Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer’s new COVID-19-related restrictions. The tweet, which has since been deleted, said, "The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept." Atlas later tweeted that he would never incite violence. Whitmer was the target of a political kidnapping plot revealed earlier this year.
Many students won’t follow recommendations to stay put over the holiday. Will they take Covid-19 with them?
—CHE
The swirl of criminal investigations and civil complaints stemming from his business activities and personal conduct could prove more serious once he leaves office.
—WashPo
✅ Protesters demonstrate in Huntington Beach in defiance of coronavirus curfew -- A couple hundred protesters, many donning bright red caps and waving American flags, gathered Saturday night at Huntington Beach Pier in defiance of the state’s coronavirus curfew that went into effect at 10 p.m. Rosanna Xia in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/23/20
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Why did some colleges and universities not see the impact of the virus on these holidays? And will some of these schools be open for students to come back to? Double jeopardy.
Lots of small liberal arts colleges are desperate to keep their students/families happy, and, when it comes to Covid-19, they really can't win no matter what they do. Imagine the roar of complaint if students are told to stay home for the holidays! (There are few more "entitled" than parents who pony up $30k a year to send their kid to college.) And look at the grief they get when they succumb to pressure and fail to warn against travel. These colleges are often hanging by a thread, financially, and they are facing crisis after crisis, just keeping their doors open. I feel badly for them.
I do as well, Roy.
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